AlcheME!

[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

[neigh_sayer]

[a brief flatline look]

She's the one that's always showing off her memories, y'know.

[liftoft]

Just--don't antagonize her about it. I'm tryin' to keep her off your case.

[neigh_sayer]

Why? She's just gonna remember more. And I'm gonna show some baaaad stuff later. If she wants to cling to the past, that's her problem.

[liftoft]

[ pitches forward onto his hands and knees so he can half-crawl close enough to be in C's face ]

Because you're important to me, you fuckin' brat!

[neigh_sayer]

--! [blinks, startled]

Eeeeh? Don't you mean Maki's important to you? You guys are like besties or something.

[liftoft]

Of course she's important to me, but it ain't like that. Not here, anyway. We're still figurin' each other out. You an' me too, right?

...Listen, I take my memories 'cause I wanna know what happened to us, and I wanna know about myself, but I don't really care about any of it, y'know? Not as much as I care about the stuff that happens here, 'cause that's the only stuff I can do anything about. And here, you're C--my unitmate and my brother and you're annoying and a whole lot of fuckin' trouble sometimes but you're not--

...You don't fuckin' hurt people.

[neigh_sayer]

[X we are ON CAMERA. tilts! his! head!]

Ahaha! You're getting so worked up. You'd be reeeeal disappointed if you knew the truth, y'know.

[liftoft]

[ frowns, lips pressed together tightly because while he does HAVE more to say that is about as much as he wants to do on camera yes.]

... Yeah? Well maybe I'll kick your ass later then, who knows. But for now I'm only gonna believe the things I can see myself.

[neigh_sayer]

. . .you've seen me do plenty. It really shouldn't come as a surprise, given our history.

[then, beams!! but whispers]

Don't look so upset~! Neeheehee, at least now, it doesn't really matter how much of that bargain you keep up, riiiight?

[liftoft]

Of course it does...?

[neigh_sayer]

Even if you're already a dead man walking?

[liftoft]

Do I look dead? I'm still walkin' and talkin' and able to interact with everyone. I still feel like, pain and pleasure and get hungry and tired.

I dunno about you, but to me, so far bein' dead is an awful like bein' alive.

[neigh_sayer]

[snorts]

You're so simple, it's kind of infuriating.

Welp, good thing we just gotta worry about smiling right now~!

1/

[liftoft]

[ ... ]

2/

[liftoft]

[ --brightens, artificially and outrageously so ]

Sure, that's the Alcheme way, huh? Smilin' and laughin' together no matter what!

3/

[liftoft]

[ and then his hand comes up to grab C by the front of whatever stupid wizard outfit he's wearing right now, expression serious ]

4/

[liftoft]

[ and then, almost but not actually in slow motion-- ]

5/

[liftoft]

[ --he pulls-- ]

[liftoft]

[ --C right into-- ]

WHAT AM I ON NOW, SIX? /

[liftoft]

[ --a hug! ]

OOP it was seven anyway /done

[liftoft]

[ SMILE FOR THE CAMERA HERE WE ARE JUST PLAYING UP OUR ROLES, ALCHEME, SO FUNNY ]

[neigh_sayer]

[IF HE COULD BRISTLE LIKE A CAT HE WOULD BE]


[SMILES




LIKE DEATH

but also he's not strong enough to break away]



Nee-heehee! Oh dear brother, you're just full! Of! Surprises!

[liftoft]

[ he's going to have to check his room for booby traps for the next several months isn't he ]