imeeji_frontstage | BETRAYAL AT THE HOUSE ON THE GAME TOWER

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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I'M GONNA KILL YOU! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!

[ Yeah, he's not terribly coherent and he's maybe crying hysterically while slashing at E with that knife, so dodging's gonna be pretty easy right now. ]

Back off!

[diving in to try and knock the knife out of his hands with the handle of his axe]

[ 3 versus a 4 means that A's block is a success! Sanguine immediately stops what he's doing to make a mad dive to get his knife back. ]

Edited 2018-08-08 05:05 (UTC)

[IS ALSO DIVING FOR THE KNIFE, AND GRABS IT WITH HER MAD SPEED!!]

[ Sanguine turns sharply to look at her. ]

Give it back, give it back!

[rolls up quickly and holds the knife up threateningly]

No.

Sanguine, that's enough!

[sure is barked like an order for all the good it does.]

[ He's ignoring Maki and her knife threat entirely, but his head whips towards Boss and he looks at him with genuine hurt in his eyes. ]

He left me, he left me he left me! He betrayed me and I have to kill him, I have to, I have to, don't you understand? You can't trust him can't trust anybody can't you can't, I have to, I have to....

[ phew, hiding behind A, breathing hard ]

I mean. I flee when people come at me with knives??

[shooting a mostly confused, only slightly suspicious look back at him]

Did something happen between the two of you?

He tried to murder me last cycle as well!

[of course, how could I ever doubt my precious brother's sanity]

People really are losing their minds...

So like, obviously I 'left' him, because I ran away.

[shooting you this look of you're not off the hook]

[ I COULD NOT HURT A FLY ]

[oh, jeez.

why are his teammates so broken?!]

I don't understand. I don't know what's going on, or why you're all trying to kill each other, but you don't have to do it.

I was trapped and I couldn't get out and I couldn't get out and I couldn't get out and it was so long, so long, so long and I got out and then it happened again and I couldn't get out and I couldn't get out and I couldn't get out and I couldn't and then again and you can't trust them, you can't trust them, you can't trust them I have to kill them so it doesn't happen again, so they don't betray me, you can't trust them you can't trust them you can't, you can't, you can't...

[ Good luck making sense of that? ]

[something about being trapped somewhere?!

but okay... okay okay time to button mash the shhh button of going over to pat his head.]

It's okay. You're not trapped anymore.

[well, they kinda always are but like.]

[ He leans into the head pats with a soft sound. ]

Don't trust them, you can't trust them, you can't trust them, you can't trust them, you can't trust them. It's for their own good, for everyone's good so they have to die, I'm going to kill him and then he can't do it again, you can't trust them, don't trust any of them. Don't, don't trust them. Don't trust them.

[ yeah I don't like how this party looks for me anymore let's see if I can't like, leave, here ]

[ IF YOU THINK I'M NOT CHASING YOU, YOU ARE SO VERY FUCKING WRONG. ]

[oh my god.]

SANGUINE!

[GODDAMNIT, CHASING AFTER.]

[ yeah I am predictably bolting to a room with mirrors in it. meet me at the dining room in 10 minutes if you want an ass kicking ]

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[Given some comments Shuten made about mirrors that actually kind of implies something. Maki shoots a look over at E and then back to them]

[ He sees her looking and he doesn't trust her either, but even a traitor that needs to die doesn't deserve that. He gives her an intent look. ]

Don't trust them.

BETRAYAL AT THE HOUSE ON THE GAME TOWER - Session 9

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