A GAME

[opening_act]

Who: All good idols, and a few delinquents too!
Where: The Game Tower.
When: Morning, Day 110

[ The elevator doors open to. . . the entrance to a school? You're at the shoe lockers, the area overlarge to accommodate for all the players of the day's game. On your phones, you can see Exael's hologram standing at the front of the class before a blackboard, tapping a baton (as well as a hologram can manage) against the rule set scrawled in chalk. There appear to be just over 100 rules.

At a glance, you might notice:

3. Students must attend classes.
17. No removing furniture from the dorm.
21. The broadcast system is reserved for staff use only.
24. No distributing false information.
42. No vehicles allowed indoors.
47. There are no acceptable uses for duct tape.
50. Faking illness to get out of class is against the rules.
64. Do not recklessly endanger yourself. This rule is here for your safety.
74. Kazoos are not permitted at any time or location.
99. Students are not to lock faculty out of classrooms or the dorms.
107. Honor students stick together.
108. Report all delinquents.

All of which seem like fairly reasonable rules for a school, except for the last two rules. If this were a real school. However, a school role-play does not seem to be the extent of what Exael has planned. With a particularly energetic swish of her projected baton through the blackboard, she addresses you and the ever unseen audience. ]

And chaos reigned over the land, mayhem continuing unabated!

[ She shakes her head, putting the back of her hand to her forehead, looking very tragic for a moment, before pulling that same hand down into a fist pump, speaking into a microphone that appeared there through sleight of hand or genuine magic. ]

And so, I said to the idols, come to me in the classroom and I will give thee a blackboard full of good old-fashioned school rules! And I'll reward all the good kids, but first you have to find those who have gone astray! Go turn in all the delinquents, so they can learn how to behave!

[ As rules appear on your phones, she winks at all of you and then vanishes, leaving you with free reign over the school. ]

Comments

[justfuckingtryit]

[Well, he does come back eventually. In this.]

[we_meet_again]

[oh my fucking shit]

[On the next lap, Cobalt slows down a little and veers over to Thorn so he can jump back on]

[justfuckingtryit]

[Jumps back on.]

The costume designers in hell are bullshit.

[we_meet_again]

You think?

I dunno -- don't take this the wrong way, but I think it looks really good on you. You make it work!

[justfuckingtryit]

It's like a someone threw a schoolgirl uniform in the blender with our dorm.

[we_meet_again]

It's true...! Doesn't mean it looks bad, though.

[justfuckingtryit]

It could definitely be better.

[we_meet_again]

It could definitely be worse!

[justfuckingtryit]

[Snorts.]

Don't give them ideas.

[we_meet_again]

Well, I think it looks really flattering on you, but if you still aren't feeling it by the time you get home, maybe you can use it for scraps or an emergency outfit or something. I'm sure you can find some use for it.

[justfuckingtryit]

Mm. It'd be stupid not to keep it.

[He doesn't seem to. Know. What to do with that first part. So he just ignores it.]