🚢 pew pew pew, you sunk my battleship.

[nightofthedead]

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.

[ RULES 💀 ROOMS 💀 RESULTS 💀 MINGLE ]

Comments

Re: END-GAME MINGLE. / cw: limb chomp

[happydreamed]

[Fetches him his phone and puts it in his hand.]

Calling for a healer seems like an excellent plan, I would say.

Re: END-GAME MINGLE. / cw: limb chomp

[at_heart]

Heh. Thanks.

[ He fires off the text first, directed at Izzy specifically:

🐺: Hey
🐺: Bad game
🐺: Venti's here but hurt
🐺: Can't see what everyone needs but
🐺: Our team got some parts gnawed off

and then he pulls up the shop app so that he can, you know, order up replacements.

He's gotten so much better at texting, but he doesn't do it one-handed all that often, so this is a little bit slower. ]

Re: END-GAME MINGLE. / cw: limb chomp

[happydreamed]

What happened in there...?

[there are so many ways to lose a limb.]

Re: END-GAME MINGLE. / cw: limb chomp

[at_heart]

Fish, mostly. Also sirens.

[ Look. Bloodloss, okay? ]

Re: END-GAME MINGLE. / cw: limb chomp

[happydreamed]

I see.

[And here he usually likes fish.]

Can I offer you a dry and warm jacket while we wait, at least?

Re: END-GAME MINGLE. / cw: limb chomp

[at_heart]

Appreciated, but it's not that kind of cold.

[ The most wry. You definitely would not think, from his expression, that he'd jerk away if you tried to touch him, but. Well. He will, ]

Re: END-GAME MINGLE. / cw: limb chomp

[happydreamed]

No, that would be too easy. What can I do?

Re: END-GAME MINGLE. / cw: limb chomp

[at_heart]

You already helped plenty.

[ A little bit distant while he navigates the shop. Hitting the button to order delivery-arm for the tower. ]

But I've never actually ordered anything here before, so... could you keep half an eye on the door? If it just gets dropped off outside...

[ He's so tired, Doc. ]

Re: END-GAME MINGLE. / cw: limb chomp

[happydreamed]

I will carry your arm over to you if need be, yes.

[just normal doctor things.]

Re: END-GAME MINGLE. / cw: limb chomp

[at_heart]

[ ...for some reason, he wasn't totally expecting a yes? ]

—Thanks.

Re: END-GAME MINGLE. / cw: limb chomp

[happydreamed]

It is the least I can do as your friend. Besides, a doctor can't be squeamish.

Re: END-GAME MINGLE. / cw: limb chomp

[at_heart]

I don't think bringing people spare body parts is usually part of the job description.

Re: END-GAME MINGLE. / cw: limb chomp

[happydreamed]

I've seen worse.

Re: END-GAME MINGLE. / cw: limb chomp

[at_heart]

[ Flashback to: Oregod Trail. ]

I mean. That definitely wasn't the question.

[bondsofsuffering]

Izanagi: I'll bring the ambulance

[AND AFTER LIKE TEN MINUTES, IZANAGI ARRIVE!!]

cw: vague bodyhorror stuff idk

[at_heart]

[ o hay there ] [ drone delivery body parts, he's definitely just... got a nearby arm. ]

Thanks for coming.

[ Thin and tired, but at least he doesn't hurt anymore! Venti probably fixed that when he flopped on him earlier. ]

Got some... broken bones, and some missing limbs. I'm not — sure how you get more flesh for people who just got holes chewed in them, what parts should I be ordering?

[ Persi might be missing pieces still. If she really insists, she can pay him back, but he has the points to cover people who're missing stuff. ]

Re: cw: vague bodyhorror stuff idk

[bondsofsuffering]

If people lost chunks of flesh, it depends - if organs need to be replaced, it might just be easier to get a replacement part and use it for the organ and flesh transfer. Otherwise, a torso is the largest piece you can get.

[Settling by Lupine to get to work on him.]

Re: cw: vague bodyhorror stuff idk

[at_heart]

[ His lips pursing into a very thin line as he listens. Clearing away the bark skin so that Izzy can get at the, uh, bitten-off part of his arm without difficulty. ]

Hard to say what all was missing, we were... sinking? It was a submarine game.

[ And, almost too late: ]

Careful touching us, we've — some of us are, uh. Emotion-sharing or memory-sharing or nightmare-sharing, hard to say which.

Re: cw: vague bodyhorror stuff idk

[bondsofsuffering]

Ahhh, submarine games always turn out badly for people...

[Anyway! He will take the new arm and open up the packaging, carefully (in case he gets sudden visions) but neatly fleshcrafting the remaining arm down to a more or less straight edge so he can snip off any extra on the new arm and attach that sucker, cleaning up the seam with his thumbs as he goes.]

Could always numb people up in the meantime and take stock of who needs what once everyone's been gathered up.

Re: cw: vague bodyhorror stuff idk

[at_heart]

—Yeah. That... sounds right.

[ Beat. ]

Sorry, not sure if I'm tired because of the game or just the bloodloss, but it's. Kind of hard to focus.

[ Doc asked what happened and he just said 'fish and sirens', ] [ But as a bonus, all you get from touching him is emotion sharing! Which is currently guilt misery guilt, but it's a lot less intense now. Too much exhaustion for strong feelings. ]

Re: cw: vague bodyhorror stuff idk

[bondsofsuffering]

[Good, fall prey to that exhaustion, it's the most valid feeling out of the lot.]

Who all played

Re: cw: vague bodyhorror stuff idk

[at_heart]

Mm, didn't get a great look at the other team. [ On account of the flat-on-his-back thing he's been doing. ] Our team was ZRAEL, sIV, and us — Gent, Persi, Venti you know about... plus Zari and Lumine.

[ Beat. ]

We almost took each other out — I thought they'd get healed up for winning, though...

Re: cw: vague bodyhorror stuff idk

[bondsofsuffering]

You guys really tried to kill each other this time, huh?

[Just a dry observation as he finishes patching up Lupine.]

Well, I'll go see how many of 'em are willing to take healing.

Re: cw: vague bodyhorror stuff idk

[at_heart]

Heh, dunno about that. After the first volley, our — whatever kind of ship started to flood, and every other ship that went down was full of these... weird fish. Wasn't real conducive to clear thinking.

[ He tried to make sure everyone was okay with going on the offensive before they started, but after that point... ]

Our team was all kind of huddled on a table, trying not to drown, getting bombarded with something a lot like ZRAEL's 'nightmare vision' power, memory and emotion-sharing, getting woozy from bloodloss...

[ Shrugs a tiny bit, then rolls his shoulder, feeling the... replacement. —Weirder for not being weird. It just looks and feels like his own arm. Murmured: ]

I don't know how much anyone was really thinking of the coordinates we shot at as 'trying to kill someone'.

Re: cw: vague bodyhorror stuff idk

[bondsofsuffering]

Oh, even better. Everyone was blitzed out of their minds while attacking each other.