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[idolpro]

Who: Champions & Losers
Where: The Game Tower & the walk back home
When: Day 78 evening

[ Finally, the elevators open for everyone to leave. As they open to ground floor, confetti balls pop open from the ceiling, with "CONGRATULATIONS!" banners hanging in the lobby of the Game Tower.

The television screens are on this time, broadcasting some choice moments while radio announcers excitedly chatter - they're loud, but you can probably make out the audio from the television if you concentrate. Occasionally, the television also flips to a kill count tracker, as well as a ranking system.

"Listeners, this was sooo hard for us to choose. All the contestants were so good! But there can only be winners and losers, so here we go - "

"Up first, our most vicious underdogs! You cheered and cheered for them, listeners, and they heard your voices! It's ☆ZRAEL in first place, with the most kills! They did so well they even got a second category of most brutal murder - "

"It was the boat, right? It was totally the boat!"

"Couldn't it be the rock!? That was so brutal!"

"Well, that's ☆ZRAEL for you, they're sooo ruthless! So cute, best unit! ♥"

"wwww we have a ☆ZRAEL fan here wwww"

"Next up for most individual kills is avante en garde - Cardigan tooooooootally carried you guys wwww"

"Speaking of carry, did you see Whiskers with those strategic kills on WILD CITY!? He's a sneaky bastard!"

"Fucking bastard!"

"Yeah!"

"But my heart honestly broke when I saw A Bird With Blue Wings . . . AlcheME!, man . . . they just hit you straight in the heart with that most emotional kill. . . Damn. . ."

"Speaking of hearts, Heart Soldier Senshi - they were really good, huh? Best co-op kill of the game! Totally like O●●●wa●●●, right?"

"Yeah, it was like I was watching a match on O●●●wa●●●. I don't usually watch those though wwww"

"Last but definitely not least! sensitIV!"

"You know, they didn't do half bad."

"Yeah, it was honestly pretty average."

"But Nyarlathotep was so great! His struggle to survive! He'd even put more arms on himself to do it!"

"Do you think he could attach even more on himself? I want to see that, now!"

"Hahaha! Well, that's all the time we have for today listeners, but you should definitely watch all these choice moments - the audience picked them! Here comes our highlight reel!"

The chatter goes on, becoming indistinct and eventually fading out. The television screen is still playing the highlight reel, though.

☆ZRAEL, avante en garde, WILD CITY, AlcheME!, Heart Soldier Senshi, and sensitIV will find their wounds healing, leaving behind no scars - they'll also find 800 points in their bank, though ☆ZRAEL will find that they get a bonus for a total of 1000 points from this game. Everyone else will find 100 points in their bank, and they'll also have to get themselves their own healing.

Something to note though, is that Hurricane is missing. ]

Comments

this can be a placeholder until our backthread finishes,

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ looks unimpressed ]

Really? That's a coward's tactic.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

What? Can't appreciate anyone's kill style but your own?

Be a little less judgey, Eater?

[Currently sporting bloody bandages wrapped around his head. Obviously from said headshot]

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ HUFF ]

I don't see where I'm supposed to find aesthetic in sniping someone half-dead.

... Are you gonna get that healed?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes. Of course. I'm just choosey about my SensitIVs for obvious reasons.

[carnivorouscarnival]

No kidding. I want Santa back.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yeah. . .

[Yeah, let's not dwell on the missing Santa for too long]

So I'm going to see Anubis when he shows up. Since he hasn't succumbed to the powertripping some of the others have.

[carnivorouscarnival]

Can you even call that power tripping? Not like I have room to talk about others, but they just seem naturally volatile. Well, that's their whole "brand," so it makes sense, but—for all the damage I've heard they did in this game, when I ran across them, they were acting like the picture of cornered rats.

[ but that's sort of a digression so ]

Well, it's a pain to deal with either way, so good you still have a reliable in there.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

What? Really?

I didn't run into a single one. But to be fair, I don't think I ever got two fucking spaces away from my starting location.

[carnivorouscarnival]

Easy to get stuck if you start out with the right company.

[ speaking from experience ]

Two of them, yeah. The tall, grouchy one, and the weird one who had the Q&A session about dying.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Being a challenge adrenaline junkie also helps]

Nya and---

[That one guy who has a contract with Yasuragi which is probably not something he should say out loud. Even if Santa is not here anymore so he's not technically breaking anyone's confidence]

That one guy.

[Nailed it]

I can't say I've ever interacted with either much outside of that Q&A session.

[carnivorouscarnival]

I've gotten into a fight with the tall one before, after he ran Red through with a sword. But this time he was all—[ imitating a deeper pitch ]—"We don't want a fight, Zrael."

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Laughs]

Well now I have to ask how did your previous fight with him end up.

[carnivorouscarnival]

It didn't. Heart Soldier Senshi oh-so-heroically stepped in when I had him pinned to the ground.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Laughs at that. But of course]

Aw, poor Man Eater. No one lets you have any fun.

[carnivorouscarnival]

I'm a professional, you know—not everything I do is just about fun.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

No? Just some things you do for fun?

[carnivorouscarnival]

A modest 93% of them, maybe.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Ha!

Well, I had fun. We should do it again sometime.

[carnivorouscarnival]

Gyahaha. I had fun, too. You surprised me! Even if you had help from my own ability.

I'll take you on any time.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Am I getting fucking praised by sensei? You shouldn't. I'm blushing.

[carnivorouscarnival]

If you really did blush, maybe I'd make it more of a habit.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Succeed in topping me. Then we'll talk.

[carnivorouscarnival]

Now that's an invitation if I ever heard one. Well, who am I to deny you your fantasies?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Oh, are we taking requests for those? Because in that case, I have a prioritized list.

[carnivorouscarnival]

Pick a good one and I might consider it in place of a gold star.