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

[syncintohell]

[ If you are wondering how Taisho nearly got the audience's choice award, that question might be answered when Shu appears in endgame. He is completely unharmed, in very fancy clothing, and in the middle of an aria.

This is probably really tonally inappropriate considering how many of you are injured, dead, or dying, but he has his eyes closed still and hasn't realized. ]

[composeur]

[ on the subject of complete tonal inappropriateness, Leo is also here. with the Taishos. somehow. dressed in an old fashioned orchestra conductor's outfit, and accompanying Shu on the violin.

how did this happen? he wasn't even in the game. how did he get here. he would also like to know, really.


in any case he possibly notices before Shu. the sound is much different here.

it doesn't necessarily stop him from continuing to play, though. not until the end. ]

I don't think our audience is listening.

[syncintohell]

[ Shu's eyes open when Leo speaks, turning on his heel to berate him: ]

Do not speak during a performance! For what reason would they not be listening!? My performance is parfait and surely they have gotten used to the damnable interruptions from the ra... fters . . .

[ With his eyes open now, he can see what's around him and Leo. He is not so self-absorbed he could blind himself to this, all the injured people, people who had endured much worse than frostbite, emaciated and maimed. He looks about him, but it's unnecessary. After the first look at the bloodied bodies, his throat started closing up. In this situation, he will certainly sing no longer.

He snaps, sharply at Leo: ]

Cease playing. Now is no time for this!

[composeur]

[ he does stop. without saying anything, or even laughing at shu for just how long it took him to see.

but he moves to crouch down, letting the base of his violin clunk to the floor while he holds tight to the neck. his fingers strumming absently at the top of the strings, while he scans the crowd. ]

... I guess it was just a dream after all.

[syncintohell]

Do not mistreat your instrument!

[ Glancing down and prodding Leo with a foot, still scanning the area. ]

Simply because our experience was pleasant, does not mean it was any less real than the wounds they bear.

[morderti]

[I hope you have several bumps on your head from all those small rocks and apples you've been pelted with]

[syncintohell]

[ probably not right now since he would evolve. Adapt! Put a netting above the stage! It's fine to berate the audience but how dare you hit a performer!

That said he definitely got hit at the start.

He is also, as soon as Leo points out the audience is gone, falling into mute horror. It wouldn't occur to him to worry for his own unit in this state, with himself fine so surely the others must be, and a glance over Hibari reinforces this impression. ]

[morderti]

[who said he didn't sometimes hit the audience too? not for your sake, mind you]

There was a second run. They are injured.

[gestures over to wherever Okami and Kaguya are]

[syncintohell]

[ He stops dead in his tracks from where he had started to check on two of avante, and instead jerks his head in the direction he's shown— to see Okami and Kaguya. ]

Were you present for it!?

[ Though he saw him earlier, now he does a thorough scan, to make certain he didn't simply miss his injuries. ]

[morderti]

I wasn't.

[syncintohell]

Then I make this request of you: I am seeing to Kaguya. Will you see to Okami? I cannot carry both of them at once without jostling their injuries.

[morderti]

. . . tch. Fine.

[turns on his heel to head over there then]