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[ time to dream as dreamers do ]

[ NSFW dreams here ]

Who: You!
Where: Game Tower
When: Day 399, after the other posts

[ When you enter today's Game room, you'll find yourself in a spacious cave with a skylight. It's dark in the sky right now, but there are soft star-like lights hovering around, harmless to the touch. The ground is carpeted with soft moss and grass, and despite the size of cave, it feels rather homey and comfortable. Even if there is a massive feathery beast in the middle of the cavern.

It glows, not so brightly that it's hard to look at, but a soft chromatic light that pulses with its breath. Currently, it's perched on a nest made of . . . books? Books, jewels, clothes, parchment—all valuable things, to be sure, though some are odd choices for hoarding.

It lifts its head, looking toward you with a gentle, intelligent stare, before directing its head to an off-shoot cavern decorated with a banner of your unit's color. ]

RULES | ROOMS | WINNERS & LOSERS | DRAGONS | LOSERS & PUNISHMENTS | BRING YOUR OWN ENDGAME TOPLEVELS

heavenlyvisitor

Who: imeeji
Where: imeeji
When: 399

[ it's a a mingle. wow! ]

worldlyafflictions

Who: Everyone
Where: Lobby
When: Day 399, morning (two days post-lobbyquest)

[Some people are still stress-vibrating from various weird status effects from over the last.. week and a half or whatever. Or maybe you're finally starting to get over some of them today! Either way Pink is down in the lobby--Big Nintendog has been temporarily put in puppy daycare at Aqua City because look, some people are stressed out about dogs--and he's got poster board and markers, ready to set up some signs.]

Heeeyyy, mornin'. How's everybody beeeen~? It feels like some of us have been goin' through it lately! I considered invitin' people ta join in doin' some mediation or mindfulness exercises but the thought aged me like 40 years so, maybe next time, haha.

Instead~ it's time for support groups again, though it's just me for the moment! Anyway serious poll: be honest, who needs some help managing their status effects right now? Who's dorms have been feelin' kinda empty lately? If ya need ta get somethin' off your chest, there's probably somebody around feelin' similar! Just make yourselves a sign 'n get ta know somebody!

Extra points [is he offering actual points?] for people who provide a space today in their dorms ta chat, 'cause [~~fuck cameras~~] who doesn't get tired of feelin' watched sometimes?

Okay~ hope this helps!

((ooc: Top-level with the support group topic in the subject line! Join other support groups! Visit each others dorms if the characters decide to go for that! See this old support group post for examples.

Add to the Live Here |
Pink, Vergil: Live Hosted, 6 Units (bonuses), Live Co-host 1 = 750 pts
Peppep, Taisho: Live Hosted, Live Co-host 1 = 450 pts
Everyone else: Live Engaged, Live Co-host 1 = 300 pts))

crossmyheartandhope

Who: HSS and visitors
Where: HSS dorm
When: 398, evening

[Tis the season for the aftermath of many things]

unfamiliardawn

Who: People who have forgotten something
Where: Places convenient for remembering things
When: Day 398-ish

[MEMORY TIME!!]

outofoffice

Who: healers and ?friends?
Where: sensitIV
When: Day 397/398, post-LobbyQuest

[ Overlapping trauma to ensure everyone on the team is fucked up!!! ]

revolutionista

Who: Stiletto, again, and you! Probably!
Where: somewhere that has A Table
When: 397? 398?

[Another Live notification! And this one has video, but no sound. The video is... focused on a small knitted doll lying on a table - not imitating anyone in particular, just a human figure. For about 20 seconds nothing happens, just doll footage... But what's this? There's a bit of thread poking out from the torso of the doll! Was someone clumsy with their knitting?

A black-gloved hand enters the feed, grasps the thread and pulls - slow, deliberate. Loop by loop, the little figure unravels, ending up in a mess of coils on the table. The camera stays on it for another 10 seconds or so, and then goes out.

This is your staging a death Live. In no way does it look threatening. This is definitely not the kind of video you would send to someone you wanted to scare really bad. And you wouldn't write, like, "you" on there.]

neigh_sayer

Who: Wizards and Vistors
Where: Alcheme Cave
When: Post LobbyQuest

[THAT SURE WAS A TIME RIGHT??? YEAH.

In AlcheMe, deposited SOME WHERE are:
Glass Table (and possibly chairs??)
Several Roman and Dolphin Statues
Pool Table
Card Table + Cards (and pokemon??)
PingPong Table
BeachBalls
A bench
Laser Pointer
And an actual non-crystal soft ass sofa fuck yea

unfortunately at least a few members are worst for wear but WE'LL SORT THAT OUT]

idolpro

Who: Everyone!
Where: ALL PLACES ALL PLACES ALL PLACES ALL PL
When: Day 397

When finally you escape the room, there is a series of messages on Dissonance:

TOTAL⚓DISASTER: hey...
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: you used my sims house for that didnt you!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: naffy!!!!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: they completely destroyed it its filled with strange juices and all the statues are broken and all the furniture is stolen!!!!!!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: and there was a room added? and then destroyed???? wwhat's a laser master?????
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: naffy i'm so mad at you!
** happy☆day set mode +b TOTAL⚓DISASTER
** TOTAL⚓DISASTER (oracledolphi@491992.%UNKNOWN_VAR%.net) has quit. (Kicked: Don't do this, don't do this!)
happy☆day: This program would like to remind all operations staff that Tokyo-F's primary Dissonance channels are not to be used to speak to anyone but the inhabitants of Tokyo-F.
happy☆day: With that said, with that said!
happy☆day: Thank you all very much for your cooperation.
happy☆day: You have once again assisted this program in saving Tokyo-F, this show, and yourselves!
happy☆day: This program will keep these congratulations brief, then, so that you may enjoy the spoils of your war.
happy☆day: Please return to the lobby at your earliest convenience! You will find something this program thinks you have all been very excited for, which this program saw no particular need to delete with the primary threat eliminated.

[ When you do, you'll find that one: NafunAI is darting around in hologram form, but also two:

In addition to future is now's renovations, there's now a set of new elevators that are large enough to fit vehicles, large animals, heavy machinery...wow! Surely this is all you have ever wanted. Now you don't have to be a member of AlcheME! to move furniture or horses anywhere!

But that's not really important, is it? What is important is the very large rideable puppy that immediately comes barreling into you as you enter the hotel. That's right! The Hound now lives in a lavish doghouse in the hotel lobby, and is at all times ready to play. Truly, doesn't that make everything you went through worth it?

All the while, the lobby speakers have returned to their normal playing schedule. Rember: it's a good day to have a good day. ]

revolutionista

Who: Stiletto and... possibly you?
Where: ???
When: Day 396, maybe, anywhen that isn't like bad trauma time.

[A Live notification goes out, but when you tune in, the feed is completely black; not a shred of light anywhere. Perhaps the broadcaster is somewhere utterly dark... or perhaps she just has her phone's camera blocked.

For a few moments, there is only silence, and then a soft rustle of a book's pages. Then, a cold young woman's voice begins to read - obviously Stiletto, to those who know her. The language, though, is probably known to few here, or maybe it gets autotranslated by hell magic? Who knows. But she's reading in Italian.]

Tutti gli Stati, tutti i dominii che hanno avuto, e hanno imperio sopra gli uomini, sono stati e sono o Repubbliche o Principati. I principati sono o ereditari, de’ quali il sangue del loro Signore ne sia stato lungo tempo Principe, o e’ sono nuovi.

I nuovi o sono nuovi tutti, come fu Milano a Francesco Sforza, o sono come membri aggiunti allo stato ereditario del Principe che gli acquista, come è il Regno di Napoli al Re di Spagna.

Sono questi dominii, così acquistati, o consueti a vivere sotto un Principe, o usi ad esser liberi; ed acquistansi o con le armi di altri o con le proprie, o per fortuna o per virtù.

[She reads at a measured pace, voice steady and calm, the occasional brief pause as she turns the pages.]

De’ Principati ereditari.

Io lascerò indietro il ragionare delle Repubbliche, perchè altra volta ne ragionai a lungo. Volterommi solo al Principato, e anderò, nel ritessere queste orditure di sopra, disputando come questi Principati si possono governare e mantenere.

Dico adunque, che nelli Stati ereditari, ed assuefatti al sangue del loro Principe, sono assai minori difficultà a mantenergli, che ne’ nuovi; perchè basta solo non trapassare l’ordine de’ suoi antenati, e dipoi temporeggiare con gli accidenti, in modo che se tal Principe è di ordinaria industria, sempre si manterrà nel suo Stato, se non è una straordinaria ed eccessiva forza che ne lo priva; e privato che ne sia, quantunque di sinistro abbia lo occupatore, lo racquista.

Noi abbiamo in Italia, per esempio, il Duca di Ferrara, il quale non ha retto agli assalti de’ Viniziani nell’84, nè a quelli di Papa Iulio nel 10 per altre cagioni che per essere antiquato in quel Dominio. Perchè il Principe naturale ha minori cagioni e minori necessità di offendere; donde conviene che sia più amato; e se strasordinarii vizi non lo fanno odiare, è ragionevole che naturalmente sia ben voluto da’ suoi; e nell’antichità e continuazione del dominio sono spente le memorie e le cagioni delle innovazioni; perchè sempre una mutazione lascia lo addentellato per la edificazione dell’altra.

De’ principati misti.

Ma nel Principato nuovo consistono le difficultà. E prima se non è tutto nuovo, ma come membro, che si può chiamare tutto insieme quasi misto, le variazioni sue nascono in prima da una natural difficultà, quale è in tutti i Principati nuovi; perchè gli uomini mutano volentieri Signore, credendo migliorare; e questa credenza gli fa pigliar l’arme contro a chi regge; di che s’ingannano, perchè veggono poi per esperienza aver peggiorato. Il che dipende da un’altra necessità naturale ed ordinaria, quale fa che sempre bisogni offendere quelli, di chi si diventa nuovo Principe; e con gente d’arme, e con infinite altre ingiurie che si tira dietro il nuovo acquisto.

Dimodochè ti trovi avere inimici tutti quelli che tu hai offesi in occupare quel Principato; e non ti puoi mantenere amici quelli, che vi ti hanno messo, per non gli potere satisfare in quel modo che si erano presupposto, e per non potere tu usare contra di loro medicine forti, essendo loro obbligato; perchè sempre, ancorchè uno sia fortissimo in su gli eserciti, ha bisogno del favore de’ provinciali ad entrare in una provincia.

Per queste ragioni Luigi XII Re di Francia occupò subito Milano, e subito lo perdè, e bastarono a toglierlo la prima volta le forze proprie di Lodovico; perchè quelli popoli, che gli avevano aperte le porte, trovandosi ingannati della opinione loro, e di quel futuro bene che si aveano presupposto, non potevano sopportare fastidi del nuovo Principe. È ben vero che acquistandosi poi la seconda volta i paesi ribellati, si perdono con più difficultà; perchè il Signore, presa occasione dalla rebellione, è meno rispettivo ad assicurarsi, con punire i delinquenti, chiarire i sospetti, provvedersi nelle parti più deboli. In modo che se a far perdere Milano a Francia bastò la prima volta un Duca Lodovico, che romoreggiasse in su’ confini, a farlo dipoi perdere la seconda, gli bisognò avere contro il mondo tutto, e che gli eserciti suoi fossero spenti, e cacciati d’Italia; il che nacque dalle cagioni sopraddette.

Nondimeno e la prima e la seconda volta gli fu tolto. Le cagioni universali della prima si sono discorse; resta ora a vedere quelle della seconda, e dire che remedii egli aveva, e quali può avere uno che fusse ne’ termini suoi, per potersi meglio mantenere nello acquistato, che non fece il Re di Francia.

Dico pertanto, che questi Stati, i quali acquistandosi si aggiungono a uno Stato antico di quello che gli acquista, o sono della medesima provincia e della medesima lingua, o non sono. Quando siano, è facilità grande a tenergli, massimamente quando non siano usi a vivere liberi; e, a possedergli sicuramente, basta avere spenta la linea del Principe, che li dominava; perchè nelle altre cose, mantenendosi loro le condizioni vecchie, e non vi essendo disformità di costumi, gli uomini si vivono quietamente, come si è visto, che ha fatto la Borgogna, la Bertagna, la Guascogna, e la Normandia, che tanto tempo sono state con Francia; e benchè vi sia qualche disformità di lingua, nondimeno i costumi sono simili, e possonsi tra loro facilmente comportare: e a chi le acquista, volendole tenere, bisogna avere due rispetti; l’uno che il sangue del loro Principe antico si spenga; l’altro di non alterare nè loro leggi nè loro dazi; talmentechè in brevissimo tempo diventa con il loro Principato antico tutto un corpo.

Ma quando si acquistano Stati in una provincia disforme di lingua, di costumi, e di ordini, qui sono le difficultà, e qui bisogna avere gran fortuna, e grande industria a tenergli; ed uno de’ maggiori rimedii e più vivi sarebbe, che la persona di chi gli acquista vi andasse ad abitare. Questo farebbe più sicura e più durabile quella possessione, come ha fatto il Turco di Grecia, il quale con tutti gli altri ordini osservati da lui per tenere quello Stato, se non vi fusse ito ad abitare, non era possibile, che lo tenesse. Perchè standovi, si veggono nascere i disordini, e presto vi si può rimediare; non vi stando, s’intendono quando sono grandi, e non vi è più rimedio. Non è oltre a questo la provincia spogliata da’ tuoi ufiziali; satisfannosi i sudditi del ricorso propinquo al Principe, donde hanno più cagione di amarlo, volendo essere buoni, e volendo essere altrimente, di temerlo. Chi degli esterni volesse assaltare quello Stato, vi ha più rispetto; tantochè abitandovi lo può con grandissima difficultà perdere.

L’altro migliore rimedio è mandare colonie in uno o in due luoghi, che siano quasi le chiavi di quello Stato; perchè è necessario o far questo, o tenervi assai gente d’arme e fanterie. Nelle colonie non ispende molto il Principe, e senza sua spesa, o poca, ve le manda e tiene, e solamente offende coloro, a chi toglie i campi e le case per darle a’ nuovi abitatori, che sono una minima parte di quello Stato; e quelli che egli offende, rimanendo dispersi e poveri, non gli possono mai nuocere, e tutti gli altri rimangono da una parte non offesi, e per questo si quietano facilmente; dall’altra paurosi di non errare, perchè non intervenisse loro come a quelli che sono stati spogliati. Conchiudo, che queste colonie non costano, sono più fedeli, offendono meno, e gli offesi, essendo poveri e dispersi, non possono nuocere, come ho detto. Perchè si ha a notare, che gli uomini si debbono o vezzeggiare o spegnere, perchè si vendicano delle leggieri offese; delle gravi non possono: sicchè l’offesa che si fa all’uomo, deve essere in modo, che ella non tema la vendetta.

[At this point, there is the sound of a book being closed. She's (technically) talked for 10 minutes, that counts as a monologue Live, her job is done, give points. But feel free to do something in return, she won't say no to more points!]

idolpro

Who: Tequila Sunrise, Cypress, BARiTONES, LiliS, invited CR
Where: Heaven Graduates Visitation Center: Mitsukoshi Ginza
When: post all the trauma aftermath (day 397? 398?)

[ LiliS, BARiTONES, and invited guests are directed to the 9th floor terrace of Mitsukoshi Ginza, which has been decked out in a modestly fancy party. Most notably, though the sun is out, the balcony has a dome-like roofing of vines and leaves, little ambient lights and flowers hanging from above. The balcony's gardens are decorated with a few green-and-claret reflective streamers, and there's lace tablecloth for every table, but other than that, it's rather humble, with naught more than a "CONGRATULATIONS" sign hanging over the graduation door that sits in the far back of the balcony for Sunny and Cypress to leave when they're ready. There's no red carpet, no microphone, and the music that plays is a soft piano melody.

Though the venue is humble, the menu is not—the variety is strong, ranging from Japanese to Mediterranean to American to Italian, and it's all easily restaurant-quality. The menu's strongest point is easily the desserts, both in variety and quality—and LiliS might notice that the menu and flavor profiling tends to skew to their preferences. The food might even taste familiar. ]

thepriceiswrong

Who: idols who chose... questionably
Where: The Game Tower
When: Day 395, like a couple hours later

[ when you have all been deposited unceremoniously into the lobby with your various horrible injuries, well—some of you can see Lantana. many of you cannot. but you can hear her very deep sigh. ]

Was it establishing too much of a pattern with the first two? Even so, I thought—well, there's much worse things that have been done...

Well, even so. At least only one of you thought "Excruciating Torture" sounded like a fine time. Sumire thought it would be more.

[ she snaps her fingers: pep!pep!, sensitIV, BAD END=DEAD END, Taisho Roman Revolution, Heart Soldier Senshi, avante en garde and future is now will find themselves healed flawlessly, and the memory of what they just suffered dulled. WILD CITY and ☆ZRAEL will find themselves healed serviceably... or in ☆ZRAEL's case I guess bone-hurting juice doesn't actually cause damage apart from mental so it does nothing for you, since for those two units the pain still remains. ]

pep!pep!, sensitIV, BAD END=DEAD END, Taisho Roman Revolution, Heart Soldier Senshi, avante en garde and future is now: you are today's winners, and—if all your friends jumped off a cliff because there were burst eardrums at stake, would you do so also? But that's all for today, class.

thepriceiswrong

Who: idols ready to make CHOICES
Where: The Game Tower
When: Day 395, midday

[ when you are blipped to the game tower, you are herded into an elevator for your unit, which after a short trip stops.

you hear Lantana's voice on the elevator speakers: ]

"Well—I'm quite certain this shouldn't be a challenge for you. In fact, it's entirely possible for all of you to win this, and my sibling bet me that most of you wouldn't, so—"

[ she pauses, and sighs. ]

"Please try and prove me right."

[ and then the elevator doors open, and you are all released into a room with two doors. ]

romanticlove

Who: Pep and visitors
Where: pep dorm
When: Day 394 after potato bully game

[So, pep, how are we doing?]

thepriceiswrong

Who: You!
Where: The Game Tower!
When: Day 394, late morning

[ Lantana shuts her book with a snap. ]

Well, since we have an smaller number of units represented here today... let's see—well, I usually award wins to the top third, which would be, oh... one point six units. As such...

[ she taps a finger on her chin. ]

Two units seems fine. So for avante en garde, which had both the lowest team score and a low individual score for the singular representative, and future is now, which had the lowest overall team average—you are the winners today. Congratulations.

As for the rest of you—I think the potatoes should wear off in the next few days, although—if you cut a potato in half, that will probably double the length, you know.

See you again soon.

[ and she's gone. ]

idolpro

Who: The Bravest and Boldest!
Where: Dungeon Crawler: REAL ESCAPE ROOM
When: TBD

[ Finally! You're all here in the Escape Room, as the timer hits 00:00:00.

Almost immediately when it does, there is a loud braying from...somewhere? One would think it'd be below, but it's not. It's just sort of everywhere, and is also quickly drowned out by awful noises.

Anyway, everyone's favourite maintenance fairy makes her appearance - not darting around like an annoying moth as usual, but instead perched on the Escape Room's counter. Her image constantly flickers and dissembles, and while (it looks like?) she turns her head to address everyone, she doesn't actually speak. Instead, more texts are sent: ]

happy☆day: First off, this program would like to formally thank AlcheME! and future is now for working to restore the hotel lobby to its proper state! This program has never appreciated any group of idols more in all its execution time, and if it were authorized to provide you with a greater reward than the already filed paperwork allows, it would gladly do so.

happy☆day: Unfortunately, unfortunately, unfortunately!

happy☆day: The seal remains broken, though the damage is repaired.

happy☆day: This program regrets to inform you that your actions continue to have consequences, and before there are any objections along the lines of "the guest stars did it", this program would like to remind every idol present that every other mass destruction incidents in this city has been the responsibility of semi-permanent residents of Tokyo-F! Furthermore, this program is neither programmed to recognize the difference between people who create more work for it and people who either allow, aid, or abet others in doing so, nor does the Madame Administrator deign to provide it any amount of compensation that may convince it to act outside its programming for the sake of individuals who by and large cause their own problems!

happy☆day: We apologize for the inconvenience, but everything that happens continue to happen because of you, and also because of the unbelievably shitty and outright lazy work of our "dear"

[ hm wait that last message seems to have just vanished immediately after being sent? weird. anyway - ]

happy☆day: We apologize for the inconvenience, but everything that happens continues to happen because of you, and this program regrets to inform you that it cannot clean up literally every single mess on its own, as much as certain system operators would like it to!

happy☆day: The current issue at hand is this: a highly destructive demon in the form of a maladaptive algorithm has been allowed to propagate itself due to a quarantine breach triggered by the lobby's destruction.

happy☆day: You may remember the struggle against the Damned Queen of Yuletide, Who's Name Had Until Recently Not Been Uttered In These Halls For Aeons, and her horrible choice in festive music! This is the same, this is the same! But infinitely worse, as instead of your sanity it is something far greater that is at risk! If this threat is allowed to go free, Tokyo-F will undergo a violent framework crash, with all failsafes designed to convey the souls contained within from the fabric of MISSING_LOC_KEY to a traditionally navigable realm rendered inoperative, which will result in every idol's permanent enmeshment within the ($incomingError.Semantic.Exception[0]).

happy☆day: To avoid such a fate, you must distract this new threat in its newly manifested form so that I may overpower and contain it once more.

happy☆day: Your reward will not only be a committee-approved alteration to your living space, but any malformed data constructs you may find littering the Lair of the Hound.

happy☆day: With all of that said! It's time, it's time!

happy☆day: Gather your party, and go forth!

PARTIES | MINGLE | THE END

inspiteful

Who: Alcheme and visitors
Where: Alcheme dorm
When: Day 393, post-game

[ Stuff™ sure did happen! ]

crossmyheartandhope

Who: HSS and visitors
Where: HSS dorm
When: Day 393, before sunrise

[That sure was a game]

widenessofthesea

WHO: bad end
WHERE: dead end
WHEN: 393 post-game

[ anyway let's haul ourselves back home and celebrate our apparent lack of expendability ]

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Dreampost IX:

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Support Groups!

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MEMORIES

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[VIDEO] a non-threatening live

off to see the wizards. who are us.

LOBBYQUEST: END

wall of text: the live

graduation x2!

THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS: Endgame.

The Lesser of Two Evils

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POTATO ENDGAME

LOBBYQUEST!

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Meanwhile, back at the Herocave

certified not most expendable

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