Taisho Roman Revolution

[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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Re: Discussion

[syncintohell]

[ With Kaguya's words, he gives up on standing to slump against the machine and curl up loosely around his knees. But as if he did not just decide he was literally unable stand this anymore, he says to Okami: ]

Noted.

[ and to Kaguya: ]

There is not a single unit.

[sunflowering]

[ She just... rests her head against the wall. This is terrible. She doesn't want to play this stupid game. She doesn't want to hurt anyone, and she doesn't want to die, either. ]

[syncintohell]

[ Shu is adamant, usually, about how bad he is at people. But still, he usually tries his best to help.

Right now it is hard to tell he is even animate, slumped over doll-like except when he moves his lips to speak. Right now, he has no comfort to offer her. ]

[bluerosestyle]

. . .

Maybe we should discuss this one again. Do we want to survive, or not? I acted on my own last time and I hurt Shu with that. If we change strategies now, that will be pointless, but...

[syncintohell]

I wish for Kaguya and Baron to survive. Harm me as you wish.

[ididntsaybanana]

What? No!

[syncintohell]

[ Blearily looks up to glare at Baron. ]

I have already volunteered the sacrifice of two of those of I value. Do you think I wish to spread the pain I have suffered to the rest of you? The damage is done, but with this it can be localized.

[ididntsaybanana]

[ He grabs you by your collar, his voice low and hoarse ]

That doesn't make things better, you dick!

[syncintohell]

[ Shu is fairly light, despite his height, and easily hauled up despite his rag dolling. Or rather, possibly because of his rag-dolling— he always seems to find the strength to resist when he wishes to. His head lists to the side, but he says with some venom: ]

Pray tell, what would make things better? Ought I allow you to volunteer your loved ones? Shall I force you to lay down your life, as you so objected to me doing?

[ididntsaybanana]

Don't make decisions on your own! I don't care about surviving! I care about you, asshole!

[furrytailprince]

Stop that.

[syncintohell]

[ stop what!!

the obnoxiously disassociating and curling up limp like a marionette with its strings cut?

I mean, probably.

however.

He does not stop because he was told to, staring mostly at his knees ]

[furrytailprince]

... I am sorry. I did not realize you had friends on Azrael.

[syncintohell]

It did not bear mentioning. We cannot protect everyone. You and Sol, too, have a friend on BARiTONES. All our actions cause harm, but I have long decided that which does harm to me is immaterial. I am long since broken, after all.

[furrytailprince]

That does not mean it is not worth mentioning. I would not have been hasty about it had I known.

[sunflowering]

H-Hey...! Don't make decisions like that by yourself! I absolutely don't want you to be harmed, Itsuki-sama!!

[syncintohell]

I am not going to force you to harm those you love by your own hand, when I have already suffered that pain. I will volunteer it, even. If we are rethinking, then let us do it so only I am hurt.

I submit that we should strike down sensitIV and AlcheME.

[sunflowering]

[ She also goes to grab him bu the front of his outfit. ]

Shu--!

[ She clenches her fangs ]

. . . The people I care about the most are right here. Whatever happens to the other units will make me sad, but what happens to you, and Okami-san, Sol-kun, Baron, and the rest of our unit will hurt me worse. Don't go thinking that you are protecting us by making such difficult decisions! Because thinking you have to do that for us will only hurt us, too.

[syncintohell]

[ He, finally, offers some resistance. Emotion bleeds into his voice as by-product of his vehemence, as he grabs her wrist to try and get her to unhand him. ]

It will likewise hurt Okami to force him to change his stance! Ought I force the issue? Ought I force Baron to target LiliS, who has never done us harm and took vengeance for my death?! Ought I make Sol strike down Pep!pep!? There is nothing else to be done! If this must be done, then at least allow it to be my hand!

[sunflowering]

No!

[He does get her to let go of him, but she doesn't stop facing him head on]

No! I won't let you go about making decisions like that! We're a team! And teams work through things together! You don't get to go myrter yourself like that, because I won't let you anymore!

[furrytailprince]

... I do not want Taisho to suffer.

[bluerosestyle]

Then you don't regret having one permanent balloon?

[furrytailprince]

... I don't know. The situation is complicated now. But if that balloon protects us... then no.

[bluerosestyle]

[nods]

Spreading them out wouldn't have protected us.

[ididntsaybanana]

[ what if he just stays silent and thinks ]