Castle Game: pep!pep!

[idolpro]

[Suddenly, you hear the wailing of a horn. Outside, tension is turning to panic. You can't see anything, but you can hear people gathering up their things, sobbing in fear or speaking in harsh whispers. A lone voice calls from the distance:

The enemy approaches!

Upon the map, an unfamiliar geography appears -- several small nations, clustered together. Outside of them, an endless sea of enemy forces, identified only by a symbol of a cracked skull. Each of the small nations is marked with a flag in one unit's colour, and a tiny model of a castle.

You are at war. How will you protect your people and yourself?


(Rules & questions are here. Cleo is your gamerunner!)

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION

[malignstar]

You might not care if you're tortured by Lilith but I care! I was fine, I was fine with protecting others and losing. Even if it meant watching you guys die. That was your choice and I honor that. But this is different! This is letting that bitch have her way with you!

I don't want Bad End to die again. I don't! But I don't even think we'll be able to save them, Cobalt! Fuck, I don't know what to do!

Re: DISCUSSION

[we_meet_again]

...

Even if I do go to Lilith, at least I can do it on my own terms.

That's not nothing, to me. It's one tiny bit of agency in this place where I rarely feel like I have any when it counts.

And if I can help someone else while I do it, even a little, it's worth it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[malignstar]

We don't know we're even doing anything for them... You could be cursing yourselves and they could still die...

Re: DISCUSSION

[we_meet_again]

Or we could try to save ourselves and they could die.

But this way, we know we did what we could. No regrets.

Re: DISCUSSION

[malignstar]

[ Gripping his hair with both hands ]

... there's no point to trying to save ourselves right now.

I just want. I don't want her to hurt you like that... Fuck.

Re: DISCUSSION

[we_meet_again]

Sunshine.

Thank you.

We'll be okay.

Re: DISCUSSION

[malignstar]

[ Falling to his knees, unable to even pretend he can hold it together anymore ]

... you need to at least... protect our gift. Give more to... one.

Re: DISCUSSION

[we_meet_again]

[wuh-oh

alarm]

Are you okay?

Re: DISCUSSION

[malignstar]

[ Fighting hard to keep from having a full-blown panic attack and exhaling roughly ]


... how're... you going to choose? Just. Tell me how you're going to choose...

Re: DISCUSSION

[we_meet_again]

Um... I think one each, to Bad End and Heart Soldier... maybe we can flip a coin or something for the third.

Re: DISCUSSION

[malignstar]

... coin?

[ Ugh, there's no strategy in this at all. What if Band End still dies and they end up with Lilith? Should he have fought harder? Should he fight now? Sunset would have fought... ]