idolpro | Bomb Game: BAD END=DEAD END edition

[ you open your eyes to find yourself in a room that might look familiar if you just so happened to be a certified zombie survivalist. however, if you were lucky enough to avoid the zombie meet & greet, then welcome to the dankest heckhole in tokyo-f. ]

[ the overhead lights flicker often enough to instantly grind your gears, while simultaneously doing next to nothing to illuminate the dilapidated little room. though a chorus of moans and groans rise from outside, all the doors and windows are securely barricaded, making the shambling monsters a non-issue... though it's possible their existence alone may put you on edge. ]

[ or maybe that's the -fsssst- sound, a subtle hissing coming from what could have passed for fire sprinklers. for the duration of the game a colorless and odorless gas is going to be filling the room, one that clouds judgements and exacerbates anxiety. but, hey!, that's what the janky table and busted chairs in the corner of the room featuring cold tea and dry biscuits is for - a carefully curated space for you and yours to kick back, relax, and KEEP TALKING. ]

[ the center of the room is where the main event sits, a BOMB, with several thick cords snaking out from it connecting to a bunch of different buttons. the entire thing is housed in an unbreakable glass cube, with only the buttons in reach of your grubby hands. a tv screen is suspended overhead, currently displaying the rules & winning conditions, but that's all about to change... ]

[ in the meantime feel free to enjoy a particularly messy wall, one stained with all sorts of things from the last bunch that tried ~~and failed~~ to win, ew! ]

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"You can breathe a little easy. The bomb won't go off... this round."

[well...... he mostly attempted the puzzle out of boredom and he's not entirely sure he has the right answer, but he has one, so he might as well.

pressing both I buttons.]

[ A zombie voice from some unknown speaker ]

Good job.

But I'm taking the first I, just so you know.

FUCK.

...I knew I forgot something.

[ With a snicker-snack, the wire attached to the chosen button is cut. All that's left to do is wait.

And wait.

....And wait.

Hmmmmm. Well, they say that no news is good news, and you don't feel any different. And is it just a trick of the light, or does the countdown on the bomb seem to be slowing down.

Congratulations. It looks like you cut the correct wire. ]

[Valor's not familiar with this specific kind of bomb but he's aware of what bombs are in general so he can kind of infer what's going on here. unfortunately, this doesn't help him very much.]

Awwww, come on. A fucking puzzle? We're so fucked.

"Well, guess we didn't need that wire. But don't worry~ We replaced it with something explosive."

Edited 2022-11-27 03:26 (UTC)

[pressing 4]

Oh, so we're double fucked. What the fuck does any of this shit even mean??

Ehhhhh... looks like musical notation~

And? Can you fucking read it?

As a matter of fact, I can~

[But in return you have to listen to him explain it too.]

Each line and space relates to a letter from "a" to "g". If you take into account the notes as their written and the letters provided you get "damage control".

[while being lectured is annoying he assumes it will actually be relevant to the puzzle so he looks more thoughtful than annoyed.]

So that's probably the safe button. What about the rest of this shit in the middle?

The two seperate images refer to scales. The markings notate sharp and flat notes on the scale-- or in other terms, when you raise or lower a note by half an increment.

D Major has two sharp notes-- "F" and "C" in that order. G Minor has two flat notes-- "B" and "E".

Well, the buttons all have fucking numbers on them, so that's fucking useless.

Unless it's another code. First six letters are A, B, C, D, E, F. If we knock out the ones you mentioned, that leaves A and D. I'm guessing they'd normally be the safe ones, but since those fuckers took one of the safe buttons away, that means now one of 'ems the kill button.

So? Which one is it?

There are two musical segments and two different scales. In the first segment, if you played it out, you wouldn't hit any of the sharp notes.

However, if you switched to G minor in the second, the last note would be flat. As the sixth "letter" in the word damage, it may be significant.

The numbers are really letters, the sixth one would be F, which we've already ruled out, so that's fu--

Edited 2022-11-27 04:37 (UTC)

There's no reason the numbers have to refer to the scale. It wouldn't make sense after all since there are seven letters in the scale to begin with.

That's why I think it refers to the first word. After all.

"Dama" being in the first section and that section being "D Major" and "ge" being in the second where it's "g minor" is pretty well thought out itself~

No, letters makes perfect sense. This isn't about actual fucking music, the fact that your fucked up musical notation uses letters is just a clue.

Anyway, what I was saying was, in the first round, that fucker said the first safe button was getting taken, so if I'm right and A and D or fucking 1 and 4 are the safe buttons, then A's the one that would've been taken. Which makes D the last safe one.

Ahhhh~ I see... In that case I think we have our answer.

[well, if there are no further objections he will press D 4]

If I'm wrong and we get blown to hell, you can say 'I told you so' after we're put back together.

Fufufu... I'll remember that~

[But he's leaving this to his "reliable senior". It's fine.]

[RITSU NO. what about Valor says reliable senior,]

[Look, taking the lead isn't for him so someone's gotta do it.]

[it's not for Valor either, it just keeps happening to him 🥲]

Bomb Game: BAD END=DEAD END edition

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