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

[arealeyeopener]

[pats her head]

Let's get through this fast.

[resonantblue]

...we need to protect ourselves though. The other units had no issue letting Future is Now meet demise in that bomb game, in spite of the presence of Intensity and Angel.

[arealeyeopener]

So you'd like to pop more than one?

[resonantblue]

Yes. At least two.

[arealeyeopener]

[hairpets]

I'm fine with that.

[resonantblue]

[swats his hand away this time]

Silence is not afraid of death. It is not that. No. Nobody else on this unit should have to endure anything like that again!

[arealeyeopener]

I know.

[resonantblue]

[huffs and

and

sits down]

[arealeyeopener]

[sits next to]

[resonantblue]

Games like these are difficult...

[arealeyeopener]

They do it for that reason...

[resonantblue]

If neither heaven nor hell is good for us, what do we have protecting everyone? Are we all really on our own?

[arealeyeopener]

That's pretty heavy...

[resonantblue]

I do not understand what you mean.

[arealeyeopener]

It's heavy to think that you're all on your own.

[resonantblue]

I assume you mean either disheartening, terrifying, concerning, troubling, disturbing, saddening, frustrating, discouraging, or distressing.

Because those things are all of the words I associate with being on our own like this.

[arealeyeopener]

Those are all heavy feelings, right?

[resonantblue]

That makes no sense! Words do not have weight like physical items!

[arealeyeopener]

Don't those feelings make your heart heavy though?

[resonantblue]

...oh.

Yes. They do...

[arealeyeopener]

So when I say heavy that's what I mean.

[resonantblue]

That is heavy...

[arealeyeopener]

Right. It's an easy way of kind of covering all those feelings.

[resonantblue]

I never realized a term as widely encompassing as that existed. It is incredible.

[arealeyeopener]

You learned something new!