TAKSHAKA

[soulping]

[VP-tan ushers you into your color-coded team rooms, before bowing respectfully.]

Please start out by telling each member of your team something you like about them, while I finish up. It should only take a moment.

Comments

[withmyownfists]

Oh! This should be easy. I really like this assignment. --Can I start?

[experiencepoints]

Go ahead.

[experiencepoints]

[we haven't even started yet and i'm already red]

Of course.

[barrette]

I like this game already!

[ a reason to dere! ]

[withmyownfists]

Me too!

[ ARE YOU READY SPARROW, this is our jam ]

[experiencepoints]

It seems right up your alley...

[i'm about to get a fucking dere nuclear strike again, aren't i.]

[hopefullybetter]

I ... guess this isn't so bad.

[withmyownfists]

[ poking his shoulder ]

Just "not so bad?"

[ big sis is teasin you hawk ]

[experiencepoints]

It could be worse...

[ofbelief]

You just guess?

[barrette]

If the rest of the game is like this, it'll be a fun one!

[ofbelief]

Okay, but I don't need a game for this...

[experiencepoints]

[i may not have any memories of the dere nuke you pulled in my heart, but deep inside, i know what's coming.]

... Yeah, you definitely don't.

[withmyownfists]

No, but... think about it! This game basically panders to our natural skills.

[ this should be an easy win, at least in theory ]

[barrette]

Right? She just wants us to do something we do anyway!

TO VP-TAN

[ofbelief]

[It's after a few minutes of listening to everyone, but particularly after Nightingale tells her she respects how she always... confronts her feelings, that Lark goes to find VP-TAN OKAY.]

I'm sorry.

But I can't do this.

It's not that I don't like to or I don't want to, but I don't think a game is a fair way to tell someone how I care about them. It's no because... It's like I'm saying nice things in order to help us possibly win and I would never do that. Even if I mean them it feels wrong, to play any sort of game over feelings like that. Even if it is a nice game. I've tried really hard to always stand by that. I refused to vote for anyone in that one date bidding game, because someone else would be left out. Even the other day I didn't want to play the other game unless I could give something nice to everyone. When I tell people I love them in a game it's because... they need it and I want to, not because it's something someone else tells me to do.

That's why. I can't-- Even if every word of it's true, I'd rather tell everyone how much I love them on my terms. And I do do that. Every day. Multiple times. I love them every time I see them, I find such amazing things about... everyone I meet every day and I'm not afraid to tell them. But on my terms.

I'm sorry if that doesn't help or messes up the game. But I just can't.

[soulping]

Thank you all for waiting.

To begin with, does anyone feel hesitant about the idea of having hope here?

[experiencepoints]

Well... Yeah, no shit?

[withmyownfists]

Hesitant about hope? Hope for what, exactly?

[barrette]

[ ?? ]

No. Hope is important to have, especially here.

[ofbelief]

I can't think of a world without hope.

[soulping]

Um... moving on...

Is there maybe anyone who feels like their choice of friends seems questionable to others?

[experiencepoints]

[trying very hard to not look at roc]

[barrette]

[ glances at roc out of the corner of her eyes ]

[soulping]

Um...

That's actually all I have ready... but does anyone else have any concerns they'd like to talk about with each other?

[experiencepoints]

...

You ran out?