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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It wasn't as if you chose to foist them on other people. Or that you decided to have a painful life full of bad memories.

[Who would even do that.]

I know. It's miserable even so. The whole thing was miserable. Is miserable.

...Maybe Alch got some of that revenge they were after, at least. [ bitter bitter bitter, but not all at Alch, some of it's at her own unit for putting them in this position (even though another part of her knows that's how games work) ]

I hope so. Then at least someone would have gotten something positive out of this.

Yeah, well. I tried every other way I could think of. Maybe making us suffer will do them some good.

I would certainly hope so. Holding grudges over games does no one any good.

Mm. [ Another series of torture-flashes, as she wonders what would be enough to get X to drop the whole mess. Apologizing and trying to make it right clearly had no effect. ]

How long do you think I'll be unable to use my legs? If you had to guess. Venti healed everything up, so I guess it's a scar tissue thing.

That or a game effect - if 'tis scar tissue, then it would be anywhere from a couple weeks to a couple months.

[ She looks as dismayed as can be ]

I'm going to be useless for months?

[ Some part of her, and not a small part, feels it's a just punishment. Venti and Lupine each lost an arm, Lumine is seeing nightmares, Persi is probably miserable too. ]

I doubt they'll let such an affliction last for the usual length it should. It would limit the kind of horrible deadly activities they could have you do.

[so there's... that.]

[ But what about the horrible deadly activities she does as a hobby?!? ]

...But if I can't fight, I'm no good to anyone.

You have more worth than your physical ability.

[Quiet, but firm. She is so much more to him than just a warrior.]

[ her emotions are a squealing churn of panic ]

I'll go mad if I can't move and burn energy. I'll get destructive. There has to be something that'll make it heal sooner. [ just rambling, her words gaining speed and pitch. ]

[ Not to mention all she'll be able to do in bed is lay there. Not even feeling anything. She takes it back, this is way more cruel a punishment than she gave it credit for. ]

[Squeezes her gently.]

It will be alright. You are not the first person to hate bedrest and will not be the last, without anything catastrophic happening.

[ Aliza tenses sharpy, visibly, because she knows what's about to happen -- her feelings keep flooding into him, first an unsettling combination of shame and resentment, like a child who's been chastised, and then crushing loneliness. She's not surprised when people don't get it, how could they when she's so different?, but it does remind her how alone she is. ]

[ The nauseating wave of emotions stops suddenly as she shoves it all away, like a scream cut off halfway through. In its place, understanding she has to wrestle into place and a wobbly attempt at acceptance which is all trying, no success. Hopefully the effort counts for something. ]

Mm. You're right. I'll make do.

🚢 pew pew pew, you sunk my battleship.

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