imeeji_frontstage | Memory Time

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.

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You know the options that come with graduation, rii~ght?

Yeah. Hell or heaven.

...you didn't wanna go home?

Not really, no~

Musta been rough, if this was the better option.

I wanted something badly enough to pay the price for it. And so here I am.

The wish, then.

Yeah. Part of it, anyway.

What was the other part?

That's a litt~le personal given that we just met, but I'll give you a hint anyway. Belief in a cause is a strong motivator~

...huh. Okay.

[He hesitates a second. Then:]

I'm not gonna ask you about the wish, cause that's, like. Super personal. But did they come through? Like... is what you asked for what you got?

Yes.

And for that, the price was more than worth paying.

They don't monkey's paw it or nothing?

No~

I got exactly what I wished for.

For real?

They don't, like... make you say that or nothing?

Nope!

And I really don't like lies, too.

How come?

I want people to be better. Lies don't help you grow.

Kinda depends on the lie, doesn't it?

And what comforting lie can help you grow?

"I can do it"?

...least, sometimes it's enough to get you back up to give it another shot.

And what happens when that reservoir of borrowed strength runs out?

Find something else, I guess.

...when I was little, we went to the beach once. And I built a little house out of driftwood on the sand. And then it washed away, and I cried. Sister told me something that day that I never forgot.

What'd she say?

You can't build a foundation on sand and expect it to stay.

It's the same thing for everything. Houses, people...

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