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[opening_act]

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 ]

Comments

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[crossmyheartandhope]

[His mostly white outfit is now mostly red when he staggers out, though the high collar hides most of the new scar.]

[He just... stares at the results on his phone, for a minute or two, and then smiles, softly.]

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[malignstar]

[ There is so much fucking guilt... ]

Hurricane...

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[crossmyheartandhope]

H-hey, dude.

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[malignstar]

I'm sorry...

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[liarliarliar]

Don't match C so much, rude.

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[crossmyheartandhope]

Didn't he say? We're twins, so.

[His voice is wrecked, tbh.]

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[liarliarliar]

I guess if you're twins it can't be helped.

Let me help you home?

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[we_meet_again]

Woah, what happened?!

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[crossmyheartandhope]

Kinda got exploded.

[His voice is wrecked.]

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[we_meet_again]

Are you in pain? Can I get you someone? Or something?

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[sancrimony]

[ THIS IS A GOOD PLACE TO REUNION ]

- Hurricane-san!

[ uninjured but his eyes are red and he's coming close, body language that of complete worry ]

You - are you still hurt - !?

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[crossmyheartandhope]

[IS IT???]

[He sure is pulling the hell away, like he didn't even after Lucifel stabbed him in a church.]

I'm fine.

[His voice is a mess.]

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[sancrimony]

[ freezes when he pulls away, and he takes a step back himself - briefly, he remembers cardigan ]

. . . You sound horrible.

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[stakesthesame]

[ ... ah

looking particularly guilty, but. raises a hand to gesture him over, whenever he passes by. ]

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Coming over.]

...hey. What's up?

[His voice is kind of wrecked.]

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[stakesthesame]

You sound awful, dude.

[ weakly humorous, but he dies pretty quick. perhaps! shockingly! no zraels are covered in blood! ]

... I'm sorry, man.

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[mycaringheart]

Hurricane--

[welp, guess he was wrong about what he tried to reassure Leviathan, huh...]

...Is there... anything I can do?

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[crossmyheartandhope]

Nah. I think... think I'm good.

[Is he? His voice sounds like a wreck.]

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[mycaringheart]

[it does sound awful]

...If you're certain. Um. But even if it's healed enough that you'll be okay, if it hurts, I could...

[he just wants to help]

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[ifshebleeds]

...Do you need any painkillers?

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[crossmyheartandhope]

...you got any on you?

[His voice sounds like a mess.]

[backstory]

Hurricane...

[Seeing him like this makes his heart sick. Not only because he's an individual he has come to appreciate since his arrival, but-- his team's defeat also means that of...]

I'm sorry.

[He had tried very hard to save his unit.]

Can I help you somehow...?

[crossmyheartandhope]

S'cool. I'm - I'm doing okay.

[His voice sure is a wreck, though.]

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[worldlyafflictions]

[Man. how many times is this kid gonna lose his head...]

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Okay, it's only been twice so far, you just HAPPEN to be there,]

...hey.

[His voice sounds wrecked.]