Pre-Endgame

[idolpro]

[The Elevator spills you out into the Main Tower. However, it's currently locked so you can't actually get out quite yet.

On your phones, you'll see a line stating "Results Pending". Seems you gotta wait a little longer though you might wanna check on your pals anyway!

I imagine someone is bleeding probably.]

Comments

[inspiteful]

Let me guess, someone's gonna be very dead?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Ye---

Eclipse!

[Were you in the later rounds of the game even AFTER all that?]

[inspiteful]

[ ]

Hi, Boss.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Wow.

You're almost as much a workaholic as me.

...

Almost.

[inspiteful]

I think B could give you a run for your money, but otherwise, yeah.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Everything else turn out all right? Besides the obvious.

[inspiteful]

I mean, we're alive and in one piece? Which is a change of pace.

[ Just you know we have some status effects and Hurricane is being...Hurricane... ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You didn't mention if it was a good or bad change of pace.

[inspiteful]

...Good, except for some shit that happened in the room.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Laughs. After talking with King midgame and Hurricane just now--- well, he has an idea]

Heart having problems with their heart-to-hearts?

[inspiteful]

[ Eclipse is rubbing his temples now. ]

What else is new? Hurricane is just going to fuck off for like three days again, then come back and either pretend none of this shit happened or refuse to look any of us in the eye, and possibly try to bail again if any of us try to talk to him to see what we can do.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

... All of you?

There's no one he confides in.

[inspiteful]

If there is anyone, then I wouldn't know. Or if anything actually sticks.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Looks like he's pondering something for a moment but then turns his attention back to Eclipse]

You all need to stop following in C's footsteps. He's setting a bad example.

Also. He did it first.

[Does Eclipse have the scar still on his neck? If not, the meaning should be clear enough]

[inspiteful]

[ He bought it off as soon as possible, because Spite. ]

Well, I wasn't trying to, that's for certain. I didn't need Round 2.

[ Thanks collar game. ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Thanks, collar game.

And then after a long pause]

Don't ever feel guilty about surviving. That just means that you're around to do something about it.

[inspiteful]

I don't plan on feeling guilty. I'm already one of the people who keep saying "don't die" on this unit.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Good. I'm tired of correctly predicting when you and yours are going to bite it.

For once, this game was a pleasant surprise.

[inspiteful]

To be honest, I think at least some of us are pretty sick of eating dirt too.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

...

Were you there for the castle game? The one where you could gift resources to each other.

[inspiteful]

Yeah. I was the one who argued against them trying to send all of our resources to pep, even.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Oh.

That probably didn't go over well]

And how did the others take it?

[inspiteful]

King was instantly furious, but that wasn't surprising, at least. He pretty much told us he'd pick Yugi over us before that.

Almost everyone else tried to argue with me about saving them from themselves, basically. Hiryuu even tried to suggest that maybe they had just more or less given up and lieddown to die, which -- I should have been more firm, but they didn't give me the impression of being that sort of people. Prim was the one to try and suggest a compromise by only sending some instead of all.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Pep had been suffering from survivor's guilt for weeks if not months. When I saw the score, I thought it was obvious what they were doing.

But as for Heart Soldier---

If they had to play it all over again, do you think they would make the same choices?

[inspiteful]

Well, they figured out pep was throwing themselves into the loss, they just insisted on saving them anyway. ...Cobalt and I talked about the sort of thing before and -- I figured, at least it would be their choice. If someone else died trying to 'save' them they'd just feel worse. But no, no one fucking listened, and what I said would happen ended up happening.

And...honestly, I don't know. [ he just sounds so tired. ]