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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. ]

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Comments

[rollplayinghouse]

And we always have at least as many contrary opinions on what to do as we do people, so that's fun too.

[justfuckingtryit]

Sounds like a fucking blast.

[rollplayinghouse]

As much as you can imagine.

[justfuckingtryit]

At least we usually vote on it. Even when we have different opinions, it stays pretty civil.

[rollplayinghouse]

If we'd voted it would have just gone to sensitIV immediately, so I'm glad we didn't and things like the fact that they tore all our wounds open and that there are other units less likely to be protected were at least given some consideration,

Even it if didn't matter in the end.

[justfuckingtryit]

Your unit has a lot of ties to SensitIV, then?

[rollplayinghouse]

I think it's mostly just Yasuragi and Shu... but that's still more than we have to any other unit, at least since Shuten left.

[justfuckingtryit]

And you're not a fan, I take it.

[rollplayinghouse]

Not particularly. Though I don't hate them or anything, even if Yasuragi's boyfriend did help open up all our wounds during that trial.

I just... wanted to save future is now.

[justfuckingtryit]

And they ate shit, too.

...sorry, Maki.

[rollplayinghouse]

Like I figured they would.

[...]

There's nothing any of us can do about it now.

[justfuckingtryit]

Yeah.

Just have to keep going.