WEEK 1

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 1

[You now know why you're here, Titled. The question now is, is there a way to get out of here without invoking the rules? What will those who brought you here do to get you to kill?

Time will tell.

There are fifteen strangers in this place.]

Comments

[notgentle]

[Without missing a beat, smiling wolfishly:]

Absolutely not.

[Dio puts a hand on the back of his neck and cricks it.]

Man, I know there's probably plenty more servings of that tapioca to go around, but I don't know how more than one person is supposed to get the high score on an arcade game. It's called the high score.

[byanyother_name]

Somehow I thought as much. [But there's mischief to the brief glint in Kurama's eyes, his smile almost vulpine.

It fades into a more innocent amusement as Dio goes on.] Really? I can think of several. We're receiving our money as soon as we achieve the goal, for one thing. So if you make a high score and receive the prize, you won't lose the money if someone else comes afterward and beats it.

For another, I think the Barcade has enough machines that we could all play a different one.

[notgentle]

I'll grant you that it would work to take turns, but shit isn't quite that simple.

[He heaves a pretty big sigh, because this doesn't make him look very cool, but. Dio waves his arm at a nearby rifle game, nudging a button without putting any type of token inside. The autoplay footage stops and returns to the starting screen, saying "please insert coin".

The first five ranks are already filled in with three letter taglines that don't evoke any of the fifteen strangers. The sixth, seventh, and eighth scores are "DIO".]

[byanyother_name]

[Kurama looks at the screens, and it really seems like he's fighting a smile very hard. He's trying, Dio. He is.]

...have you considered that perhaps this particular game just isn't for you?