ROUND 4

[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.]

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Re: Amaranth vs Ruby Sour

[worthathousand]

[ she stumbles a little along with them, still half-puppeted—but she reaches for them, too, trying to touch a hand to their shoulder, if her feet will let her move ]





....... I know you would, Silver Lady.
BARiTONES deserves better.

Re: Amaranth vs Ruby Sour

[notadrop]

[ they snarl when she does but it's not really clear whether or not that's at the the touch, her words, or themself. ]

They'll never get it, though. I know how it goes. Everyone else is always more important, and we're always the monsters.

Even if we win this, we'll still get bashed next game. We can't win even when we win.

Re: Amaranth vs Ruby Sour

[worthathousand]

[ voice still quiet ] I hate it.

Everyone here seems determined to do things as they have always been done. There are the teams that may kill, and the teams that may not. There are the teams who are permitted to die, and those that are not.

It isn't even that they hate us—that would be more honest.
They just need to care a little bit less, and somehow that is all it takes.

[ a pause ] I wanted to protect BARiTONES in the game of punishment cards.

Re: Amaranth vs Ruby Sour

[notadrop]

[ they're silent, tears ceasing as they listen to her speak.

it's -- surprisingly nice? nice to have someone off-unit who understands. and then, when she mentions protecting them, they laugh. it's ugly - choked and wheezing, and it doesn't do their heart any wonders, but, well. ]

You'd be the only one! Haha, we got buried in that game and there were four whole groups of nobodies for everyone to focus on!

Re: Amaranth vs Ruby Sour

[worthathousand]

And it was wrong.
Yvette killed, just like Camellia. And I will not soon forget the state Kohime was in.

....Though I confess I am angry, too, over the treatment of the temporary units, for all their flaws. It's just the same as what we went through, after all. They were people that everyone decided they didn't have to care about.

Re: Amaranth vs Ruby Sour

[notadrop]

Yeah. ...We were too busy playing defensive to even consider hitting any of the temps. Outside of like, the one with Koko and Sabre's whatever she is. Which.

[ waves hand ]

That sure went well.

Re: Amaranth vs Ruby Sour

[worthathousand]

...I'm not at all familiar with the situation. A despised enemy from their home, was it?
Kohime received a strange paper model of a tall woman in fanmail, which I believe is what inspired the ah.... you know, exploding two trains.

[ a sigh ]

For our part, it was three cards every round, just to stay afloat. Low to middling numbers on the cards.

It was a good strategy, in principle. It would have been better if we weren't [ voice going hard ] an acceptable target for murder.

Re: Amaranth vs Ruby Sour

[notadrop]

The person who raised them. She fucking sucks.

[ sigh ]

This fucking sucks.

Re: Amaranth vs Ruby Sour

[worthathousand]

Yes.

It fucking sucks.

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I was set against Paloma, in my last room. She fought hard, knowing what was at stake. In a way, she may have inadvertently made it easier on me, trying to alter my memory as she did. Here, with you, I cannot just... ignore what it would mean to defeat you.