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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.

Trying to respond to this message will get an ERROR: FAILED TO SEND. ]

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

What do you mean "where is C?"

[As if the question wasn't obvious]

[liarliarliar]

[rocking on his feet, hands in pockets]

He wasn't revived with the others. But we never found him monsterly roaming either? He's not answer my texts either.

Isn't it rude? Maybe he's hiding?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

. . .

How much do you know about what happened in the game?

[liarliarliar]

I didn't play but Cardigan asked around and it seems he killed himself when he was facing Loki? That's what Santa said anyway.

1/2

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Okay. Just... Just give him a second to process that.






Fuck. That. doesn't. sound. good]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And the rest of AlcheME! has returned?

[liarliarliar]

Yes. N is back and. I don't even know when A died? Goodness! We had him in a jar but it seems he got out and into some trouble. He's a bit rough but back with us.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Give me your phone.

[liarliarliar]

[hands it over]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Scrolls back in his text messages. Like really far back.

Hey, B. Did you keep that attachment Exael sent to everyone who visited her?]

[liarliarliar]

[yes]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Good. The number attached to said attachment is now being saved as a contact on B's phone as "Heaven's Puppet".

And handing the phone back to B]

If C doesn't come back soon, text that number. AlcheME! is one of her favorites, after all.

[liarliarliar]

...ah. You're so smart, Intensity. Thanks.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Are you going to wait here?

[liarliarliar]

Yes. At least for a few more hours.

Maybe they're not done cooking him or whatever they do.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

He's probably stuck in fucking time out for that stupid stunt.

[liarliarliar]

And laughing about it?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I'll be really impressed if he manages to turn one of the stagehands into his minion before they boot his sorry ass back over here.

[liarliarliar]

If anyone could do it, it'd be C, right? He's so cute and clever.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Right.

. . .

[Do you have people with you? Are you going to be okay? Because fuck all if Intensity knows what to do in this situation]

[liarliarliar]

[his big bro went to get the rest of the team healed but some paladins are hovering nearby at least??]

I'll text you for sure when he gets back.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Paladins are good for these things, aren't they? Aren't they???]

Don't bother. When he wants to let everyone know he's back, he'll make sure everyone fucking knows.

[Points to B's phone:] If that falls through, there's something else we can try. It'll just take some time to put together.

Don't freeze to death in the cold in the meantime.

[liarliarliar]

Mmm. I'll give waiting a day. Then try this.

[lifts phone in air]

And if I don't get anything from that I'll talk to you to get other things moving.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

They don't get to keep him.

You know that, right?

[liarliarliar]

...mmm. One way or another.