Some teams and their toys

[crossmyheartandhope]

Who: BAD END=DEAD END, Future is Now, SensitIV, Azrael, and Avante
Where: The respective dorms
When: Day 52

[BAD END=DEAD END, Future is Now, SensitIV, Azrael, and Avante all find the following outside their doors:

2 bottles of hard liquor
1 starter pack for a trading card game
1 board game
1 box of fancy assorted chocolate
1 note

The note reads: "Sorry for the hard time recently. We hope there's no hard feelings. Consider this gift a well-wish that the future will hold a lot for you to smile about. From all of us Heart Soldier Senshi to all of you."]

Comments

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Look I might have just found out they can bring dead people here. How much of a stretch is it to bring other Gods or other Demons from other heavens or hells.

Fuck, is there is even more than one Heaven and Hell?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

The only Heaven and Hell that matters is this fucking fraud of a play that the producers are putting on!

It doesn't matter if you were dead, a god, a demon, or whatever other fucking special snowflake garbage where you came from. That all got equalized when they stripped us of our memories.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Let's say for example King is an actual Pharaoh. And remind me to tell you the details of that since it involves you. I don't think you were around for it, but later.

If he's a Pharaoh, he's the living Horus, right? He is a God. So when he dies, he should go the wherever Gods go when they die not to this fake Hell. His should should not get stuck in internal casino limbo.

At what point does their reach stop? It's on thing to lose your memories. The loss of powers is more disconcerting. If we can stop them from suppressing our natural abilities, I think we have a better fighting chance.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Counter-argument.

What makes you think that these bodies are our real bodies?

What makes you think that all of us aren't actually dead?

[rollwithdisadvantage]

This is going to make me want to get memories to figure this out, huh. Fuck.

Considering Gods or other Demons, it doesn't sit well that they would have that much power. For regular humans. Guess that just fuckin' sucks.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

How are memories going to help unless you magically get back the memory where they hi-jack us from wherever the fuck we came from? And before you even start - there's no fucking way the producers would give us that memory back!

Obviously these fuckers are powerful if they can both grant and take away powers.

We're at a complete fucking disadvantage.

And this was before we knew that an untold number of idols would rather be used as fucking betting chips in a torture casino instead of fucking sticking it out up here.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Of course, I know that. I'm not an idiot.

[Pinching the bridge of his nose.]

The reason I'm considering taking memories is because I'm pretty confident I'm not human. What that exactly means might gives us leverage or an advantage.

So we need to know what powers they have in relation to other gods and demons. If they can trap them, then my backup plan goes out the window.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

What the fuck do you mean you're not human?!

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Exactly that.

[Tossing him his phone and paying the hundred points. Enjoy ONE TURN KILL yo.]

We are gonna talk about King's latest memory after this.

1/2

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

. . .

[What the fuck? What the ever living fuck?]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That CARD GAME fucking killed you!

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Killed is such a strong word. I survived.

So now let's go talk about King, shall we? He's a Pharaoh that lost his memories. There was a stone tablet depicting a duel between him and you from long past. Can't say I liked your hat.

Forget memories. How do we get our abilities back? Does their powers have a radius? A limit?

But now I know that this has been done over thirty times, I'm sure others would have also thought about it as well. Unless they are getting bolder with each run.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Ignoring the bullshit about himself and King. He doesn't care, Nine-Nine. LALALALALALALA NOT LISTENING! He doesn't care!]

That's exactly my point!

We have to be smarter about that this 30 groups of idols, which also means the producers have had 30 chances to perfect their fucking strategy.

I've tried to get that through Her Highness's and Boss's fucking thick skulls - but they are too fucking married to their ideas of saving everyone and being a wildcard respectively to listen. They're going to make the same mistakes that the other fucking idols did.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

This just got more complicated.

[Actually grabbing a piece of paper and sitting down in a chair.]

Then perhaps we should figure out how to talk to the former idols. They must have a wealth of information. Has it been the same Producers each time? What they tried?

What moving pieces do we have in play?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You can't buy a meeting with the audience. I already checked.

That leaves our only other option to try and get to the casino to get information before demons start hacking us apart and selling our pieces off to the highest bidder.

. . .

Unless you mean trying to pry more information out of Exael and Mukuro.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

The casino is a last resort. Not off the table, but let's .... let's just not.

You know, it is really fucking hard to play a game where you don't know the rules.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Well then let's start with what we do know.

Bel owns Tokyo-F. He's letting the producers borrow it for this production. That's the person we really need to meet. But he's probably also the person who will have the least motivation to not get rid of one of us idols permanently.

We know there may have been up to 30 rounds of this fucking game, but this is the first one with units. Is that the distinction we need to be paying attention to? Did the last group get close so they wanted to enforce this fucking stupid unit camaraderie to prevent something that happened in a previous round?

And also - why is Heaven the one doing the punishing games when giving up means a point for Hell? That seems counter-productive to them winning. Unless there are only a certain number of graduation slots for Heaven.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Heaven, or rather Exael, also wanted us to know what was going on. She graduated, yet she's still here.

We also have the following clues:
Adapt yourself to all things
Know who is judging
Be content with hope
Keep hidden that which oughn't be spoken
Do not be unjust to the dead

... Don't be unjust to the dead. This one just got more interesting. I wonder if the library has anything. Honoring rituals. Burial ceremonies. Probably not considering the hospital was useless.

As for Bel, Anubis got a grimoire. He was talking about summoning. But your right. He's the one where we have the least amount of sway. Not that we have a lot of sway with the others.

Giving a point for Hell? That's new.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Know who is judging.

That's the one that's fucked up. Who IS judging?

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Hell? They are the ones keeping track of the sins, right? Now that sins have been added to the board.

Fuck, we don't know anything.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Fucking stop that! We know more than we did when we first got here!

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Yeah. Yeah. I know. But allow me to be a little pissed, alright. My trump card is useless if I can't actually go to the proper afterlife I'm supposed to.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

It was a shitty trump card to begin with if it hinged on you getting out of the producer's grasp. We have to work inside the fucking system.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

So what if I like to cheat? Fine. Looks like we have to do it the hard way.

[Looking at C's map again.]

... What was the ratio to idols that have given up versus demons?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Many idols per demon.

Why?