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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Comments

[thesystemisdown]

It's not necessarily a bad thing to still be a little skeptical of this all. In fact, that probably makes more sense!

[She shakes her head, chuckling softly.]

I just have a gut feeling that they're telling us the truth. Maybe I'm totally wrong!

[liftoft]

Of course he is! He's smart, right? I used to be kinda jealous, actually--how cool and together he is, y'know?

[slice_of_life]

Well... your instinct is n-nicer, so I'll try to believe.

[plsbully]

Staggering, isn't it?

[thesystemisdown]

Of course. I'm sure we all feel like that, even if we're not showing it.

[thesystemisdown]

You don't think they're telling the truth about sending us home afterwards, then? Or...

[Reaching for her tablet and pointing to the part about the base prizes.]

"The ability to travel between two universes at will." Do you think that's true?

gomen 4 late

[cantry]

Well... [She wishes she hadn't had low expectations for multiple reasons.] Everyone else I've spoken with has been just about as confused as us. It's scary, but I don't think there's any room left for them to wanna have willing players and then grab a couple extra people who they'll put right back.

[pecker]

I have no idea... I don't think I really want to know. I'd rather just get this over with, to be honest.

[sunbottles]

[Smiles are good!!]

Nice to meet you! [Though that feels a little weird to say considering this... situation.] Um.... I'm Sayori.

[counterfaith]

Well, it's certainly better than my own.

[ lightly ]

Perhaps with our powers restrained like this, however, we do not exert as much mana, and therefore - perhaps we will be able to survive, without disappearing - at least for a few days.

[redcarnation]

I don't expect anything less than your best ♥

[justpure]

[Yep. Still in high school.]

Thank you. I enjoy my line of work. They say you can never stop learning new things, correct?

[justpure]

[. . .]

Korekiyo Shinguji. And you are..?

[appleofhiseye]

Oh! Like a scholar of sorts, then? You've got your work cut out for you.

[she knows the people who work at the palace have a tendency to work long hours, and while it's most likely not exactly the same, it can't be too different from what she's thinking of.]

[hopegloats]

But it isn't normal to just want to give those away, right? Even if you don't know any better. You must have been very charming.

[purrtagonist]

He has his moments of weakness, but. . . in the end, he doesn't let them hold him back. And that's the most important thing.

[purrtagonist]

[he pauses for a moment to collect his words]

No. I think they do have the ability to travel between universes at will, and I believe they're capable of imparting that ability onto whomever wins.

It's just. . . I don't think they're being completely up front about the win conditions.

[purrtagonist]

No kidding.

[MAN THIS FOURTH FLOOR CORRIDOR IS LONG]

But I have a friend in her first year of university who is helping me study. I think I'll be juuuust fine.

[thesystemisdown]

...Of course. It's a little too good to be true, isn't it? Especially with their track record.

[purrtagonist]

Exactly.

[last time the raccoons refused to send people home because of some semantics with the win condition, sooo]

I'm going to keep my guard up. Just in case.

[pecker]

Though you can't have chemistry with people you're not around. There must be plenty of people who don't want to participate...

[And those people will get eliminated, unless they find something to do. Not that this would bother her.]

[assent]

It is a little difficult to snap your head around, is it not?

[ wrap................. ]

gore cw?

[cluelesscavewoman]

Oh... Nothing came out other than blood. The spear was in the way. I could not pull it loose or remove it from the ground before the big book closed.

[Let's go of the collar so it just goes back to covering the scar.]

[assent]

You would think that they would choose people more familiar with this, would you not?

[ Thanks... Chinchillas... ]

[plsbully]

I wonder. They must have been able to summon us in one form or another ... Do you believe there's anything sustaining us outside our own existing mana?