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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 ]
sancrimony: (☩ 069)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] sancrimony 2019-02-02 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
Mm.

[ . . . ]

We . . . voted for you as well. I suspect that's why we won. . .
Edited 2019-02-02 06:19 (UTC)
forthetainted: (ping13)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] forthetainted 2019-02-02 06:20 am (UTC)(link)

[looks pretty surprised by that]

Eh? Really?

sancrimony: (🕈 240)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] sancrimony 2019-02-02 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
. . . . I suspect some of our members are regretting it, for . . . everyone else that we wanted to protect, save for two units, was . . .

[ with a pause ]

But, we did - for the sake of extending an olive branch. Since . . . trusting each other is a bit difficult, right now.
forthetainted: (ping2)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] forthetainted 2019-02-02 06:25 am (UTC)(link)

[i don't... get it]

...We didn't do it for the alliance, since they didn't want one. We did it for Whisky.

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] sancrimony 2019-02-02 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ turning pink in the face ]

M-mm, he told me about that, too. . .

. . . I didn't expect it, but. . . thank you.
forthetainted: (calm4)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] forthetainted 2019-02-02 06:30 am (UTC)(link)

It's fine. Whisky's never complained when we did things in games that put you at risk. I used to think it was because he didn't care, but I don't think that's it.

sancrimony: (☩ 075)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] sancrimony 2019-02-02 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
Well - it would be inconvenient, given that our two units have bad relations with each other, so we had agreed from the beginning that we wouldn't give each other any preferential treatment, but -

[ covers his face like a stupid lovesick baby ]

. . . mm, it's a little different now, isn't it. . .
forthetainted: (cute6)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] forthetainted 2019-02-02 06:36 am (UTC)(link)

[this is amazing you are super gay for whisky

huffs]

Sorry it took so long.

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] sancrimony 2019-02-02 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
No, there's no reason to apologize at all!

[ brightly, with a smile from ear to ear ]

This is more than I could have asked for, so I have nothing but gratitude!
forthetainted: (other6)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] forthetainted 2019-02-02 06:58 am (UTC)(link)

[uh]

...it's not really... well.. I mean...

sancrimony: (🕈 221)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] sancrimony 2019-02-02 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
Eh?

[ ? ]

Did I misunderstand something?
forthetainted: (ping2)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] forthetainted 2019-02-02 07:15 am (UTC)(link)

Is it really something to be grateful for...

sancrimony: (♰ 150)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] sancrimony 2019-02-02 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
Mm! That he cares about me - no, is it alright to say that it's love? Uhm - I don't want to jump the gun! But our relationship was borne with the idea that such a thing wouldn't be guaranteed, so I'm happy to have made it this far!
forthetainted: (other6)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] forthetainted 2019-02-02 07:24 am (UTC)(link)

Why did you date him if you didn't think he'd care about yout...?

sancrimony: (🕈 221)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] sancrimony 2019-02-02 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
?

Because I love him, of course.
forthetainted: (ping18)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] forthetainted 2019-02-02 07:31 am (UTC)(link)

R...right from the beginning..?

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] sancrimony 2019-02-02 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ flushing a little pinker, looking flustered ]

Uhm, it's a little embarrassing to talk about. . .
forthetainted: (other6)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] forthetainted 2019-02-02 08:15 am (UTC)(link)

[this is so weird]

Ah... You don't have to...

sancrimony: (☦ 095)

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[personal profile] sancrimony 2019-02-02 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ IS IT ]

- in any case, Whisky-san had made it clear to me in the beginning that he did not know how to love, so he wasn't sure that he would be able to, but - ! He was willing to try dating, at least! So - that much was enough for me! So, getting to this point is like a dream . . .