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

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?

[syncintohell]

There is somewhere I want you to accompany me to, and we can speak there more privately.

[ HE HEARS YOU, AZRAEL

but if there's no resistance, he is trying to take Persephone to the South, to the shores of the Underground Lake. ]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[there's a voice from elsewhere in the room. looks like he hasn't quite caught up.]

Persephone-san?!

[forgottenmercy]

...I'll, ah, come with you.


[he hears them, too. and Anubis. and will follow along.]