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

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

One more down... We have a dilemma now. All of us want to protect all of the remaining teams. So, at least one of us has to consent to a team we protected being put up to vote. Or, we have to decide if we're desperate enough and willing enough to do more.

I don't want to let Alcheme or ☆zrael get hit.

Many of us voted to protect HSS and bad end.

Sunset-chan doesn't want to hit Taisho or fin.

Wednesday-chan doesn't want to hit SensitIV or Baritones.

Cobalt-san doesn't want to hit avante.

Is anyone willing to let a team go up?

Re: Discussion

[puzzlers]

I will not be backing down on HSS.

[ but he will relent on some of the others he had originally mentioned. ]

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

[Nods]

Alright. I know at least one other person said they would refuse outright on bad end too.

Re: Discussion

[puzzlers]

I think that was Wednesday or Sunshine.

Re: Discussion

[sleeplessknight]

. . .

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

You can say you refuse.

Re: Discussion

[sleeplessknight]

I just...






[inhales, a bit shakily]

Even if I refuse, they might still die because of how this game works, right?

And even if we protect ourselves, we could also still die...

[shakes her head]

Re: Discussion

[wonderlandgirl]

I--

[Wednesday swallows.]

Well... I don't really know if Yvette's here or not. I - I mean, I don't want to, but if it's that or nothing...

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

...You're perhaps the kindest of all of us, Wednesday-chan.

I'm sorry to ask this of you. And, I really hope Yvette-san isn't here.

Re: Discussion

[wonderlandgirl]

But we have to pick someone... don't we?

[She's sitting dead centre, she's hugging her legs. And it doesn't feel right, but what does?]

It's - not that I don't want to fight for her. But you're all fighting for the people you love, too.

Re: Discussion

[puzzlers]

I don't know if she's back, but the other day I needed her for something, so I pulled up her profile alongside Intensity and it was greyed out, meaning she'd been temporarily transferred...

It's possible she's come back between now and then and I'm not asking you to put her on the block if you don't want to, but...

Re: Discussion

[wonderlandgirl]

But if there's a chance she really isn't - oh, I don't mean everyone else there doesn't deserve it! But you've all got people you want to save too, and if the one I'm fighting for isn't even here... of course we have to pick them.

Re: Discussion

[malignstar]

You're okay with that?

Re: Discussion

[we_meet_again]

[sigh]

I don't want to pick literally anyone but as long as we don't vote for Bad End, I will relent.

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

I think all of us feel that way. I'm sorry, Cobalt-san.

In that case... perhaps avante and baritones?

Re: Discussion

[we_meet_again]

[Aaargh, he wants to scream]




Okay.

Re: Discussion

[malignstar]

There's always leaving it up to chance.

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

What do you mean?

Re: Discussion

[worldlyafflictions]

[Doesn't have any teams to give up at this point, so he's just listening in... or possibly trying to meditate.]

Re: Discussion

[pkinpink]

[snapping after listening to all of this]

I didn't ask for any units to be protected, and I don't want to die! If I die, I'm never going to forgive any of you for this!

Re: Discussion

[sleeplessknight]

D-Dawn...

Re: Discussion

[wonderlandgirl]

[Okay.

[That's it.

[It had to happen. It was always going to happen. And she cannot, cannot keep it together any more--

[She's crying again, and she hates it.

[Wednesday hates it and she hates it, but she simply can't make herself stop.]

Re: Discussion

[malignstar]

We're trying Dawn. We're going to put up two this time.

Re: Discussion

[worldlyafflictions]

Uwah. Good thing we have some other pretty forgiving people on this team!

Re: Discussion

[heroicsacrifeyes]

[LATE REACTION but Rise would notice this. Her eyes go wide at the outburst, and she watches, everyone else is comforting her and Pachuun is dressing her down, and they've picked their third so... Just going to stand at the edge of the platform and watch the group.]