[gm card room - rose]

[crittersheep]

[You find yourselves seated around a table in the middle of a small room. You can’t really perceive any walls, just heavy black velvet curtains on all sides. If you push them aside looking for a way out, you just keep finding more curtains behind them.

There is a crystal ball in the middle of the table and a spread of six large cards arranged around it, currently facedown. Their backs are a plain matte black.

You are aware that powers are all off for card rounds but will be on for the punishment round. You have whatever items are normally on your person.]

Comments

[debug_mode]

...Can we wait for them to hit us first, or is that bad?

[wants_the_phd]

Is it bad? I dunno. I'd fuck up a Clover either way, if I were allowed. Some of them seem fun to fuck with.

[debug_mode]

How? It's like stepping on someone's puppy.

[wants_the_phd]

What do you mean?

[what's wrong with stepping on someone's puppy?]

[debug_mode]

They're trusting, carefree souls who look only to make friends. --Well, maybe not all of them.

[wants_the_phd]

[Barks a laugh]

Do we know the same Clovers?! Which individual are you talking about, specifically?

[debug_mode]

Shade, for one. And Spinel. Lyra. ...Maybe Lyra's a stretch in terms of 'only wants to make friends.'

Sonata, but she's gone now.

[wants_the_phd]

Wait, are you saying Lyra's not trying to make friends? Is she friendship-averse?

[does it run in her family]

[debug_mode]

No, but compare her to Shade, and there's a world of difference.

[wants_the_phd]

It's been so long since I've spoken to either of them that I think we really do know different Clovers at this point.

I bet Hannya and Zenith could handle a gentle stabbing, though. They both seem like the type to be pretty unshaken by that sort of thing.

I tore Zenith near in half last time and he was still fully prepared to kick my ass. If we get to choose our targets, I'd have no qualms about fighting them a little. If they fight back, then it's a game.

[debug_mode]

... [Sighs]

This kind of leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

[wants_the_phd]

Would you like to talk about violence to Thistles, instead?

[debug_mode]

No, I'd like them to look me in the eye and watch me play the card. Then... then at least you all would be okay.

To be fair, I'd do it with Clover and even Thistle too.

[wants_the_phd]

Okay, but in my defense, that wouldn't be fun for me at all.

I may be an old fart, but I still like playing sometimes.

[poisonista]

Miss Lyra is friendly, but she's cunning and as a star in her position should be, she will look out for herself first as long as she has support to do as much.


[ He knows how idols work!! ]

She's nothing like her brother, but she will support him where she can.

[wants_the_phd]

Are she and her brother close?

[poisonista]

... a bit too close, if you ask me. It's just the impression I get from how she speaks of him.

[wants_the_phd]

That's good to know.

Gray Rock seems to be under the impression that if he ignores me, I'll leave him alone. I bet he'd be very brave if I picked his eyeballs out one by one.

But what if I did it to Lyra, instead? Ate them right out of her face? Wouldn't that be cute? A two-fer!

Now I really want to try, just to see what happens.

[poisonista]

That's really unhinged, you do realize, right? Did he really anger you that much?


[ He's both amazed and Concerned. ]

I do like Mr. Hannya and Miss Lyra. You're right that he'd take it better than her... but let's save hurting her to get to him as a last resort.

[wants_the_phd]

Oh, fine. I guess I can always do it on my own time.

I do like Hannya, though. He seems like the kind of person who forges friendship through violence.

[She doesn't know who "Kiryuu-chan" is but he seems like a special violence friend, based on the memories she's seen.]

[debug_mode]

Thank you. That's an eloquent way of putting it.

[poisonista]

We're in the same line of work. I imagine she'd say the same about me and now expect me to back down.

[debug_mode]

Come to think of it, she did get a recording of all of an idol performance of herself played throughout the entire pasture that one time...

[poisonista]

[ not* not now cries ]

She did? What was it like?

[debug_mode]

Well, I couldn't be objective about that. I'd have to be subjective. But, I suppose it was okay-ish? I mean, it wasn't something I'd want to be forced to watch. It clearly wanted to draw out energy from that I wasn't ready to give...

But, I can't judge it objectively.