BETRAYAL AT THE HOUSE ON THE GAME TOWER - Session 8

[idolpro]

Who: Exael and the rest of you lot
When: To be inserted into the timeline after completion
What: Betrayal at the House on the Game Tower

[ The GAME ALERT and map show on the screen of your phones— idols, you know what to do!

The Game Tower elevator doors are open to receive, and close once they have you in their confines and the broadcast monitors click on. You can keep an eye on the city further and further below you, as watch with your host's introduction to today's game.

At the very least it's not Mukuro's face on the screen this time. Instead it's Exael again, pigtails bouncing as she hops up from a grand low bow— it looks like they cut part of her broadcast spiel for you guys. With a showman's flair, she twirls and splays her arms as the camera zooms out to focus on a grand mansion, more Hollywood glamor than anything belonging in Tokyo.

"Summer has come to Tokyo, and so has the season's specialty: The Trial of Courage! Step right up, and charge right in because waiting won't help you at all! Here is a place even angels fear to tread! Azzy's very own, The House of Mirth and Betrayal! This place has a sordid past that casts a shadow as long as the valley of death, and soon our Idols will be adding their own pages to the tale!"

The elevator stops atop the central tower of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building and then lurches unpleasantly, wrenching itself out of where elevators ought to go. The sudden movement jolts you, and when the doors open you spill out into into a room.

Hopefully, with not too much time missing. ]

Comments

FOYER

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Foyer. An extension of the entrance hall, the center of the hall is taken up by a fountain, water slopping over the sides through a grate in the floor as in waves as if displaced by some tultumous battle. The statues in the fountain are engaged in a still-frame war, gladitorial armies holding spears aloft with wounds that leak water to the fountain below. Watching over all this is a prominently placed painting of man. Beneath it is a plaque, no name or artist but instead are the words, "Do Unto Others."

The room itself offers no particular dangers or advantages. ]

Re: FOYER

[haktualdragon]

[... creepy ass portrait. anyway, this blood-covered, singed-and-charred, spear-wielding, mildly inebriated thunder beast is sitting on the fountain.]

Re: FOYER

[sancrimony]

[ ! with a little polite bow ]

Hello - avante en garde, correct? I don't think we've met before.

Re: FOYER

[sancrimony]

[ looking around . . . wait ]

Ah, doesn't that look like Boss-san? Loki-san?

[ turning to look to him ]

Re: FOYER

[bevoted]

[ the amounts he actually gives a fuck about the portrait looking like Boss are in the negatives right now since they're in a room with Someone Else and he's had way too hard of a time to be comfortable with that. ]

... we should leave.

Re: FOYER

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ taking a moment to stop and try to catch her breath, but still very focused on her Goal. Where does she go? ]

Re: FOYER

[sancrimony]

Ah, Hiryuu-san!

Re: FOYER

[haktualdragon]

[--!

SHE HERE.

stands up.

hi, your dog's a mess.]

Princess.

Re: FOYER

[bevoted]

-- Princess. [ nevermind about leaving. ]

Re: FOYER

[bluemoonlight]

Hiryuu...?

Re: FOYER

[lovestained]

Man✩Eater! One! We found people! There's so many of them!

Re: FOYER

[probablyhavingfun]

There are so many!

Re: FOYER

[bevoted]

... more...? [ he. really is starting to understand why Yasuragi hated crowds so much. ]

Re: FOYER

[carnivorouscarnival]

See, I knew what I was talking about!

Re: FOYER

[sancrimony]

Ah, hello - Little✩Red-san.

Re: FOYER

[haktualdragon]

[... why are there so many people???

this avante's pretty... covered in blood and singed-and-charred and also spear-wielding. looks a bit disgruntled?]

[made_up_names]

[ There's ... a lot of people here ...

Spidey kind of stares at the crowd awkwardly. ]

Heeeey uh. What's the party for?

[haktualdragon]

[idk but Mr. Avante here is... covered in blood and a little singed and charred. and wielding a spear. saaafe?

currently talking with Hiryuu about playing games? even more saaafe?]

[sancrimony]

Hello - we just happened upon each other, that's all.

[furrytailprince]

An unusual place for one to be sure.

Re: FOYER

[probablyhavingfun]

[Skips in from the creaky hallway! Literally skipping, because it's creaky. He's with the other two members of ☆ZRAEL in this session. Oh wow that sure is a lot of people...]

Oh... hello!

Re: FOYER

[furrytailprince]

[ Wow. There are. A lot of people here. ]

Re: FOYER

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ oh hey. well, all you guys can pretend to play nice, but this guy's not wasting any time, spreading his hands in what's clearly an offensive stance. ]

An all-you-can-eat buffet! Now this is what I'm talking about!

[deicider]

[Shortly after dropping through the ceiling into the room where literally everyone else is, they have a vivid flashback to E everyone out there is completely bananas.

Maybe they can leave before anyone notices them.

Surely no one saw them fall through the ceiling.]

Re: FOYER

[bluemoonlight]

[wanders in and like

oh this is where everyone is???

If he hadn't caught glimpses of Hiryuu and Spidey him might think he was the only person in this house.]