The First Game

[opening_act]

Who: Calling all idols
Where: The Game Tower
When: day 2, afternoon

[ You didn't lose your phone, did you?

If you didn't and you're anywhere within range of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building-- your phone just went off loudly, with an insistent vibration. All other features of your phone have been overridden by an alert header above a map that reads:

GAME TIME.

The map displays the route to the Game Tower from your current location. You can't make phone calls, you can't play with your camera, you can't even check your profile.

Follow the map, and the doors open to the lobby, welcoming you in. ]

Comments

Re: ENDGAME

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ So guess which angry smol from Heart Soldier Senshi WITH A KNIFE missed the chance to stop her teammate from jumping off the stage and is now ANGRILY HUNTING for a way to get up to where they last saw their generous host


she doesn't know that woman was just a hologram and BOY SHE IS READY to FUCK SOMEONE UP

never mind that both of her hands are still bleeding and poorly bandaged from her blood oath LET HER AT THEM SHE IS READY ]

Re: ENDGAME

[criminaljustice]

[UM. THAT SEEMS LIKE A BAD IDEA?

ALSO A BAD IDEA: GRABBING FOR HER ARM.]

Hey.

Re: ENDGAME

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ It's fine????? It's fine, we're clearly a team capable of making good decisions, she needs to go avenge her blood brothers She's not likely to cut up the guy who's grabbing her arm, at least, but there is still FIRE in her eyes when she looks at him. ] Let me go!

Re: ENDGAME

[criminaljustice]

They're not here. You're not going to be able to get to them from here. Nine-Nine already tried at the start and went right through her.

[he knows exactly what that fire's about but also BAD END=DEAD END beating people to the punch in trying to fight the system and their hosts, it seems.]

She was just an illusion, a projection. She's not here, but your injured teammates are, so calm down.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ That was not what she wanted to hear. You know what happens when you put a house-fire out? All you've got left is a lot of water all over the place, ruining the upholstery and turning all the ash into black goop and a burnt, stinky, waterlogged house. It's not great. Likewise, although it takes her a moment (still struggling against his grip) for Hiryuu to process his words and realize there's literally nothing she can do, but once she does... ah, well. The fire's gone out and there's nothing left but a smoldering ruin. ] Please let me go. [ She's an entirely different kind of upset and if he doesn't let her go he's going to have a crying girl on his hands in approximately 3 seconds. ]

[criminaljustice]

[well, he doesn't know what to do with crying girls but uh.

letting go seems like it might be worse??? but she also asked, so he does let go, but stays close to]

/2

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ Hiryuu slides the dagger away in her belt with fingers that are trembling. The urge to cry is so strong. She hates it. She hates it!!

It might be better to leave and calm down in private but she refuses to run away and she refuses to cry, so

She

Slaps her cheeks, with both palms. DON'T YOU DARE CRY IN FRONT OF ALL OF THESE PEOPLE, HIRYUU. GET A GRIP. ]

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ that seems to help settle her considerably ALTHOUGH NOW SHE LOOKS LIKE SOMEBODY HIT BOTH HER CHEEKS. Child plz.

She takes a slightly shaky breath in through her nose and forces herseld to quash down the last of the tumult. She still kind of looks like she's ready to fite someone though..... ]

I'm sorry you had to see that.

[ does she mean the childish RAEG outburst or her tears or the slap??? All. The answer is all. ]

[criminaljustice]

It's okay. You're not wrong to feel that way.

[just... it's really more of a matter of knowing where to channel that energy because trying to attack something that's not even there won't help her at all.]

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ In all fairness, she didn't understand that hologram thing. She assumed the lady had some kind of door she disappeared into way up there and she would just have to go find her. ]

Maybe not. But I shouldn't have tried to act on it.

[ She's.... not capable of doing anything helpful here, anyway. ]