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

[starinhereye]

Ah, you've been through this before?

1/2

[helptilistop]

...Y'know, I hadn't really tried to use mine, but now that you mention it... Yeah, that is weird. It's weird enough that there'd be an Avenger here, too, but there's definitely something bigger that's off about this.

[loveisanopenseal]

Correct. I have yet to experience dating in this manner.

[sunbottles]

[Behind him stands Sayori, on the tips of her toes and hopping slightly to read the tablet over his shoulder.]

Oh no, did I miss something already?! What were the rules before?

[justpure]

... What if, indeed?

We would have to wait and see if it happens, wouldn't we?

[appleofhiseye]

That would explain why the tablets didn't come with instructions. They might have thought everyone would know how to use them, or at least we could help each other out.

[daughterofthemark]

Do you suppose we'll be assigned a date together? Then we would truly experience this together.

[loveisanopenseal]

This is valuable information. Thank you for your assistance.

[purrtagonist]

They did promise us there wouldn't be any murder.

[said wryly. but, like, can you really trust a chinchilla?]

But whatever it is, I don't imagine it'll be pleasant.

[truthstranger]

...That... was the criteria. In the end... three of us were alive by the time we managed to stop the game.

[fightingoverdose]

Were you hopin' for next week?

[helptilistop]

[ beat. ]

Buuut, whatever, right? Let's just see how things go~

[smalltales]

[ this short high-school aged kid is busy paging through a tablet. if he's bothered by any of this, it doesn't show. ]

Uh oh, I smell a copyright infringement lawsuit!

[justpure]

It is... Now would you be kind enough to untie me?

[PLEASE?]

[lefthandpath]

Well... it's. Actually white.

[he's just. filthy...]

[aria_ardeinae]

I would prefer to have a hawk's mighty talons and the iron stomach one would require to devour you creatures whole.

[slice_of_life]

Really?

[That gets her attention.]

That is, doesn't this seem like the build up to some sort of horror or suspense story? A group of strangers mysteriously brought together to play a 'game'...

The fact that they say there won't be murder only serves to foreshadow the eventual breakdown of the rules, until it becomes a vicious free-for-all where alliances are tested and no one is sure who to trust...

Even now, the tension just makes me sick thinking about it.

[p-pause]

I'm sorry... I'm... I'm sure I'm wrong for thinking these things...

[counterfaith]

[ with a soft chuckle, ]

Well, there isn't much else we can do. By the by, who is your current Master?

[purrtagonist]

[. . . !!!!]

I see. . . so that's the root of my problem. I've been wondering why I couldn't perfect my technique for years now.

[helptilistop]

Even better! Romance for everyone, I say!

[afailedmurder]

Unfortunately, it's a perfectly normal amount of time for a season two.

[tsunderine]

That's only if it's true, right?

[ She's a bit of a skeptic on that herself, given that traveling through different worlds is supposed to be considered a miracle. ]

[aria_ardeinae]

...

[ It's baiting him. ]

...What happened in the last game, pray tell?

[lefthandpath]

... I've never heard of any of those things before.

[except for the last one but too astounded by bizarre things to be able to articulate that.]

[justpure]

... Actually, I'm the Ultimate Anthropologist. Social experiments are more of a sociologist's line of work, but they are still fascinating.