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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

[dragonheartedgirl]

It's the truth, though. All of my life people have felt it's necessary to look after me. So--I need to be... more self reliant. More reliable.

[ and all of this right now--it's not helping. get yourself together, yona!! ]

[eatsthecanary]

Isn't it fine to be upset after you've just died?

[dragonheartedgirl]

We came right back. And it didn't even last very long--and it was just the once. I should be used to it by now.

[eatsthecanary]

You're so convinced.

[dragonheartedgirl]

I just...

[ actually, no she really... doesn't know what to say for herself. ]

Sorry.

[eatsthecanary]

I don't know why you're apologizing to me now.

[dragonheartedgirl]

It-- [ sniffles ] -- felt like the right thing to do?

[eatsthecanary]

Because you told me you were upset?

[dragonheartedgirl]

No. Because--thec expression you made. You're mad, aren't you? Or... disgusted.

[eatsthecanary]

If I were disgusted I wouldn't be seeing two people who think the same way you do. It's just tiring.

[dragonheartedgirl]

You're seeing double Whisky? Are you okay?

[ she. definitely didn't understand that the way he meant it. ]

[eatsthecanary]

I'm married to two people.

[dragonheartedgirl]

You. You're married.

[ it's. was that a question? ]

[eatsthecanary]

Were you there for the marriage game?

[dragonheartedgirl]

Yes?




You're treating that like it's real?

[eatsthecanary]

Why not? They were both already into me.

[dragonheartedgirl]

It's just.... marriage is a big, formal step and that... was just a game. For most people, anyway.





Does this mean you're going to be having babies?

[eatsthecanary]

I think that's a bad idea.

[dragonheartedgirl]

I do too. But that's typically what comes after getting married!

[eatsthecanary]

It's not what has to come, though.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ she was about to make a very unfortunate but concerned comment about infertility but


she just remembered ]

Oh! It's because you're all men?

[ yes, that would pan out; you can't make a baby if you're all men. ]

[ i'm so sorry for all of this vic. ]

[eatsthecanary]

Aradia's a girl....

[ so this logic doesn't work out ok!! ]

I just don't want children.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ this makes


no sense to her.

what is the purpose of being married if not for lineages or children??? maybe they're exclusive? is that what it is? she should probably just. stop asking / trying to comprehend it and just accept it for what it is. ]

I see. Well... congratulations on your marriage, Whisky.

[eatsthecanary]

[ just accept it Hiryuu it's easier that way ]

Thank you. You're reacting a bit oddly to it.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ It's rude if she says he's the last person she expected to get married here outside of Doodle ]

It's a bit unexpected.... marriage....

That is, I had no idea your feelings were so serious.