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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

[iamverybadass]

[ looks like he's going to argue for a second but. glances out at the crowd of people who are all upset or hurt, and he's so drained already

just. leans against Aries instead. ]

Tomorrow then. If you do not learn who it was first.

[forthetainted]

[hair ruffle]

Mm. Silver wants to have a movie night, you can help him pick something out.

You did good.

[iamverybadass]

Everyone else made the decisions. I did not do anything.

[forthetainted]

You kept it together and supported the team, and that's really all any of us can do.

[iamverybadass]

In a game like that one...yes. I suppose it is.

...Will you be coming to movie night too?

[forthetainted]

Yeah, I just need to go find Haruto.

[iamverybadass]

Of course. Do you know why he ran away?

[forthetainted]

He usually takes off after bad games.

[iamverybadass]

...Oh. I...believe I can understand that.

[forthetainted]

He'll be okay. [pets him]

I'll go get him, see you later.