side: hell

[idolpro]

[ The light which spread everywhere intensifies, gaining not just brightness but color. It focuses with its intensity, golden lines swarming your vision. And where the gold coalesces, it leaves space between with a black that opens out like a sea, sweeping across your vision as your eyes adjust until you can see the truth of your new surroundings.

The golden bars are not the gates that welcomed you in.

They're the bars to a cell you've been dumped in with your unfortunate compatriots. A cell that sits in an inky sea of darkness, broken up not by light across objects in your vision but by brilliant colors each so solid that the darkness cannot cover them up. And, in your vision, guarding the cage is a figure, with six wings, each as golden as the bars. Their eyes are a milky expanse of white-blue light, emanating outwards, like they've caught you in headlights.

A jailer's keyring sits at their waist. ]

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Re: THE CELL

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Project a list of menus for one.

Putting binoculars in his eye means he might even be able to read it from way over here]

Re: THE CELL

[idolpro]

[ It looks like a pretty simple menu. It operates the elevator car this cell is in.

You're currently stopped at a phone booth, one floor down from where John was let off to make his phone call. ]

Re: THE CELL

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Well good to know at least. To make sure that they don't leave John behind.

Now that Leo has the keys and Intensity has use of both hands, guess he is just going to---

Pull out an electric bread knife, overload it, and try to cut through these stupid bars]

Re: THE CELL

[idolpro]

[ The bars can be sawed through with the overloaded electric bread knife! ]

Re: THE CELL

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Cool and good.

Then if he can get them out of the way, he is going to slam the fist of his robo arm into those pesky magic circles on the ground]

Re: THE CELL

[idolpro]

[ The guard from earlier, however, only turned invisible. He did not vanish.

He will also find that when he tries this, the guard was satisfied to let Maki kick through them because it was fruitless. The metal arm punching the circles does not destroy them, but does show enough working knowledge of what the problem is that

he just has it skewer Kaiba's robo-arm.

I can't believe you guys are doing this with the guards in the room while they're perfectly okay to let you guys out for phone calls. ]

Re: THE CELL

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Maybe he is just an extremely contrary person. Actually it is because he is an extremely contrary person.

He yanks the arm back if he's able. Even if it means losing a chunk of it.]

Re: THE CELL

[idolpro]

[ The bar seems pretty strong as it is. Maybe if Maki does the harder they fall on it, it'll be brittle enough to yank his arm back out again ]

Re: THE CELL

[rollplayinghouse]

Ah—

[Maki does that. She's careful not to be touching it as she activates the ability, this time.]

Re: THE CELL

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[If the trick does work the second time, he’ll attempt to pull his arm back after the bars have deteriorated]

Re: THE CELL

[idolpro]

[ The harder they fall does make them brittle again, and Intensity can get his arm back!

It looks like you might want to wait until the guards leave, or they'll just have the bars regenerate on you ]

Re: THE CELL

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Fair assessment. Turning to Maki]

I owe you one.

Re: THE CELL

[rollplayinghouse]

[Her cheeks redden slightly, and she steps closer to him. But after a flick of her eyes at the guards she says, low:]

Should I see if I can do that to the magic circles themselves?

Re: THE CELL

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Not yet. Now that we know the trick and they know we know the trick, let’s make sure we have all of our cards set before we flip the trap.

[A nod to whoever is still in the phone booth. Talon probably.

To either guard:]

Do I still get a phone call, and if I do, do I have to take it now?

Re: THE CELL

[rollplayinghouse]

He said I still have mine, but I don't know if there's a time limit...

Re: THE CELL

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Who are you going to use your for?

Re: THE CELL

[rollplayinghouse]

I haven't decided yet.

Re: THE CELL

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Decided what you are going to use it for?

Re: THE CELL

[rollplayinghouse]

...Not really. I figure... I could let people know where we are. I could try to reach Man Eater. Or... I could do something reckless.

Re: THE CELL

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Let me know if you do the first. Don't do the second. And good luck with the third.

Re: THE CELL

[rollplayinghouse]

[snorts lightly]

You're not worried about us all getting punished?

[she asks after he just tried to punch them out of jail in full view of the guards]

Re: THE CELL

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

To be quite honest, they just don't seem to care that much.

Maybe punishment at the end of all this, but ---

[Shrugs.

Is he a little bit worried about Talon and John? Yes. The rest (himself included)? Eh. They can take it]

Re: THE CELL

[rollplayinghouse]

They don't seem interested in doing anything of their own initiative at all. But that might not be true of someone we call.

Re: THE CELL

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Let me ask you this.

Who could you call that would actually give a shit that a handful of idols got lost backstage and put in time out?

Re: THE CELL

[rollplayinghouse]

The only possible answers are Pythia or Asmodeus, right...? If this was all meant to be a secret, they both might be interested to hear where we are.