endgame overflow

[idolpro]

Who: You
Where: Game Tower => Hotel and everywhere in between
When: Day 155, evening

[ The last elevators have descended, and the doors finally open, with confetti popping as they do. Congratulations! Every unit receives 1100 points (win + bonus) for your fabulous performance! Isn't that just wonderful? Wasn't it all just worth it? ]

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[He approaches her from the side so that she can see him coming]

Nemesis.

[unbr8kable]

[Still seems pretty out of it as she looks up, noticing his approach. Her arm has seen better days, the casing cracked and shredded, faint purple light coming from the exposed innards. (The flesh one isn't much better; both look as those someone's gone at them with an axe or two)]

Ah-- Intensity.

[It's unlikely that just because she didn't see him die a couple times this time he didn't actually die a couple times, but one can always hope]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Her hopes would be rewarded then. Just one last-minute sanity break that he isn't even sure happened or not.

Motions to her arm]

Mind if I get that while our gracious hosts decide when they're going to let us out of this fucking room?

[unbr8kable]

[Dreams do come true!

She looks at him for a long beat, then holds out her arm some so he can take a look]

...Thanks.

Might need a more durable material...this's like three arms in a month...

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And yet I think all of them qualify as extenuating circumstances.

[Silver-blue light and that arm starts mending itself together]

But I'll see what I can do.

[unbr8kable]

I-I mean, it ain't your fault either way.

[Falls silent as cracks mend and circuits knit themselves back together]

...You and yours come out okay...?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Future is Now seems mostly unharmed except for Duality.

A much better showing on our side than last time.

...

[Even though he suspects the answer is not nearly as positive]

And you?

[unbr8kable]

Gold made it. Hurricane, too.

Good you guys didn't get trashed for once. It's about time.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

So it's just you that had an unfortunate run in with a---

[Looking at the tears in her clothing]

Whatever that was.

[unbr8kable]

Pretty sure the rest of the team had it tougher than me. Most of 'em were long gone before I even ever saw 'em.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Ah.

So then you and Gold stuck together.

No one else but Cardigan would recognize the House, would they?

[unbr8kable]

Nah, was after their time. Only us oldbies got to enjoy visiting the old stomping grounds. Was just you and Angel, right?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes.

...

It is nostalgia to say it just wasn't the same without Red?

[unbr8kable]

...Probably someone else can try disemboweling you if you really want.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Someone did.

Angel and Zephyr almost blew their head off. Is that what unit camaraderie is supposed to be about?

[unbr8kable]

Saving your skinny ass? Yes, actually.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Is that the asset of mine that you're paying attention to? Duly noted.

[unbr8kable]

[Recovers remarkably fast, though her cheeks do go a little dark]

What's there to notice? Try swapping out those dusters for Daisy Dukes and maybe you'd have something.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And crop top to go with?

And here I always thought you were an abs person. Have you been holding back on me?

[unbr8kable]

Nice abs are worthy of respect, you gotta put real work in. But if I gotta pick just one charm point, I’d have to go with legs in the end. Sorry to disappoint.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Duly noted.

I'll make sure to show some leg if I ever need your assistance.

[unbr8kable]

[Opens her mouth, and closes it, and--just shrugs, cheeks tinted a bit dark]

...It's not the only way. But it don't hurt, neither.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Laughs]

So.

On a scale of 1-10, how bad was it for you?

[unbr8kable]

...Rooms were drafty. Too many ghosts. Wine selection was okay. Two stars.

You got a better opinion?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Not really. To summarize - there was a secret passage that lead to the coal chute that dropped you into the furnace room.

Which I think is probably a metaphor to the whole House experience.

...

And yet still somehow not as bad as the previous run. Probably because everyone knows death is a cheap parlor trick by now.