Betrayal 3: Traitor Only Session

[idolpro]

Who: You lot
When: To be inserted into the timeline after completion
What: A Certain Game

[ You are in an elevator, and it is not ascending into the Game Tower, no. This time, it's taking you down. You can feel it in the pit of your stomach, watch through the glass chassis as stone scrolls up and away and all around you becomes darkness.

And then, a screen flickers on. A bright, cheerful woman with fluffy pigtails waves at you with one hand, a brightly colored plastic crazy straw that's been speared through a few mango chunks in her other. Exael winks and speaks to the camera.

"And with summer comes what we all look forward to~ Summer Break! It's time to get away from hot stuffy Tokyo, and get away from it all! And so, everyone, we've brought your faa~avorite idols home here to you! In one of our very special hotels, for a very special game! Clasp your hands in prayer, hope real hard, and maybe you'll get a front row seat to their presence in the Hotel Omphalos!"

"May this show grant you Mirth, because soon starts—"

The broadcast cuts out.

The light does not return, as the elevator doors open. Instead, color so bright it can't be drowned out by the darkness spills in, and erodes the car away. You are left standing in an unfamiliar Hotel, and the game is just beginning. ]

INSTRUCTIONS | NAVIGATION | MAP

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INSTRUCTIONS & TURN-IN

[idolpro]

INSTRUCTIONS

[idolpro]

• This is the Traitor Only session; your character knows this. When someone turns traitor, they can enter this "off-season" session.
  
• Every time your character dies, either to the hotel or to another player, they reset back in their starting room, with their stats reset. Please use these headers for starting rooms.
  
• Character stat sheets and items reset. You may not take any items from the Traitor Only session to any of the main sessions. You may not take items from any of the main sessions to the Traitor Only session.
  
• Locations with items/events have the items/events generator linked UNLESS THEY DON'T BECAUSE I'M A FOOL. Roll when appropriate. All rooms are based off of life—if your character dies, that "run" is essentially over and they start over again and they can collect items/stats again.
  
• Feel free to comment whenever your character has died! We'll be closing turn-in when the game ends but you can keep threading if you want.

This session's stat sheets - Remember! You START WITH FRESH STATS and every time you die your stats reset! You also START WITH NO ITEMS and NO ITEMS CAN BE TAKEN OUT OF THE TRAITORZONE

NAVIGATION

[idolpro]

TOP FLOOR
Landing | Plastic Surgeon | Presidential Suite | Honeymoon Suite | Spa | Conservatory | VIP Lounge* | Cinema | Bird's Eye View Room

THIRD FLOOR
Landing | Bathroom | Wedding Chapel | Dispensary | Balcony | Hotel Room | Karaoke | Hotel Room (Secret Passage)* | Menagerie | Game Show Studio | Adventure Experience

SECOND FLOOR
Landing | Locked Room | Roulette Room | Prop Room* | Photoshoot Studio | Hall of Fame | Staff Supply Room | Boutique | Installation Art | Restaurant | Aquarium | VR Experience

FIRST FLOOR
Landing | Stage | Mosh Pit | Gift Shop | ATMS & Gashapon | Casino (Slots) | Lobby | Break Room* | Kitchen | Buffet | Document Expiry Chute | Bar

BASEMENT
Landing | Monster Room | Nightclub | Lost & Found | Revitalization Treatment Center | Capsule Hotel | Laundry* | Fortune Teller | Pool | Document Expiry

SECRET PASSAGES (DENOTED WITH *)
Laundry | Break Room | Prop Room | Hotel Room (Secret Passage) | VIP Lounge

STARTING ROOMS
LiliS
sensitIV
pep!pep!
Taisho Roman Revolution
BAD END=DEAD END
future is now
WILD CITY
☆ZRAEL
Heart Soldier Senshi
AlcheME!
avante en garde
BARiTONES

BASEMENT LANDING

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Basement Landing. It’s clean and well-kept, like someone scrubs it down once… or twice… or five times a day, although some clubgoer has very recently scrawled some lovey-dovey graffiti onto the brilliant tile in neon sharpie. The scent of bleach is strong here, and it’s nauseating as chemical cleaners always are. Underground the area isn’t well ventilated. There’s nowhere for that scent to escape to and you’ve been trapped down here with it. Signs advertise the various businesses to be found—a nightclub, a fortune-teller, some kind of “revitalization treatment” service?

There is, for whatever reason, also the acrid smell of… paper burning? It’s strong, but under the chemicals it takes a second for you to notice.

You may go North, South, West, or to the landing of any other floor.

Elevator buttons:
BASEMENT | GROUND FLOOR | SECOND FLOOR | THIRD FLOOR | TOP FLOOR ]

Re: BASEMENT LANDING

[firststone]

[ north to the laundry ]

MONSTER ROOM

[idolpro]

[ You enter a dark room… here, the music from the club fades away to just an distant, vibrating beat that you can feel in your bones.

It smells… strange in here. Like old blood, or meat.

And then you see it in the dark—the glow of two predatory eyes, watching you. You can’t even see the exit anymore—

When exiting, you must attempt a Speed roll of +3. If you fail, lose 1 Might.

This is a dead end; you may return South. ]

Re: MONSTER ROOM

[beautifulend]

[ they hate it in this room.

but they're still here, anyway. sitting on the floor, with a newly clawed hand held out in the direction of the monster. as awful as this room is, at least they have companionship here. a kinship not marred by all those complexities that exist between people. just a monster staring down a monster, with no light or life to interrupt.

it's only a moment's reprieve, but here in the darkness, they can forget about their duty. ]

Mm. You want to be free too, don't you? Maybe...

[ they mess with the of dynamite in their lap with their hand. maybe. maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe ]

NIGHTCLUB

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Nightclub. The room is dark, lit by roving colorful spotlights in hypnotic patterns and occasional strobe effects. The darkness, how crowded it is, and the relentless beat of the music almost make it feel claustrophobic, but there’s also an electric, alluring sort of energy running through the whole place.

The DJ, across the dance floor, wears an ornate masquerade mask that feels like it should be in some metallic filigree but is instead done in neon purple. Or was it orange? Every time you look back, the room seems to shift and swirl around you, too…

You may go North, or East. ]

Re: NIGHTCLUB

[beautifulend]

[ north ]

LOST & FOUND

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Lost & Found. It’s… incredibly cluttered in here, with all kinds of items—missing purses, wallets (empty), weapons… abandoned clothing items? Some people have clearly been having a wild time if they lost this stuff.

The attendant looks pretty bored, and keeps glancing toward the West corridor in a longing sort of way, so basically this is all free stuff, right?

You may go East, South, or West. ]

Re: LOST & FOUND

[firststone]

[ east to the basement landing ]

REVITALIZATION TREATMENT CENTER (TAISHO ROMAN REVOLUTION START)

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Revitalization Treatment Center. It has a clean, well-appointed lobby with comfortable plush couches and bright, natural lighting, and someone who greets you cheerfully when you come in, although apparently there’s a very long wait list for anyone who isn’t a VIP.

On the coffee tables scattered around are binders… each full of slipcovered profiles of young, beautiful people and their credentials and blood types. What kind of spa are they running here?

Once per life, you can try this treatment and gain 1 physical trait.

This is a dead end; you may return North. ]

Re: REVITALIZATION TREATMENT CENTER (TAISHO ROMAN REVOLUTION START)

[firststone]

[ +1 speed and glowing skin.

north to the lost and found ]

CAPSULE HOTEL (BAD END=DEAD END START)

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Capsule Hotel area. Cold cyan streaks through claustrophobic hallways, narrow enough two people couldn’t pass each other without turning sideways. Every last bit of space that could be used as a hotel pod has been. There is no world in which this layout would pass muster with the fire department. But for some the risks are worth taking: on the roulette wheel, on the slots, and with your own safety.

The capsules themselves are sparse. Some have shut the plexiglass sides to their units, and you can see dark shapes moving or still from within. In Tokyo-D, it’s difficult to tell if that’s a privacy effect of the glass, or if that’s all the people inside look like. Some heads turn to follow you as you pass-- and some pods that were open slam shut, wanting no part in the violence you’re sure to be wreaking or have wrought against you.

The halls, labyrinthine, wind back around to take you to where you started from: this is a dead end. You may return to the South. ]

LAUNDRY*

[idolpro]

[ You enter the laundry room. The floor tremors, shaking in a perpetual earthquake with all the machines rattling. Inside machines clothes tumble and shine, sequins and cheap polyester shines and reflects, tossed in with sheets that under the perpetual ultraviolet of Liar Hell tell a history that any hotel would prefer to hide. Cabinets full of chemicals hang above the rolling drums of the machinery, to hide or in the worst case dissolve away the worst of the patron’s sins. The rumble jostles them, and some bottles precariously teeter at the edge. Some bottles have already spilled on the floor, hardly improving the experience of walking through a room already always in motion.

Near the exits are stacks of freshly pressed hotel staff uniforms, each with a matching set of perfect, spotless gloves. Besides them, a grate to a wall incinerator.

You may go North, East, or South. ]

Re: LAUNDRY*

[firststone]

[ east to the pool ]

FORTUNE TELLER

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Fortune-Telling booth. In contrast to the rest of this building, it’s dark here, lit in shades of dark purple from the heavy curtains surrounding the room… but no less ostentatious, with many sparkling crystals hanging from the ceiling, jingling lightly as you enter, and a table littered with the implements of fortune-telling—tarot cards, a crystal ball, divination runes.

The Oracle will do a reading for you just once, her milky eyes staring through you into the future. She uses none of her instruments, merely traces your face and features with her soft hands and renders unto you a vision that contains knowledge, if you're unlucky, or words that give you peace, if you are.

Once per life, gain one point in a mental trait here.

You may go North or East. ]

Re: FORTUNE TELLER

[firststone]

[ thanks nice lady for the +1 knowledge

backtracking and then heading up to the third floor landing ]

POOL

[idolpro]

[ You enter the pool deck. Underground, the pool takes advantage of its location, walls sculpted more than built to emulate a cavern underground. It’s undeniably beautiful, but aesthetic concerns have come far before safety. The ground outside the pool is uneven, and from patches of slick reflective rock, stalagmite spires jutt out less as handholds and more as hazards. And, in the deep diving end of the pool, you can’t see beneath the surface: the only lights in this area are blue pinpricks, atmospheric but not luminous.

You’re safer crossing this area in the pool, than on land. Once per life, gain 1 Speed by training here.

This is a dead end. You may exit to the West. ]

Re: POOL

[firststone]

[ floating around on her back counts as training right

then wandering off to the fortune teller ]

DOCUMENT EXPIRY

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Document Expiry room and are immediately hit with shreds of paper flying everywhere. Paper is, in fact, raining down from above, shredded to pieces by the many, many criss-crossed cutting blades lining the room. You’re in a room-sized paper-shredder. Who could possibly need to destroy these many documents?

There’s not that much time to wonder, though, because they’re not really discriminatory about what they cut. If this is your character’s first time in this room for this life, take 1 point of physical damage.

You can only hurry in one direction: West. ]

GROUND FLOOR LANDING

[idolpro]

[ You enter the staircase landing. A small, utilitarian staircase heads down to the basement level, while the stairway up to the second floor is a grand, sweeping affair with deep blue carpet and perfectly polished, shining silver banisters.

You may go South, up to the upper floors, or down to the basement.

Elevator buttons:
BASEMENT | GROUND FLOOR | SECOND FLOOR | THIRD FLOOR | TOP FLOOR ]

Re: GROUND FLOOR LANDING

[temperedinpride]

[Up]

STAGE (ALCHEME! START)

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Stage, a luxurious affair with a blue velvet curtain backdrop, an orchestra pit, a standing area, and then a whole box seating area with flying buttresses and an honestly breathtaking ceiling mural of heaven upon the clouds. All the fixtures are polished to sparkling, and despite the traditional stylings, it's lit by a number of modern fixtures that make the room feel like it's sparkling.

It's easy to feel drawn to the very center of the stage. It's where you belong, isn't it? The focal point of all eyes, all attention, all love—the hero's spot. You'd just have to ignore the faded, reddish stain on the wood.

This is a dead end; you may only return East. ]

Re: STAGE (ALCHEME! START)

[firstworldproblem]

[A stage will have to do for them seeing as the house doesn't supply floating boss platforms with purple haze. Step it up, Imeeji!

Someone has put a nice throne right in the center of the stage, lounging up on it with both legs kicked over one arm of the throne. He's got a gun at his hip and a longsword of some type across his lap.

The longsword's duplicate is on the floor right as Thancred enters the room. A gift! A gift with the intent to trip, you know, like the good buddy he is is. For those who almost exceeded his expectations and he was thinking of giving patronage to.]

MOSH PIT

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Mosh Pit. The music here thuds loud and bone-shaking, and the crowd is loving it—fists and elbows and red solo cups flying everywhere. You could get trampled in here, if you're not careful, and it seems like some people already have, from the smudges of blood you see on clothes and alarming sticky pools on the floor. It doesn't dampen anyone's enthusiasm, though—it's all part of the party! The more intense the time, the more you feel alive, right?

Filled with the silhouette damned. You can hear their chatter but it’s difficult to move through the crowd. Add 1 to the results of Knowledge rolls here, and subtract 1 from the results of speed rolls here (minimum 0).

You may go East, South, or West from here. ]

Re: MOSH PIT

[wonderlandgirl]

[AAA GET ME OUT OF HERE.

[SOUTH.]

GIFT SHOP

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Gift Shop! It's a colorful room jam-packed with so many kinds of commemorative merchandise that you can barely find the register. Want a sweatshirt with the Grand Delphi logo on it, or a snowglobe with the casino/hotel in it? Shot glasses? Tabloids? Blind boxes of your favorite Imeeji idols? (Season 1 and Season 2 series available; Season 3 series in production now.)

Everything is priced a hundred points above regular points shop prices, although the cashier whispers that she'll give you a 50-point discount for a lock of your hair or a thumbprint in blood—she's a big fan!

Once per life, you can browse the merchandise and magazines and gain 1 knowledge.

This is a dead end; you may only return North. ]

Re: GIFT SHOP

[wonderlandgirl]

[SEE I TOLD YOU MAGAZINES WERE INFORMATIVE.

[+1 knowledge]

ATMS & GASHAPON (PEP!PEP! START)

[idolpro]

[ A quiet, largely-empty and slightly musty hallway but for a handful of ATMs lined up next to a row of Imeeji Idol Productions gashapon machines that dispense stickers, photocards, and low-budget figurines of random idols. There's a promise of some special seasonal SSR figures that are… hm. Bloodstained, murderous, with missing limbs and eyes. That sure is a theme. Only 50 points a play!

This is a dead end; you can only return East. ]

Re: ATMS & GASHAPON (PEP!PEP! START)

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Glances around to make sure nobody's coming in with a knife or something]

[Surely there's a minute or two for gacha...]

CASINO

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Casino. The rich-carpeted room houses row upon row of slot machines with colorful screens and glittery fixtures, each one playing an infectious tune. Soon, you find yourself stepping to the rhythm of the chiptune-esque music, then your head nodding in time, and then your arms, and it seems like the obvious next step in the dance is to join the many, many players at a machine in pulling the handle again and again and aga—

Oh, but you're here for something else, aren't you? You definitely are. Good thing you remembered.

If you wish to play the slots, roll 1d999. every time you get digits in a row (like 666 or 555) you get back x[that digit] of cash, e.g. if you put in 1 monies and roll 444 then you gets 4 monies back.

You may go North, East, South or West. ]

Re: CASINO

[temperedinpride]

[North.]

LOBBY

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Lobby, with its sparkling, gold-and-white tiled floor and hanging draped blue banners. At the front, attendants direct you further into the building—perhaps you're here for a casino weekend, or to stay in the hotel? The pool's open! Wouldn't you like to take in a show? They smile pearly white smiles at you.

Though they're quick to mention that you really shouldn't try to leave out the front doors right now—after all, the filming, remember? Though they're quick to mention that you really shouldn't try to leave out the front doors right now—after all, the filming, remember? Besides, the entrance to the street is visible, but impassible: some hell magic loops you back into the building just as you left, and this magic affects only you and your fellow idols. Demons and people in black and white pass in and out, the street outside is visible and almost taunts you with its closeness.

You may go North from here. ]

BREAK ROOM*

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Break Room. It's a plain room with a little kitchenette and a carafe full of slightly burnt coffee. The only decorations in this room are a bunch of event and entertainment posters—many of them featuring exciting moments from the Imeeji Idol Productions channel, commemorating famous games!

There's a strangely large number of sharp cooking knives in here, considering it doesn't even have a stove. You may go South, or West.

There is a secret passage here. ]

Re: BREAK ROOM*

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Running in and grabbing a knife, thanks]

KITCHEN

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Kitchen. And oh, does it smell heavenly. They’re in the middle of setting up some truly impressive chocolate sculptures, putting together trays of pastry swans, plating some very tiny but heartbreakingly beautiful dishes. Every prep station on each long stainless-steel countertop is meticulously kept, with its own set of colorful utensils, like a rainbow.

Strangely, even though all the surfaces are kept well-polished, you never quite see yourself in any of the surfaces… it’s like looking into a kaleidoscope, or at a you that’s just a little different. Maybe just a little better.

You may go North, or South. ]

Re: KITCHEN

[420blazeit]

[ she’s just been wandering around through the rooms she usually frequents to bolster her strength and find something to defend herself, and while the kitchen doesn’t offer much beyond a butcher knife or a steak knife she does stop to break off a piece of the sculpture to munch on. ]

Meh, I’ve had better...

BUFFET

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Buffet. The decor here is a little dated—maybe next in line for renovations—but definitely cheerful, with a bright-colored geometric carpet pattern that kind of hurts to look at. At one end of this long, noisy room is a long table lined with dishes in polished metal covers, warm and ready for serving onto the stack of freshly-washed plates at one end. A helpful sign directs patrons looking for a “private dining experience” to check upstairs, but honestly, this place seems pretty good.

It’s crowded, here, though, and it’s a little hard not to feel like you’re being watched. You can almost feel like whispers follow you wherever you go… but can’t quite make out what they’re saying.

You may go North, East, South, or West. ]

Re: BUFFET

[temperedinpride]

[West.]

DOCUMENT EXPIRY CHUTE

[idolpro]

[ When you enter this room you realize that you’ve made… a mistake, probably, because suddenly you’re falling, amid reams and reams of redacted papers, into a metal chute toward the sound of whirring—

Move to DOCUMENT EXPIRY in the Basement. ]

BAR (BARITONES START)

[idolpro]

[ You enter the Bar. It’s surprisingly quiet, here, with muted, upbeat jazz playing from speakers tucked away somewhere, and a bar long enough to give you some space. Curtained booths are set against the back wall for quiet dining or clandestine meetings. The specials menu gives a full array of… poison-themed cocktails?

At the other end of the room, a single spotlight shines on a raised stage, with a microphone, almost as if waiting for a show to begin.

This is a dead end; you can only return West. ]

Re: BAR (BARITONES START)

[temperedinpride]

[Ugh. West then.]

SECOND FLOOR LANDING

[idolpro]

[ You arrive on the Second Floor Landing. The floor here is immaculately polished—glass, in fact, so that you can see through to the bustling Casino floor below. It makes you feel a little exposed, though…

You can go West or South, from here, as well as down to the lower floors or up to the upper floors.

Elevator buttons:
BASEMENT | GROUND FLOOR | SECOND FLOOR | THIRD FLOOR | TOP FLOOR ]

Re: SECOND FLOOR LANDING

[temperedinpride]

[South]