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opening_act ([personal profile] opening_act) wrote in [community profile] imeeji_frontstage2019-02-01 04:55 pm

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Who: Exael and the Unlucky Contestants
Where: The Game Tower
When: 86, Evening

[ Between one step and the next the walls (or streets, or open air) around you changes. The sight before you is a room inside the game tower, a new pressure at your neck. Reaching up or looking at the people around you reveals it to be a collar, titanium with a small green blinking light set in the center. ]

[ the screen flickers on, on your cellphone. It's a half-second, blink and you miss it— Exael, chewing on a nail, looking uncharacteristically nervous— then the moment's gone and she waves both hands and smiles for the camera. ]

"Ladies, gentlemen, honored guests! Units of all stripes and sizes! I come offering you a game and a few familiar words, rearranged for the occasion!"

Her carnival barker demeanor shifts for a moment as she lowers her head to say: ] "Glory to the highest, and on earth peace—" [ her head snaps up, her pigtails bouncing with it, and she's grinning again, all pomp and energy ] "even if we're not getting much down here! So let's kick up a ruckus, put on a show, and see how much good goodwill alone can manage! If you wish to save your fellows, now is the time speak!"

[ The rules appear on your phones. ]
[ Rules ] [ Rooms ] [ Results ] [ Endgame, Revivals & Winners ]
liarliarliar: (A face you can trust.)

[personal profile] liarliarliar 2019-02-03 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, thanks, that's sweet of you. But you don't need to worry about me. Even if I get hurt, I'll bounce right back.
asonoficeandfire: (308)

[personal profile] asonoficeandfire 2019-02-03 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[he shifts slightly, hesitating]

That wouldn't feel right. I'll pay, if so.

[no offense, it's not you, Levi. he's just wary about striking up potential future debts ha ha cry]
liarliarliar: (We got it all worked out.)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] liarliarliar 2019-02-03 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I really admire that part of you though!
asonoficeandfire: (257)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] asonoficeandfire 2019-02-03 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[we have equal amounts of guilt, I'm sure]

It was an error in judgement.

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] ferociousfuckingnerd 2019-02-03 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no you're doubling down.
liarliarliar: (As if it matters right?)

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[personal profile] liarliarliar 2019-02-03 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm helping.

And winning.

It's the best life I can live.
ferociousfuckingnerd: (SzMmXkS)

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[personal profile] ferociousfuckingnerd 2019-02-03 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Would you say that to the team you protected?
asonoficeandfire: (118)

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[personal profile] asonoficeandfire 2019-02-03 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
No... the error in judgement was not keeping you on our final list. People were going to get hurt regardless, but...
backstory: Do not take (Such a tired smile)

[personal profile] backstory 2019-02-03 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Silver is a good man.

[He really is.]

You will be okay with him.
backstory: (Angst face)

[personal profile] backstory 2019-02-03 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It is not 'cool'.

[No part of it is.]

I had prepared myself because I was sure our unit was hated--

[From so much of what he heard.]

But everyone told me that... Heart Soldier Senshi was the most loved. That surely--

[He swallows thickly, tears stinging the corner of his eyes.]

This kind of situation... we need to ensure that it never happens again.
puzzlekeeper: (i don't age i level up)

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[personal profile] puzzlekeeper 2019-02-03 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ What are the Producers doing??

Whatever, doesn't matter. This delicate desert flower is just pulling the warmed jacket closer around himself. ]


I think my opinion might be biased.
ferociousfuckingnerd: (deku02)

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[personal profile] ferociousfuckingnerd 2019-02-03 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. This is your best life huh.

You really are too nice to me.

Thank you, Be-kun.
shutthefoxup: (Get what I want cause I ask for it)

[personal profile] shutthefoxup 2019-02-03 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[...pft, inclinces his head to make that easier]

I'll be fine. This place is just always a lot, isn't it?
ferociousfuckingnerd: (deku70)

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[personal profile] ferociousfuckingnerd 2019-02-03 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
...You managed to protect someone though. You made the best choice you could, with the information you had at the time, and there's a team out there alive and unharmed because of it.
backstory: (Angst face)

[personal profile] backstory 2019-02-03 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Even so...

[He's upset. So many groups saved his unit, for which he is grateful. But-- two of those votes could have been used to save Heart Soldier Senshi, and even his own unit.]
backstory: Do not take (Not sure what to say to that...)

[personal profile] backstory 2019-02-03 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Because they are all still struggling with coming back to life.]

How long have you been here for, Anubis?
asonoficeandfire: * (127)

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[personal profile] asonoficeandfire 2019-02-03 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[it's only a silver lining. but he nods]

Aah. You as well.
liftoft: (_00044)

[personal profile] liftoft 2019-02-03 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, I mean... Why'd you guys agree to do it at all?
liarliarliar: (Oh my!  Hee hee!)

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[personal profile] liarliarliar 2019-02-03 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm.

Have I helped my hero tonight in a small way?

[personal profile] stakesthesame 2019-02-03 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
... uh, agree to do what?
backstory: Do not take (With great consideration)

[personal profile] backstory 2019-02-03 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh-- her face is red. Probably she is still struggling from what has happened to her. It's no wonder, too. He wishes he were able to erase it from her memory. He wishes that she had never had to experience that terror and pain, to begin with.

The scar upon her neck bothers him more than he can say. In the shop-- they have the ability to purchase scar removal if he remembers right. He thinks he saw that before. Once they have a more appropriate moment and time, he will send the money to her to have it removed.]


I cannot believe that. Unless they are fools.

[She is kind and gentle and sincere. There is nothing to dislike about that. But she is flushed and clearly still not well, and that is his priority right now. He smiles down at her as her fingers softly squeeze his own-- before he bends down carefully, and softly catches her behind the knees. Easily she is swept off her feet and he holds her in his arms princess style. ]

You're still recovering, and your face is flushed. Are you catching a cold too, or... is that connected to this, too?

[This terrible game they have all just experienced. Either way, right now more than any other time, she deserves only the most tender of care.]

Let me carry you back. Please just focus on feeling better.
backstory: (Angst face)

[personal profile] backstory 2019-02-03 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[He swallows thickly, glancing down. He can't look at him right now. Those aren't tears stinging the corner of his eyes.]

I tried to... I tried to save Heart Soldier Senshi, but...

[He had obviously failed.]
we_meet_again: (pic#12570767)

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[personal profile] we_meet_again 2019-02-03 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[pep!pep! survived, so ...maybe not that fatal.]


Better than the alternative.
malignstar: https://www.plurk.com/kabukimono (we call them cool)

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[personal profile] malignstar 2019-02-03 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I go to say, I'm kind of a fan of empathy.
backstory: Do not take (Feeling kind of sad)

[personal profile] backstory 2019-02-03 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe you have a strong personality that may allow that.

[It's admirable.]

But you shouldn't be hurt, to begin with.