idolpro | WILD CITY - FRIDAY 5PM PST

WILD CITY - FRIDAY 5PM PST

[ The bar is unit-colored with light unit paraphernalia, although it's all just for show. Fortunately, comfort isn't part of the unit aesthetic this time—all seats are cushioned, whether the booth seats or the bar stools, comfy and lush. Idols can sit anywhere they like, it seems.

There's alcohol available, but everything else is locked behind the wall-cabinet. . . the recipe book is also available to peruse at one's leisure.

Ah—the door opens, and a fuzzy sort of shade steps in. It looks like idols will be serving the Damned, today. . . ? ]

RECIPE BOOK

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Yeah, I think so. Coffee certainly makes it hard to sleep.

And knock him into his senses....club soda? That's shock and surprise. And also a club.

[Flipping through the recipe book, to the coffee section]

Americano: coffee, coffee, club soda. The poor man's drink, practical and meant to shock the senses.

Edited 2022-03-19 00:36 (UTC)

[OH HEY, there's more.]

So two truths or secrets with shocking surprise, suspicion, or conflict.

Right.

Shouldn't be too bad, I guess.

What part do you want to do?

...I think the question is, do you have a truth that involves any of these three things?

Maybe not shock, suspicion, or conflict... but I think that's separate, isn't it?

[A beat, and then another]

I guess I could say something about that game.

Edited 2022-03-19 00:49 (UTC)

Hmm, I think since we just need one club soda, it should be fine.

So you do one truth or secret and I'll think of one for the club soda.

Okay. Let me think of one.

[He falls quiet for a beat or two, mulling it over. Then:]

I'm not especially excited to get any memories back, which I guess is a little weird.

...usually the dread does come after getting a few. Is there a reason why?

We're in hell, right?

There probably won't be anything good.

....right, Hell is some kind of punishment in Christianity, right?

You're not here because you died. You're here because the demons want to mess with us and have this whole competition. I can explain more after the game.

But you're not here as a punishment. One of the oldest members of Wild City, who left before your arrived, was an extremely unexciting life compared to a lot of others. He played Volleyball for his school and that was the biggest thing about his life.

No magic, no advanced technology, not even that much crime, and he wasn't fighting it. His world doesn't even have any dragons.

You're not here because of you. You're here because demons.

Now...

Your life might be terrible. I can tell you now, I passed out a bit when I remembered losing my leg, so that's going to be rough. [Gestures at his face. It had looked like scar tissue when he saw it.] But don't judge what it might be like based on being here.

If anything, the only pattern to be worried about is being on Wild City which usually means extreme social issues of some sort, but you're among like there.

[He's quiet for a beat or two, absorbing that; it's impossible to tell what his expression is doing, thanks to the mask, but eventually he nods]

Okay.

That's a lot to think about, but most of it's better than I'd been imagining.

[He reaches over and pats his shoulder.]

And even if it is bad, social awkwardness or no, Wild City is here for each other. So we'll be here for you.

Thanks.

I'll, um. I'll try to return the favor.

Trying is all we can ask.

[Another pat and he'll pull his hand away.]

So, now I need something shocking...Have I mentioned the dragons?

[He usually assumes people KNOW, but he has run into it sometimes they just don't.]

Just now, you did.

All right, then we got ourselves some shocking surprises.

Like I said, I remember losing my leg, yeah?

We can even include conflict. Suspicion is a little hard. [At least not without involving some Intense Things.]

That's a lot already, isn't it?

Then I think all we need is one more secret and we're done.

Secret or truth, yeah.

As you can probably guess, I lost it to a dragon. I was fighting this giant dragon, half the size of a mountain, and had this terrifying ability to use a song to control other dragons. Luckily she was so distracted she couldn't do that so effectively, but it was why we ended up fighting a lot of dragons back home. She was controlling them.

But after injuring her wings and setting a fireball off in her mouth so it went off inside her, dragons are fireproof on the outside, less on the inside, she plummeted to the ground in an explosion.

And then Toothless, my best friend in the world, and I were plummeting after her. And while Toothless was fire proof, I'm not. The only thing he could do to get me in his wings in time to not die was to grab my leg with his teeth and pull hard to get me in grabbing range.

I had suspected I lost it to a dragon a while, teeth marks scars, but I hadn't expected it to be Toothless until it happened.

That is shocking.

[All of it. Not just that last part,,,]

Edited 2022-03-19 01:45 (UTC)

Yeah.

I was very shocked by all of it too.

I knew I flew on dragons and did some combat, but that was a whole lot to happen at once.

It sounds like you've been busy.

Edited 2022-03-19 01:56 (UTC)

I am constantly busy.

I'd ask more about it, but I think we have a line.

[Gesturing to where the customers are forming up]

Do you want to serve up the Americano, or should I?

Right. I'll put it together.

[For wherever these ingredients are.]

Re: DISCUSSION/MINGLE

onlydeadends - 2022-03-19 02:02 (UTC) - Expand

Re: DISCUSSION/MINGLE

protectshisown - 2022-03-19 02:05 (UTC) - Expand

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only