KISSING GAME

[just_married]

Who: idols
Where: game tower!
When: day 124 evening onwards

[ the game alert goes off again! once you’ve all managed to extract yourselves from the fanmail and made your way to the game tower... you’ll find a familiar face waiting for you.

floating roughly in the center of the lobby, seated crosslegged in midair with a scroll unfurled across his lap, Yasuragi is dressed more or less thusly, hands gloved, feet bare, and hair splayed uncharacteristically loose over his shoulders. He looks neither particularly Taisho-like nor particularly regal, but the deliberately lazy poise in the curve of his spine and the curl of his toes is unmistakable. ]

Hello, old friends.

I’d say we’ve come to put on a show for you all, but it’s rather more the other way around, now, isn’t it? Although I’ve come to “host,” the game this time was arranged by my cohort. They’re far too shy to show their faces, but they're quite delighted to act as your audience from here on. One of my girls is with child, so do pass along your well wishes, if you care to.

[ shifts one knee up, lets his other leg dangle, and rolls the scroll shut ]

Well, regardless, you should be looking to impress them soon enough.

[ waves the scroll aside, and it vanishes with the gesture. meanwhile, the rules appear on your phones. ]

Approach all different sorts of people and make nice with them, shall we call it. One per title, and do feel so inclined to pry around to find an appropriate candidate for one or two of them.

[ he smiles. ]

Call it a reward for an oft-scorned talent. I am in the business of something akin to redress, now, after all. To put it bluntly, this lot of mine has arranged nothing but a test of your shamelessness. Naturally, your judges all excel in the area. Give them your very best, now.

[ RULES | TURNIN | TOPLEVEL COMMENTS ]

Comments

[criminaljustice]

... don't I still owe you a favor from the last time?

[puzzlekeeper]

You do, in fact.

[criminaljustice]

Gosh. Mysterious when you're going to cash it in.

[puzzlekeeper]

Who knows? Maybe I like keeping you in suspense.

[criminaljustice]

Joke's on you. I happen to like suspense.

[puzzlekeeper]

Well then, it sounds like everyone is happy here.

[criminaljustice]

Maybe.

Or... maybe double or nothing makes it more agreeable?

[puzzlekeeper]

Hoping another gamble with knock out your debt?

I'm game.

[criminaljustice]

No risk, no reward.

[anyway, in your base.]

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Staring up at him CHALLENGINGLY ]

And the win condition is...?

[criminaljustice]

Well...

We can always let the results speak for themselves, but that's a little boring.

[puzzlekeeper]

And also highly open to personal interpretation.

[criminaljustice]

Then... first person to get the other on the ground.

[look.

he has a plan (no he doesn't)

the plan (this is still not a plan) is abilities

... this is not a good plan, he is not a planner]

[puzzlekeeper]

[ JOKER....

A scoff. ]

I'm not sure that's the point of the game, but fine with me.

[criminaljustice]

If they can't handle a bit of roughhousing, then they really don't understand how kisses work.

[look

also, whatcha feeling, King? we're Eris Alerting.]

[puzzlekeeper]

So that's how you prefer it...

[ Not that it's a SURPRISE.

But when he digs into King's emotions, he gets this:

On a surface level, amusement. Curiosity. Eagerness and exhilaration at an impending challenge.

Beneath that, petty irritation - with the game itself, rather than directed at anyone.

And beneath that, a low-level, always-there exhaustion and simmering anger. ]

[criminaljustice]

I mean, I can go softer, if you'd rather.

[a bit of a mockery because there's no way King would back down at this point, but hm...

noted.

and then Joker's gesturing with two of his fingers for King to come at him]

[puzzlekeeper]

Please. Don't insult me.

[ He lunges forward before abruptly feinting to the side, trying to whip Joker's legs out from under him. ]

[criminaljustice]

[man, fortunately, he does remember fighting shadows, so he's using his favorite back handspring move to get out of the way, laughing.]

[puzzlekeeper]

[ God. Just watching that like "really?" ]

A bit dramatic, don't you think?

[criminaljustice]

You're just jealous I look badass doing it.

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Falling into a defensive stance. ]

I'm not prone to jealousy.

[criminaljustice]

[yeah, all right. he'll go in for an attempt at a tackle]

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Kissing game what kissing game? This is a wrestling game now.

King slides to the left, one leg lashing out in an attempt to disrupt Joker's forward momentum enough to unbalance him - though that makes his own balance tenuous in the process. ]

[criminaljustice]

[it does manage to disrupt Joker's forward momentum, but he does manage to pivot the energy into a turn before he can fall on his face, hands reaching out to grab onto that foot to make that balancing situation even more precarious.]