BETRAYAL AT THE HOUSE ON THE GAME TOWER - Session 11

[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

SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Servant's Quarters. Beds are crammed in close together, stacked in two-tall bunks set into cabinets-- capsule hotel-like. The spaces between rows are narrow and hard to navigate, labyrinthine with corners that are designed so you can't see who's coming around the next hall. It affords privacy, at those cost of peace of mind-- you can hear footsteps but now know how close they are, you know surely there must be an exit close but be unable to find it easily through the maze.

You may go North, East, South, or West. ]

[syncintohell]

[ He waits in the maze, a shovel stowed in one of the capsule hotel beds, listening for others. Last round he was treated to quite the show, but he had no attachment to most the players— you must have affection for the characters for a tragedy to truly shine.

So this time, he is staying in the basement. ]

SKELETONS

[idolpro]

Mother and child, still embracing.

Take 1 die of mental damage. The skeletons are now established to be in this room until removed.
Each character can attempt a sanity roll once, to search the Skeletons:
5+: Draw an item card. Remove the Skeletons from the room.
0-4: You dig around, but find nothing. Take 1 die of mental damage.

Re: SKELETONS

[forgottenmercy]

[Persephone is going to come into the room, and shift the white bundle he's carrying to his right arm as he briefly kneels to examine the skeletons.

result was a 5.]

SMELLING SALTS

[idolpro]

Whew, that's a lungful.

If you or another character's Knowledge is below its starting value, and you're in the same room, you can raise that trait to its starting value by using the Smelling Salts. Discard this after you use it.

Re: SMELLING SALTS

[syncintohell]

[ The sound of footsteps approaching— Shu follows the sound (the layout of the room is solid in his head as consequence of his current condition) to see— Persephone. ]

So you have come to me, just as I hoped. How good that you didn't keep me waiting longer— you have dallied long enough.

[ He approaches, not covered in blood, not visibly injured anywhere. ]

Re: SMELLING SALTS

[forgottenmercy]

[tilts head, birdlike.] I'm, ah, sorry that I took so long. [not closing the distance between them - he's letting Kuzuebiko do that.]

Re: SMELLING SALTS

[syncintohell]

[ He wraps a hand around his waist, his other hand on his shovel— steering him further away from where he entered from to parts of the basement unknown ]

You at least know to apologize for it.

Re: SMELLING SALTS

[forgottenmercy]

[and going to...go along with him, since there's nothing else he can really do.] How may I, ah, make up for my tardiness?

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[probablyhavingfun]

[Waltzes in with his gang of people in sooty (bloody?) monochrome. Oh, yeah, this place. It's kind of fun to peek into the cabinets and see if someone's there!]

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[lovestained]

Ah. Look. Look, it's a Taisho! Maybe if we break his legs their dog will come running.

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[probablyhavingfun]

[

Gives the Taisho a good long look, like he's trying to remember something.]

...Oh! Wait, that one is a nice one. It came over to visit!

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[lovestained]

...

So you don't want to hurt him?

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[probablyhavingfun]

I want to hurt the dog, I think. That one was mean.

[he remembers being unhappy at that one.]

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[lovestained]

[ welll they're leaving and now Anubis is showing up... ]

Should we follow, then? Since he's your friend.

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[ohgodno]

Now, now, what is the need for violence?

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[lovestained]

Their dog insulted the bond between me and my precious familiars. He said I treat you all like 'servants'. And then he refused to actually do anything about it. He just ran.

So I was going to kill him. That's all. Isn't that fine, God?

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[ohgodno]

"You all." Familiar? A God, your familiar? I cannot recall if I agreed to this.

[hm]

Can't killing him wait? It will be a waste of time, and truthfully, this is... a bit brute-ish? Your cold-blooded thoughts give me unpleasant chills for once.

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[lovestained]

Are you saying a god can't also be a familiar? You'll break my heart, God.

It's either him or we find an Avante. One also wants to play, and I don't think I can stop him. I definitely couldn't last time.

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[ohgodno]

[moseying along]

Thank Me that I will never have to sleep in a place as pitiful as this.

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[probablyhavingfun]

Thank you! [probably.] I like our beds more...

[peeking into one]

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[ohgodno]

I do also enjoy the footsteps that seem to come from someone but possibly no one at all.

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[probablyhavingfun]

Those are so creepy!

[he loves them.]

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[rollwillpowercheck]

[comes in from the east at a run, knife in hand, looking around desperately.]

Persephone-san--?

Re: SERVANT'S QUARTERS

[forgottenmercy]

[is leaving with Kuzuebiko.]