BETRAYAL AT THE HOUSE ON THE GAME TOWER - Session 10

[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

FOYER

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Foyer. An extension of the entrance hall, the center of the hall is taken up by a fountain, water slopping over the sides through a grate in the floor as in waves as if displaced by some tumultuous battle. The statues in the fountain are engaged in a still-frame war, gladiatorial armies holding spears aloft with wounds that leak water to the fountain below. Watching over all this is a prominently placed painting of man. Beneath it is a plaque, no name or artist but instead are the words, "Do Unto Others."

The room itself offers no particular dangers or advantages. ]

Re: FOYER

[motorcycle_noises]

[ Oh good, there's less people here. Sanguine lets out a deep, shuddering breath. ]

Re: FOYER

[criminaljustice]

[meanwhile, already distracted--what's attention span?

frrrowning.]

Re: FOYER

[motorcycle_noises]

Is something wrong?

[ He's getting better at sentences, he thinks— for all that he didn't terribly want to get murdered by A, it feels like his head's slightly clearer. Maybe it's because he didn't spend the time between loops in a mirror this time. ]

Re: FOYER

[criminaljustice]

[meanwhile, Boss still bad at recognizing people are talking to him when he's not looking at them.

he belatedly gestures to the portrait.]

Re: FOYER

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ Sooooo Hiryuu's showing up



in a wedding dress. But aside from having clean clothes, she's still looking pretty fucked up. Is she missing both her ring fingers? Yeah. Yeah she is.

SHE'S HAGGARD BUT AT LEAST LUCID AND NOT CRYING. for the moment... ]

Re: FOYER

[bluemoonlight]

[coming up behind her quietly, looking around with mild displeasure.]

Re: FOYER

[criminaljustice]

[uh.

well, Boss seems... mostly okay? except he's not immediately reacting to the whole... fucked upness. and has a bit of dried blood on him. not as much as Sanguine whose hand he's holding, though.]

... Hiryuu?

Re: FOYER

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ I mean. she changed clothes but like. her face, hair, and large quantities of her arms and hands are just. covered in old blood. and she only seems to be half aware of it? SO I MEAN, LEGIT. ]

Boss. And Sanguine. ... I haven't seen him since....


[ god. LITERALLY SEVERAL LIFETIMES AGO, when yasuragi attacked raijuu. those were such innocent times... ]

.... It's been a long time.

Re: FOYER

[criminaljustice]

[he's trying not to just laugh but. a bit of a. strangled sound escapes him anyway.]

Yeah.

[oh wait no. he's laughing because hahaha FUNNY JOKES.]

Re: FOYER

[bluemoonlight]

[SHOWING UP WITH HIRYUU

also he hates this room.]

Re: FOYER

[criminaljustice]

[it's a shady room with a shady portrait :|a


also some shady BE=DE's standing there. hi. he is not excited to see more people.]

Re: FOYER

[bluemoonlight]

[It's a shady room he was murdered in so

he has a grudge against it

HE'S NOT TOO HAPPY TO SEE YOU EITHER BOSS.

Edging closer to Hiryuu, he doesn't trust you.]

Re: FOYER

[criminaljustice]

[yeah, well, they don't trust any of you either. and just keep to where they are.]

[unbr8kable]

[walking in from the stairway with starbucks a spear, actually]

. . .

[dragonheartedgirl]

... That's Raijuu's.

[ she. hasn't seen him in a while..... ]

[unbr8kable]

[expression goes hard immediately, grip tightening]

He's not here.

[which is probably for the best]

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ I mean. She's not making to take it. ]

Oh. .... That's good. I'm tired of playing games.

[ And she would have to punish him with a game. She doesn't want to, even though--she has to she has to she has to...

Hiryuu grips her head in her hands, which are notably lacking both their ring fingers. ]

Sorry Nemesis. I can't play with you today. I'm not well...

[criminaljustice]

[haaaas a knife himself. but doesn't seem to do much other than eye that spear.

he's got a bit of blood on him, but not a whole lot--not as much as Sanguine, anyway.]

[unbr8kable]

[she isn't brandishing it or anything, just holding it, wary]

...Guess they replaced that portrait of you?

[criminaljustice]

Not me.

[a bit. sour. but more like a pout.]

[motorcycle_noises]

[ Sanguine also has a knife and is pretty covered in blood, whoops. He's also holding onto Boss's hand. He's also eyeing the spear. ]

[unbr8kable]

[nods acknowledgement but doesn't approach]

Hey.

[motorcycle_noises]

Hey.

[ He waves with the knife.... Then realizes how that probably looks and lowers the hand. ]

Re: FOYER

[furrytailprince]

[ Oh yay, the foyer again. Also, he is gripping a large piece of broken wood and looking frustrated. ]