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[idolpro]

Who: dinner guests
Where: the Game Tower
When: Day 51, evening

[ The final GAME ALERT sounds, long after the last Heart has died. However, when you reach the Tower, the elevators do not open for you.

Instead, they open for the dead, once they've awakened in their respective game rooms - avante en garde, future is now, and pep!pep!/Heart Soldier Senshi's dead will find themselves completely healed, waking as if from a dreamless sleep. Not so for ☆ZRAEL, Taisho, BAD END=DEAD END, WILD CITY, or AlcheME!, though - they awaken as if from a terrible nightmare, their bodies not so whole. As if their wounds had reversed, but only partially, they'll find themselves technically healed to the point of no longer being in danger of death, but no more than that, and while they may be able to get to the elevator, the trip home will definitely require some help -

However, C and Haruto are nowhere to be found.

Those on the surviving units will find their wounds rewinding, stitching themselves back up and limbs even regrowing, painless though strange as they return to being whole. Those still alive on the berserked units will find nothing healed but their mind, the insanity washed away as if with the tide, save for sensitIV - who benefit from both the mental cleanse as well as the physical healing. For everyone, the hunger for flesh finally passes, leaving only ordinary hunger for those who did not partake during the game, and a sedate fullness for those who did.

The screens do not turn on, but there is the distant sound of audience laughing and Exael's voice from higher in the Game Tower, much too muffled to pick up.

All participating units receive this message on their phones simultaneously:

Well done.

Though you walk in the shadow of the valley of death, fear no evil, for He is with you. May His rod and staff comfort you, and may you carry the strength He blesses you with to the end of this path and forevermore. May you always hold your head high to the Heavens.

Amen

And, for Taisho, ☆ZRAEL, and BAD END=DEAD END, 500 points have been rewarded. avante en garde, pep!pep!, Heart Soldier Senshi, future is now, and sensitIV receive 800 points.

WILD CITY and AlcheME! receive 100 points.

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Comments

[rollplayinghouse]

[Maki is carrying a thoroughly mangled and blinded Boss over to him princess-style.]

[criminaljustice]

[he's... not doing so hot, yeah. that left arm is missing. a lot of. meat.]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[oh.

well, shit.]

Boss-san...?

[immediately going to numb that arm, yikes.]

[criminaljustice]

[you know that feeling when you're in such pain that suddenly the pain disappearing is enough to make you just kind of faint?

well, that's almost this. but fortunately, there's still a lot of other pains and he's just kind of a bit dazed.]

... wow.

[holy shit what a useful ability.]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[IT'S PRETTY GOOD. except Anubis is still staring at his arm worriedly.]

I can stop the bleeding and fix any breaks, but... I don't think I can re-grow the missing parts.

[criminaljustice]

[... welp. deep breaths.]

Just... fix what you can. We'll... deal with the rest.

[rollwillpowercheck]

[... nods.]

Yeah. I'll do my best.

[sure enough, the arm mends as he works his way down it -- flesh scarring over and bones returning to their rightful alignment -- but it's definitely not back to mint factory condition.

instead of dwelling on that, though he moves on to examine Boss' eyes.]

[criminaljustice]

[definitely some claws put them out. they're probably a slashed mess since the attacker came from behind and there was. a face-mask. thing. in monster form.]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[winces]

... I think you're going to... need new eyes.

[criminaljustice]

[. . . this is literally the most upsetting thing about this whole experience.]

Oh.

[rollwillpowercheck]

I can't-- I mean, sensitIV's powers always leave scars? So, on your eyes...

[trails off]

[criminaljustice]

[yeah, that gets. a shaky breath but...]

Just... do what you can.

[not ur fault, Anubis. he's the one who berserkered and got caught from behind, so like.]

[rollwillpowercheck]

[STILL SUCKS THO.

but, yeah, he holds his hands over Boss' face, letting the eyes and surrounding wounds mend themselves.]

[criminaljustice]

[IT SUCKS SO BAD.

but significantly less pain is nice. so.

--oh right. pointing to his collar where he got shot with lava blood arrow between the neck and shoulder. FUN. TIMES.]

Sorry for all the work.

[rollplayinghouse]

[She puts Boss down at some point, and just hangs out in silence until Anubis heals what he can, though never really stopping touching him.]

[criminaljustice]

[oh good. because he sure was rocked by the whole "ur eyes are fucked" news.]

[rollplayinghouse]

[She also flips through her phone to check something while she waits.]

...It's 500 points an eye. We can get them once we get back to the hotel, assuming there's still a sensitIV around who can put them back in.

[criminaljustice]

... an eye's the same price as a private memory.

[said a little on the numbly dazed side but also. wow. it's... so cheap?]

[rollplayinghouse]

Both Taisho and Bad End "won," too, so we can just use those points.

[criminaljustice]

[... when the severe distress about being blind is doing battle with the squicky idea of store-bought eyeballs getting put into your head...]

Yeah... lucky, I guess.

[rollplayinghouse]

Something like that.

[criminaljustice]

Let's let sensitIV rest a bit after thing, though...

[rollplayinghouse]

...If you're okay with that.

[criminaljustice]

[good hand is reaching toward a hand of hers.]

I dunno about you, but I'm just wanting to curl up in a comfy bed with at least two people I really care about.

[rollplayinghouse]

[takes it and clasps it]

...That would be nice.