sensitIV

[idolpro]

When the game starts, you find something grabbing onto your ankle and dragging you under the ballpit until you find yourself sitting on a disco floor platform with your team. It is only being held up by eleven balloons.

You make decisions on a cool arcade machine where you can SELECT A TEAM'S BALLOON. If a character is blind or has no hands or smth, you can assume things can be read to you and you can automatically pick through your speech. Thanks, Alexa.

If you look over the platform, you can see a lot of sparkling rainbow spikes below.

Comments

Round 01

[idolpro]

[Current Balloon Count: 11

Team balloons you have already popped: none]

Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Discussion

[sancrimony]

[ WAIT I NEED TO LOSE MY SHIT ABOUT BEING DRAGGED DOWN GIVE ME A SECOND

looking stricken, in a defensive position before he realizes he's not moving anymore ]

Re: Discussion

[mycaringheart]

[hi so Lavender's doing that thing again where he's curling inwards to try to make himself smaller]

...of course it's like this.

Re: Discussion

[sancrimony]

[ once he's gotten his shit together ]

. . . Who must you avoid?

Re: Discussion

[nihilmancy]

[Looking at the ground, swallowing hard.

She's terrified, but also a little excited, and she hates that. But all anybody will see is clear anxiety and worry on her face.]

I... I see. We must get this over with. After this, everybody will be okay.

Re: Discussion

[sancrimony]

[ god

christ

right there are kids here

taking a breath, before steeling himself ]

Who must you avoid? Sekhmet-san.

Re: Discussion

[sancrimony]

[ clapping a hand against the machine to get everyone's attention ]

There are eleven units, and of that, we have five units we can possibly choose from. In order to protect ourselves most efficiently, three balloons is best. If we want to resign ourselves to death, one balloon.

If we want to struggle with every round, two balloons. However, it's possible that this won't be enough to protect us, and we might have increased the damage unnecessarily.

As you all know, I would pick three units every round. However, first and foremost, I am at this unit's service. Therefore, I ask of you what you desire our course of action to be. Will we resign ourselves, or will we struggle?

BAD END=DEAD END, pep!pep!, Heart Soldier Senshi, BARiTONES, WILD CITY, and -

[ a pause ]

- and ☆ZRAEL.

These are the units we don't want to harm. In other words - LiliS, Taisho Roman Revolution, future is now, AlcheME!, and avante en garde are our victims.

Please decide what course you wish to take, and then we can decide who will be the first to go.

Re: Discussion

[nihilmancy]

[...She just realized that she didn't want to hurt liliS either, but she also doesn't want to further harm her team...

why this.]

...I see. Let us direct three toward Future is Now.

Re: Discussion

[mycaringheart]

...I would prefer to minimize the damage we deal. But we should protect ourselves, even if only a little... I will defer to everyone else, but I would prefer two balloons, as a compromise.

[......]

...As for units, I've stated what opinion I have on the matter. Who we target matters less than who we don't.

Re: Discussion

[backstory]

[ SURPRISE BITCHES IT'S LEVI. He suddenly is here. . .

Which is also awkward since he hasn't been around a lot.]

. . . Which unit is everyone considering?

Decision

[idolpro]

Re: Decision

[sancrimony]

2 balloons:
- future is now
- avante en garde

Round 02

[idolpro]

[Current Balloon Count: 11 (one of your balloons pop but it reforms)

Team balloons you have already popped: avante en garde!]

Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Discussion

[nihilmancy]

It, um, seems that we have a surfeit of balloons, so if we wish to play more mercifully, then we probably have room to do so.

[Trying to quiet the nagging kill kill kill voice at the back of her mind- there was a tiny thrill of pleasure when they submitted their choice last round.]

Decision

[idolpro]

Re: Decision

[sancrimony]

2 balloons:
- future is now
- Taisho Roman Revolution

Round 03

[idolpro]

[Current Balloon Count: 9 + 0 permanent balloon = 9 (one of your balloons popped and reformed)

Team balloons you have already popped: future is now trr, avante]

Discussion

[idolpro]

[backstory]

At nine... we're still in this, I think.

[ He's a little surprised they aren't lower ]

But now we have to continue picking teams again.

Re: Discussion

[sancrimony]

. . . So, three more units targeted us. There are seven more that can. . .

[ mumbling to himself first, before continuing on ]

It seems we are also against striking LiliS and AlcheME!. .... AlcheME! is still alive, so . . . they've either been lucky, or they've been fighting.

[ mmmm m mmmmmmmm mmmmmmrrrrr ]

What say you all?

Decision

[idolpro]

Re: Decision

[sancrimony]

2 balloons:
- AlcheME!
- ☆ZRAEL

NOT DEAD

[idolpro]

[On the arcade screen, you can see pixels of various teams showing up on the screen, all of them standing on the balloon platform. They're quite cute. The music is a catchy chiptune sound with equally cutesy sound effects.

A ★pop★ sound as one team falls! Whoops there goes Lilis and FiN! (doo doo doo doooooooo)

Pop! There goes BE=DE and alcheme. (Can pixels look gross?)

Another p★p! Bye Wild City and Baritones. (Yikes, were those screams?)

Pop.

A door opens and you find yourselves exiting the stage.]