Betrayal Session 16

[idolpro]

Who: You lot
When: To be inserted into the timeline after completion
What: Betrayal at the House on the Game Tower

[ The game starts with you in elevators, the doors jammed shut. You can keep an eye on the city further and further below you, but there's no introduction to today's game.

It's just as well. Those of you who recognize it need no introduction to it. Those of you who don't couldn't be prepared by any host's opening spiel, anyway.

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 a room.

Hopefully, with not too much time missing. ]

Comments

GRAND STAIRCASE

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Grand Staircase. An opulent staircase, it curves an elegant line to the upper landing, out of sight above. The dark mahogany of the flooring almost hides the rust blotches and trail, where it looks like something bloody was dragged unwilling up them, leaving desperate scratches in the wood. The landing below has a dark splotch where the blood starts at the bottom, where an altercation must have started in full-view of the front hall.

There is one entrance to the south, and one that leads to the second floor landing above.

The room itself offers no particular dangers or advantages. ]

Re: GRAND STAIRCASE

[worthathousand]

[ She sets Wednesday down, relief open upon her face. ]

Just let them try to take you.

Re: GRAND STAIRCASE

[wonderlandgirl]

I'm sorry, Amaranth-san... you didn't have to do that. I mean, pick me up.

Re: GRAND STAIRCASE

[worthathousand]

Everyone in this place keeps wanting me to prove it. Prove that I can defend what's mine.

As if I'd ever let that happen again.
No matter what, I won't let them hurt you.

[ leaning towards her a touch ] Never again.

Re: GRAND STAIRCASE

[wonderlandgirl]

[Honestly?

[Wednesday is broken enough that she'll take it. The suddenness, the intensity of it - none of that registers. She's just tired of being hurt, tired of being scared. Tired of running and running and - and killing, and trying to kill...]

A-Amaranth-san...

[She warps her arms about the woman's neck.

[She lets herself cry.]

Re: GRAND STAIRCASE

[worthathousand]

[ And she holds her, close and warm, smelling of blood and petrichor. ]

Shhh. Nothing will be taken from us. Nothing we can't take back.

[ With that, she pulls back a bit, and takes something out of the pocket of her wrap: a pouch of seeds. She passes one to Wednesday: its one thorned end sharp as any stake. It has a red, bioluminescent glow that pulses warmly in one's hand. ]

We'll grow it back.

Re: GRAND STAIRCASE

[wonderlandgirl]

We will...?

[She gazes at Amaranth and then, wonderingly, at the seed in her hand.]

Thank you, Amaranth-san... but, what is this?

Re: GRAND STAIRCASE

[worthathousand]

[ She rises to her feet and offers Wednesday her hand, though she makes no move to take the seed back. There are more where that came from, after all.

And it is right for one of her children to have that power, isn't it? ]

It's what is left, from before.
And if anyone tries to hurt us, I'll show you how to use it.

[ With that, she'll guide them into the FOYER. ]

Re: GRAND STAIRCASE

[idolpro]

go to the foyer in the next hour and a half for an ass-kicking

Re: GRAND STAIRCASE

[mind_blown]

[gonna pass here]