imeeji_frontstage | BETRAYAL AT THE HOUSE ON THE GAME TOWER

BETRAYAL AT THE HOUSE ON THE GAME TOWER - Session 9

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. ]

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[ You enter the catacombs. It is what it is: a massive underground graveyard, and a mass graveyard. Both! There are several offshoots that presumably lead to coffins, tight niches in the wall like drawers meant to shut away human corpses; but far more distracting is the wall of skulls directly in front of you. Countless skulls, all human in various stages of fossilization, some of them broken or cracked or split completely in half while others are intact, but regardless . . . . it's creepy. It's too creepy. Are the skulls following your gaze? No way. . . . there's no way. Skulls don't have eyes in those empty sockets. Just remember, there's no way.

You can go North or South. 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 6+ sanity. If you fail, you can continue to the next room, but you lose 1 point of sanity to the overwhelming creepiness of the catacombs, and the general spooky vibe to the entire place. ]

This room is covered in a thick layer of dirt. You cough as it gets on your skin, and in your lungs.

You must attempt a Might roll:
4+: You shake it off. Gain 1 might.
0-3: Something is wrong. Keep this effect. Take 1 point of physical damage each time you change rooms. Discard this card if an item card increases one of your traits, or if you find the Balcony, Gardens, Graveyard, Gymnasium, Larder, Patio, or Tower.

[Rolls a 4 - fuck you, dirt! You can't beat THESE GUNS and also THIS SHOVEL. Feeling emboldened (or maybe just more pissed?), Wire dusts himself off.]

Fuck, I hate this creepy place.

[WANDERING UP BEHIND HIM

oh hey dad.]

[hOLY SHIT he didn't even see you when he left the Crypt. Abi you were just that quiet.]

Jesus Christ--! Abi?

[HE WAS RIGHT BEHIND YOU.

Anyway, he has some blood on him??

But he seems fine??

He nods to him.]

[That pings him immediately, and his face goes dark.]

The blood. What happened.

[Sorry dad before he can answer Lucifel shows up and he’s gonna like

Immediately attack him.

Which is actually more of an answer than you might expect]

Ah.

[ with gold embroidered cloth ripped up to tie at one wrist, and with his right hand prone at his side ]

It's Wire-san.

[He could only assume the cloth was tied there as a makeshift bandage. Lucifel wasn't the first sensitIV he'd run into though, so while he was cautious, he wasn't immediately suspicious.]

Yeah. What happened t'you?

Nothing particularly, but . . .

[ with a pause, as he looks to abi ]

Excuse me for a moment, my apologies.

...?

[Watches the exchange and uh WTF]

[ probably like, moving Quickly here. Very likely trying to throw off some unitmates but also hey hi friends ]

[WOW

EXACTLY WHO HE WAS HOPING TO FIND.

CONVENIENT.]

You.

[ pauses, he wanted to see him again, but ]

Come to think of it, I don't know your name.

Abi.

[AND THEN HE’S GONNA TRY TO LIKE

PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE?

Speed roll of 4]

Edited 2018-08-08 03:26 (UTC)

[ entirely too slow to dodge that with his 1, so he's successfully punched in the face - but his right hand moves up to try to stab abi in the gut, remember this?? with a might roll of 6 ]

[fUCK WHAT WAS SUDDENLY HAPPENING? With a speed roll of 4, Wire's too slow to stop the incoming blade FUCK!]

Edited 2018-08-08 03:40 (UTC)

[with a speed roll of 5 Abi is also too slow, so he’s getting stabbed again goddammit]

[ very affectionately kissing at his knuckle before he steps back ]

That was a little rude, wasn't it? I don't even know your name.

[Did you just stab his son

in front of him?

It didn't matter if he was still technically sane, Wire was bringing that shovel to Lucifel's head like a hammer with might 8's worth of sudden, red-hot fury.]

[ Is now a good time for your daughter to come wandering out of the burial chamber?

she uh.

hm.

she's missing her shoes, there's dried blood and some kind of almost inky black then staining the majority of her clothing, and there are large, finger shaped bruises on her neck, like someone strangled the shit out of her.

also she's clearly been crying and may still be crying and muttering incoherently to herself. ]

[ what's up shooting your not-girlfriend's dad ]

[ cool erase him so I don't have to worry about that embarrassing thing I said once

also she just like

flinches at the gunshot ]

Heeeeyyyy could ya try makin' less of a mess? Jesus.

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