pep!pep!

[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

[heroicsacrifeyes]

[FRAZZLED BY BEING DRAGGED UNDER A BALLPIT, static electricity everywhere]

W-Wahhh... What a start.

Re: Discussion

[malignstar]

Did I just get assaulted by a ball pit?

Re: Discussion

[puzzlers]

[ staring at the rules on his phone like whyyyy. ]

Re: Discussion

[we_meet_again]

[Looking over the edge to the spikes below]

[hmm he doesn't like that, no sir]

Re: Discussion

[sleeplessknight]

[just... looking over the edge]

Uh... guys...

Re: Discussion

[pkinpink]

[staring up at the balloons]

Eh?

[...looks down]

Eeeehh??

Re: Discussion

[worldlyafflictions]

[Doing a powers check--snap snap. No sparks.]

Haah... I wonder if our luck runs out this time!

STRATEGISING

[heroicsacrifeyes]

Okay! Let's get this straight, we're not hitting Taisho, fin, SensitIV, HSS, bad end, Alcheme or ☆zrael.

We'd also like to avoid hitting LiliS if possible, but they're on the table.

The teams we can hit are avante, wild city and baritones. With the way the maths are stacked, there's no way we can play to pop three balloons in any round.

What we can do is play one balloon this round on baritones, leaving ourselves unprotected and counting on having enough friends that we won't be hit six times in the first round. I think our odds are good on that one. Is everyone alright to try and play only one balloon at a time for now?

Decision

[idolpro]

Re: Decision

[heroicsacrifeyes]

1 balloon to LiliS.

Round 02

[idolpro]

Re: Round 02

[idolpro]

[Current Balloon Count: 9

Team balloons you have already popped: Lilis]

Discussion

[idolpro]

Re: Discussion

[malignstar]

I guess that went as planned then.

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

Two balloons, huh? That's about as expected.

We have baritones, avante, and wild city to choose from next. We're all still okay with just one?

Re: Discussion

[we_meet_again]

[squinting out into the void]

I can't see how the other units are doing, but I don't see anyone on the spikes, so...

Hm.


Is everyone okay sending one balloon again, or...?

Re: Discussion

[pkinpink]

I don't want to die!

Decision

[idolpro]

Re: Decision

[heroicsacrifeyes]

1 to Wild City

Round 03

[idolpro]

[Current Balloon Count: 8 + 0 permanent balloon = 8

Team balloons you have already popped: lilis, wild city]

Discussion

[idolpro]

Decision

[idolpro]

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.]