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

[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.

[syncintohell]

[ He lets him be— if he moves now there is no beauty in it and he has already torn him down, revealed him raw and ruined, what need does he have to murder this one? All men are like this, and there will be others— but he does reply. ]

So you do understand. I wish you luck in bringing your own cycle to its ignominious end. You have nearly sunk rock-bottom.

[awakenerd]

Don't act--like you aren't like this. Like everyone who would stab everyone else in the back.

[syncintohell]

Non! Most certainly not— I would tell you my intentions from the very beginning. You, and everyone else: I wish to see you undone for that which you have done to me.