ROUND 3

[idolpro]

[ The room is BRIGHT YELLOW, as all the rooms you will enter are. Black tiles make up the floor, changing to your unit's color when pressure is placed on them. There is a button in the very center of the room standing on a podium; it's slightly smaller than palm-sized.]

[♫]

Comments

Hallucinations - King, cw cheating (the game kind), plant horror, body horror

[idolpro]

A game, he said—a game, and your friends would be spared, given their freedom from the production. Maybe you should have been suspicious, but games are what you do. You win. And you'd win here, for your friends' sake, because you have to.

He must have cheated. You're no stranger to taking a loss in the early rounds to come from behind, though, so you accept the condition—for every round you win, the price paid for a friend; for every round you lose, you eat… a seed. A nasty, red, glowing thing that pulses in your hand as you look down at it, like blood pumping, perhaps. But you've never been one to shy away from the consequences of the risks you take, either, so: you follow the rules.

It feels alive in your mouth, as you swallow it, and—a shiver runs down your spine as you can feel its roots begin to snake their way up your throat—upwards, through your nasal passages and into your brain, embedding itself in the fertile soil of your memories.

Your vision grows dim, and then black—like you're falling into a pitch-black hole, all you knew fading away into the distance. And then you snap back into the moment, and you're sitting across a table from your gambling partner, and—

Did you save someone? You can't remember. But you're going to win. You remember winning.

But it's… harder than you thought. You're betting against the house, then again, and a demon, besides.

You lose again. And again, and again, and… what were you staking yourself on, again? No matter, though. You don't remember why you entered this game, and your hands just keep on rolling the dice, on instinct. This man thinks he has you cornered, but you'll have your revenge. That's all that matters.

You remember winning.

[idolpro]

Take 1 punishment (if you take another I won't notice):

Physical:
> Unable to breathe properly
> Loss of vision
> Loss of appetite

Non-Physical:
> Increase competition (I know it's his default state but HIGHER)
> Increase self-loathing
> Temporary amnesia (up to you whether general or specific)