Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2022-02-24 10:59 pm

The Last Supper - avante en garde

[ All things considered, the room looks fairly comfy. Dark mahogany walls are decorated with wine red velvet curtains, and chaise lounges and deep-cushioned chairs in matching upholstery arrange themselves in front of a large plasma TV screen that can receive input from any idol's smartphone, though it cannot be changed from the current screen.

A hallway attaches to the room, branching off into two hallways. In the inner hallway, there's a kitchenette—it holds no food in either the fridge or the cupboards, but perhaps as an insult the fridge door's inside shelf holds a gold-framed painting of split pomegranates with seeds artistically spilling onto the ground. At least it's not entirely useless as a room—there are any number of melee weapons in the cupboards and shelves, each weapon's handle furnished with decorative snakes in the unit's color.

Past the kitchen is a modest bathroom that nevertheless uses the majority of its space for its bath and shower, including various skin and hair care products (though no electric plugs, despite the presence of hair dryers), sparkly bath bombs, and a seemingly endless number of wine red towels and bathrobes. Across the bathroom is what seems to be a luxurious sleeping room, somehow large enough to hold as many beds as needed for the unit; the sheets are similarly wine red with what feels like a million thread count, and the mattresses and pillows might be made of the softest material in existence.

The outer hallway leads to the mud room, which leads toward the outside. ]
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[personal profile] snowbirds 2022-02-26 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
I understand that sentiment, and I would not say that I disagree. However, I feel that it is good to know how such events are called by those who run this city. I would like to see how they separate "games" from everything else.
worthathousand: (in youth you'd lay awake ❦)

[personal profile] worthathousand 2022-02-26 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
If nothing else, in games we can usually expect ourselves on even footing with the other units—though there have been a few notable exceptions for pure fighting tournaments.

So our strategy need account only for the nature of our situation, and not for the unique tricks available to those units whose abilities more favor the use of cunning.

[ ...so, you know. most of them. jock life. ]
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[personal profile] snowbirds 2022-02-26 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
In that case, how would you like to proceed?
worthathousand: (❦ the gods will offer you chances.)

[personal profile] worthathousand 2022-02-26 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Hm.

[ a pause, upon hearing her remark to Nemesis ]

—And of course this is your first game, isn't it. We were transferred together before you got a chance to experience any other. Gods, but I dislike this one's atmosphere.

Regardless, we have little choice: Nemesis and I will need to strike aggressively, for avante offers a dangerously narrow pool of targets to our opponents.
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[personal profile] snowbirds 2022-02-26 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Nods.]

I understand. Is there anything I can do to help you?
worthathousand: (❦ yet vivid against our stockpiled silt.)

1/2

[personal profile] worthathousand 2022-02-26 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
I do not know if the others will have any glimpse of us between now and when the first attacks are launched. Nor do I know whether we will be able to learn the identities of the other units' "Hunters," beyond those we target ourselves. I... do not know if us putting on a deceptive performance could be relevant.

So...
worthathousand: (❦ for you - I'll be that still god.)

[personal profile] worthathousand 2022-02-26 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Shirasagi.

I swear we will protect you with our lives.
For duty to one another, and for the sake of the kind of family that avante is to one another.

But I also want you to know: The false deaths of the games are not something to fear.
...Perhaps you saw Pink's presentation on the subject.
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[personal profile] snowbirds 2022-02-26 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
I did. He's a very nice boy, really.

[Pauses and thinks]

Before I address anything else, please allow me to ask one question. Are you used to carrying such burdens?
worthathousand: (hold on to this lullaby ❦)

[personal profile] worthathousand 2022-03-01 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ something almost like a smile, though it doesn't quite get there and possibly looks more like a wince ]

It has been my life's work. Even before I came to this place.
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[personal profile] snowbirds 2022-03-07 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Then I will make a promise. I will work as hard as I can to protect my own life and protect the others so that you do not have to carry such a heavy load on your lonesome. That is the least I can do while I am here.