Betrayal 3: Endgame Part I

[idolpro]

Who: Tired Idols
Where: The Game Tower
When: 278 Evening

[ You wake up, again, in that room—

But, if you were playing a role, it’s finally left you alone to face the world as yourself. If you look at your phone, the instructions have vanished, leaving a blank white screen, and your injuries are healed—though bloodstains, scars, and tatters might remain.

Is the game over? It seems like it must be, since the elevator is behind you, like it was when you started.

Taking it up, you find yourself deposited back into the lobby of the Game Tower, where the rest of your fellow idols start to filter in.

There’s no announcements, though…? And the doors are still locked.

You may take any items you purchased, as well as any items on your person… although guns and crossbows will not bring their ammunition along, and the strange items you picked up along the way lose any supernatural properties.

And now you wait. ]

Comments

[forgottenmercy]

[sitting against a nearby wall, dress bloodstained, and looks up at him.]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

...

[Looks at the blood]

Yours or not?

[forgottenmercy]

It is, ah, mine, yes.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

... Who did you let get the drop on you, Maiden?

[forgottenmercy]

[shakes head] Lancelot, ah, tried to shoot Susanoo.

So I, ah, threw myself in the way, to protect him.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

... Why? Is he another unrequited lover?

[forgottenmercy]

I, ah, do not know.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Do you know if the two of them even know each other?

[forgottenmercy]

I don't, ah, think so.

...I think it was, ah, because he didn't want him there with Eclipse and I.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Is that what you wanted then? An acceptable outcome?

[forgottenmercy]

...I, ah, wanted Susanoo to live. And to not, ah, pay for my mistake in not sending him away.

Ah, so...

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I'm feeling a lot of unnecessary guilt here. Weird. Where could it be coming from?

[forgottenmercy]

Well, it, ah, worked. He, ah, lived.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I still don't see how it was your initial mistake.

[forgottenmercy]

I thought it would be, ah, safer for Susanoo to stay with me, even with Lancelot's...jealousy...in there. That I could keep Lancelot calm with sufficient attention paid to him, especially with Eclipse there as well.

[because it's worked for him before in Creation.]

I was, ah, wrong.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Next time just stuff Lancelot in a broom closet.

[forgottenmercy]

I will, ah, keep that in mind for if I see a broom closet.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Or any room will do.

There's a locked room, isn't there? How smart can he be?

[Sorry, Lancelot]

[forgottenmercy]

I will, ah, keep that in mind...

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Good.




Was that the worst of it then?

[forgottenmercy]

That, ah, was, yes. And I was, ah, fortunate in that.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Very from the looks of things.

[Slightly gesturing to the crowd of people around them]

[forgottenmercy]

[just shakes his head and sighs] How did, ah, yours go?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Continued here]