WED BED BEHEAD

[anguishallure]

Who: trauma party
Where: the game tower
When: Day 349, evening

[Today when you enter the game tower, you find yourself on what appears to be a large stage. The curtain lifts, showing you a packed house -- not with a real audience, though. The seats are full of mannequins wearing dramatic 18th century-style clothing.

Your hologram announcer today is a completely new Host, too! A tall and slender man with long dark hair, dressed equally dramatically to the mannequins including a cape and a masquerade mask, gestures broadly at all of you with sweeping theatrics.]

Welcome, our beloved idols and precious audience, to our latest foray into the twisted hearts of men! I, Grimoire of the Dark Sun Anemone, come to open a window to the chill of cruelty, the passion of loyalty, and the bloody battle between the two! Please witness with your whole black souls the beauty of love and despair!

And also, party games!

Faced with a choice between those they adore and those they abhor, our idols must now choose who to "wed", who to "bed", and who to "behead"!

--My goodness, aren't rhymes just lovely?

...Ah, yes! Now, fall into darkness and become your most beautiful, broken selves!

[Anemone pulls an oversized and incredibly stupid lever, and the floor drops out from under you -- you drop into a void, and all goes black.]

RULES ♦ ROOMS ♦ WINNERS

Comments

[1istheloneliest]

[well this is the fucking worst]

Glory! Glory...

[he's moving closer to her body despite himself]

I'm sorry.

[rollplayinghouse]

[her body is unmoving, but closer up the crystals in her chest look slick with blue-gray blood(?) and seem to be shifting (growing?) slightly.]

[1istheloneliest]

[crouching and watching in horror]

What in the hell is going on?

[rollplayinghouse]

[her eyelids flicker slightly at his voice. maybe she's not totally dead? not still totally dead?

the crystals are growing very slowly, the shifting light on slick liquid the only way to see the movement]

[1istheloneliest]

[gross! but the important part is that she's alive]

Glory, can you hear me? Hold on, I'll find someone who can start fixing you up.

[rollplayinghouse]

[it seems someone has arrived to do so.

she still seems in shock when she wakes up, though, clutching at the crystals in her chest with her left hand, her right arm hanging limp at her side, eyes unfocused and hyperventilating slightly.]

[1istheloneliest]

[at least someone came to help

he jolts in place a little when she regains consciousness but tries to keep a little composure]

Easy, easy... I know things probably feel rotten right now. Try to slow your breathing down to start.

[rollplayinghouse]

[That's at least an instruction she can follow, and she closes her eyes and takes slower, deliberate breaths, tying to get herself under control.]

[1istheloneliest]

That's it. Inhale, exhale. You're being healed but there's some aspects of your injuries I'm not totally sure about how to deal with.

[rollplayinghouse]

[takes a few more breaths before she responds, voice more even but her eyes still closed.]

You probably can't heal all of it.

[1istheloneliest]

Oh, it's like when Levity was melting...

Glory, I'm so sorry.

[rollplayinghouse]

...Don't apologize. We were talking about playing the same way on you. If we hadn't decided not to play the card at the last minute you'd be the one like this.

[1istheloneliest]

[oh]

We would, huh? Still. I know you probably weren't expecting protection from us, but if I'd had my way it would've been different.

[rollplayinghouse]

...Oh? How would you have played?

[1istheloneliest]

Honestly? I don't know anyone well on pep so I would've given them the worst of it. Taisho would've still been "wed" because of Five, but then I would've given your unit "bed". Wasn't an option though because of others' priorities.

[rollplayinghouse]

...Mm. Taisho was my top priority because of Vergil, and I figured they would be for you too. Sabre's close with pep, and she was sure they wouldn't "behead" us. I couldn't say the same for you. So... there wasn't much of a choice for us either.

[shrugs.]

Aradia really didn't want to hurt you guys, though, and playing both the behead and instead cards seemed like a bit much.

[1istheloneliest]

Right... the lack of choice is the point in the end, I guess.

It's just hard knowing on some level we did this to you. You're my friend, you matter to me.

[rollplayinghouse]

...Well, hard or not, you have to deal with it. The choices were all bad, but you made the choice. And it would be insulting to act like there's no difference between choosing us or pep.

We made our choice too. Given how it wound up, we may make a different choice next time. So I can't promise it won't be you like this, then.

[1istheloneliest]

Is that a threat or....

[he fades off and groans]

Look, I'm not trying to skirt responsibility, just trying to say that it's nothing that I wanted. This probably isn't the time though. I really just came over to make sure I didn't need to find revival and healing for you. You're obviously in a bad way so I can leave you alone if I'm making it worse.

[rollplayinghouse]

...No, it's not a threat. And I...

[...]

...appreciate you talking to me.

Just... don't stand there and say "it was hard and I feel bad, but we had no choice."

[1istheloneliest]

Fine, I'll revise. We had choices and we played for our own survival and I hate everything about it even if I have to stand by our decisions because I didn't want my unit to die.

[rollplayinghouse]

...Mm.

Thank you.