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Heart Soldier Senshi

[ The door leads to a room with a big whiteboard and several colored dry-erase markers (your position colors, interestingly!) waiting for you. In permanent ink the whiteboard is divided into two sides: the left says "BATTLE PLAN" and the right says "VOTING". Under "BATTLE PLAN", there's a helpful quote of, "HOW DO WE GET THE CROWD TO LOVE US?"

Well. That's the million dollar question, isn't it?

There are fold-up chairs all around as well as a table, as if this is a Very Important Meeting. In the corner there's a crate, full of things that you might . . . need? No real weapons are inside of the crate, but if you root around, you can pretty much find anything or a cardboard version of everything - like there's no food there but you could totally get a cardboard burger.

You can leave the room if you want to, to mingle with other people. ]

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You never finished that script, right?

[Wire gives a frustrated sigh] Combat's easy, but I don't think I'm winning anyone over with anything else.

The script I'm working on was designed for a lot more people. But we can work something out, it's fine.

You have your own kind of charm, we just have to figure out how to use it.

Right... Henshin's probably good for some flashiness too...

[He's gonna root around for cardboard weapons and dummies.]

If we're going for that we should ask Be-kun for some more of that sparkle potion.

Christ...

That's. A good idea.

[HE HATES ADMITTING IT!]

[There there dad]

We should go as over the top as possible. In fact, if we want to make something fun for everyone, maybe we could get some audience participation going?

Lean into the hero gimmick, huh. That oughta play to the strengths of Heart Soldier's appeal.

I was actually thinking that, if we could have some of the other teams play heroes along with us and get praised for it, it might get them in the right mindset for the plan. Making sure everyone gets a vote and avoids punishment instead of just going for winners.

So it's gotta be inspirational, too? Hmm...

[He thinks on this deeply.]

Two've us plays the main heroes, facing the rest've us. Make it look like impossible odds. They reach out and with the audience's help, get a boost to beat us back and change our hearts.

Right! Wire-san, why don't we be the villains? I was thinking of something like that, where I'm corrupting the rest of the team with evil potions and making you my lackeys? If we do the sparkle potion, maybe we could ask Be-kun for two and there's good sparkles and evil black sparkles for when the corruption takes hold.

There's five of us, so maybe if I corrupt you first, and then a little later corrupt one of the others, that's the point that the other two can turn to the audience for help?

Oh, we could arm them with little foam rubber balls or nerf guns or something, to fight back at us.

Just asked B. Says his powers won't work for other teams right now. But maybe we can substitute the aura that appears when Buddy Boost is in effect.

Plus, those've us with Henshin forms would probably make for imposing threats. You've got that one, right?

I do have that one, yes. If Be-kun's abilities won't work... Well! We can just use some glitter instead. We can coat the balls and darts in glitter too, and that's how the audience can purify us.

All right. I'll work with Abi to get a decent fight choreography going on. And Hiryuu's got a Heart Weapon, so using it for real shouldn't hurt any of us.

Good, that's good. Alright, let's see...

[Starts writing up a quick plan of the stages:

1. Weapons display - Wire-san and Abi-kun demonstrate sword techniques, Hurricane-kun and I martial arts, Hiryuu-san archery. Heart weapon. When we attempt to use Henshin, corruption occurs.

2. Fireworks and glitter for Wire-san and Hurricane-kun's transformation. Someone needs to hit me offstage with a black glitterbomb, smoke machine goes off, lightning effects. Maniacal laughter? Corrupt Wire-san.

3. Abi-kun, Hiryuu-san and Hurricane-kun attempt to save us. Dramatic speeches, choreograph a fight. Hurricane-kun gets corrupted in the process.

4. Abi-kun and Hiryuu-san turn to audience, arm them with glitterbombs, nerf darts, attempt to purify us.

5. Wire-san is purified, covered in glitter and sparkles. I’m too far gone, require Buddy Bond to save me. Heartfelt speech on friendship and teamwork. Handholding If the audience is into it try to get them to cheer?

6. Fireworks for finale purification. Give everyone our thanks, remind them that this all happened with their help.]

Alright, we're going to need some props. Find the most ridiculous weapons you can, we've got dummies set up for the display. We'll need an excess of glitter, foam balls and nerf guns, a smoke machine, and we'll need to sort out some lighting cues. Is there anything else we could add to make this as cheesy and silly as possible?

Edited 2018-07-13 23:41 (UTC)

Re: BATTLE PLAN - PERFORMANCE DISCUSSION

fiberoptic - 2018-07-13 23:42 (UTC) - Expand

Re: BATTLE PLAN - PERFORMANCE DISCUSSION

ferociousfuckingnerd - 2018-07-13 23:47 (UTC) - Expand

I don't have Henshin yet, but I have my Heart Weapon.

If Mori's script isn't ready for this game, then let's make up something new now, on the spot.

[ time for improv, guys, hope you're READY ]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. If we do it that way, we could get everyone else involved too, the other units might have more fun if they can get involved.

If we're allowed to do that, then a cooperative display would be more interesting, anyway. We're supposed to be about helping others.

[ thinking thinking ]

Is C here?

A dangerous question! I haven't seen him.

That's too bad. We could have used that smoke bomb ability. He would have made an excellent villain, too.

[ AND THEN GIL RE-READS THE RULES AND SEES WE CAN ONLY USE OUR POWERS ON OURSELVES ]

... Never mind. We'll need to think of something else.

Edited 2018-07-13 22:58 (UTC)

Who knows, maybe he'll gatecrash the performance as the final boss at the last minute?

If not... I can be the villain. Maybe it could be something like, I'm corrupting innocent people into my minions with potions, and we - er, you, the heroes, need everyone's help to stop me.

Hmmm.

We want the audience to love all of us.

[ a villain who just corrupts innocent people... the audience might end up disliking mori, then, and that's no good. ]

... Perhaps, instead of a strict villain, you are a comrade of ours who has lost his way. We're here to set you back onto the path of righteousness, and this is a story of your redemption. We could fight against you, in the beginning, but when violence doesn't solve the problem--Wire is forced to use his Buddy Bond to open your heart!

Ah, that's a good plan, I like it.

I wanted to use Be-kun's sparkles somehow, I was going to ask him for some light and dark versions. Something that flashy would be popular, so maybe a Henshin sequence gone wrong? We start to transform for the weapons display, but, something goes wrong and I become corrupted. And then I start corrupting the rest of the team, so two of you have to turn to the audience and ask for their help in saving us before it's too late.

We could give the audience little foam balls to throw at us, or nerf guns or something, and if we cover those in glitter that could be the 'purification' that saves us. Like, they have to save Wire-san, but because I'm the root of it, it's had a hold of me too long, you have to use the Bond to get me to open up my heart again? We could write in a heartfelt ending there.

[ YEAH ]

I think we've got something!

Oh - hold on, apparently we can't use AlcheME's sparkles.

That's fine! We'll just have to use ordinary glitter instead.