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Bomb Game: avante en garde 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."

[ Choosing the 'A' button. ]

[ 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. ]

[ He's still just fuming from his argument with the zombie hosts. ]

Great. We have more zombies it seems. And a puzzle to solve.

Should I ask about whatever that was now or later?

Those despicable hosts were here before.

They set loose a bunch of-- [ She might not know what zombies are. ] A bunch of monsters on us. Many of us were brutally murdered and maimed. But to add insult to injury, we then rose from the dead as though in a fogged daze becoming mindless monsters ourselves that were set to kill or murder our loved ones.

[ ...glances at the window: ]

So - Do our best to win?

We should certainly try. I wouldn't like to... experience what happened before. Or- [ He waves to the bomb ] to blow up.

What do you make of the puzzle?

[ Side-eyes that. And then frowns deeply because she's smart, but she feels out of sorts - ]

It's some sort of message - a hint? But whatever it says is scrambled so we'd have to try and figure that out first, right?

So the letters all stand for something else.

My guess is that they must be off by some amount of letters in the alphabet. But... how many?

Start with an easy one like the letter 'a' and go from there?

[ Pointing at the letter 'H' in the second row - ] As are usually the only individual ones right?

[ Nodding slowly... ]

I think you are onto something, Astrid-san. Perhaps we ought to write this out and make a chart of it all. It will be easier to translate over that way.

[ This is where one manages

'Knight' and 'The second line is safe. The word before a mild setback and anything else should be avoided'. ]

. . .

[ His brain is so clouded. ]

So then... nothing from the world 'Honor' I suppose...

That would cut down half the letters. And the 'second line is safe' there's only one letter of the available ones left there, right?

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Then...'A'...?

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

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We shall attempt to take minor damage, and choose '5'.

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

It starts as a tingling, something scratching at your limbs and at the back of your mind like a mosquito that you just can't quite swat away. Annoying yet persistent.

It seems like you didn't quite pick the right wire, but at least the consequences aren't too dire. ]

Please choose 1-2 of the following status effects:
🎉 Extreme Gullibility
🎉 Hanahaki
🎉 Hallucinations
🎉 Kleptomania compulsion
🎉 Lose A Sense
🎉 Must Vocalize All Thoughts
🎉 Speech is Censored or Autocorrected
🎉 Super optimistic / Super pessimistic

A-Another one? But the last was bad enough.

[ ... ]

Yeah. I'm out of this one.

[ D-Don't leave him to it alone, Astrid. ]

Okay. It's alright. I am accustomed to music.

[ He looks over it all. ]

. . . If we change the notes to letters, then.

[ Give him a moment as he begins spelling it all out. He'll sound the notes aloud as he writes them down. ]

D... A... The 'm', then... Followed by... a, g, e...

Ah-- 'Damage Control'.

[ LOOK THIS WHOLE PLACE!!! IS AGAINST VIKING KIND!! ]

D and G...

So couldn't the things below it be referencing that whatever numbers those relate to are major and minor?

That is precisely what I believe as well. But this time around, trying to outright avoid any danger at all might not be to our benefit.

Because one of the buttons are now explosive.

Exactly. There is the chance that we pick the 'safe' option, and manage to escape scott free. On the other hand... we might accidentally set off the bomb.

I believe that intentionally taking minor damage and surviving is our best option.

Well, I guess you could still get a scar out of it.

[ Said wryly, ]

But do you really think it's that simple?

I would just remove it if I did...

[ Vikings and scars....! ]

If we still had two safe options, I do believe we would need to think over it a bit more carefully. But since we are choosing to take minor damage, I think going with what we have deduced to be minor is our best course of action.

That is...

[ He writes it all down.

D - 1, A - 2, M - 3, A - 4, G - 5, E - 6 ]

If 'G' is minor damage, then I believe we should choose the number 5.

Of course you would.

[ She rolls her eyes because!! Idols and scars!!!

But leaves it at that. ]

I think we'll have to leave this one to you; Those runes aren't anything I know much about.

Leave it to me. I, Suou Tsukasa, will not have led us wrong today! ♪

As long as it's an actual scar and not some stupid mind thing again.

. . . It might be both.

[ ...grumbling. ]

I'll find them and kick their butts myself, then.

It would be nice if we were able to do anything at all but get yanked around all of the time.

You're telling me. I'm tired of it - if I ever get my hands on someone -

[ Look she ain't even been here half as long as him but she's also just been having a Time of it really herself - She's not stupid enough to do something recklessly but BOY if she had a chance ]

Be prepared to be mocked. The Zombie girls are crazy and infuriating. They are most detestable.

So we don't give them anything to mock.

[ Duh!!! ]

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Bomb Game: avante en garde edition

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