🚢 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 ]

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

[at_heart]

[ The sudden withdrawal is startling, and Lupine hisses even before the cold. ]

What are you — hey, come back here.

[ Reaching out again. If she lets him touch her, she'll get regret worry concern, no more anger for the moment. ]

Why are you sorry? You're not the one with anything to apologize for.

[ —well, okay, that was a tiny spike of anger, but maybe it'll also be helpful. ]

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

[sangreine]

[ She looks at him in a very you can't be serious way, but then shrugs and gets closer again, curling her shivering self up the best she can (manually arranging her legs so they're something resembling a natural posture, they won't move on their own). Being this cold is pretty awful, but she thinks her projections are worse. ]

I mean, it's in my head. I can't imagine who else's fault it would be. They're not providing the nightmares, just showing them off.

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

[at_heart]

You can't help what your nightmares are.

[ C'mon, even he's not that hard on himself. ]

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

[sangreine]

[ She goes quiet, always a great sign with her. If that wasn't enough to give her away, her hair turns a deep red. ]

Yeah, okay. [ Her tone makes clear that she's not arguing only because she's too exhausted to bother. ]

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

[at_heart]

[ ... ] [ Okay, he is sliding in closer to try to get an arm around her? ]

—So, zero out of five stars for me on this one?

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

[sangreine]

[ She flops her head against him as gently as she can manage, so she's definitely not mad at him. It's hardly his fault that her head is a mess. ]

I don't want to argue about whether I'm particularly and especially messed up or messed up a normal amount, we've been through enough. That's all.

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

[at_heart]

[ Eyebrows lifting. ]

I mean, for sure you got an extra helping.

[ Look, he swears he isn't trying to start any arguments here, they're both so very tired, but if it even sounded like he was saying anything else— ]

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

[sangreine]

[ She blinks once, then breaks into a tired grin. ]

Somehow that makes me feel better. I have no idea why. [ Validation is why ]

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

[at_heart]

[ ...Hairstroke. ]

Venti's probably trying to fix everyone up even though he's missing an arm right now. Help me sit on him when he gets close enough?

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

[sangreine]

I think I'd have better luck with my arms. But if he tries to get away, I can just float on over and tackle him.

[ bada-bing bada-boom ]

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

[at_heart]

[ Chuckles a tiny bit. ]

Suitably dramatic. Which I'm sure he'll appreciate.

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

[sangreine]

Mm. But he would probably stay put if I asked. He tried to fix my back and it didn't work. [ She's not above weaponizing Venti's guilt for Venti's own good. But also she wants company so it's at least only halfway the patronizing sort of falsehood. ]

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

[at_heart]

[ That quiets him. He's... not used to broken bones not being something sIV can fix, game consequence or no. ]

...What about numbing?