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

[auguryofinnocence]

...Oh.

[He flushes, not sure what to say to that. It's especially difficult because he can't exactly escape from this in any way?

Hasn't he said Glory's about the last person who would be attracted to him??? How can he be that wrong???]

Is this...teasing you? Would you rather be put down...

[rollplayinghouse]

No.

[quickly, dropping her hands enough for a sharp look up at him]

—That is... I don't mind, I'm used to it. It just... feels weird to think about that kind of stuff when you have no idea what's going on. Like I'm taking advantage of you.

If it's awkward for you, I can walk...

[auguryofinnocence]

It's...fine? I don't mind. Only...unaccustomed to the situation... But I suppose I appreciate the thought not to take advantage.

[rollplayinghouse]

Mm. Though, I've already taken advantage a lot before.

[goddammit]

[auguryofinnocence]

...Have you? Well, not in a way I noticed.

[So that probably makes it okay??]

[rollplayinghouse]

[IS THAT HOW IT WORKS???]

Yes. Like when I was painting your wings. Or my hot tub. Or that kissing game we won...

[auguryofinnocence]

[Oh..........

That's further back than he thought this was.]

...That's fine. If seems odd, mostly?

[rollplayinghouse]

What's odd about it?

[I mean. She could name some things. But.]

[auguryofinnocence]

It simply isn't something I anticipate, nor have heard before. I don't...know what I am meant to say or do.

[rollplayinghouse]

...You're not "meant to say or do" anything. It's not like anything has changed, right? It's still me. Say whatever you want.

I didn't tell you because I'm expecting anything. I didn't say anything before now because I didn't want to make things weird.

[auguryofinnocence]

No, I don't mean in expectation, only...it is awkward if I have nothing to say about it at all, isn't it?

[rollplayinghouse]

You've already said things about it? You've said you're surprised and confused and you had no idea. I mean, I figured that already, but...

[auguryofinnocence]

Well if just being surprised is enough, that suits me fine. It just seems insufficient and rude to you. Nearly anyone else and I wouldn't care or bother. You, however, do matter... I don't wish to merely dismiss or ignore you. Or seem derisive even if it is baffling to me.

[rollplayinghouse]

You're not derisive. And I already figured you aren't attracted to me that way. So what else would there be...?

[auguryofinnocence]

That's exactly it, I don't know. But if that's all in your opinion, that suits me fine.

[rollplayinghouse]

...We already have a relationship that's more important than this, so I'm not going to feel dismissed or ignored no matter what.

Though, if you do want to tell me it's hot when I try to drop a tank on you or whatever, feel free.

1/2

[auguryofinnocence]

[Well that makes him laugh!]

I tend not to think of that...although being crushed by a tank is thrilling.

[auguryofinnocence]

...I suppose for whatever it is worth...hm.

[Just, figuring out what he means to say here is hard?]

If, for example, a game were to force us to sleep together or some such thing, I wouldn't be upset? Not unlike the one we won. While if it were nearly anyone else, I would be livid about it.

[rollplayinghouse]

Ah.

[She has to think about how to react to that for a while. It seems like it shouldn't be much of a compliment, but coming from Vergil it is?]

...I would have thought you'd be upset about that no matter who it was.

[auguryofinnocence]

[Coming from Vergil it is!]

Well. I am always unhappy when my thoughts are altered, Or if they were recording something like that. But you are important to me, comfortable, trustworthy, various unique factors I think would make it more or less alright.

[rollplayinghouse]

[///]

W-Well... thank you. I hope that doesn't happen anyway, because I wouldn't like doing it if you didn't really want to.

But that does still... mean a lot.

[auguryofinnocence]

I suppose "if I had to it wouldn't be the worst" doesn't sound very complimentary. ...But I think you understand me at least, and really the point is that I trust you. That...does not come easily.

[rollplayinghouse]

...Yeah. No, I know. That's why it means a lot that you do.

And... well, you could call it physical attraction, and there's that too, but I wouldn't want to be with someone I didn't trust and wasn't comfortable with, either. That's why there aren't... that many people like that.

[auguryofinnocence]

Likewise. Nor is physical attraction any consideration to me.

[Or more like that comes after. But he's not going to go into detail here okay.]

...I suppose my point is it wouldn't be impossible but I am not going to patronise you with "maybe", and you are already far more important than that anyway.

[rollplayinghouse]

Ah.

[that's more willingness than she expected, again]

You're more important than that to me too, of course. I... love you as a brother, already. It's not something I'm asking for or that I expect from you. It's just... hard not to notice I'd enjoy it if it happened.

So... now you know that. If... a situation arises where it's relevant.