ENDGAME

[cascadingfailure]

Who: ALL FRIENDS
Where: Game Tower!
When: Day 133, Evening

[ And the game ends!

And you find yourself all in the tower, mangled or not. You'll find that you have a mixture of wounds from both rounds of the game, as well as all of your memories of both rounds. As for NafunAI...

Well, she seems to not be around anymore, but her voice (though a bit louder and more robotic) booms through the room, informing you of what's up: ]

THIS GAME'S WINNERS ARE:
BARiTONES, WILD CITY, avante en garde, Heart Soldier Senshi, and sensitIV!

THIS UNIT HAS ALSO TABULATED AUDIENCE VOTES. ULTIMATELY, LILIS WON FOR OUTSTANDING MORAL FIBER, AND A FLAWLESS GAME. TAISHO ALMOST SURPASSED THEM, BUT THE VOTES WERE NOT IN THEIR FAVOUR. THEY LOSE.

ALSO LILIS' EXAMPLE OF WORKERS BEING ABLE TO HAVE NICE LIVES HELPED FAN THE FLAMES OF THE WORKER'S REVOLT EVERYONE PARTLY DIED IN LATER. PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT WAS COOL! SUPER, SUPER, SUPER COOL!

THANK YOU FOR PLAYING! ⭐

[ Yaaay! ]

Comments

[justfuckingtryit]

...a revolution, huh?

[softlyfalling]

[ well. cool. time to live with what decision-making brings.

there's already enough people here and really, she doesn't deserve to be here? but she never actually got any better clothes than the game-provided shabby ones, so she starts methodically slicing squares off the hem for makeshift handkerchiefs.

...she tries to avoid the bits of fabric with blood on them. ]

Wednesday. Here.

[composeur]

[ hi

he has a violin.

also he showed up with the Taishos somehow so they're probably nearby?


he... he has no idea what just happened. ]

Rin......?

[gigadevilbreaker]

... [A bit hard to divorce the rationale of the choice with the sight of people in pain, once they were in front of them.]

If nothin' else, that alliance with BARiTONES feels a little more likely, now...

[worldlyafflictions]

[Love to have his extremities rot off and die and then come back just so it could still be happening(???) and then get shot by revolutionaries!

He. will be coming conscious in terror--absolutely hating the pain and, even more, the disorienting panic. Shivering from cold and curling his arms over his head--he can't breathe, it feels like something's in his throat, he's choking, suffocating--having kind of an episode about his near(?) death(??) experience from the last round of Hunger Games, actually.

It'll take him a moment before he realizes they're out of the industrial world the game threw them into--but he's going to Cloud 9 himself the instant he does.]

[softlyfalling]

...ahaha. Maybe so; it seems that Harpy and Gold negotiated something on their own, at some point, too.

I just, ah. I couldn't stand it.

[composeur]

[ when did leo get here? more importantly, when did he get here all dressed up like he was actually in the game. ]

Rai? When did you get here? You didn't come for the show, did you...

[wonderlandgirl]

Thorn...

[All these people she knows. It makes her smile.

[She smiles, too - she gets it, good god - to see him unharmed. He's okay, somehow: he's whole. And she's glad, too, because there's something she has to tell him, something she has to let him know. Because something like this, on top of - of what she did to him...]

We - we tried...

[I promise.]

[justicebewon]

It's me. Ruby.

[ pat, pat. ]

It's a long story, reincarnation is involved, I'll tell you later.

[justicebewon]

Uh, I dunno? We just ended with "hey, there's a riot and revolt and army attack, try surviving!".

So we did.

[dragonheartedgirl]

Hurricane!?

[ THIS is what you call MAKING it?! ]

H-hold still!

[ not... that he probably CAN move very well... ]

[justicebewon]

You're welcome. It was an honour serving with you.

[justicebewon]

Shut up! I'm worried about you, deal with it!

[justicebewon]

[ well

well yeah you got me there. ]

How are you?

[gigadevilbreaker]

Huh. Wonder when that happened.

...I wish I coulda helped more. I was just useless after the first round.

[crossmyheartandhope]

[I mean, as long as Heroes Never Die is back on, he could probably walk back home just fine? It just... won't be very pleasant.]

S'cool, I'm not in a hurry or nothing.

[wonderlandgirl]

Shrike-san...?

[She isn't feeling better, not really - but less dazed, less surprised to be anything-at-all. Together enough to process what she's hearing, to start to pin names to faces and to understand what it is she's seeing Shrike do. To actually be able to respond.

[She reaches out for her, cold fingers brushing against Shrike's own.]

It's okay...

[You don't have to.]

[syckophant]

[Stops then, finally looking back with a smile plastered on his face because that is what people want, right? A frowning idol is no idol at all!!!!]

I appreciate it, but I assure you that I am well.

[justicebewon]

I'm not that stupid, your majesty.

[justicebewon]

Please don't, nobody needs to see that again.

[irregular]

Jesus. You okay...?

[Battered, bleeding, his clothing ripped and covered in dust, K is... only tentatively standing upright and his head (let's focus on that) still hurts like fucking hell, but he's not so out of it he can't spot a guy in trouble when he sees him.

[What he's supposed to do about it he doesn't know, but he's not about to just pretend he didn't see anything.]

[composeur]

Wow! Congratulations!!

[ it's unclear if he even knows exactly what she's talking about, ]

Is that why the others look so beat up? Was there a battle? But you won, right? [ he's. real lost here. ]

[gigadevilbreaker]

Too bad.

Starving blows and so does prison food.

[composeur]

[ what's up he's here to be completely tonally inappropriate. also, in an orchestra conductor suit? ]

Oh! Are you going to cook watery spaghetti again? I liked when you did that last time, it wasn't very good but there was so much of it! You should do that again! To celebrate your victory in battle! [ literally what ]

[gigadevilbreaker]

[How can this be. Griffin is too wiped to even feel annoyed at you right now. Just tiredly answering,]

I got a recipe this time. What... are you wearing...?