BAD END=DEAD END

[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

[searingedgelord]

All the rainbows and balloons really don't suit us at all.

[criminaljustice]

I mean, I don't mind the rainbows, but you gotta have a balance for all the pop of colors, in my opinion.

Anyway, aesthetics aside... how hard are we going here?

[searingedgelord]

I guess it depends on how everyone feels. We could play hard and try to get the balloons that can't be popped. Try to protect ourselves.

[criminaljustice]

If we go with that, probably best to aim for more understanding units.

[searingedgelord]

Who are the understanding units?

...Besides us?

[we are going to eat so much shit aren't we]

[neverbeentogeorgia]

[ he's of almost no help with this conversation but uh. ]

Hey. I don't care how understanding Pep!Pep! is. If we're going to dick anybody over, I don't want them up first on the chopping block.

[searingedgelord]

We won't hit Pep!Pep!

[says it like it's not even a question, actually]

[criminaljustice]

I wouldn't suggest Peppep! since they already have their work cut out for them with having connections everywhere. And I wouldn't suggest SensitIV because they might be needed later.

[justfuckingtryit]

We're not touching peppep.

[neverbeentogeorgia]

[ after listening to everyone ]

Just making it clear since someone asked for a more "understanding" unit. Aren't the heroes and the joker unit--Alchohol or whatever--the more understanding ones by reputation?

[ also he knows what AlcheMe's name is, he's just being an asshole, ]

[justfuckingtryit]

Sounds like that's three votes for Heart Soldier, then. Let's do it.

[searingedgelord]

[She just appreciates someone being an asshole about Alcheme, tbh]

I'm always willing to hit AlcheME. C's been asking for it for awhile.

[literally, he's asked for it.]

[neverbeentogeorgia]

Then he can have it.

[criminaljustice]

... as much as I hate suggesting it for a lot of reasons... Heart Soldier Senshi.

[searingedgelord]

[She sighs. She doesn't really like that idea either. But also.]

That's one. We'd still need two other teams if we were to choose three.

[a beat]

I'm not saying we should play like that. Just that we could.

[criminaljustice]

... I don't think I could play hard against HSS even if we did pick them, to be honest.

And... I dunno. I don't have a good read on the other units as well as I used to. Avante still level? I know Wild City's off the table for sure. Maybe we can make things up to LiliS or even Baritones... but I only know Lily on LiliS and the one guy I knew on Baritones is gone now.

[searingedgelord]

Pretty sure Baritones isn't soft. I don't know them well but from what I've seen and heard of other games they'll play hard if they think they need to. I'm not sure how understanding they are for other units after the fact, though.

[criminaljustice]

We can put them on the target list as a "maybe", then.

[searingedgelord]

Yeah, okay.

I'm assuming AlcheME is out?

[justfuckingtryit]

Fine by me.

[criminaljustice]

... I dunno if I can advocate hitting them hard, though.

Just... they're reasonable. Would at least hear us out before condemning us.

[justfuckingtryit]

They are not fucking reasonable.

But we can go light on them, if you want.

[criminaljustice]

... well, all the ones I know are reasonable.

Which makes up at least half of them. Since one is my double and another is someone who was on my team back home. And Hiryuu's always trying her best to do well by others and has been here since the start, so she gets how it goes. Hurricane, too.

King's definitely more of a wild card in that situation, though.

[neverbeentogeorgia]

Works for me.

[justfuckingtryit]

[Fucking. Laughs at Hiryuu always trying her best to do well by others. It's a bitter sound.]

King's not the fucking problem.

If we're hitting them, though, we'd better hurry and put it in.