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ViewScream: Taisho Roman Revolution

The bulkhead seals behind you; there is a brief warning buzzer before THEMiS’s A.I. pleasantly informs you that you have been “quarantined for your protection.”

A specialized room is arrayed before you, and you suddenly find you are aware of not only of the game’s rules, but also of a limited collection of specialized knowledge suitable to your team’s Role.

ROLE: ENGINEERING

Available solutions:

Photon Spiral Generator
Red Matter Inhibitor Coil
Antimatter Crystallization Matrix

To your right are a series of lockers containing changes of clothes to more Role-appropriate ones—though they still contain just enough elements to match your unit aesthetic. You may use these if you wish (if so, they will not disappear after the game ends). To your left, there is what appears to be a comms station. It seems you’ll be using this to contact the other units.

It quickly becomes apparent, in fact, that you will very much need their help—

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Weapons
Red alerts on your monitor are always a good sign, right? What about alarm bells? Warning signs with hazard symbols that say "ENEMY DETECTED"? Hmmm, no? Not into it?

Well, you can do something about that! ... If you had operational weapons.

You can see several dots on the radar rapidly approaching—in fact, they’re surrounding every path past the sealed bulkgate. You peer through the window, and see the first of the swarm: many-legged, chitinous, its carapace shimmering green and purple as it chitters its enormous, saw-like mandibles. At least it’s only about the size of a large cat…. but it seems to be bringing hundreds and hundreds of its closest friends.

Hey, maybe you should get those weapons checked out?

Medical
There’s a prickling feeling over your skin, like an itch you can’t quite place, and

It starts with an itch, or a sneeze, or a cough. Whatever it is, it starts small—but it rapidly grows, in size and in seriousness. Itches spread, sneezes become more violent, and coughs become more frequent. Roughly around the time that your ailments pass the threshold into "moderately annoying and somewhat concerning", THEMiS's A.I. speaks in a pleasantly neutral tone:
"Space plague detected in air ventilation. Air quality has been compromised."

Then, completely unbidden, the A.I. continues to describe what this "space plague" is: "Space plague: a common form of airborne infection. The body's immune system is attacked and begins to break down with the introduction of this bacteria. Microorganisms grow at a rapid pace and consume the host, processing flesh into liquid nutrient until the bodypart is completely consumed. Fatality rate: 85%. Antibiotic recommended for continued survival."

The feeling's just getting worse. Hm!

Psionics
There’s something at the corner of your eye—no, the other corner—no, it’s writhing beneath your skin—

Wait. It’s none of those things. All of this is just in your mind; there’s a creeping paranoia that borders on madness. Then you notice it: the broken canister in the corner of the room, its contents already dispersed. Whatever was in there is clearly beginning to work its way through your brain. The effects are easy enough to ignore, now that you realize what’s going on… but they’re only going to get worse.

[ coughing, and

honestly, the paranoia is ignorable. He knows it's just the game, and Kaguya isn't going to attack him. The issue is if something else gets in, but—

No, that's not what he needs to focus on. ]

Kaguya. We should announce our role over the communication device.

[ Oh geez. Covering her mouth she can't stop the coughing fit that follows too. As though breathing into her sleeve will somehow help.

Eyes closing she tries to calm down a moment. This is bad. This is really bad. But she manages to nod. ]

I agree. We're not going to get anywhere if we can't work quickly.

Pep!pep! cannot solve any of our problems, but needs our help. I know you feel strongly about them. Heart Soldier Senshi also requires our aid, but has not yet said what they can help with.

[ also, coming over to Kaguya to put his hands on her shoulders, hoping that the contact will ground her away from whatever madness is starting to infect her mind ]

[She nods quietly, and is glad for the small comfort. Swallowing, she continues. ]

They are important. I know things were difficult in the last game, but either way if they need our help we should help. Heart Soldier though is still reeling after the last game...

[ He's not following her lead and talking quietly, speaking with his usual bombast even if it leads him to keep coughing, but in defiance of the illness he cannot stop ]

There are more people that need our aid than people that we are capable of aiding. I am going to message future is now.

Good. I don't want to have to just pick and choose... we should form a game plan with them.

They are all covered, though... Pep pep has requested we not aid them. To do so means their problem will be left untreated, as future is now has already promised their aid to others.

If we have the ability to treat them, shouldn't we? Who else needs our aid? Are they trying to sacrifice themselves again?

Some of the solutions are guaranteed to fail. By having an extra, it means we are allowing one of the other two units we are helping to survive, should they get the failing solution.

They must be making that attempt.

I will leave it to you, if we heed their words.

I...

[ Nng... ]

Lately, I don't really trust their gameplay. It's like they want to die, and that upsets me a lot. Even though Wednesday told me they wouldn't do such a thing again...

If they won't take it then I don't know if we can force it upon them, though. It just seems to me that if everyone got a potion, even if they did get a failing one, they still have a better chance of doing well if their other solutions manage to pull through.

. . . we are lacking a solution, ourselves, as well. If we do not send it to them, we are capable of using it to aid ourselves if we get another to spare. But I do not want to ask for a solution we do not need so we are capable of doing it.

I am not depriving AlcheME and Wild City of our aid to do that.

Yeah... I wouldn't do that either.

[Coughing again, her fit growing worse, and lifting a hand up to her head. ]

I just want to help as many people as possible. And I don't want to see you hurt, either.

[ patting her on the back— for all that it won't help, it won't make things worse. Though he's leaning more on the chair now, relying on it to hold his weight ]

There is no reason to deny others, but I respect those that would make a sacrifice. It is theirs to make.

[ She appreciates it... before sliding down to sit on the ground, placing her back to the chair. ]

Is that how you would have played if you were alone, Shu?

I am not asking Baritones. AlcheME has refused us. With our problem unable to be solved, I might as well make certain that others would not suffer for our lack.

. . . if you agree, I will announce to everyone our lack. It is better that we ensure others do not suffer, if we cannot save ourselves.

[ A deep breath, swallowing thickly. They...can't get the supplies needed. They are low on supplies and there just aren't enough willing to help them out. If they don't have a good chance, then... it really will make more sense to save others.

She reaches up to grab onto his hand and nods. ]

Mm...

[ A quiet consent. ]

. . . If we don't have a good chance, then... it's best to save others.

[ AND THEN ALCHEME SAVED THEM??

he lets go of Kaguya to stagger back into his chair and collapse into it, weakly laughing

he's. so confused ]

[ She's so relieved. Just quietly scrubbing at her eyes. She coughs but clears her throat after. ]

Whatever happens after this, we need to thank AlcheME after.

More to the point, I believe we need to thank ☆zrael. I believe they broke off their deal to be saved so Alcheme would instead save us.

But... are they going to be okay, then? They aren't covered?

[ She's gotten lost in all this back and forth\

If they are covered, it is by Baritones, who Maki was previously reluctant to ask.

[ with a glance at the comms ]

Not that I can blame her for that.

If it would mean saving you, then I'd make whatever deal I had to with Baritones. I'm not willing to just let you die if there's a way that we can escape it. But... just before, I really honestly thought we didn't have a chance.

I would not want you to!

[ vehement, though he lacks the strength to get up from his chair with the illness setting in quickly ]

They— you do not understand the ramifications of owing Tenshouin. He would come to collect on that debt. This death, compared to that possibility, would be a smaller wound to bear.

There's nothing that person could do that would bother me.

[Eyes closed, still resting in place. Anything else is too much effort. ]

I don't have anything here to give.

You say that only because you do not understand.

He will hold those precious to you hostage, so that he may bring you to ruin.

Would you want to see Rei undone?

Eh...? Do you think that person could actually do something to Rei-kun? Rei-kun fights vampires and is a vampire himself and pretty sturdy...

Battle alone does not undo a person. Trauma is more than physical, and that aside you do not have your powers here. It is not a mere matter of if you could take him down in battle, or I too, would not have perished.

Photon Spiral Generator --> Alcheme

. . . this ought to generate photons in a more manageable pattern, than whatever chaotic mess they're in from the crash.

Red Matter Inhibitor Coil --> Pep!Pep!

There is no need for red matter in your system. If nothing else, it is garish and I cannot imagine it helping any of the engineering problems they are having.

Antimatter Crystallization Matrix --> Wild City

The crystalline form is stable, and beautiful— static, no longer prone to sudden cancerous growth nor catastrophic collapse. If this does not will their ship to behave, then nothing will.

Your fellow idols/very real space professionals have come to your aid, or at least tried to!

You receive the following Real Space Technology:

Problem type: Weapons
Tech received: Force-Shield Generator
Description provided: A defensive maneuver capable of keeping physical threats at bay through sheer destructive force-- It's basically like being surrounded by a high-focused laser in the form of a shell.
Result: SUCCESS

Problem type: Medical
Tech received: Extracellular Centrifuge
Description provided: It centrifuges extracellularly.
Result: SUCCESS

Problem type: Psionics
Tech received: Net Harness
Description provided: IT SQUEEZES....THEIR...HEADS...THE TENSION SNAPS THEM OUT OF THE CHEMICAL INDUCED HALLUCINATIONS AND GAS? IT HELPS THEM BREATHE EASIER
Result: SUCCESS

However skeptical you may be of your fellow idols’ uh…. space science, the tech arriving to your sector whirs to life in, somehow, exactly the way it was described.

One by one, the threats fade, until a musical chime rings out, followed by the pleasantly neutral voice of the A.I.

“Quarantine concluded. Thank you, THEMiS staff.”

The bulkhead unseals.

You did it. You survived space.

Edited 2019-06-22 22:34 (UTC)

[ I do not understand how the extracellular centrifuge helped and also there is now a HARNESS ON ME BUT

we. seem to be fine? ]

Of all the. . . AlcheME, this cannot be how this was meant to be deployed!

[ grousing to a unit that can't hear them ]

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