PSEUDO-UNITSWAP GAME

[opening_act]

Who: Calling all units
Where: To the game tower and back
When: Day 215, Afternoon

[ When you find yourself in the game tower elevator, Exael's hologram is stage-whispering, one hand aside her mouth as she leans in like she's sharing a secret. ]

Shhh, shhh, everyone let's not spoil the surprise! I can't wait to see them, all topsy-turvy and mixed up, and in all new cute stage outfits too! It's a challenge for all our idols, all of them given each other's scripts. Anyway, it's starting soon, so let's dim the lights and start the show!

[ And her hologram vanishes, as the elevator comes to a halt. And lets you off… in your own dorm? But something's different. Something is very different.

Your phone vibrates, and you can see your lives and aesthetic have been temporarily reassigned. ]

Comments

[puzzlers]

[ he's hovering over his shoulder. ]

It was probably random.

1/2

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That's the least exci---

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Whirls around, almost falling out of his chair]

Where did you come from?

[puzzlers]

You know it’s probably true thou-

[ blinks, snapping upright to watch him almost fall. ]

Over there? [ still hovering as he points in the other direction. ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Grumbling under his breath as he straightens his suit and tries to pretend nothing happened.]

Just as sneaky without the speed...

[puzzlers]

I wasn’t trying to be sneaky, Intensity.

[ folds his arms and moves around to intensity’s front. ]

But I can’t help that I don’t make a sound when I move now.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

. . .





[Tugs on Yugi's sleeve to see how much force is need to pull him down a few pegs]

[puzzlers]

[ ...not much at all. he weighs next to nothing and now that he's floating it makes it easier to do that. ]

H- Hey!? [ flails, wings flapping helplessly for all the good it'll do him. ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Good.

Lets him go]

Well at least you can get all the belts you want to go with your school uniform.

Just like home.

[puzzlers]

[ rights himself immediately. ]

I already had a bunch of belts. That had pretty much been my first order of business when I got here. Find a member of Bad End and stock up.

But I'm definitely not going to complain about Zrael's aesthetic, and I get the feeling you're not going to complain about being able to get a couple of suits that actually fit.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That's not the only benefit I get from being on BARiTONES.

[puzzlers]

Is it all the booze then?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Flatly:]

No.

[But that's part of it!]

[puzzlers]

[ he just kind of figured that'd be his favorite part, ok!
besides the suits, of course. ]

...

Dreamwalking?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

If you're admitting that much, then it hasn't gone away yet.

[puzzlers]

You were the one implying it, Intensity.

[ gives his wings a flap to float around him. ]

And things like that don't just go away.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

No, but I'm closer to the situation than Yvette was. And I don't play with kid gloves.

...

So think about the offer. Based on the rules of this game, it's limited time only.

[puzzlers]

...

I told King.
And managed to show him too.

But things are a little bit different now. [ kind of. ] So just what would you do?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That depends on what you mean by different.

[puzzlers]

I kind of mentioned it at one point to you, but there's another me there now.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You really need to stop doing that. Face twins is one thing, but triplets---

The gag is going to get old after a while.

[puzzlers]

I didn't do it on purpose!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

So what then?

Need me to take him out for you?

[puzzlers]

No.

He's not all bad... all the time.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

...

And you firmly believe he is an entity that exists outside of yourself? The way you're addressing this... "thing" seems to allude to that.