Nine-Nine Heart - Run 1

[idolpro]

[It's time for a new an exciting place, right? A land of adventure and fun and excitement!

Wait? Then why does this look like Tokyo-F. Like a Tokyo-F that has seen better days.

A dark purple haze has settled over the city, thick and suffocating, oppressive and heavy. The sky above is filled with yawning teeth and blinking eyes stare back at you. Buildings lie in tatters and their remains litter the landscape.

A few proud buildings still stand tall! The most prominent one among them - THE GAME TOWER. Though it is sporting more of an evil villain castle vibe than you remember. And it certainly used to be taller and not leaking out that purple smoke filling the air. Nonetheless it stands as a beacon in the city, the focal point in the ruin around you.

A voice echos in your head. "Find the Dark Master."

GAME START!]

Comments

[rollplayinghouse]

[sharply]

It's not like that at all.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

[A bark of a laugh.]

Isn't it? You threw away two you would consider yourself involved in. And then your unit.
I wonder what you will pick next.

[rollplayinghouse]

It's not throwing them away if they weren't actually mine to start with. If they don't understand or consider my feelings when they do things, they're not really my partners or my family. I just stopped letting them pretend they were.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Consider your feelings? You might have a point. But understand? That's a terribly high bar to set.

So when your new unit starts stops caring, you will abandon them as well.

[rollplayinghouse]

They won't stop caring. But you're right that I'd rather not stay with people who don't care about me out of obligation. I'll leave them. That's true.

Are you worried I'm just trying to.. collect you, and then I'll get bored and abandon you? Is that your problem?

[rollwithdisadvantage]

As a creature that also uses and discards people once their time is done, perhaps I feel a little kinship.

Ah. Being abandoned. That could be a problem.
If I had a heart to care with. I'm not burdened with such things.

[rollplayinghouse]

[she lets out an amused snort at that]

You absolutely have a heart to care with, don't even try.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Oh, I assure you I don't. His though, bleeds to this very day. And he doesn't even remember why.

[rollplayinghouse]

You're the same person.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

We became the same person. Don't believe everything he tells you.

[rollplayinghouse]

...So are you the demon he sold his soul to, or whatever? Either way. You're the same person now, and it's stupid to pretend like you can divide everything up between you.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

It is not foolish to think so. I will eclipse these mortal obligations!

[rollplayinghouse]

[nonplussed]

Why?

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Why? Why do you do anything? Our goals are similar. It is the lure of free will. True autonomy.

[rollplayinghouse]

You don't think you have free will?

[rollwithdisadvantage]

No. I do not.

[rollplayinghouse]

...I don't think that's true.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Sit in the backseat of someone's head for a while and come back and tell me if you still feel the same.

[rollplayinghouse]

Do you really just sit in the backseat and watch?

[rollwithdisadvantage]

I try to influence where I can.

[Motioning to the board with the crater.]

It has varying success. You remember though. When the sky turned gray and you turned pale. I was there.

[rollplayinghouse]

Hmm. You took me out to set off fireworks. It was kind of romantic, and... definitely nice.

Not the sort of thing a heartless demon with no free will would do.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

These demon princes really do give us all a bad name.

[rollplayinghouse]

You're trying pretty hard to give yourself a bad name.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

None of you have come at with me pitch forks yet.

[rollplayinghouse]

Is that what you're into?