future is now

[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

[resonantblue]

[has been missing for... quite some time now! since before the re-amnesia game, at least]

It should be scientifically impossible for eleven balloons to hold up as many people as this...

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You're very unlucky in your timing. You know that?

[resonantblue]

Unlucky...?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I doubt this game will be as friendly as the bumper car one.

[resonantblue]

This is the same host?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes. LEFT. Heaven aligned according to what I've heard.

[resonantblue]

This does not bode well for us at all.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

... What makes you say that?

[resonantblue]

To confirm: is heaven itself a lawful good force, or another source of chaos for us?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

It's actually just a different faction of Hell. The domain of liars.

[resonantblue]

Then LEFT's turn to a dangerous game was to be expected.

Heaven is not revolting or obstructing us.

They are just like this.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

All hosts are going to be like this. It's their job.

[resonantblue]

...




I see.

Um.

In any case, I have informed Shine and Duality that we must pop at least two balloons for our safety.

[asonoficeandfire]

The games hardly runs on logic.

[resonantblue]

...






You are right.

Oh no.

[asonoficeandfire]

Are you all right?

[resonantblue]

Yes. Illogical fallacies are but an annoyance.

[asonoficeandfire]

Unfortunately it's the least of our problems right now.

[resonantblue]

Of course. As I relayed to Shine, we need to pop at least two balloons. I request it.

[asonoficeandfire]

To protect ourselves, yes.

[resonantblue]

If you are in agreement, that is all Silence needs to feel a little more reassured.

[asonoficeandfire]

We're going to try and keep ourselves safe first. I'm not comfortable targeting others for the sake of that, but... we don't have a choice in these games, and we are probably not the only ones feeling that way.

[resonantblue]

It is possible we could be made into a scapegoat. The target of another unit's idea to pop at least two balloons to save themselves the first round in.

After all... despite all the friends Angel had made, there were units who weren't opposed to targeting her unit.

This is not far from unimaginable.

[asonoficeandfire]

We are capable of making others into scapegoats too. I don't think anyone is safe, in the end. We are picking teams based on our thought they might not be targeted, but perhaps other teams are thinking the same. We don't know that.

[resonantblue]

[guh, damn]

Let's protect ourselves from being another unit's scapegoat.