avante en garde

[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

[composeur]

They won't know even if we do pop their balloons. But this isn't about "going easy", this is about not becoming a casualty simply because we're completely and totally unremarkable in every way.

But it's okay if we fall too. That would be entertaining, right? Oh, do you want to try to be the martyr? Let's fall!! Have you died here yet? What does it feel like do you think? That might be exciting !!

[emotionalsupportghost]

[ GRABS HIS SHOULDER gentle, but firm in a "pay attention" kind of way ]

No one here wants us to die. Two balloons lets us stop one from getting popped. We're still protecting ourselves that way.

[composeur]

[ unfortunately, he is paying attention. ]

That's boring. Either we should vote 3 or we should vote 1 and be prepared to fall. Making such boring, safe choices won't give the audience any reason to cheer for us at all.

[emotionalsupportghost]

Fuck what the audience wants. This is about what we want.

For now, Nemesis agrees with you. We've just gotta see what Mike and Gold think now.

[composeur]

Nemesis does-? [ actual surprise. uh. huh? ... huh???

give him a second to process that, hm. ... hums. ]

What I want... I don't remember if I said already, so I'll say it again. I want to "win". Not the battle, but the war.

[emotionalsupportghost]

I remember. I still want to help you with that. We just... We've got different ideas about how to do that.

But no matter what, we've got to work together as a team. Why else would they put us in these units?

[composeur]

[ ....hummm, ]

How should I know? [ it's a lot less aggressively pushing of a tone, rather ... his gaze drifts off, looking for something else to focus on ]

Probably... for entertainment.

[emotionalsupportghost]

Probably. But not the same kind of entertainment they get from watching us fight with the other units in these games.

[composeur]

I wonder about that? What kind of fans do we have? They said I should be on ☆ZRAEL, actually! Maybe they're onto something there?

[emotionalsupportghost]

Well, I got a set of plushies that look like everyone on the team smiling in the last fanmail. So we've got the kind of fans who'd send me that.