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

DINING ROOM

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Dining Room. A wall of incandescent lights burn against one wall, the other three nothing but mirrors set into steel frames like windows— all of them opening to reveal booze behind them. There's no banquet table, but smaller tables and champagne cube, each with leather chairs with leather cuffs and chains at the feet and wrists clustered around in groups of three to five. Red curtains drop down from the ceiling, ready to be pulled around to create a small intimate private setting. None of the tables are laid with food— at least, not much of it. This one has a spread that's more than half rocks and jewelry, a few pieces of chocolate scattered throughout, this one has a chunk of raw meat, three slices carefully carved, then the main mass stabbed through with nine knives and two forks.

There are two entrances, one to the North and one to the West. ]

BURNING MAN

[idolpro]

A man on fire runs through the room. His skin bubbles and cracks, falling away from him and leaving a fiery skull that clatters to the ground, bounces, rolls, and disappears.

You must attempt a sanity Roll:
4+ You feel a little hot under the collar, but otherwise fine. Gain 1 Sanity.
2-3: Out, out, you must get out. You run straight back to your starting room, without pause.
0-1: You burst into flames! Take 1 die of physical damage. Then take 1 die of mental damage as you put out the flames.

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[probablyhavingfun]

[NOOOOOOOOOOOooooo NOT THIS AGAIIIIIIinnnn not the burny guy again noooooo

Lace got a 2 so he darts back to the chapel like a startled deer.]

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[columbidaring]

[ I AM HERE to GET AWAY from a CRAZY who wants me DEAD ]

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[motorcycle_noises]

Get back here so I can kill you!

[ Who cares if he has a knife? NOT SANGUINE ANYMORE! ]

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[columbidaring]

Oh my god, give it up!

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[motorcycle_noises]

[ How about a wordless scream in reply as he tries to tackle E? ]

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[columbidaring]

[ how about I duck and throw you towards, but not into, a mirror. You probably hit a chair instead. ]

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[motorcycle_noises]

[ He lands hard, knocked momentarily breathless. It gives E an opportunity to get himself better situated as Sanguine tries to catch his breath and stand back up. ]

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[criminaljustice]

[RUNNING IN AFTER]

Sanguine, stop! You don't even have a weapon?!

[oh my god.]

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[motorcycle_noises]

I'm going to kill him!

[ That's totally an answer, right? ]

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[criminaljustice]

[NO. IT'S JUST YOU BEING A BROKEN RECORD?!]

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[motorcycle_noises]

[ It's okay, he's now laughing alarmingly at E. Is that better? ]

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[columbidaring]

[ look at me NOT putting him inside mirrors even though he keeps ACCUSING ME of it !!!! ]

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[criminaljustice]

[IDEK ANYTHING ABOUT THE MIRRORS SO LIKE!!! THAT MEANS NOTHING?]

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[afailedmurder]

[knight in shining armor is here to defend his niisan!]

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[rollplayinghouse]

[oh god there are mirrors in this room ALARM]

A! The mirrors—it's not safe—!

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[afailedmurder]

Huh?

[he hasn't been in this room before and was focused on E and Sanguine, so he pauses to glance around at them.]

What are you talking about?

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[rollplayinghouse]

[she does not normally get breathless from this much exertion but she is a little bit so from frantically trying to deal with so many things]

Shuten said—they're in the mirrors for two hundred years! That's probably why he—!

[GESTURING FRANTICALLY AT SANGUINE]

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[criminaljustice]

[looking over to him.]

Sanguine's not armed.

[MAKI TOOK HIS KNIFE? SO LIKE. DON'T? HURT HIM?]

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[afailedmurder]

Would you get him under control? I don't want to fight him, but I'm not going to let him hurt E.

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[criminaljustice]

I'm working on it.

[waiting for the right moment to hopefully get between those two.]

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[criminaljustice]

[welp.

time for Boss to get between his teammate and your teammate. near a big ol' mirror.

this is fine.]

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[columbidaring]

[ what a good brother ]

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[syncintohell]

[ I'm here to watch how this turns out from the doorway

and I guess maybe interfere if I feel like it later ]

[ but for now, popcorn.gif sans popcorn. ]