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[idolpro]

[ The water begins to bubble, rising up and up in the bowl like a fountain, until it spills out of the bowl in waves, soaking into the dirt and around them. Still, though it overflows, the bowl seems no less empty than before - and the water climbs up and up and up, until the fountain becomes the gentle waterfall of a small stream no bigger than the circumference of the bowl. Through the waterfall, you can see - 


Like a broken tail light, flickering and inconsistent in its brightness, a lump of faulty lighting takes center stage of the waterfall, by and large covered up by the tattered, human-like skinsuit you could recognize as Mehniel, though their outer layer is torn enough that you can see bits of feather and fur poking out, and on the floor around them are abandoned bits of feather and hair too, dim light now that they've been torn out. Behind them you can catch the vague shape of  something, though you'll largely see the lights illuminating it from underneath a bevelled stone indent in the ground. Currently, the lights are a dull, constant red. If you squint you can see a glimpse of the wall behind; on it are hieroglyphs, unreadable to you. ]

PLOT TOPLEVELS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER W/ CONTENT WARNINGS:
TALK WITH THE ANGEL - cw mild body horror in Yugi's thread
! IT'S THE FEDS
THURSDAY ACTIONS TURN-IN
THURSDAY: PRE-FIGHT - cw vein/artery mention in Requiem's thread
THURSDAY: FIGHT - cw dismemberment, decapitation via explosion, eye horror, body horror
THURSDAY: POST-FIGHT - cw body horror (yugi, nemesis) dismemberment, decapitation, general gruesomeness (king) implied suicide (hurricane)

Comments

2/2 - afternoon

[loveandthunder]

[ Trying to climb the building works, but not quite enough - some nondescript tags are taped on the side of the building, far enough apart that one might not even touch or notice them while scaling the walls. it's certainly noticeable, however, when you cross over and suddenly you seize up, electricity coursing through your veins. it persists until you fall, into the alleyway you came from.

at ground floor there's this fuck with one hand in his pocket, wearing casual food. ]

Hahahaha, you guys are just like that kid, huh? Total muscleheads. No wonder you're friends!

PRE-FIGHT

[loveandthunder]

[ WOW WHO'S THIS GUY. Headcount/get zapped comment here, ask questions, yell, etc ]

Re: PRE-FIGHT

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Scrambling to his feet as fast as having been electrocuted allows. He is... notably wobblier after the fall than he should be with Heroes Never Die. Hmm.]

Twice in two days, huh? Guess we're just lucky.

What'd you do to Req and Yugi and King?

Re: PRE-FIGHT

[loveandthunder]

Oh, them? Nothing much. It's not even permanent.

Re: PRE-FIGHT

[unbr8kable]

[fuck fuck fuck]

[Nemesis lands heavy but rolls to a protective huddle, leaning rather heavily on her left hand for a few harsh breaths. Then she forces her feet solid underneath her--pushes up to standing, rocks back on one leg. Huffs out what's intended as an effortless scoff]

...Jealous? Seems like your new friends don't let you do nothing but play guard dog, after all.

Re: PRE-FIGHT

[loveandthunder]

Hahaha! I'm not really a "friends with coworkers" kind of guy. Not anymore, anyway.

[ with a little shrug ]

My job pays the bills, so I like it just fine, except when meddlesome kids try to break into my boss's place. What are you trying to look for, anyway - didn't you already get that kid's book?

Re: PRE-FIGHT

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[I---

Really don't know what else they should have been expecting trying to break into Pythia's penthouse. Maybe not the appearance of the special guest. Or the commentary.

His robot eye twitches and sparks as he covers it with one hand, trying to focus enough to start stitching the thing back together.]

Sometimes low-hanging fruit falls from the tree when you shake hard enough. Needlessly aggressive as it is.

And your nom de plume is?

... Standard procedure for shittalking banter and all.

Re: PRE-FIGHT

[loveandthunder]

D'ya want my work name or did the little birdie talk already about my name name?

Re: PRE-FIGHT

[stakesthesame]

[ fffff... sitting up and rubbing her head... but tense, wary. ]

... who's this bird brain?

Re: PRE-FIGHT

[loveandthunder]

Security detail for our lady Oracle. You know, the one whose apartment you're trying to break into!

Re: PRE-FIGHT

[puzzlers]

[ the fall hurts a lot more than the electrocution for reasons, but it still leaves him a bit disoriented. he clambers to his feet and braces himself against the nearest wall as he narrows his eyes at this guy. ]

And you are?

Re: PRE-FIGHT

[loveandthunder]

Security detail for our lady Oracle. Nice to meet you, Jigsaw.

Re: PRE-FIGHT

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Pulling himself up slowly, wincing. Fuck.

Give him a second to reel and then he can get right into glaring. ]

"Muscleheads"? Ironic for someone who is clearly hired muscle.

Re: PRE-FIGHT

[loveandthunder]

You gotta use muscle to deal with muscle. What, did you think her apartment security would be thinkpieces or something?

FIGHT

[loveandthunder]

[ wow, that sure fucking happened. well now. ]

Whoopsie! Look at the time, I've got to start wrapping this up. Chelle won,'t like it if I come home late - she's cooking tonight, and I don't want to miss that 🎵

[ he claps his hands together, electric barrier running through above them and around them, closing them off from the rest of Liar Hell. ]

So let's finish up here. Don't worry, it might hurt, but you won't remember a thing when it's over.

PLAYER ACTION

[loveandthunder]

[ Once the last person has responded I will respond to everyone! ]

Re: PLAYER ACTION

[puzzlekeeper]

[ They fucked

They FUCKED

King keeps his position in front of Req on the assumption she probably can't defend herself right now - and shifts so that he's standing in front of Yugi too, if possible.

Heart Weapon held aloft, defensive. ]

This seems like a harsh overreaction - you did invite us to try the door.

Re: PLAYER ACTION

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[But, sir. SIR!

My emotional support dragon hasn't arrived yet.





Well, fuck.

He glances at the lack of exit and then the rest of the ragtag party. And then he takes a gun and taser out of his--- nope, it's just a taser gun now. Who or what he's actually going to use it on is anyone's guess at this point.

Sorry, Maki. You are not getting your gun back in the condition you gave it to Intensity.]

POST-FIGHT

[idharlotry]

[ he's gone.

you have a few blessed, precious moments to react to . . . that. all of that. but once the shock (hah) wears away, you'll become keenly aware of the click-clack sound of heels echoing down the alley as a woman in a black and gold dress comes upon the scene. she may look familiar to some of you. ]

. . . What in Hell.

[ in an almost - sour tone, displeased. it's almost like you fucked up or something. ]

Re: POST-FIGHT

[stakesthesame]

[ well, surely you wanted a charred unconscious corpse, right ]

Re: POST-FIGHT

[puzzlers]

[ this is the most fucken bizarre feeling the world. he's experienced a lot of shit, here, in hell, but this takes the god damn cake. nothing makes sense and everything hurts. he's kneeling on the ground, having presumably been dropped, his entire body just shaking. ]

[ he can't answer, sorry!, he seems to have lost his head. ]

Re: POST-FIGHT

[crossmyheartandhope]

[....oh.]

[Oh.]

[It takes him... a minute, to come back online. That was a lot, all at once.]

[He looks to the left, where Requiem is a smolderin heap - to the right, where there are headless bodies. He swallows, and swallows again, harder.]

[It takes him a minute more to make his mouth make the words, kind of raspy from screaming.]

...s'my fault.

If you got - if you gotta charge us, I'll pay for - everyone. For all of us.

Re: POST-FIGHT

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Somehow. Somehow he's still on his feet. But that's about the only thing he has going for him. He has to wait until she is visible to his good side before he recognizes her.

Oh.




Shit.

He's seen this picture from C's selfies

(Could this get any worse? ... Knock on wood.)]

Hello, Lilith.

Re: POST-FIGHT

[unbr8kable]

[just lying there. phantom head-syndrome fuckin sucks]

Re: POST-FIGHT

[puzzlekeeper]

[ HE'S 70000000000000000000% DONE

Also holding onto Yugi's beheaded body. ]





What do you want.