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Who: everyone!
When: day 17, morning
What: GAME TIME

[ today, when the GAMESHOW notification goes off and the phone maps lead you to the game tower, the debris is still everywhere, the lobby is empty, and the elevators are unlabeled. The rules don't appear on your screens until after everyone has filed in, the doors have shut behind you, and the elevators have started up and risen at least a few stories.

your phones light up with instructions at the same time as the elevators all shudder to a stop, and a sharp hissing noise starts up as thin blasts of air enter from the walls and fills the room with a horrible, horrible smell. like straight up sewer rank awful. Luckily you won't have to deal with it for long, since you pass out so fast you won't even remember hitting the ground.

You wake up on the floor of a room with the rest of your unit. Mukuro's face isn't on any screens, but the first thing you might process as you regain consciousness is his boyish voice filling the air, shifting from calmly informative to as energetic as ever. ]

… courtesy of danna's abilities, we have much more exacting control over a much broader range of possibilities. Ah, and the stars of our show have just begun to stir!

Then, let's go over the rules of today's event once more!

[ and then he does show up, waist-up on the large tv-sized screen on the wall, smiling brightly beside a diagram demonstrating different possible outcomes - labeled with T's and B's and X's over "losing" stick figures. ]

Prisoner's dilemma! The max-tension psychological classic, with a secret agent feel~

This one is all about trust and betrayal. Originally, two people would be interrogated separately for information, and told that they would be spared if they turned on their partner. But if both of them kept their mouths shut, then their captors would have less over them and they both could be saved. While if they both betrayed one another, then they would both be punished! For either of them to win, at least one of them would have to take the risk and decide to "trust"~

Today's game is a three-person variant, or rather, a three-unit variant! This means that instead of just one other person, our idols will have to carefully consider the thinking of two whole other groups of people in their decision-making! But like the standard "prisoner's dilemma," only one person each is placed at risk ☆ Just like a sacrifice!

[ briefly, the display switches to images of flower arrangements ]

Additionally, since the idols haven't been told who their partners are, we've provided them with a small means of communication - courtesy of this goryou - for them to find some way to identify themselves, earn the other units' "trust," and get a read on what kinds of people now hold the fate of their unitmate in their hands!

[ and back to Mukuro, a bust shot with the diagram gone now ]

The results this time will be a little more complicated than the original "win/lose" scenario. In this case, even trusting each other won't get a good result. Betraying each other is worse, but only betraying someone who trusts you will save your sacrifice and bring your unit victory~! That's why it's important to convince the other units to "trust" no matter what!

And trusting someone who ends up betraying you - well, wouldn't that be just horrible?

Leeet's go! ♥

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ABSOLUTELY NOTHING?

I know you're lying.

[squeaky??]

It's gonna be fine! It's got extra texture now! That's gonna be a bonus in your life!

THEY CUT OPEN YOUR PENIS.

[ screaming, furious internal screaming, ]

I'M GOING TO KILL THOSE SICK BASTARDS WITH MY BARE HANDS

YEAH LET'S SCREAM THAT REAL LOUD, NATE I DON'T THINK ALL THE TEAMS HEARD IT!! Fuck!! They cut everything open, okay?!

[I-IT'S OK EVERYONE WAS OVER THERE. far away. far, far away...]

How the hell did all that happen in-- in...

How long were we out for?!

It's not that! This didn't happen just now! This is-- This is something else, okay? This is some shit I don't remember and--

[he rips off his gloves and shows his hands]

Look, that's not all there is! This is my dirty laundry.

Edited 2018-07-22 08:05 (UTC)

[Faintly, but still burning with righteous anger:]

They're all... old...

[Christ. He was looking at everything Wade had suffered in his life, and it made it so much worse than some magic torture designed by their current prison. This was his life. Every cut hidden behind the curtain of his healing.

Nate's fury simmered. Breathe. In, out.]

Okay... we know time travel's possible. Killing them together is still on the table.

[Wade laughs, weak, and wraps his arms around himself.]

Aw, honey. You always know just what to say.

I don't think I'm gonna remember I was some great hero, Nate.

[It is actually painful watching him hug himself like that. Painfully lonely... he was right there...]

I don't care. Whatever you were. Weren't you the one who told me-- we're makin' ourselves better, right?

You've got me now. And I need you.

All I care about is that you're here.

[...Fuck it. He's going to hug Wade. If it's only for a second, the heartache can't build quickly enough into crying, right? Just a quick squeeze...

God it's hard to leave, though. Even if it hurts.]

[shfal;ga. Well it's good that Wade experienced how much that hurt with the buddy bond on, cuz let's be real, he'd get petulant and salty real fast if he didn't feel it for himself.]

Hhholy fuck that sucks. That feels like every ship I ever had just sank.

Ah... Shit, I should've turned it off.

[He was just so caught up with wanting to comfort him!! Nate wiped away the tears pricking at the corners of his eyes]

... You already saved me, Wade. How bad could you be?

[WELL, HELPFULLY, WADE JUST FEELS REALLY PETULANTLY PROTECTIVE AND POSSESSIVE AND BOLSTERED AND LOVING. He scrambles to cover himself up again, feeling strangely paranoid that someone not Nate will find them and see him.]

Shit. Pretty fuckin' bad, okay? But I get it, I-- I get it. I know you're here.

... Fuck, okay, trust not really coming easily without paranoia, nnnghdon't you dare take this back. If I find out I was straight-up a rabid hulk that was forced to eat babies to survive, you still have to love me. Or, or if I'm Thanos' brainwashed devoted assassin and sexual prisoner, who can feel nothing but the joy of stilettos and murder. You still have to love me.

Edited 2018-07-22 10:46 (UTC)

[Before he finishes zipping himself back up, Nate grabs him by the collar (no physical contact!) and pulls him in close - just rough enough to try and shake him out of his train of thought. Pushing back against the paranoia with the unmovable certainty of his resolve.]

I'm still going to love you. No matter what.

[whiiines]

Ohhh my fucking fuck, I can't believe we can't touch. If you look up cockblock in the dictionary now you see a picture of this moment.

[Frustrated grunt,] I know.

[Pause.]

...You want t'find a bathroom?

[gasps. and like, genuinely touched, like, this is moving]

Really? I somehow managed to look even nastier than gumby made of raw burger, and you're still thirsty?

[Babe. Please. He tries to smile as patiently as he could.]

Wade, i spent days not knowing if you were alive or dead... You could've been turned inside-out and I'd still want you.

Gross, also now we can't really discount that possibility now can we?, but gross in the hot way? Not sure. Important thing is yes, I want to ruin a bathroom.

There has to be a stall in some empty building somewhere 'round here.

Fuuuck. I love you so much. I fuckin thought about you every night.

C'mon, handsome.

[Drags u off by the collar~ hello alleyway door, hello empty plastic bar]

[really let's leave all the relationship drama to the teenagers we got this apparently???]

~GAME~

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