imeeji_frontstage | 🚢 pew pew pew, you sunk my battleship.

Who: Everybody!
Where: Game Tower
When: Day 517, Morning

[ you arrive in the game tower to the sound of a deafening siren, but there's no surreal transformation this time. the interior has already changed, looking like the inside of a submarine... if you had to guess! if the hissing pipes and flashing lights haven't already started grating on your nerves, then surely all of the random beeping and booping computers will. suddenly, all of the tv screens flicker to life, ]

[ ...dⁱ_ng! it looks like the elevators have arrived. ]

I really do hope you know that I don't take even an ounce of pleasure from making you play all of these ~awful games [ she's definitely all of the sincere. ] but here we are again. [ big biG BIG sigh. ]

I would be, should be, impressed that some of you managed to solve Shi's puzzles, but I don't really think that you d~i~d~. Instead, I believe there was a lot of guessing going on! [ squints accusingly!!! ] So if you enjoy guesswork so much, then have I. got the. game. for you.

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[ Shivering and soaked and missing one arm and hallucinating, good times.

He at least bothers to lift his shaky remaining arm and close off the wound. ]

Venti-

[Rushes over. He stops short of hugging him, although that was very much his initial impulse.]

[ Cracking one eye open and then squeezing it shut again immediately ]

Hi, Doctor.

You look awful. How - what can I do for you?

[fret fret fret]

Can you-- come closer?

[Comes closer, and hesitantly sets a hand on his shoulder.]

[ Good.

Then he's close enough for Venti to drag him in and cling to him. ]

[Hugs him close, stroking his back soothingly.]

'Tis over now. You will be alright.

[ Yessss good. Though he's still shivering, he seems to relax somewhat ]

They even gave me wine that I couldn't drink . . . horrible.

That is awful. Designed to torment you specifically.

[ Flopping on over despite that he's missing a few pieces. Slinging an arm over Venti which hey, is at least warmer. ]

I believe I should float you home in wine tonight. [ He's grinning as much as is possible, since it tends to help a little. ] Or at a time of your choosing if you'd prefer to take care of the arm first.

[ WARM . . . he scooches closer ]

Forget my arm. Where's the wine?

[ Just pulling Venti into his lap, more or less. It's less suggestive than it would be at any other time. ]

I'll get you there any way I can. Luckily my limbs are more or less working. What'll you start with, or is it "anything, but in mass quantities?"

[ Oh, good. Laps and shoulders are where he likes best to be.

Resting his head against Gent's shoulder. ]

The latter, I think.

'Not mixed with seawater' will be a great step up. Even without the horrors that followed, that offense was unforgivable.

[ Venti will receive some gentle pets, then! Warmth is good. ]

In fact, that was the first time I've met a wine I couldn't tolerate . . .

[ IS THAT THE REAL TRAUMA? ]

I can't help their cruelty, but I can offer to keep you in good spirits until you forget such unpleasant things. In all varied and clever meanings of the phrase.

As long as we're lifting your spirits in the process as well.

Good company always does.

And if you're planning to bring one or both of your ZRAEL ladies, they can even float us home quite literally.

[ screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. ]

[ that's the alala alarm. he's here and right beside venti. ] Venti, Venti, Venti, can you hear me, Venti?

[ Cracking one eye open ]

Ahhh . . . hi, Lala.

[ going to numb him and take care of any other wounds venti might not have bothered with while he's... this. ] What the hell happened to you? A- And everybody else???

🚢 pew pew pew, you sunk my battleship.

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