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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

Re: POST-FIGHT

[idharlotry]

Puppy faces don't do much for me, dear.

Re: POST-FIGHT

[crossmyheartandhope]

What'll it take? Whatever - whatever you want, I'll do it.

They don't deserve this.

Re: POST-FIGHT

[idharlotry]

Which of your fellow idols would you kill to bring them back?

Re: POST-FIGHT

[crossmyheartandhope]

- what?

Re: POST-FIGHT

[idharlotry]

You heard me.

Re: POST-FIGHT

[crossmyheartandhope]

[There are a long couple of seconds, while he turns that over. His eyes dart out and away, toward the people lying on the ground. Toward Nemesis.]

[He looks like he's going to start crying.]

It'd pay for all of them?

You wouldn't hurt them at all?

Re: POST-FIGHT

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[And this is how the paladin cookie crumbles.

I cannot believe—-




Choose your next words carefully, Hurricane. Intensity will remember this]

Re: POST-FIGHT

[idharlotry]

I'll give you just one more chance to answer the question, boy.

Re: POST-FIGHT

[crossmyheartandhope]

...Doodleman, maybe. On Zrael. He's - I bet we could figure something out.

Or maybe -

[Hesssitates. Thinks better of saying it in present company.]

- maybe someone else, if that's a no go.

But - for real. You gotta promise you won't hurt them. This is for everything, okay? If you gotta take more parts outta me, or -

[His voice breaks, a little.]

- or make it go for longer, or whatever. Just.

Don't hurt them.

Re: POST-FIGHT

[idharlotry]

And in exchange, Doodleman will never return to Tokyo-F.

Re: POST-FIGHT

[stakesthesame]

[ WELL IF YOU WANTED HER TO ACTUALLY GET THE FUCK UP YOU'VE SUCCEEDED

propped up on her elbow as much as she can, skin-- cracking? chipping away?-- and wheezing out ]

No. No. No.

Re: POST-FIGHT

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Not intervening but




Holy shit YIKES ]

Re: POST-FIGHT

[crossmyheartandhope]

What?

No. That's - no, no way.

There's gotta - there's gotta be something else, lemme just pay you.

Re: POST-FIGHT

[idharlotry]

There's my price. Do you think three lives come cheap?

Re: POST-FIGHT

[stakesthesame]

[ dry, rasping, but as loud as she can-- ]

I'll-- stay, if we-- hhhh... ave to-- I-I'll... stay.

Re: POST-FIGHT

[crossmyheartandhope]

Dude, no. Just - stay put, okay? I got this.

[He hesitates - squares his shoulders and looks at Lilith again.]

...if you gotta keep someone, keep me.

Re: POST-FIGHT

[puzzlekeeper]

[ oh for fucks sake- ]

Absolutely not.

Hurricane, she's toying with you.




[ PROBABLY..... ]

Re: POST-FIGHT

[idharlotry]

No.

Re: POST-FIGHT

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Ignoring King, sorry King.]

But it's my fault!

This is all - none of them deserve any of this. Everyone's a mess, and some of em weren't even involved, and I can't - I can't just give you someone forever who never even knew I was being dumb!

Re: POST-FIGHT

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes. Good plan. Then other members of Heart Soldier Senshi can come to your rescue after you’ve made this incredibly poor decision. And this whole fiasco can happen all over again.


Hurricane, will you let me fucking handle this?

Re: POST-FIGHT

[crossmyheartandhope]

[At least. Shuts his mouth for a second.]

[He looks like he's about .5 seconds from tears.]

But - but she said...

Re: POST-FIGHT

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Go sit with Requiem and Nemesis.

[Using his dad voice so help me—-]

Re: POST-FIGHT

[crossmyheartandhope]

[It takes him a couple of seconds to nod.]

[It's stiff, and shaky, and he doesn't want to, but he's fucked things up enough already. Maybe Intensity can do better than he did.]

[Probably anyone would have done better than he did.]

...don't do anything dumb, okay? Or I'll come get you out.

Re: POST-FIGHT

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Fine. You can do that.

Now sit.

Re: POST-FIGHT

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Yeah he... goes to sit.]