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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[slice_of_life]

[There's a girl nervously glancing around the room, staring at everyone awkwardly, but the minute anyone tries to make eye contact with her she looks away.]

[Then the intercom blasts its message and she jumps.]

A-Ah... M-Murder...? What sort of place is this?

[discerp]

A-at least it said it...Wasn't murder? [Look. We should all count our blessings here. Mikan looks about as nervous as Yuri might feel though]

[slice_of_life]

Uhh... this is just like the set-up for a Battle Royale type of story...

[shivers all over]

[liftoft]

Hey, don't worry about it-- I mean sure, it's creepy, but they definitely said no murder!

[slice_of_life]

Doesn't that just put the possibility out there, though...?!

[Takes a deep breath]

... I mean... ahaha...

There are many... bad things... that can happen... besides murder...

[fightingoverdose]

School, innit? Except without murder.

[slice_of_life]

S-S-S-School shouldn't be a place murder happens in the first place!

[redcarnation]

What do you mean? In life, there's always a chance you'll die ♥

Survival isn't limited to special situations.

[slice_of_life]

T-That's not the sort of thing someone thinks about!

And... it's nothing but strangers here...

[justpure]

What indeed?

[There's a creepy masked dude who just came up behind you and started talking. Totally normal human behavior.]

It could be a situation of uncertianty, where anyone could be forced to murder anyone else at any moment... And if they got caught, they too would die... One would be at wit's end to even survive an ordeal...

[He sounds calm. Too calm.]

... However, you may rest easy. It seems our hosts are the nonviolent type.

[slice_of_life]

Aaaah!

[She jumps a mile as she turns around.]

...Are y-you saying... that's happened to you?

[sunbottles]

[A familiar face oh thank goodness.]

Ah- Yuri! Yuri!!! You too?!

[Game rules what Sayori ain't paying attention to that yet]

[slice_of_life]

...Sayori?

[She lets out a nervous laugh of relief, smiling]

Oh, thank goodness! I was... afraid I wouldn't see even one familiar face.

[purrtagonist]

[oh, geez]

[after getting over his own MUFFLED INTERNAL SCREAMING, Akira has at least regained his composure]

Hey. . . are you okay?

[slice_of_life]

...U-Um!

[Oh god, she didn't know how to answer, and it made her panic.]

[lefthandpath]

I think they specifically said there wouldn't be murder.

[but why they felt the need to specific...]

[slice_of_life]

That's even worse!

[cluelesscavewoman]

[Don't be silly you can't avoid eye contact with this girl. Cause she tries to move and look you in the eyes again, then stops to work out what you're looking at.]

The last time I was here they said that one person had to be murdered every few nights.

[That is not a thing that should be said so neutrally.]

[slice_of_life]

W-What!?

[congrats you did it, and now she's terrified]

[thesystemisdown]

[Of course Yuri is here. Why wouldn't she be? The others are probably going to be around too. And they'll probably do their best to keep Monika from dating anyone because that is how it goes.

She knows being resentful of them isn't exactly fair, especially in this new weird setting, but...]

It's a good thing there's no violence allowed, huh? No chance of anyone getting hurt.

[slice_of_life]

Monika!

[she breathed another sigh of relief... that made two.]

I'm... I'm glad you're here, too...

Oh... the fact they're talking about violence at all... doesn't it strike you as a little bit like foreshadowing? To put the seed of doubt in our minds...

[cantry]

[Agoraphobia is thrumming through Natsuki's tiny body; when she sets eyes on a familiar similar uniform to the one she's wearing, she crosses her arms to stabilize herself, and in her own indirect way keeps Yuri firmly in her field of vision.]

Ugh! If this creep is trying to make one of those movies that's cute at first and then gets all gory, I am gonna barf!

[slice_of_life]

N-Natsuki...

[She was glad to see her, and yet...]

Couldn't you have phrased that a little more... subtly?

[dismemberthename]

Sketchy beyond all reason?

[slice_of_life]

Among... other adjectives.