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

[awakenerd]

No.

[He just sounds really sad sorry. He's definitely been crying, you know, while covered in blood.]

[syncintohell]

That's right, you are like this. You did not listen when I told you to leave after your previous wrong-doings, either.

[awakenerd]

[I mean Maki makes a comment that has him starting to laugh hysterically but you can take that as laughing at you or just like, losing his mind, either way.]

[syncintohell]

[ and he draws from where he'd stashed it in his obi Taisho's mask— A somber mask—

If you put on the Mask, gain 2 knowledge and lose 2 Sanity.
If you take off the Mask, gain 2 Sanity and lose 2 Knowledge.

A Sanity roll of 4+ is required to remove it

AND SLAMS IT ON PHOENIX'S FACE

let's try sanbreaking you, since you don't seem well anyway. SHOW US YOUR TRUE COLORS IN FULL, SO MY JUSTIFICATION IS APPARENT ]

I believe that's enough from you! Do not show that loathsome face before us!

[awakenerd]

[Cool. Cool cool cool! Cool!

He doesn't have time to react, just, now there's a mask on him and he didn't have sanity to start with so.

The unhinged laughter is increasing for a second before it becomes broken sobbing?]

Why? Why why why why why whywhywhyWHY!!

[He doesn't rip at the mask, instead grabs for Kuzuebiko.]

Was it worth it to betray us like this!? ME?! I LOVED YOU! ALL OF YOU!

[Anyway ghosts are crazy and so is Phoenix.]

[criminaljustice]

[TRYING TO PULL PHOENIX AWAY FROM KUZUEBIKO. it's a 1 of might tho]

Phoenix, stop!

[awakenerd]

[Nah man, he's in this.]

Get away--don't trust anyone just get away!!

[hashtagaesthetic]

Boss! I'll hold him still if you get the mask off!

[FUCKING TACKLING PHOENIX, KNIFE AND ALL.]

[criminaljustice]

[IDK SEEMS LEGIT TO HIM.

GRABBING AND PULLING THAT MASK OFF.]

[awakenerd]

[Absolutely tackled and held down by Shuten, struggling and screaming while Boss rips off his mask. You better be good at this Boss it's your canon thing.]

[criminaljustice]

[I ROLLED A 5. I AM STILL GOOD AT THIS MASK-RIPPING THING.]

[hashtagaesthetic]

[HOLDING ON TIGHT, trying to like, de-escalate? how do this? nothing in him really remembers]

Phoenix! Phoenix! I won't hurt you!

[yet]

[syncintohell]

Me, the traitor? Your mouth is the last I want to hear that word from, you cur!

[ Grabbed, Shu just lifts one leg up to kick him in the stomach to get him away

MIGHT roll of 3 ]

[awakenerd]

[5 But honestly just go for it, whatever you wanna do. He stumbles a little with the kick and then grabs for a knife from his bloody curtain bag. It's a pretty good opening? That bad isn't easy to get a knife out of there's all kinds of junk in there.

He's also rambling, insane. Crying the whole time]

I never wanted to hurt anyone! I don't want to see people hurt but everyone keeps betraying us! Me! Over and over and over abandoning me! If you can't be trusted--! If no one can be trusted why--why!?

[syncintohell]

[ well okay, in that case he's going to grab for the wrist holding the knife and with his other hand try to wrench the knife from his grasp so he can be holding the weapon ]

You have already voiced it! Because no one can be trusted, not one single soul in the world! Humanity scrables and claws at itself, endlessly mutilating and unable to look far away from its own vices and flaws to ever look upwards! I have lost patience with it, and with being trampled!

[awakenerd]

[Congrats on your shiny new knife Kuzuebiko!

Phoenix struggles but loses it anyway, the knife is tacky and somewhat slick with blood already, he hasn't cleaned it since eviscerating H or stabbing E.

He's wailing, just, deeply distressed as Kuzuebiko talks. Clawing at his arm to get the knife back before Shuten tackles him down.]

No! No no no no it's shouldn't be this way! People just want to be happy why is that wrong?!

[syncintohell]

Why is it wrong indeed!

[ He takes the knife and backs up, agile sure steps backwards out of the way as Phoenix is tackled and his mask removed— had he not, he might have stabbed Phoenix to get rid of that clawing arm ]

Because there is someone that wants something from everyone else, something they think it worth driving you to ruin! I wish to be removed from the cycle! Once all this is gone, then that will be the end of it!

[awakenerd]

[He's scrubbing at his eyes, rubbing blood across his face as tears dampen the older blood on his hands.]

You're right. You're right--no one... Everyone is just out to get ahead. Even if all you want to do is live a decent life someone will sell you out, so they can have more. Love doesn't matter, trust is fake, it's wrong, everyone is guilty.

[rollplayinghouse]

What are you doing?!

[syncintohell]

His face displeased me, so I made certain I would not have to look upon so pathetic a sight!

[ Why is he so fucking ridiculous. That's the stupidest shit you've heard him say in a while, especially because in this situation it can't help but becomes something that must be taken seriously when it has real consequences. ]

I will not allow him to simply play the victim, hollow eyed, nor the happy spectator, laughing in mirth! I deny him his individuality, as I was denied mine! He is simply one of the mass, an faceless enemy who cannot triumph against the named players!

[rollplayinghouse]

[yeah you know what she's not going to try to talk this down and just try to restrain him and pull him away

with a might roll of 4!]

[syncintohell]

[ ALAS, HE GOT A MIGHT ROLL OF 6

so instead he's trying to grab phoenix's knife ]

Unhand me!

[rollplayinghouse]

Ugh!

[he does manage to pull away. but at least Shuten and Boss have Phoenix covered. This knife seems like a bad idea though. She backs off a few steps]

...I'll leave you alone if you give me that.

[syncintohell]

I believe you will leave me alone regardless.

[ He does not state it like a suggestion, more a recommendation. ]

[rollplayinghouse]

Not if there's a risk you're going to hurt someone I care about with it.

[voice hard, and while her eyes slide over to Bad End it's may look like she's glancing at Boss more than Phoenix]