Trash Squad Day 1 - GAME START

[chinhotta]

[ Maybe you were going about your business and blacked out, maybe you were dead. Either way, when you come to, you are in what looks like the entrance hall to a school, except for the very well secured front door. Before you can really get your bearings, a voice rings out on an the intercom. ]

Welcome, kiddos! —How does that sound? 'Kiddos'? Too daddy kink? Eh, let's go with it for now. Anyway, welcome to a once-in-a-lifetime chance at romance and passion, with fabulous prizes! Find love beyond the boundaries of time and space! Original concept, do not steal.

Pick up your tablets and get settled in! A little later today, we'll have our first heart-pounding get-to-know-you event!

—Oh, also, no violence allowed! I know some of you kids are into the murder thing, but that's not the kind of game we're running here.

[ In fact, there are several boxes of electronic tablets around the room. When you pick one up, it displays the gameplay and rules.]

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[dismemberthename]

That's how we're listed. Do you know what that's about?

[dismemberthename]

What an upstanding guy.

[discerp]

Eek!

[She jumps, alarmed] S-sorry! Please forgive me! I just, um, I was just saying... M-M-Monokuma... It'd be bad if he sh-showed up!

[pecker]

Eh? You mean you are serious? B-But I thought the hair hook was a deliberate construction... oh, but maybe someone's laundry fell out a window and hit it!

[discerp]

N-no! I-I know I don't deserve f-forgiveness, but... But... [She blinks back tears, fingers curling tightly and nails digging into her palms]

But I am sorry! That was-- That person was... who I 'used' to be, but, it's not like that anymore! I s-swear! Um, um. [She looks around frantically] Even if you don't remember everything, w-we're still classmates. There has to be something I can do to show you I mean it...!

D-do you want to hit me? Would that help? [And then Mikan hesitates and goes quiet again, eyeing his face.] N-no, probably not, huh...

[redcarnation]

"There's more to life than money" is exactly what a rich girlie would just say.

Money's what makes the world go round out there. Only when you've got money, you don't need to worry about anything ♥

You can talk fancy because you've got it, that's all.

[smalltales]

I'm the leader of an evil organization, so that's how it goes!

[dismemberthename]

Uh-huh.

[assent]

[ She frowns at that. ]

Money causes fights. It causes war. It makes people hate each other. Why would it be the only thing that matters?

[pecker]

I've never met a Laguz... [whatever that is.]

The ones I'm looking for are ordinary size, wild birds. It makes sense there wouldn't be any inside, I just got my hopes up... oh, not that meeting you is bad, or anything. I could ask a lot of questions about it, though.

[She tilts her head, actually not pretending for once.]

For example, if your flying is unreliable, then are you injured anywhere?

[afailedmurder]

[it takes him a moment to decide on the lesser of evils here]

It should be... separate, I suppose. It's only for the game, after all, so I don't need to be a third wheel.

[redcarnation]

Some of us like surviving, missy.

And if we have to fight for it, fight for money, then that's just the way the world goes, right? Those of us who aren't spoiled from day one have to go out and get what they want.

[slice_of_life]

Of the... spear?

[assent]

I keep trying... [ She starts, then stops like she's frustrated and angry with herself just as much as she is with Isuke. ] I keep trying to do everything in my power to ensure that there won't be those without money. Without the necessities to live.

[ And she is actually popular with her people for this, so... ]

[truthstranger]

Y-Yes, that's more or less what it feels like.

[redcarnation]

[ Isuke hears the sincerity in Sonia's tone and elects to ignore it entirely. Her own bitterness and anger are too deep-seated, to linked to her very core, as that she could put them aside for the benefit of a stranger. ]

You can do what you want, but don't pretend you understand the first thing about real life, alright? ♥

[ Isuke turns around, intending to end the conversation before she lets herself be provoked into revealing more of herself than she wants to. ..... this went... splendidly...??? ]

[truthstranger]

Oh, I'm Saihara Shuichi. It's nice to meet you.

[smalltales]

Hey! I wouldn't take that tone with someone who could wipe you off the map with a snap of his fingers!

[discerp]

[She wishes it had all been a nightmare. That would've been much easier. A daily life on a tropical island building a house for a stuffed bunny rabbit is a lot nicer than reality.

Which is probably why she just won't say anything about it all right now. Even if Hinata is just crazy or lost his memories or something, it's a nice lie for him to believe.

But right, the important task at hand. Mikan flinches and makes a quiet whining noise] I'm r-really no good at this sort of thing... But! But I'm sure Hinata-san will make it all the way to the end...!

[lacrimose]

Why does he call hi--

[Then he thinks about it and makes a face. Ew.]

... Yeah, I'll try.

[dismemberthename]

Can't do that here, can you? Unless you're running this. And we're not going back to the same place, so I'm not worried.

[assent]

[ She doesn't even say anything in response to that, unsure of how to proceed when she wants to keep her manners but everything about Isuke is making her feel worse. She doesn't really understand what she did to deserve this treatment--and she probably never will, no, but at least she was trying.

So yes... splen...didly.......... ]

[plsbully]

Youthful ...



I wouldn't use that to describe you.

[smalltales]

It's a saying! It comes from how people used to push an envelope under someone's door to challenge them to a duel.

[ it doesn't. ]

[counterfaith]

What would you use instead?