🚢 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.

[glidinglight]

No, it's not. I was useless to you.

[ When she should have been trying to protect him, she was getting tossed around like a piece of flotsam. The fact that he made it through at all... that's all Aliza and Lupine's doing. And while she is grateful, she is also so deeply ashamed of herself. What sort of "warrior" is she? ]

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, I'm--

[ She can't speak anymore, because she's crying too much. ]

Re: END-GAME MINGLE.

[outofoffice]

[ Reeling her in for a very tight hug. ]

Lumine. You are never useless to me.

Re: END-GAME MINGLE.

[glidinglight]

[ You have to be able to talk to argue, and right now, all she can do is cry against his shoulder. At least, since they're already soaking, getting him wet doesn't matter. ]

Re: END-GAME MINGLE.

[outofoffice]

[ Lumine . . .

He lets her weep, but leans in to press a soothing kiss to her forehead, arm still tight around her ]

Re: END-GAME MINGLE.

[glidinglight]

[ She doesn't deserve him or his kindness, but she wants it anyway. When she finally has enough air again to speak-- ]

I am, though. I couldn't do anything for you.

[ At least Lupine and Aliza had kept the fish away from him--had bandaged him. What had she done? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. ]

Re: END-GAME MINGLE.

[outofoffice]

You're right here, now, with me. What more could I need than that?

Re: END-GAME MINGLE.

[glidinglight]

Your arm?

[ I mean. It IS missing. ]

Re: END-GAME MINGLE.

[outofoffice]

[ Laughing a little, though it dissolves into a wet cough ]

Who needs arms? My true form doesn't have any, you know.

Re: END-GAME MINGLE.

[glidinglight]

That's different and you know it!

[ if they weren't both so badly hurt, she might swat him. ]