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

[crossmyheartandhope]

[He does, like, immediately, getting down so fast he stumbles and has to catch himself on the wall when his legs buckle]

[It takes him a second to get it together enough to manage:]

...thanks, dude. For real, I - thanks.

[bondsofsuffering]

[Heading over to the sink to wash the... stuff off...]

Just glad to help.

[Notably. There's the chunks of stick and stone that was removed set on the table along with a purchased torso that has holes gouged out where he grabbed replacement flesh. There's a heart sitting conspicuously in one of those holes but Hurricane would probably have to look a little more closely to notice that one.]

How are you feeling?

[crossmyheartandhope]

[....yikes that sure is a whole torso]

M'doing okay. Think you got all of it.

[Surreptitiously feeling for his own heartbeat,]

[bondsofsuffering]

[....Yeeeeah. Still scrubbing at his hands.]

I got everything I could. ...The heart didn't take.

Sorry.

[crossmyheartandhope]

S'cool.

Think that was for like - turbo biting it.

[bondsofsuffering]

So everyone who lost got corruptions?

[Damn.]

[crossmyheartandhope]

Dunno.

Or everyone who like - triple lost, maybe.

[bondsofsuffering]

Yeah.

...Who were you up against?

[crossmyheartandhope]

It was us and Avante and Alcheme and LiliS.

[bondsofsuffering]

[.........Ah.

Well. He's a biased party here, so:]

Those are tough picks.

[crossmyheartandhope]

...yeah.

It was a pretty bad match-up.

[bondsofsuffering]

...I don't really have a right to say anything when I'm sure we won for shitty reasons.

I'm sorry it turned out this way, though.

[crossmyheartandhope]

It is what it is.

The people we thoguht were gonna help us out came through.

S'just - the rest didn't go great, is all.

1/2

[bondsofsuffering]

I'm sure we only won because people didn't want to outright kill the people who would be healing them later if they lost. I doubt we were anyone's real priority, and we probably just stole better cards from BAD END when people were forced between picking the people they actually care for and the only unit who can heal. So me getting unhappy about those kinds of results when we got the privilege of doing whatever we want without too many consequences-

[bondsofsuffering]

[...And a wet smack as he slaps a hand over his mouth, he did not mean to say any of that.]

[crossmyheartandhope]

[oh]

...hey. That ain't true. People care about you.

[bondsofsuffering]

[He'll just stand there like that for a little bit until he's sure he's got a handle on his own tongue again, letting the hand drop in search of a towel.]

Not so much in that group, though.

It was a really shitty game.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah.

...this was the roughest one we had in a while.

[bondsofsuffering]

Hope this doesn't mean they're going to keep upping the ante.

[But he's got his hands dry now, so:]

Anyway, don't let me keep you here. You probably want to spend time with the others, right?

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah, lemme get out from underfoot. You probly got a billion patients lined up.

[Hesitates. Then:]

...you need anything, you lemme know. Okay?

[bondsofsuffering]

Zhongli said he'd bring others by if they needed it, so it's possible.

...But I'll let you know.

[crossmyheartandhope]

...thanks, dude.

Just text me whenever, I'll be around.

[bondsofsuffering]

Mm. See you.

[crossmyheartandhope]

See you.

[Hesitates, then reaches out to give his shouder a squeeze]

[Then he heads on out to make space for people who need help still]

[bondsofsuffering]

[He looks mildly surprised, but appreciative of the gesture at least.]