imeeji_frontstage | Betrayal 3: Session 22

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 | SESSION LINKS | UNIT ROOMS | MAP

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ 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. ]

Edited 2020-08-28 22:43 (UTC)

VIP Pass
A card that’ll get you pretty much anywhere. Except safety.
Gain 1 Might, 1 speed, 1 knowledge, and 1 Sanity now.
Lose 3 might, 3 Speed, 3 Knowledge, and 3 Sanity if you lose the VIP Pass.

[ rolls a 5 to stack the item deck, and then rolls another 5 to use the secret passageway ]

[ boop ]

Dynamite
The fuse isn't lit... yet.
Instead of attacking, you can throw the Dynamite through a connecting door into an adjacent room. Each explorer and monster with Might and Speed traits in that room must attempt a Speed roll:
5+: Take no damage from Dynamite.
0-4: Take 4 points of physical damage.

Garrotte
WEAPON: Thin, easily-concealed, quiet, makes a great statement necklace when you’re not strangling someone with it.
When you use it, make a Speed attack rather than a Might attack.