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Who: Familiar faces?
Where: Tokyo-F
When: Day 423, evening

[ With the sun well on its decline, the good idols of Tokyo-F receive a video message feat. everyone's favourite goddess^{[citation needed]}: ]

RESIDENTS OF TOKYO-F!!!! THE DIVINE DRAGON LUNA HAS ONCE AGAIN, LIKE, TOTES OWNED THE DEMONS OF THIS REALM IN AN EFFORT TO BRING YOU THE GIFT OF LOVE! I'd love to visit myself but I guess I'm like, even more kill on sight than I already was? And like, it's not like they can do anything to me but it's like soooooo annoying to deal with? They intercept every message I try to send too, even if it's to my wife! And that's not even because they think I'm dangerous or anything, they keep trying to tell me something about a "spam filter" or whatever, because I guess they can't handle sixty letters a day? As if.

So like, anyway! That's why I'm hijacking their stream! Now watch my blessing in action! Oh, and whatever garbo demons are watching this?

QQ MORE SCRUBS GGWP (GET GOOD WHY PLAY)

[ Idols also receive a text message: a cryptic countdown. . . countup? The six-digit number changes every second, randomizing like a lottery number, but the numbers never match up.

Something's going to happen. . . at some point. Sometime. Probably?

Then, at once, like some Kingdom Hearts Nobody Bullshit, a number of portals open up in various parts of the city. Instead of antagonistic fuckos though, the people who come out look more familiar and (probably) less antagonistic—they're all Hell Graduates or those who were transferred out of the program!

The city has already changed to accommodate the new guests: across the street from the hotel is a mirror version of the hotel. Here, Hell Graduates have access to their own unit-themed suites, along with whatever additional rooms they submitted for in advance. Transfers likewise have unit-themed suites, but theirs is only the basic room. ]

idolpro

Who: All You Merry People
Where: Game Tower (and BEYOND)
When: Day 312 evening into Day 313 morning

[As you enter the game tower, you're met with a beautifully-lit pathway. You can hear the faint notes of The Hymn of the Damned Queen of Yuletide, etc. etc, but at least it's at the right tempo this time. The pathway leads to a stage with two familiar faces standing under the spotlight. As soon as you enter, dozens of lights burst on, and as you glance up, you see it... mistletoe.

Along with that most festive of parasitic plants, you now get a closer look at the decorations, which, while beautiful and elegant, are also a little... strange and off-putting. Especially this one. There is a wardrobe next to the stage labeled "FESTIVE CLOTHING", and if you are so inclined, will provide you with some holiday cheer. If you decide to leave the game tower, you'll find that the mistletoe extends far beyond into Tokyo-F, hanging from every available nook and cranny for the duration of the game. There's no compulsion to do anything if you're near it--it's just in everything. Which also means the game is not just confined to the tower. That's right: nowhere but your dorm rooms are safe from the festivities.

The rest of the decorations seem fairly standard for a festive party game: there's drinks, there's food, and there's even a karaoke setup onstage. There's also a large display of candy canes in a variety of colors...

Before you can do anything, however, your hosts speak up.]

"Hmhmhmhm...! So, we meet again. Perhaps you were not expecting such faces to welcome you, but regardless, here we are--to welcome you, our friends. The time has come... for the traditional game of kissing and mischief! Be not alarmed: this game will surely be the most exquisite and elegant one thus far."

"Fu fu fu... yes, welcome to the amazing, splendorous world of love we have created for all of you to partake in, as if you could feel the apricity from our hearts...!"

[Yes, this is happening. I'm so sorry. Also Yasuragi is hanging out by the drinks, like ya do.]

RULES ~ QUESTIONS ~ TURN-IN (due by Tuesday 12/15) ~ TALK TO FOX ~ TALK TO WATARU ~ TALK TO YASURAGI/GET WASTED

mywife

Who: A loud person and you??
Where: In the lobby
When: Day 309, early morning I'm sorry

[This fine morning, this ZRAEL is sitting on a floating gold throne right in the center of the lobby, completely comfortable with where he is. Surrounding him happens to be a lot of flowers and also a lot of gold decor, just floating along side him.

In his lap is a little cute pokemon who seems quite content to be there.]

( Its )

tradesecret

Who: Dreaming Idols
Where: wherever your dreams take you
When: Day 305, Night

[ Dream a little dream of ???????? ]

[ NSFW dreams here!! ]

mywife

Who: Someone very loud, a pomeranian (?), and you
Where: ZRAEL
When: 303, post grad, time is a blur

[The first thing someone in the dorm might notice is a loud THUMP by the door covered in tape.

It's quiet a moment, and it's followed by yet another loud THUMP. This time it's followed by something MUCH louder. If this room is soundproof? It isn't soundproof enough.]

I have gone through tens of thousands of hurdles until I forced them to bring me back, and now as a final insult, they use this flimsy attempt to block me from what is rightfully mine?

THIS IS NOT ENOUGH.

[And suddenly, the entire door is just. Kicked down. Off the hinges. And an angry looking man, with glowing gold cracks in his skin, comes through, pretty much half naked. Because of course he is.

Around the same time a less angry looking woman, looking much like she tends to, is standing in her open door staring for a bit before reaching to ??pat his head??, but this "new" fellow doesn't give Aradia much time before scooping her up in his arms to princess carry and storming into the main room.

She can now pet his head while he looks to find unitmates.]

Who still remains?

idolpro

Who: Nya & friends
Where: A typically abandoned building
When: Day 147, evening

[ You may have received a text notification of Nya's graduation, or you may have just seen the pastel bubble-font signs that point to the direction of a building nearby the hotel. It's not a communal upgrade facility, just an empty building, but - ?

At the door is another bubble-font sign that says HAPPY NYA-CHAN FUN HELLTIME - PLEASE TAKE ONE OR BRING YOUR OWN, with a basket full of, uhm, body harnesses. No one told you there was a dress code?

Anyway, whether you take one or not, once you step inside you'll see that the place is like, decked the fuck out and then absolutely destroyed, like someone came in during the preparations and trashed the place and murdered a few people while they were at it -

Oh, wait. No, that's just the sensitIV aesthetic. Yikes.

The walls are in Nya's pastel blue, with sheer pink fabrics hung up to decorate. Blood splatters along the floor, leading to a pool of what seems to be strawberry pudding; the pool itself is shaped like a mouth, rows of human teeth making up the pool's edge with the canines where the safety ladders stand. Beyond the pool are the tables of sweets and drinks, all of them pastel if not just straight up pink. There are two chocolate fountains - dark and white - curved and thin such that they look like waterfalls rather than fountains.

If you look just at the "water" features, they seem to make a ^q^ face.

Huh.

There are, of course, chairs - but they're either they're vaguely people-doll shaped or they're mascot animals. Regardless, they're all bound with leather straps, with leashes that lead to nowhere, and they're also all made of plush material, incredibly soft and comfortable to sit in should you, you know, feel like doing that.

All the chairs line up to face toward the stage, the rows broken up by a tongue-like carpet. The stage itself is a mouth too, an alcove dug into the wall. the esophagus a door that leads to ...?

dangling by a leather strap from one of the front row teeth is a bondage-bound teddy bear whose head can be twisted off to reveal a microphone, for any speeches anyone might like to do. If you can stomach doing that. ]

idolpro

Who: You.
Where: The hotel.
When: Monday.

[ And so, the bus rolls up to the hotel, and you're set free to go to your own room with . . . literally no luggage, haha, fools.

The outside of the building looks old-- the facade worn away to reveal old-bricks, black stone underneath the coat of white paint. But once inside, the black tiles gleam, the black and white chessboard carpet is plush, a smoky 100 foot canopy of glass above points the way to the front desk. Things here waver, like everything else in the territory, but this was always a place for planning heists and vengeance, not doing them. An old-fashioned radio by the reception desk plays music of both varieties: swing, and electroswing. There's a nightclub on the top floor, much as it's lack of windows makes it hard to tell— but exiting the doors brings people out to a series of sequestered balconies, all of them with bars that go all the way up, making them seem like the outside of the top floor has been adorned with many half-birdcages. Your rooms have the same black and white aesthetic as the lobby. You haven't been grouped by unit, but instead randomly assigned doubles or singles-- whatever the hotel had room for, it looks like.

(OOCly, you can decide to room with whoever you like, as long as they're also staying at the hotel in Vengeance Hell!) ]

EVENT INFORMATION

carnivorouscarnival

Who: Man✩Eater, G✩d, and unfortunately you
Where: Outside the hotel
When: Day 140, night (backdated)

[ anyone who was around for a really old-school ✩ZRAEL monologue Live might recognize the set-up just outside the hotel—it's a portable stage, decked out with pentacles and skulls, complete with red lighting and a spooky fog machine.

Man✩Eater stands on the stage, radiating energy and posed dramatically, joined by a fuchsia-haired lady who might be familiar to some. ]

Hello, hello, hello, testing one-two-three~! Whew, been a while since my voice graced the stage, hasn't it? Did you miss me? Are you all enraptured by the clear, dulcet tones of my voice? Gyahahahahaha! Hahahahahahahaha!!

—haha... aaah, anyway. I'm happy to sing my own praises another day, but that's not what tonight is about. I, Man✩Eater of ✩ZRAEL, home to the children of the moon and stars and sun, under the demonic auspices of the Red Sea Witch, come bearing a message for the rest of you wonderful, ignorant fools. I stand here to herald the return of our deliverer, the divine being whose light shines down upon ✩ZRAEL's darkness, G✩d herself! Months have passed since her disappearance, and some may have thought she abandoned us, but those who held onto faith have been rewarded! She now returns to grace Tokyo-F with her presence once more.

Not even the fires of Hell could touch her, not even the horrors of the abyss could deter her—she is the ultimate being who is beyond the transient experiences of pain and suffering! You have two choices: accept her and the peace she can bestow upon your soul, or turn away from her and face her just wrath! Succumb to her forces of destruction!! Now, the time has come to make your choice! Gyahahahahaha!

...

Or, y'know, at least come say hi. It's been a while.

[ meanwhile, said G✩d is giving sweeping bows and blowing kisses in the background. ]

gigadevilbreaker

Who: All y'all
Where: Dining hall
When: Day 141

[Are you sad about your Pokemon being gone and need a drink? Or maybe you'll just take any excuse to compete. Perhaps you just have the misfortune of being in the dining area as it's been transformed into a frat house. Either way: the chairs have been cleared out, there's buckets of water, and the tables are set up with 6 dixie cups on each end, half filled with beer - or ARE they?]

All right - who's ready to get their ass beat at beer pong?

Rules are this: stand at the end of the table and try t'get your ball into the cups on the opposite end. If you score, the other guy has to drink it and remove that cup. Winner clears their opponent's side first.

Oh yeah, and wash the ball between turns? Don't be gross.

All booze provided by Yvette! Unless you don't want any, there's a juice option. Oh, and courtesy of our wizards, some of the cups might be spiked with somethin' else! So try not to suck?

[The list of possible potion effects is here! Go wild, kids]

ohgodno

Who: ☆ZRAEL and visitors??
Where: ☆ZRAEL
When: Day 138, morning

[good morning, it looks like you guys have some new faces]

idolpro

Who: Princesses & Cowherds
Where: Various parts of the city
When: Day 137, morning

[ Good morning, idols! It's. . . it's morning, right?

Even though your clocks are correct and it is the AM, the sun isn't out in the sky yet. More than that, the stars are shining ever so brilliantly today - you can see the entire Milky Way system here, in fact so clearly that it feels like you could reach out and touch them.

It might be a familiar sight to some of you idols, though there's no message that accompanies your phone.

Step through any given doorway outside of the dorms - the elevators for example, or the lobby doors - and you might find your clothes mildly transformed: the style and colors are still the same, but white constellations and stars glitter the fabrics, twinkling like the night sky. (If you're wearing white, the stars have a black outline, still twinkling against your clothes.)

This will likely persist throughout the day, although depending on the doorways you go through the constellations may change. (When the clock strikes midnight, the constellations will no longer move or twinkle, though it's player choice if they want to keep the clothes transformed to have unmoving stars.)

Outside, you'll find a lit-up pathway to Shinjuku Gyoen from . . . anywhere you are, honestly; the pavement seems to reflect the sky above to make a river of stars that run down to the park. There, you'll find a wooden platform lined with white cloth just outside the park, as well as a few fold-up chairs and cloth-lined group tables - you know, the long ones. There's nothing on them, though. The place looks primed for a potluck, but only if you're the ones bringing the food!

Lining this side's edge of the park are tall stalks of bamboo, with a wooden plaque hanging from one of the stalks. It has this written on it:

Long, long ago, the Sky King's daughter began to weave him a beautiful cloth. He loved it so much that the Weaving Princess would work diligently every day in order to please him - but her weaving left her in solitude, alone and loveless. Seeing this, the Sky King arranged for her to marry the celestial Cowherd. The Weaving Princess and the Cowherd fell in love, happily spending their days together ☆

However, in their love was tragedy. The two were so enamored with one another that they forgot their duties - the Cowherd his heavenly cows, and the Princess her weave. Displeased by this, the Sky King separated the two across the heavenly river - but at the behest of his daughter, he promised that the two could meet each other once every year should she finish her work.

And so, we celebrate Tanabata, for the two's reunion. When we celebrate the day when the two lovers can meet once more, we also ask to be granted a single wish! Write your wish on a paper tag and tie it to the bamboo tree; it very well may be granted to you.

The paper tags are neatly placed in front of the bamboo, several inkwells in the ground - that is, the cement seems to be dug into in order to fill with ink - and some bamboo stalks lend to disposable one-time use brushes that start to dissolve once it's written a tag, although if you want like, you know, nicer writing implements to write with or more space on the paper you can always hit up a Taisho.

The first tag is already on the bamboo: STOP BREAKING MY CITY . . . One year later . . . things haven't changed.

At the café, the decorations inside have been replaced with Tanabata-themed items: bamboo stalks, star wallpaper and flooring, and black-and-white spotting on the seats and tables like they're for cows. The door is fixed, so that's nice - for today only, the outer walls have fencing as decoration too, as if the café is a cowpen.

The station has been cleaned up, with constellation paths going to each train. The missing train has returned, and upon searching, you won't be able to find it at the bottom of the bay, so . . . there's that! There's also a building somewhere that had a hole in it . . . but the hole is gone . . .

There are various vending machines to be found today only, both in the arcades and just around: 50 points for a broach or lapel or hairpin themed Tanabata, taking form of one thing or another: a little cow face, a constellation, weaving instruments, kimono, or other things. You know, just stay in theme. There's no option to select anything, just a little scanner where you can beep your phone and you'll get something random out of it. In other words, it's a gacha.

Nothing to be heard from the Producers today, it seems. It's quiet. It's nice, isn't it? ]

stakesthesame

Who: zraels and zrael accessories
Where: starhaus
When: sometime 136 i dunno

[ so do we like, all exist at home, for once. or in the general vicinity of home?? i dunno

i guess there's also new stuff for people who haven't been around or noticed: like a kitchen and every room has a balcony now. nice. ]

idolpro

Who: You!
Where: The Hotel Lobby
When: Day 135

[ This time, fanmail is bizarrely. . . . bizarre. Instead of in droves of boxes, they're all presented on bamboo trees? In either parcels tied to the stalks or like, wrapped like they're wishes. Each tree has color coded ribbons to indicate which unit they're for. Also . . . .

Also the trees just line the entire lobby entranceway so you can't, like, go anywhere without addressing this. Not even just lined up, it's like a fucking forest here. There's a forest in the lobby. A forest of love (?). ]

zugzwange

Who: haruto never sleeps he only annoys
Where: ON THE DISSONANCE AS THE KIDS WOULD SAY
When: 132, night

[ mass text: ]

Can I lick your head for a live?

maleficafe

Who: Idols
Where: Dissonance
When: Day 131, slightly backdated to early early morning, like 2am

[a message goes off in the community chat, late at night (or very early in the morning, depending on your perspective)]

Lavender: I'm curious about something.
Lavender: Do you believe in God?

stakesthesame

Who: zraels and... visitors...???
Where: the zraelcave
When: 130 post-game

[ s... o how many of us are actually home... or coming home tonight.............. ]

rollplayinghouse

Who: ☆ZRAEL + at least a couple friends
Where: ☆ZRAEL
When: Day 129, afternoon into evening

[We're doing alright!!!!]

syncintohell

Who: Shu, potential artists, people objecting to using the hospital as an art gallery
Where: The Hospital
When: Day 127, Later Afternoon

[ Your phones get a live alert: Shu is broadcasting in the late afternoon from the rarely used hospital ]
]

With all this nonsense about grocery stores and your deep and abiding desires for bugs, I have long since realized that it hopeless to think that you lot might be convinced to vote for something cultured. As such, I instead come to you with this proposition: let us create an art gallery of our own.

The hospital is largely of no use to us, and the many small rooms can be used as display room each. So I call to you, idols of Tokyo-F! Give me your name on this directory, to choose a room and you may display what you like. I invite you, with art show yourself to the world!

[ He holds up to the screen a paper that written in his bombastic cursive: Art Gallery Directory. His name is already on it, and it looks like he's already claimed a room on the forth floor. ]

iamverybadass

Who: People!
Where: Places!
When: ~~Times!~~ Throughout Day 127

[ IT IS TIME: For memories ]

stakesthesame

Who: Req and... whoever
Where: Omote-Sando station, near the cafe.
When: 127 like idk 2am something absurd like that

[ So when the live flicks on Req's sitting on top of the station entrance with her guitar, and is silent for a long moment. She looks a little flustered and, like. Anxious? Maybe?? She's idly plucking at the guitar strings like it might help at all. In any case-- ]

So... King gave me this idea the other day, but I didn't have a chance to do it before I opened my stupid mouth and junked up stuff during the last game. So, uh... I guess, me stepping up in the new Zrael tradition of sappy exposition feelings garbo, I'm gonna talk about Nemesis.

She's. Really cute, and all. When her hair's all messed up from the wind or somethin' or she's all dirty from being a rowdy delinquent with Hurricane or her cheeks get all red cuz it's cold and stuff, or the way she squints when her glasses are off that makes it look like she's glaring at you or something. The way her eyes light up when she's up to something, or when she's doing something dangerous. ... the way she smiles when she's kind of unsure but kind of happy, or how she goes red up to her ears when she's embarrassed, or how her smile gets all soft when I say something right for once...

[ plucks at the strings again, but her attention drifts off it quick enough, just. rambling. ]

... I've done a lot of donked up stuff, between-- her, and the people she cares about, and she's always been willing to look past it to some extent. I mean. I wanna think it's cuz I've changed a little, maybe for the better, I dunno-- but I'm kind of... envious of that, too. Being able to give people chances. And see their change. Being their friends. Even if she acts like a skittish cat sometimes that you gotta bribe out of hiding. And it's not like I blame her for being wary? That's normal, I think. Being in this place so long and going through so much messed up stuff. And that's a strength, too, in a way. Knowing when to give chances, or be friends, or think someone might be willing to change in a way that won't hurt you more...

And like, despite all that, despite everything I've done, she'd still-- take some serious hits for me. Maybe not right now though. But I could tell... going through the Hunger Games with her, 'specially, she was so... worried about me. And other people too, I mean, but-- the couple of times it was just us... I think some of the stuff I did hurt her then, too. Not on purpose-- and I'd do it again and again, given the chance. M'not gonna risk her to save my skin, y'know? Not in this place. ... the more I can help protect her the better.

But-- um, more... back to the point. She's so. Loyal and devoted and kind. She's incredible, and she's so strong, and she just-- keeps moving, keeps going, she never stops... I don't really know anybody like her, here. Not to that extent. I've... given her plenty of reasons not to trust me, just cuz of how I am, and what I am, but that's never happened with her, for me. ... I've never felt anything but safe with her around. Never felt like she'd ever turn on me or sell me out or anything like that. And y'know what, if she did, I'd probably have deserved it.

... think I deserve a lotta things. Bad stuff, mostly. But there's a lotta good stuff I want too. And I'm not really begging forgiveness or anything like that-- though I am sorry, for... being all jealous and weird. But more than just wanting to be with her, I want her to be happy? She definitely deserves that. Almost more'n anyone, I think. 'N I don't really know how I should make up for being a big fat idiot all the time with a big fat mouth. If she wants me to only do stuff with her, then... I'd be happy to. If she wants someone else entirely--

[ a pause. ]

... as long as she's happy, I'll be happy too. She deserves the world, I think. And if she wants me to give it to her I'll try my best. ... s'not a very good "best", but... it's something. And I'd like to try... And I said-- a bit ago, I hoped she was half as happy around me as I was with her, cuz I felt so strongly about it. And that's still true-- even if it's not with me, you know? But-- um...

[ quiet for a moment longer before she adjusts the guitar on her lap and just starts to sing instead.

... when she's done she just kind of stares at her guitar and mumbles "Maybe that one was too melodramatic though." ]

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