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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

[furrytailprince]

Do not discount yourself.

He had people to find too.

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

I've been surprised by this answer as of late, but are we friends, Okami? Or I have completely misjudged the situation.

Then I hope he found them.

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[furrytailprince]

Of course we are friends. I consider you a friend.

Ah, me too...

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Good. Very good.

I'd say I'm glad you are okay in the sense that you are still in one piece. Go find Sol and get home. No reason to stay in this dump any longer than we have to.

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[furrytailprince]

Wait. Why did you ask?

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

There were a few people I thought I was in better relations with. I'm taking inventory.

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[furrytailprince]

Have others disappointed you?

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

I'm more disappointed I wasn't able to read them well.

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[furrytailprince]

It is not your fault when others let you down.

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Letting me down assumes I care enough about their opinion.

Re: RESULTS, END GAME

[furrytailprince]

I am glad you do not. It sounds as though their opinion is not worth caring about.