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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[counterfaith]

That's right. I will take this time to enjoy myself with the scenery today, and tomorrow I will be gone.

[plsbully]

Well, I will see you back at Chaldea, then?

[counterfaith]

Yes, if fate will be so kind. I hope you find love, Avenger.

[plsbully]

You're quite insistent on that.

[counterfaith]

Am I? Don't mind it, I'm just youthful.

[plsbully]

Youthful ...



I wouldn't use that to describe you.

[counterfaith]

What would you use instead?

[plsbully]

Delusional.

[counterfaith]

. . . Well, you can think what you want.

[plsbully]

Ah, my apologies, "unrealistically optimistic" would be kinder phrasing.

[counterfaith]

Again, you can believe what you'd like. But, my words are true: you can still be redeemed.

. . . Won't you consider it? You have already taken your vengeance. Will you not let go, and seek happiness instead. . . ?

[plsbully]

Ha! Stubborn, aren't you?

Even with the circumstances as they are ... I will not let a mere game change my assertions. I am not Edmond Dantes, the man who was saved by love. I am someone else entirely.

[counterfaith]

Then be a different person, if you must, but be redeemed. You can be redeemed.

[plsbully]

[ there's an unpleasant twist to his smile. ]

I wouldn't be "me" if I could be redeemed.

[counterfaith]

[ he looks to him steadily, voice clear ]

Perhaps then you would truly be Edmond Dantes again.

[plsbully]

[ UGH ]


As I have already told you I am not that man. I could never become him.

[counterfaith]

[ back on this BULLSHIT ]

You have too little faith in yourself.

[plsbully]

I have faith that I know myself.

[ look who's TALKIN ]

[counterfaith]

[ hey shut the fuck up ]

Then, you are stubborn. Reconsider, Edmond Dantes. What happiness is there in vengeance? What salvation can you find in despair? I understand, that sort of hell - but you must overcome it.

[plsbully]

Did you ever consider that I do not seek salvation? That I do not seek the happiness that man achieved? I realize what sort of being I am, what feelings I was born from. This is only a self-awareness of my nature.

And why do you insist on calling me by that name still?

[counterfaith]

Stubborn, and blinded by vengeance. But such is not your nature. You are as redeemable as the man you were born from. You and he are one and the same, in the end.

[plsbully]

You should not be the one accusing me of stubbornness. What makes you so certain wee are the same? Are you claiming you have more insight about me than I do myself?

[counterfaith]

Does a person who has reached the end of a tunnel not see more than the person behind him?

[plsbully]

We have not walked the same path.

[counterfaith]

Those differing paths lead to the same tunnel.