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

[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.]

[awakenerd]

[You are a mask removing champ. He calms like, a little? He's still at real negative sanity but he's going to just go back to crying instead of clawing at people for now.]

[motorcycle_noises]

[ It's at this point that Sanguine crawls over, petting Phoenix's hair and making soothing noises. ]

[awakenerd]

[Surely you have the same feel]

[motorcycle_noises]

[ He sure does, and he's murmuring quietly at Phoenix. ]

It's okay, we're going to get them. We'll get them all. They can't betray us, can't leave us if they're dead so we'll kill them and everything will be okay. It will be okay.

[criminaljustice]

[... you both are talking incoherent about murder?!?! it's a little distressing?!]

[motorcycle_noises]

[ This is fine? This is fine. ]

[awakenerd]

Okay. Okay...

[Reassure him with murder and vengeance but he hates it. This is fine.]

[motorcycle_noises]

[ It's okay, Sanguine actually hates it too. But it's Necessary, hated or no. ]

It's okay. It's okay. We'll kill them all and it'll be over and everything will be fine.

[awakenerd]

Yeah... Yeah.

[He haaates this but they gotta. They gotta.]

[criminaljustice]

[NO ONE IS GETTING THIS MASK NOW. ONLY SANE PEOPLE GET THIS MASK.

which is to say, he's hanging onto it in one hand while the other is petting over Phoenix's face as he makes soft hushing sounds like it's okay it's okay, the bad mask is off. it's okay.]

[awakenerd]

[Thanks fam he's muttering very reassuring things to Shuten.]

[criminaljustice]

[kind of watching that anxiously because... just who is Phoenix addressing here?

hand goes to tug at his shoulder.]

C'mon. We should get moving.

[moving away from Taisho ssssseems like good decision.]

[awakenerd]

[You know, sometimes, angry ghosts gotta vent their issues too? Sometimes ghosts need to have their say! Anyway he's not trying to stab anyone until Alcheme comes in and besides that Kuzuebiko has his knife so he can't so this should be fine.]

...

[criminaljustice]

[yeah, uh. speaking of AlcheME...]

[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]

[awakenerd]

[With the mask off he's just back to crying, tucking his face against Shuten and sobbing.]

No no--you can't trust anyone, no no no no one, he can't be trusted with things everyone will betray you just to get ahead, get satisfaction, gain, he's going to stab you in the back, everyone will. No one's innocent even if you love them they'll sell you out.

[hashtagaesthetic]

...Breathe, Phoenix. Breathe and look at me. If you look at me it will be much harder for me to betray you, see?

[awakenerd]

[Looking at him. So heartbroken.]

I'm so sorry. She--she was crying but I should have known, I should have....

[hashtagaesthetic]

...If you didn't know, you didn't know. If you did know, you didn't act. That's how it is.

[awakenerd]

[Reaching up to, grab Shuten and kiss him, briefly. Like maybe? That's ill-advised? Considering the last kiss Shuten got. But he wants more of his warmth.]

[hashtagaesthetic]

[Shuten spooks, and spooks hard, but knows better than to let Phoenix up in this current situation. So he just... goes very, very still.]

[awakenerd]

[Don't worry about it, he's holding onto Shuten tightly, clinging, until the entrance of E startles him into letting go, breathless.

Don't worry you won't die from it, at least.]