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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[cluelesscavewoman]

[You know that could go horribly wrong.]

No. because I did not have any friends to go places with.

Unless going to the pub with Father counts?

[It went wrong.]

[purrtagonist]

Are you sure? You looked a little skeptical.

[thickandchunky]

[We can't all be macho like an open-shirt hawk pirate king, not even Ike.]

I would love seeing that, myself.

[assent]

Yes, they are something we were told to collect as our objective to go home again. You are not familiar with the concept?

[ No one is... ]

[lacrimose]

How are you so sure?

[...Although people do keep mentioning talking animals for some reason...]

[cluelesscavewoman]

Everyone keeps saying it is different.

[No, they're just wording it differently.]

Good afternoon Akira.

[But she's happy to see you again.]

[liftoft]

Well, Shuichi is my sidekick.

[ Ergo.

vis-a-vis

concordantly ]

[fightingoverdose]

At the academy, if you don't have a badge, you don't eat. But if you don't got a bunch of badges, nobody'll respect you, and you can't even talk to the student council. So after school, you do what you gotta to get as many badges as you can...or else you suck up to someone that does, so you can eat.

[there are three on her jacket collar, actually]

[truthstranger]

[ Shuichi hesitates, but... violence is really against the rules... and if Korekiyo really just came from his own execution, maybe he should give him a little time. Maybe he'll even settle down a bit...

So he doesn't move to follow him. ]

Um, alright. It's probably a long story, so... We'll talk later.

[liftoft]

Ha... yeah, that's true! It'd kinda be cheating if it was all the same people again, right? We'd already know what each other liked and stuff...

[justpure]

Hope fragments?

[Hey, here's a guy who looks super creepy!]

What on earth are those?

[purrtagonist]

Eh. . .

[Akira's pride isn't so brittle as to be affected by something like that, so he just shrugs]

I'm less worried about the "whys" of being eliminated and more worried about this "romantic getaway."

[he even does air quotes. to emphasize how dubious he is of this concept]

[assent]

For a commoner I suppose if the objective was also to win something it would not be so unusual, however... [ Now she seems to be a lot more distressed. ] it is simply unacceptable for someone of my station! What would my people think if their Princess was seen doing anything like that on television? I simply cannot get involved with something like this!

[thesystemisdown]

[Well, this is. New.

Familiar in certain ways, but altogether new in so many others that Monika is really not sure how to even react to any of it.]

I guess... this could be worse?

[That is really all she's got. That and endless internal screaming, but nobody needs to know about that part.]

[purrtagonist]

Have been through what we went through before?

[he has noticed]

[cluelesscavewoman]

I see. I will watch and learn how it works.

[Why would you do this?]

[lacrimose]

Yeah. People wouldn't lock others up for a game like this, so it has to be demons.

[aria_ardeinae]

I-

[ There's nothing he can say about himself that won't be digging himself deeper one way or another, is there ]

I'm sure you consider yourself an expert on all things rough!

[truthstranger]

T-Thank you. Ah, but, there's more—

[ he hesitates ]

I actually... got out several months ago, from my perspective. I've been... in another world.

[purrtagonist]

. . . nobody wants a chaperone during a date. . .

[THAT WOULD RUIN THE DATE]

[cluelesscavewoman]

You--

...Who are you?

[assent]

They are items we were supposed to obtain to go home. I am not sure why no one else here seems to have heard of them.

[tsunderine]

I would definitely appreciate it, Zen-kun. [ She probably shouldn't be using honorifics, but she's using it anyway to be polite. ] Oh, and that goes for any other information you find out. I think trading information is really important, after all, if we want to get out of here.

[flamingprick]

[What kind of friend would he be if he didn't make his friends become thoroughly embarrassed?]

After you see it, be sure to ask for tips too! They know a lot about it.

[thesystemisdown]

Excuse me... are you two the ones in charge?

[Stuffed chinchillas? Sure. Why the fuck not.]