Memory Time

[thepriceiswrong]

Who: Idols
Where: The Game Tower
When: Day 165

[ When you enter the Game Tower, you find yourselves in the living room of an expansive, cozy estate house. Outside the windows, it seems to be autumn—the maple trees outside are fully orange—and there's a fire burning in the large fireplace. Across from where you entered, there's a large bay window, where two people are sitting. Well, one's sitting, reading a large hardcover book, and the other is really just lounging. ]

Hi~ Welcome to our game. [says the lounging one, who is dressed in violet and white, violet-embroidered haori over white blouse and equally flower-embroidered shorts, along with a cute hat. They don’t make any move to sit up.] We’ve worked really hard to give you this opportunity to know yourselves and each other more.

...sis, you need to put down the book! I know it’s a really good book, but come on. Unless you really want me to entertain them all by myself.

[ The reading one shuts her book with a snap; she wears a red and yellow patterned kimono with a brown hakama under a dark brown shawl embroidered with lantana flowers. She sighs. ] If they can't use what we give them and make something of that on their own, they're a lost cause, Sumire.

[ And with that, each of you suddenly find yourselves remembering new things about your lives—and then a moment later, you realize you've remembered something else as well. Except it's not something that happened to you. ]

Don't let us down.

Comments

Re: TALK TO LANTANA

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

How nice of you. Giving away things for "free".

Re: TALK TO LANTANA

[thepriceiswrong]

I'm not very nice at all.

Re: TALK TO LANTANA

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Oh? Then how would you describe yourself?

Re: TALK TO LANTANA

[thepriceiswrong]

A loving sister; a self-made woman; a survivor; a lover of stories and those who write them.

[ you know. normal host things. ]

Re: TALK TO LANTANA

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

A survivor. And self-made.

Surely there must be one of those stories you love behind that.

Re: TALK TO LANTANA

[thepriceiswrong]

It's a story of a people who prayed for deliverance, and what they got instead. And how sometimes if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.

But my sibling's reserved the right to tell that story more properly, someday, so I'll respect that.

Re: TALK TO LANTANA

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Someday?

Come now. You can't introduce some new characters without a little teasing of their backstory. Otherwise how is the audience suppose to get invested?

Re: TALK TO LANTANA

[thepriceiswrong]

My sibling really doesn't like those who go back on their promises.

But I don't think it's saying too much to say that told as a fable, I suspect it would only tell you what I think you already know: that if you want something done right, you ought to do it yourself.

Re: TALK TO LANTANA

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Oh my. So the extroverted one has a betrayal backstory, how sad.

One that I noticed you did not get entangled in. Is that why you're here overseeing things now?

Re: TALK TO LANTANA

[thepriceiswrong]

My sibling hates lies, but I hate overwrought prose. Please state your ideas and question plainly.

Re: TALK TO LANTANA

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Then I'll start with my question.

What's with the influx of new hosts?

Re: TALK TO LANTANA

[thepriceiswrong]

Increased interest in the program, perhaps.