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[ghostofissues]

Who: ~idols~
Where: the game tower
When: day 40, early afternoon

[ the game tower elevators are marked with unit names again, which might have started being ominous at this point. once everyone's filed in and the doors close behind you, the rules pop up on your phones, and Mukuro's face pops up on the screen, waving his arms. as always, it's a close-up shot that shows just his upper torso, and his kimono is pulled snugly closed over his chest. ]

Welcome back, everyone~! For today's program, we've invited back the new and ever-popular amnesia-roman generation of ImePro idols! This is a "starter game" for the just-debuted unit pep!pep!, so please cheer for them extra loud, from the bo~ttom of your hearts ♥!

To give them a gentle intro, the rules this time are very simple! Just poison others and don't get poisoned!

[ the screen flicks off, and the elevators shudder to a stop and let you out into your rooms. ]

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[criminaljustice]

[LOOKING FOR ALCHEME AND TAISHO]

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[artisticliberty]

[i am a taisho and i am fine, though clearly perturbed]

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[criminaljustice]

Fox!

[going up to]

Fox, you guys okay?

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[artisticliberty]

--Boss. I was going to ask you the same thing.

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[criminaljustice]

We got antidotes. Two of them.

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[artisticliberty]

We sent you one. We also received an antidote for the poison, but... Maki drank them, and she may not be feeling well.

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[criminaljustice]

[goddamn it]

W-we sent the antidote.

[fucking Wild City and 'Zrael...]

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[artisticliberty]

Thank you. We had hoped for that, but according to the others, it was a bit of a gamble. I did not understand...

[he shakes his head]

She drank both, but the antidote only did so much.

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[criminaljustice]

A gamble?

[and ugh. of course it was only partially effective. fucking Mukuro.]

... that part's not so surprising. Mukuro's not a generous host.

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[artisticliberty]

Because of something Yasuragi did, supposedly. He assumed we would be poisoned for it, and said he should be the one to drink the poison, but we all objected. I could not--I cannot see how anyone would deserve to be poisoned. I do not understand it.

Maki says she's alright, but I am concerned.

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[criminaljustice]

[... oh. that.

puts hand on Fox's shoulder.]

Maki will be fine. She's tough, for one thing. For another, she does have two boyfriends to dote on her in addition to her unit.

And as for Yasuragi... it was the game just before you showed up.

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[artisticliberty]

[blinks and looks down at the hand at his shoulder, then at boss]

Then... please look after her, while she recovers. I am beginning to think I am ill-suited to this sort of situation.

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[criminaljustice]

Trust me, it just takes some practice.

[thinking he's meaning like. dealing with post-bad game fall-out, tbqh.]

And I guess I can explain what I know about the Yasuragi situation but... I was kind of... distracted. When it happened.

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[artisticliberty]

[that's part of it, so he's not wrong]

Please, tell me.

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[criminaljustice]

[... well, there's some time while people fuss over Maki before taking her to AlcheME so...

using hand on Fox's shoulder to lead him somewhere a bit less crowded but still within earshot/sight of ill girlfriend.]

Last game, Exael was the host. She'd grab a person from two units and put up a puzzle for everyone else to solve. If we solved the puzzle, the hostages went free. If we didn't before the timelimit was up, both hostages died. If one unit called for mercy from Heaven, their hostage was set free and the other hostage died.

... only two units called for mercy, in the end.

Wild City waited until the last two minutes of the timelimit--then they called for mercy and... my unitmate Sanguine was killed. In a fire. Some people almost had the answer to the riddle but... it was too close for Wild City's taste.

The next round, Yasuragi immediately called for mercy when your other new kid was taken along with an Avante. Didn't say anything, didn't give anyone a chance to try to solve the puzzle. People didn't take it well...

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[artisticliberty]

[listening intently, brow drawn in quiet shock]

That's... how cruel of him. No wonder they spoke as though Avante dislikes us. And I am terribly sorry to hear that of your unitmate.

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[criminaljustice]

Sanguine's recovering fine, for the most part. We're pretty... old hat. By now.

[n-not to shrug it off but like. just. levels of trauma are so high?]

I haven't really been keeping track of that whole... drama between Avante and Taisho. Except Maki's been reluctant to stay with Taisho recently. Shuten also comes by a lot, too. So I think it's... very divisive with the older Taishos.

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[afailedmurder]

[shooting him a nod]

AlcheME is fine.

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[criminaljustice]

[OH THANK GOD

slumps a bit, relieved to see A.]

We were worried...

[definitely sent their antidote to Taisho]

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[afailedmurder]

We were as well. We sent you our antidote.

[doesn't sound terribly offended or anything, since he definitely called you sending yours to Taisho]

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[criminaljustice]

[... aaaaahhhhh he has such. good. boyfriend and girlfriend?????]

We got two. Taisho sent the other...

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[afailedmurder]

Ah, is that so? It was difficult to predict what Taisho would do. I assume you sent yours to them?

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[criminaljustice]

Yeah... we figured if you or H were around, you'd be able to keep AlcheME from taking too many risks.

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[afailedmurder]

That's an astute assessment. And I was certain you'd want to protect Taisho, since they were more likely to be poisoned than AlcheME.

We know each other quite well, don't we?

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[criminaljustice]

[gawd. u nerd.]

I'd hope so, by this point.