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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

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ OH BOY. He has a lot to learn.... At least as far as her popularity is concerned. She could make him a (short) list of people who truly do not like her, whatsoever, and she quite nearly (in-advisably) tells him so.

But uhm. What was that? ]

Carry me?

[ THAT's not why she's flushed! --But she doesn't want to explain that. ]

You don't need to do that. I'm just fine, Haku.

[ He's not serious, is he? ]

[backstory]

[It's too late he already has her in his arms...!!! She isn't really heavy, though he's sure it would be much easier were he to have his claw still. Nevertheless, he won't let her see one second of strain.]

I don't want you to strain yourself anymore.

[Just let him do this. Because he's carrying her to his apartment anyway...]

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ EEP ]

It's--not a strain!? Haku, you're sick! You shouldn't be overexerting yourself like this!

[backstory]

I am the white dragon....! This is a simple matter for me.

[Think strong, think strong...!]

[dragonheartedgirl]

Haku--!!

[ you really

didn't need to go this far for her.

but. you did. and well. that's a doki. ]

1/2

[backstory]

[HE DID IT. He carried her all the way there and he didn't fall or stumble once. Which is why he will carefully put her down once they reach his apartment. And hold onto the wall while trying to get his phone out so that she doesn't have to see how tired and dizzy he feels after the event.]

We made it...

2/2

[backstory]

[But once he opens the door, he is quick to usher her inside and make her comfortable.

The fretting only continues from here on out...]