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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[discerp]

[Why is this all disorientingly familiar. She fumbles with her tablet to read over the rules, uneasy and baffled.] Find...Love? Romance and passion?

[Um.]

N-not something like this again... [I mean, at least it's not murder??] I-is this a joke? Th-this is going too far!

[daughterofthemark]

[OH NO SOMEONE IS IN DISTRESS and also seems to have figured out the weird rectangles TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE]

What is it? Is someone hurt?

[discerp]

N-no, no one's hurt, but... These rules, um... It's weird, right? It's really weird!

[daughterofthemark]

I have yet to see them, but much about this situation already seems strange.

[She's just... taking that in stride.]

[discerp]

Y-you're pretty clam about it. [admirable, tbh.]

Um, well. [She brings up the rules an holds the tablet out for the other to take and see, shifting her weight anxiously.] H-here!

[fightingoverdose]

You been scouted for one of these game shows before? It don't hurt to have a second chance, yanno!

[discerp]

W-well, yes... No, not really... Sort of? [ ? ????? WHICH IS IT MIKAN.

She shakes her head quickly] Um, I mean! Th-the last g-game I was in, i-it wasn't this, um, nice? I-I mean, it started out...sort of like this, but, um... Then it... Wasn't. [Nailed it.]

[fightingoverdose]

[nods, frowning]

...Well, that ain't how it's gonna be this time, so don't worry!

[since...apparently that's all it takes???]

[discerp]

[SUCH CONFIDENCE]

H-how do you know!?

[lefthandpath]

Miss? Are you all right?

[discerp]

Eep! [She yelps and jumps, quickly waving her hand and the tablet around]

I-I'm fine! I'm not hurt o-or anything, I-I'm sorry for worrying you, please forgive me!

[lefthandpath]

[... oh. it's a Miranda type.

smiles gently and holds up his hands in a pacifying gestures.]

It's all right. I forgive you.

[discerp]

[That... is pretty accurate actually.

She looks surprised.] Y-you do? Just like that?

[bladeisme]

Again?

[Hello Mikan - say hi to this scowling guy with a scar over his left eye, looking at you in concern.]

[discerp]

Eek!

[Sorry Ichigo did you want a coherent answer? Because what you're getting is Mikan immediately falling down on her ass. With her legs kind of. Open. Skirt flipped up.

Flashing him.

It's like 98% on purpose.

I'm so sorry]

I-I-I'm sorry...!

[bladeisme]

[...........................

At the very least, he's not a pervert? Instead, even though he instantly blushes, he pretty quickly offers her a hand to get her to her feet.]

I-It's alright, I was the one who scared you.

...You didn't hurt yourself, right?

[discerp]

I'm sorry, I'm sorry...! [she continues to apologize, but she takes the offered hand to get herself up, face burning red and tears in her eyes]

I-I'm fine, please don't worry yourself over something as useless as me!

[assent]

[ Well at least there's one familiar face so far. ]

Mikan-san, please do not worry. I am sure this is something that is being over-exaggerated. It is more than likely that we will be creating flower pins and a house for them rather than anything dangerous or unusual as the tablets seem to suggest.

[ How optimistic. ]

[discerp]

F-flower pins and houses...? [You know, given the amount of slightly off things that come out of Sonia's mouth on the reg, Mikan's kind of willing to chalk this up to that.

Maybe... maybe this is just how things go in her country.]

B-but... But, um, it did say we'd be going on, um, d-dates. Right?

[assent]

[ Excuse you, she says very normal things. For her. ]

It did say that, you are quite correct. [ Now she sighs softly, her arm holding onto the other. ] I do have concerns about that, but perhaps it is merely a game rather than anything serious?

[discerp]

[For...her. Yeah.]

Maybe... I-I guess we can hope so. [She chews on her bottom lip and twists her fingers together anxiously]

But to just start asking people on dates when we don't even know anyone... [Which, actually, reminds her. She looks around] Where is everyone else?

[dismemberthename]

It'd definitely be some horrible sort of joke...

[discerp]

I-it's not funny at all... A-and those guns on the door are scary... I-if this is like a dating show, it's t-taking itself too seriously...!

[dismemberthename]

No kidding... the whole thing's really messed up. You've dealt with this before?

[discerp]

Um, s-sort of, but... It wasn't dating at all! In comparison... This is more embarrassing, but much better!