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[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.

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[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.

[nihilmancy]

We can lose up to 3 more balloons without falling, unless not enough teams fall. We can choose to play defensively again, or not. What do you propose?

[backstory]

. . . I would like to play defensively, I think. I don't wish to see our unit harmed.

But the one unit I refuse to give up is Heart Soldier Senshi. My master is there, and I care for her more than I care for my own life. My brother from home is also in that unit.

[He just can't.]

Because I have multiple people I care for on Pep, I still prefer to avoid trying to harm them too. I realize our options are dwindling though.

[mycaringheart]

Mm, we will...

...And somewhere, we'll have to compromise.

[given that both attacks last time went through]

[backstory]

. . . But who is willing to give up on someone they care for.

[mycaringheart]

...Therein lies the conundrum, doesn't it.

[He should be the one to bend, shouldn't he? ...But if Nine is hurt, Anubis would be upset. Heart Soldier Senshi is definitely out. And Cobalt has already suffered enough because of him, the least he can do is...

...hah. He's so weak that he's even considering this, and yet he's too weak to follow his own words, at the same time... as usual...]

[backstory]

. . . I hate this place.

[mycaringheart]

...The only solace we have right now is that, one way or another, this will be over soon.

[backstory]

But when it's over, even if we win, there is no joy in that.

[mycaringheart]

Mm... There was never going to be, with this sort of game. We will simply have to tend to those who need healing, once we're permitted.

[and, potentially, capable, but that's what turning off pain is for, right...?]

[backstory]

Let us simply do our best, then. And make decisions we can live with.