Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote in [community profile] imeeji_frontstage2018-08-09 11:47 pm

BETRAYAL AT THE HOUSE ON THE GAME TOWER - END

Who: Traitors and Survivors, Exael
Where: The Game Tower, and leaving it
When: Day 25, morning-- it appears that game lasted the bulk of day 24 into the night.

[ Abruptly, the nightmare ends.

You, in the rooms you kept restarting in, awoke. Before you can even panic, before even despair, the elevator doors were open in front of you to take you downstairs again. It could be a trap, sure, but your head is quiet— those fucking ghosts are gone. You also appear to be wet like someone dumped, perhaps, a bucket of holy water on you while you were asleep. All your wounds are gone, and you have been left bereft of any physical damage from your ordeal.

Unless you choose to take some with you. Nothing prevents you from taking any of your spoils downstairs with you, if you wish it, though all revolvers will have no ammo.

On the screens as you descend back to the lobby, Exael is clapping on screen, broadcast showing her in the mansion's entrance hall. "And so close the gates to this forbidden garden, and so closes this chapter of our story! Just as—" her hologram flickers as she doesn't seem to notice, chattering still to the cameras, "so too will—" fzzt, fzzt. Static, flickering, and then back into focus, "So give them all a hand! Everyone, you've done well! You stand before us still, ready to present us all with more marvels after having survived such grisly wonders with—" "—in the balance!"

As she speaks, she doesn't notice a figure approaching behind her. He's in a slick suit with both hands in his pockets, and you've seen him before— his portrait is in the foyer. His shoes are utterly silent as he walks across the marble floor, till he's right at her back.

"Audience and actors alike, we've been blessed with—" Her hologram doesn't flicker this time, but she stops speaking. Her eyebrows furrow as she tries to figure out what's amiss, and only belatedly begins to slowly look over her shoulder.

"Exael," he says with a friendly hand on her solidifying hologram shoulder, the effect spreading beneath his touch, "We need to have a chat about your requisitions paperwork."

She tilts her head, eyes wide with a finger tapping against her cheek as she thinks, "I didn't do any!"

"Yes," he agrees, smiling with all his teeth. "I know."

The broadcast cuts. The doors open to let you leave. ]
haktualdragon: (287)

[personal profile] haktualdragon 2018-08-12 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[there's really not much he can say there about that. a lot of shit could have happened in three rounds. he feels a bit miserable for not being there but weirdly relieved because... he would have still been trying to kill her, so...

so he lets his own arms tighten around her, also. and takes a deep breath again.]

I'm sorry...

[that she was put through that, more than anything. that nothing can really be done about it.]
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[personal profile] dragonheartedgirl 2018-08-12 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ yes, and also--a lot of nothing; 100 years worth of nothing, to be precise. ]

It's not your fault.

[ She didn't want him to be caught up with that madness any longer than he already was? If they'd met again, the way she was those two cycles--he would have surely been able to succeed in killing her. And then he'd never be able to forgive himself.

She nuzzles his head again, and she rubs circles against his back. Just shhhhhhh. ]


We're out now. That's all that matters. It's going to be okay.
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[personal profile] haktualdragon 2018-08-12 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[she's just. way better at this than he is, clearly. but he's trying his best by letting his shoulders slump again, tension bleeding out more from exhaustion than from any real calmness but y'know. close enough.]

... we're going to have to move soon. Get out of this tower.

[just. fair warning. because they can't just stay here forever. much as he might want to.]
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[personal profile] dragonheartedgirl 2018-08-12 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Why? ... Do the doors lock?

[ SHE DEFINITELY DOESN'T WANT TO BE TRAPPED HERE, ]
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[personal profile] haktualdragon 2018-08-12 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno if they do.

I just know I don't like being here if I don't have to be.

[personal profile] dragonheartedgirl 2018-08-12 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
All right.

[ She's going to make to stand up then, but, she's

SOME part of her has to touching him at least so she's basically pasted next to him. ]


I'm ready.
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[personal profile] haktualdragon 2018-08-12 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[... yeah, ok.

she's getting picked up while he works on climbing to his feet.

princess/bridal carry for the princess wearing the bridal dress.]
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[personal profile] dragonheartedgirl 2018-08-12 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ tiny, sof shriek ]

Raijuu!?

[ SHE DOESN'T REMEMBER ASKING FOR THIS? ]
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[personal profile] haktualdragon 2018-08-12 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Loud.

[but off he goes, carrying her to avante.]