WILD CITY

[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

[fullbodied]

We shouldn't need to go to 3, should we? We can stay at 2?

[shutthefoxup]

Mmm...two should be okay...I doubt all eight of the teams are going to choose us next....maybe three more balloons we'll lose...

[fullbodied]

Let's just do two. We might be able to make it.

But then, who are we targeting? Now we have to pick one extra.

[shutthefoxup]

We're going for damage minimization again. Teams with the least amount of people.... Bad End Dead End and Taisho only have four and five. That sound okay? Well....as okay as any of this could be.

[fullbodied]

... Bad End has Boss, right?

[shutthefoxup]

It does.

[fullbodied]

[SHE REALLY, REALLY DOESN'T LIKE THAT. BUT uhhhh.

she doesn't know what to say.]

And Taisho... that's where Yusuke is.

[was yusuke here. was boss here.]

[shutthefoxup]

Aa, I didn't see him here though. There's someone I know and like on Taisho...the hard part is...the longer you're here, eventually there is someone you know and like on every unit.

[fullbodied]

Yeah-- but... Yusuke gave me my name. He gave me more information about myself than--

[she doesn't know what to do.]

They're... super important to me.

[undressedforsuccess]

[CHIMING IN]

. . .Hey. Didn't you give us an absolute? We don't touch Avante?

So North gets at least one absolute, too, if you ask me.

[earthquaked]

No need to get feisty about it. North can choose anyone she definitely doesn't want to hit.

We've got plenty of choices.

[undressedforsuccess]

Eh? Who's not gonna get riled up talking about bullshit like this?

[shutthefoxup]

Do you think I'm that insensitive? OF course she's going to get one, I'm talking it out with her. Please let me handle this.

[undressedforsuccess]

Haah? Did I get dropped from Wild City between rounds? Seems like it's a talk I can be part of if I want.

[shutthefoxup]

No, but you shouldn't assume the worst about me! Of course I know she has people she wants to protect and I'll do my best to support her in protecting them.Let me get two words out before you decide I'm some insensitive asshole, got it?

[undressedforsuccess]

When the hell did I call you an insensitive asshole? Huh?! Pretty shitty to complain about assumptions if you're gonna run around making 'em yourself!

[shutthefoxup]

Haa....we can hit just one team, but that means we have no protection then. So it puts Wild City at risk of dying. Yusuke isn't here, so we can still hit Taisho. Unless you want to hit one of the teams that has five or six people like Pep Pep or HSS. What team do you want to risk?

Just....please remember....we all have people we want to protect. There may come a time where you can only choose to protect one. I'm not trying to scare you, I'm just trying to prepare you.

Whisky is dating people on Zrael and SensitIV, I have a brother and a best friend on Avante and Alcheme, Plover, Talon and Coyote are going to find people they're going to want to protect. So please just be prepared for that.

[fullbodied]

I know! I know it's selfish!

[hnnngh, she doesn't want more people to die, but also she doesn't want to risk Boss.]

I don't want to kill Boss. If Yusuke's not here, then okay. But there has to be another option.

[shutthefoxup]

What is the other option then? Tell me what team you want to risk?

[fullbodied]

... Future is Now.

[shutthefoxup]

FiN and Taisho? Okay, go input that decision then.

[iamverybadass]

We shouldn't ask North to do this if we have other options. We...

Minimizing damage is noble, but Wild City looks out for Wild City first. That's the first thing I learned when I came here. That it means protecting the people important to us when we can. Protecting our...our hearts.

Do we have anyone to protect on Pep!Pep or Future is Now?

[shutthefoxup]

I know, but I'm putting the ball in her court. If she wants to protect both that's fine.

[iamverybadass]

Mm. ...It's important for her to be the one to decide it.

[shutthefoxup]

Exactly. It's easy to say who we want to protect, but she has to understand she's risking other people. It sucks, but we have to choose. So I'm letting her choose.