idolpro | LOBBYQUEST

Oh, I actually like this room a lot!

Um... Miss Luminosity...

...would you be able to turn off the lasers again...?

I have to be able to see things to do that...these ones aren't hurting us though, so I think it's fine?

That's... true, but...

I'm not sure where to go. I guess we could just feel our way around.

[ time to... use the force. by which I mean "reach out with her hands and try and find a door or something by touch with her eyes closed" ]

Feeling around doesn't really find you anything besides more mirrors with more splinters of yourself in them dancing to 80s synthwave.

Perhaps the answer was inside yourself all along?

[ ....... ]

...do we have to do the dance?

[ this is going to be really silly if she's wrong. however

what if: DANCE. she tries to copy the dance. ]

SOMEONE OPEN PALM SLAMS A VHS INTO THE SLOT. ITS THE LAST LASER MASTER AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE YOU START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, DIRK LASERMASTER. YOU DO EVERY MOVE AND YOU DO EVERY MOVE HARD. MAKIN WHOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM DOWN SOME SICK LASER PATTERNS OR EVEN WHEN YOU MESS UP TECHNIQUE. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY ESCAPED THE MIRROR ROOM. YOU CAN. YOU SAY IT AND YOU SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE ON YOUR UNIT AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE IDOLS CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JERKS. AND YOUVE LEARNED ALL THE LINES AND YOUVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF AND MY DORM LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. 2 HOURS INCLUDING WIND DOWN EVERY MORNING. THEN YOU LIFT

Anyway, having memorized the routine, the reflected version of you that you like the most winks and tosses something from its mirror and straight into your hand.

CONGRATULATIONS! GET EQUIPPED WITH:

The Laser Mäster's Laser Eraser

This is a beautiful piece of merchandising which allows any schoolchild to show Maestery over Laesery by, uh, erasing focused beams of light?

You think you've finally figured out just why he's the last Laser Master.

...huh.

Is this because whoever lives here wants to throw a party...?

Well, hm—

[ can she like. use the Laser Eraser to erase the lasers. that doesn't seem scientific but this house doesn't seem scientific. ]

You take your first step into the world of Laser Mastery and erase the lasers ahead of you.

The room is now clear, visible, and also the reflections are all now just ordinary reflections that regular mirrors have. You have conquered yourself successfully!

At the end of the maze is another set of stairs, leading upward.

Oh—this way, everyone, there's stairs!

Why is dance required to free us?

[ Amaranth likewise has a laser eraser. ]

Excellent! Did you also find a broken mirror?

[ Eirene your secret is as safe as you want it to be. ]

...eh? I thought it was a puzzle.

Ah, well... perhaps it was. But I admit I got my version of this artifact by feeling around for the mirror I realized I'd shattered earlier.

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Oh, good job! I was too busy staring at a mirror to remember to find the way out.

Edited (I forgot how my own thing that I wrote myself works.) 2021-08-22 03:05 (UTC)

Ah—well, I guess it worked out, but don't get lost...

Oh - you're so talented, aren't you..?

Well—it was a guess, but I'm a little glad, since I would have felt silly if I was wrong.

I still feel a little silly. Um—Miss Aradia?

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[ Meanwhile Valumi's just gonna stare at one her reflections. ]

Hey, are any of these supposed to look different? Because they're not really me, but they all look the same.

Edited 2021-08-22 02:48 (UTC)

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Oh wait, you get it! The answer is clear. The darkness hides inside our very souls.

The reflection that you like the most waves back at you and tosses something from its mirror into your hands!

CONGRATULATIONS! GET EQUIPPED WITH:

The Laser Mäster's Laser Eraser

This is a beautiful piece of merchandising which allows any schoolchild to show Maestery over Laesery by, uh, erasing focused beams of light?

You think you've finally figured out just why he's the last Laser Master.