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BETRAYAL AT THE HOUSE ON THE GAME TOWER - Session 11

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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Yeah, but you're alone, and they're all together.

[NVM that he's pretty sure E is gonna eat shit with that many BE=DEs. Whatever he'll be fine.

H is more focused on swinging that pan at Hiryuu's gut now that she's gone and noticed.]

So I'd rather meet you first.

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[ She hastily scrambles to the side and the hell out of the way of that pan--and unfortunately further back into the room and away from an escape route. ]

This is your idea of appropriate behavior when meeting? No wonder Phoenix tied you up. You're even less charming than I first took you for.

[ so you know. negative charming. negative lovable. you might be the one with the fry pan, H, but she's the one cooking with FIRE ]

I think I'm amazingly charming. If you disagree, that's just all the more reason you need to suffer a little.

[He's staying between her and the door, approaching slowly with pan at the ready.]

But I won't hurt you, if you just sit down and hold still for a minute.

[ dryly, ]

You'll forgive me if I have difficulty believing you mean me no harm after you struck first.

[ She edges a little further backward. Her options are to either try to bolt over the bed or hide herself in the closet. Neither choice is very good. ]

Just what do you wish for me to sit on the floor for?

To take a breather.

[He shrugs, lowering the pot and endeavoring to look good-natured (it's not working).]

Sorry about attacking you, but I really don't want to hurt you. I just want you to stay in here with me.

You want me to stay with you.

[ and the frying pan. looking. back and forth between the pan and his trying-to-look-trustworthy-face. ]

.....

There are people that I still want to meet, however... I suppose I could indulge your request, were you to agree to play a game with me.

Sure.

[He saw what happened last time someone played a game with you! Buuut maybe he can get this in his favor.]

Sit down with me, and I'll give it a go.

[ His insistence upon her sitting down! Is! Alarming! What the hell does he want her to sit for. Because it's harder to run from that position? If only she had her sword, just in case.

She also wants to make this work in her favor, and preferably without being beaten with that frying pan. so. ]

... If you can beat me at a staring contest, I'll do whatever you want, willingly. Sitting down, staying with you--I'll even kiss you, if that's what you'd like. What do you say?

Hmmm...

[Thiiinking about it as he approaches again.]

Afraid I'm not a fan of those terms. I saw what happened to the last guy you did that to.

[ stepping baaaaack fuck ]

Why not? I saved him.

[ she is. like triply certain of it, now that she has been SHOT, STABBED, had her THROAT TORN OUT aaannddd it looks like she's about to be blungeoned with that frying pan. ]

It's lonely in this place, isn't it? And sad. And everyone tries to hurt you. I can save you, too, H, even if you aren't one of my people. I can still show you that mercy.

You want to save me?

[Hahaha! As if that's even possible. H laughs, twirling the pot a bit as if it's some kind of badly weighted baton.]

The only way you can do that is by quietly allowing me to keep you here. I really won't hurt you, if you do.

[ yeah, naw, that's not happening. aside from not trusting him when he keeps toying with the fry pan like that, raijuu said he was going to come for her. And she hasn't seen shuten again, either, if he's still here. and if she has to go down by someone's hands--she'd rather it be one of theirs.

She suddenly leaps sideways, trying to clambor over the unmade bed to get to the doorway. ]

[Oh no! He doesn't want her to escape, so rather than chasing her he just sprints to beat her to the door, slamming it and leaning back against it.]

Not a chance!

[ shiiiiit. will trying to boss him around work?

there's actually a. well. oKAY, there is an angry, indignant ghost's vehemence to draw upon, as well as her own anger and fear. So. HEY, she actually comes off very stern as she reaches forward and grabs hold of the front of his shirt. ]

You curr. How dare you attempt to cage a dragon. Get down on your knees and beg for forgiveness!

[ too bad she is in a wedding dress (covered in blood) and entirely unarmed; otherwise, she might actually leave a proper impression. ]

[That is pretty impressive. Unfortunately H, the real H behind the ghost, even though he can't remember why, has a serious problem with authority figures. So it just pisses him off.]

Don't you tell me what to do!

[He's coming in swinging with that pan again now, this time a lot more aggressively.]

[ The blow catches her squarely in her side, underneath her rib cage, and knocks the air right out of her body. She doesn't fall completely over, however, her grip on his shirt remaining tight even as her knees falter and she sags at the waist. ]

[That's good enough. He'll push her, to fall down to the floor with her and try to pin her shoulders -- though that means tossing the pan away, just in case she could take it from him.]

Go down.

No!

[ She doesn't know what he wants her on the ground for but

it can't be anything good? Definitely not anything good. SHE'S CRYING AGAIN, but she's still struggling hard to get away from/out from underneath him, but like. IT'S REAL HARD; even though his mass isn't as solidly muscular as Raijuu's is, he's still almost about as tall and probably not wimpy.

if that doesn't work, she's pretty much screwed; she fell sideways, so it's not like she can really kick or even hit at him, aside from trying to jab an elbow at his chest ]

[He's definitely not wimpy, and that's a real shame! 'Cause he's pushing her down onto the floor, and she's sinking in.]

Don't cry. You're not going to die. You'll just... sit awhile. I'll keep you, forever, alone.

[ Fuck you, she'll cry if she wants to!! By which I mean she's crying harder. And. Well. DEEP DOWN SOME PART OF HER, A HALF-CONSCIOUS PART OF HER, IS REALLY AND TRULY SAD. because when this is all over-- ]

You will have to live with this. You will have to live with all of this, forever.

[ But she is also ANGRY and STILL DEFIANT even as she's sinking into the mirror. She may have lost, but she won't let him have the last word. ]

Don't think that you will simply get away with this. You cannot hold a dragon forever. I will outlast you.

[ She may be crazy as a honey badger on PCP, but the ONE GOOD THING that this spirit may have granted her is more stubborn determination. SHE HAS PEOPLE WHO LOVE HER, AND THEY WILL COME FOR HER. AND THEN THEY WILL COME FOR YOU, JUST YOU WATCH!

and then i guess she's getting swallowed up by the mirror. go to jail, do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars ]

Edited 2018-08-10 05:23 (UTC)

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