BETRAYAL AT THE HOUSE ON THE GAME TOWER - Session 9

[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

CHASM

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Chasm. As if an earthquake ran through the mansion years and years ago, the earth splits in two, pushed apart completely - if you want to cross, you'll have to jump. You could not cross, of course, but that means turning back and trying another way . . . If there is another way to go . . . !? Peeking over this cliff yields to seeing - nothing but darkness. That's really bad. Don't fall in-- who knows how deep in the Game Tower this goes.

You can go West or East. If you choose to go the direction you came from, you can leave freely; however, if you choose to go in the direction you were initially headed to, then you must roll for 3+ speed. If you fail, you will be able to get to the other side of the chasm, but you will lose 1 speed. ]

SECRET STAIRS

[idolpro]

A horrible creaking sound echoes around you. You've discovered a secret stairwell.

The Secret Stairs connect the room discovered to the nearest room on the map on another floor. If the character decides to follow the stairs, they receive another event card in the new connecting room.

Re: SECRET STAIRS

[rollplayinghouse]

Ah... There weren't stairs here before.

[just a regular secret passageway]

That's lucky, though.

[heading for the stairs immediately]

[syncintohell]

[ as the traitor, Shu doesn't need to jump the chasm. But now that they've discovered the stairs, neither does Maki ]

They appear throughout the basement randomly— this is not my first encounter.

[ He will also use them— most avoid the basement. ]

[rollplayinghouse]

I see. I've only been through once... before there was a passageway here that went up to the graveyard.

...How many...?

[syncintohell]

Twice. Only twice, but it is enough to know what to expect of this place and those within it.

[rollplayinghouse]

And what is that?

[syncintohell]

Yasuragi, in our first time through shot at . . . one of Wild City's. I could not be bothered with his name. I interceded, but I acted too hastily— I ought to have allowed him considering he had also fallen to madness.

The second time through, I came across Yasuragi and one Avante's locked in combat. My attempt to intercede ended with being attacked, as Bad End and Senshi's people were also scurrying about underfoot.

Re: CHASM

[probablyhavingfun]

[Yikes! That is one long fall. He is on a mission, though, so he only shrinks back one pace before recovering himself. Gotta go.]

Re: CHASM

[hashtagaesthetic]

[briefly considers heading for the pentagram chamber, but he knows it's a dead end and his object is to keep H distracted, while also trying to avoid getting cornered.

so he leaps the chasm instead.]

Re: CHASM

[filetofish]

[Well Jeez! He's just gonna follow. This is fun!]

You're not gonna escape me!

Re: CHASM

[hashtagaesthetic]

You sure you'll be able to catch up?

[him fast, after all.]

Re: CHASM

[filetofish]

Just you watch!