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

[liftoft]

Yeah--I actually just came from one of these! Is it really that interesting of a premise?

[appleofhiseye]

And maybe someone will know how to use this...tablet? It isn't much use if we can't make it work after all.

[she gives it a couple more taps before tucking it under her arm and setting off. in. a direction! sitting still is not her thing.]

[flamingprick]

[Well that's weird and a little personal. Rin frowns a little and looks slightly awkward for the sudden touching, but doesn't push Ranulf away.]

No? I'm just part-demon.

[fightingoverdose]

[dubious]

You don't make it to Koshien three times if you don't really love baseball.

[slice_of_life]

...

The juxtaposition of talk of 'romance' with the assurance of 'there will be no murder'... doesn't it just create an uneasy state of mind? Like a contradiction that can't be resolved, so the tension just builds and builds...

[daughterofthemark]

...it is all right. You are justified in being upset, after all. Although... perhaps threatening violence will not be an effective solution?

[She certainly seems fine now.]

[tocatchafallingapple]

[ i am always serious ]

The mention of "murder" may have been more than just a bad joke.

[purrtagonist]

[it's familiar. . .]

[starts once when he realizes she noticed him]

. . .

Good morning! Afternoon? Evening.

Ah-- no, just "good day" works.

[tsunderine]

It certainly would be, wouldn't it? I mean, clearly people who can't talk can't fall in love! Isn't that cruel to mute people?

[flamingprick]

Yeah.

Being a ghost sucks by the way. You can't touch other people.

[justpure]

[... Kiyo's been staring at the pink cloth for a solid ten minutes.]

... Sir? What is that on your head?

[hopegloats]

[ INTERESTING ]

Hmm? You've done this sort of thing before?

[appleofhiseye]

[skimming through the tablet info...]

It's kind of overwhelming. But not so much that I can't wrap my head around it. Is this...kind of thing normal?

[justpure]

Oh?

[How dramatic.]

Then what would you normally be "summoned" for?

[purrtagonist]

[shrugs!]

Multi-purpose. Browsing the internet, watching videos and television shows, sending messages to people from a distance. . .

[wait, right]

You've never heard of the "internet" before, have you?

[flamingprick]

Yeah, it's not normally grey like that. Did you go grey young? I think Dad did too, he's been grey since I was a baby.

[But hey, he's sixteen! The same age as Rin!]

[starinhereye]

I don't think the incredible part is falling in love. I think it might be just being here.

[holding up his tablet as an example]

If we're actually crossing into, I suppose, different worlds, then that's something in and of itself, right?

[daughterofthemark]

You're quite cute, so you'll have an advantage in dating.

[slice_of_life]

... [nervously glances at him from the corner of her eyes.]

Do you... read... much?

[afailedmurder]

[the Ultimate Pleasant Boy has a thousand-year stare]

...Well. Here's a place I never imagined I'd see again.

[flamingprick]

That part had nothing to do with- ....well no, I guess there was dating, but that wasn't the point of that game.

[loveisanopenseal]

There are those who do enjoy the risk of not getting caught . . .

[helptilistop]

[ I mean, Sieg did win. No sense holding a grudge if everything turned out okay, right? ]

Are there? You're the first one I've run into. I mean, unless everyone here is a servant, and this is some weird Sexy Grail War, but I think I'd have noticed that.

[discerp]

[She's so happy to see a familiar face that she doesn't even care that it's Komaeda.

sorry komaeda]

Komaeda-san! [She does look relieved though as she hurries over, clutching her own tablet tightly] I-I haven't seen any of the others yet, b-but. You're here too? I'm glad I'm not alone...!

[fightingoverdose]

Me too! We'd better be able to strong-arm those furballs into coughing some up, since we're here and all.