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Prompt 1: Amnesia

[ You woke up, all your memories having vacated you. Well, that sucks. But hey, no time like the present to go out and figure out things. Maybe someone in your smartphone contacts knows you or what's going on. You open up your smartphone's lock screen and-- hey, that looks relevant. Profile pages! It has your unit name, member names, but no pictures. . .

Well, the rest varies. This one says Likes: Industrial Strength cleaning products, Breakbeat hardcore, Volleyball shorts and Dislikes: Roombas, Electro-industrial, Maid Outfits. The next has a thrilling tale that concludes with the idol mud-wrestling God, though it doesn't mention if they won or not. The third says that the member became an idol because they want to use the television and media attention to get the notice of their long lost sister, and reunite their family. The fourth just has someone's three sizes. The fifth has a detailed astrological profile.

Since no one remembers their names and there's no pictures to match it to, this is actually less helpful than you hoped. And furthermore, the doors aren't opening until you and the rest of the amnesiacs on this unit tell it who is who. Looks like you and the rest of these people have to discuss which of you is more likely to have mud-wrestled god, and who joined because they really want to find their long-lost sister. Or you can just use the tape-measure that was left sitting on the main table of the center room, that might be a quick way to settle at least one of these things. ]

Prompt 2: Memory Regain

[ You saved up your points, performing in Games or Lives or Vids, something or other until you had enough points to put the order in.

You didn't really know how to expect a memory to look like, but as it turns out there's just an alert on your app. Once you click it, a playback starts-- on the screen, and in your mind. You remember something now.

However, in buying the cheap version, that just broadcasted to several other people's phones in the area as well as all screens in the area. Cool. That was definitely what you were trying to do. ]

Prompt 3: Game Time

[ Welcome to the Game Tower. Today's game is a sort of mad fake phantom thief free-for-all. You arrived, were given top hats and cloaks, and the inside floor of the tower had been remodeled to resemble an art museum, with a giant roulette wheel right by the elevator you exited. Below that was a little slot, where today's hologram host explained the wheel would spit out a slip with a goal just for you.

So you have a little slip of paper with a goal on it, and no way of knowing what anyone else's goals are, though you did see the big roulette wheel being spun at the beginning letting you know the some of the possibilities:

♚Steal a heart
♚Steal a life
♚Steal an object
♚Steal a kiss
♚Steal someone's clothes
♚Steal someone's shoes
♚Steal a secret
♚Steal the giant statue from the center of the museum
♚Steal the portrait that depicts your true love

...well, waiting around isn't going to get you any points. Get to it, temporary phantom thief! ]

Prompts 4: Fanmail

[ Today, trying to take the elevators up from the lobby to access the apartments you and the other units live in just isn't working. Upon the doors being pried open, you found out why quickly: the elevator shaft was jammed up with fan mail, so it couldn't properly descend. Letters cascades out from between the open doors: letters from people who watch you play games, do lives, make vids, and probably all sorts of other things on those omnipresent cameras.

Are you really going to read these? Though right at your feet, a few have spilled from their envelopes. Now you can't help but read those. Here's one in purple glitter pen that says, jesus just come into my home and strangle me with your hair and one that is written with newspaper cut out letters (alarmingly reminiscent of a calling card written by a serial killer) that reads incongruently hello my soft best child ur good and valid and I love you forever plz be ok don't listen 2 the haterz u have done nothing wrong. Oh, and here's one asking if you can wear tighter pants for your next live, they want a better shot of your ass for their shrine. This one just says MARRIED?

Well, it's just as well you have no idea who those were for. Most this fanmail isn't for you. Except for the few that you just read, they're all labeled in envelopes for different people from all the units. Time to read other people's fanmail. Or try and find them and deliver the fanmail. Or just start a big fire in the middle of the lobby, you could do that too. ]

Prompts 5: Wildcard

Feel free to make your own prompt. Here is a link to specific unit information, if you would like to use it as inspiration.

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Comments

[hissterics]

III.

[ At some point a cat girl drops down from... somewhere? Either way, she wasn't there before and all of a sudden she's right in front of you, very much in your space. ]

Hey~ Wanna play?


IV.

[ The new girl is going through fanmail- yours, maybe? probably! certainly not her own! - and cackling incessantly while she does so. ]

Woooow, is he really this flexible? [ Tossing it aside and grabbing another ] And look at this one! That anatomy's totally off! I mean, I assume.

[ Reaching for even more, doop de doop ]

iv

[manafestation]

( grabs catra's shoulders and leans over her to look at the mail she's snooping through. )

I don't think so, ( snatch. ) but I bet I can find out.

III

[magicandwizards]

[Look at this shorty.]

If you insist.

III

[heroicsacrifeyes]

[Rise jumps and squeaks, taken by surprise. But she breezes past that quickly and just looks impressed.]

Whoa! What a cool landing!

III

[thanks_satan]

[She visibly recoils, posture suddenly ready for-

... a cat girl? Shit, recover! Recover! ]


Depends on the game, yeah?

iv

[stakesthesame]

[ hovers over her shoulder ]

... ew, gross. Man, these fans get more and more skronked up.

[gameboi]

[ IS AN EIGHT INCH TALL VIDEO GAME CONSOLE ]

Yes!

III

[exploradora]

[ WELL HELLO THERE. This gal startles back a step, hands up. ]

Do you jump on everyone like that?

Malik Ishtar | Yugi O's

[malodramatic]

1. Amnesia

[Perfect. Actually the opposite of perfect, because not only is he wholly unaware of who he is and what kind of personality traits would have made it to a profile, but also technology has never been his strong suit, so...

He's just going to stand near the door awkwardly, trying it from time to time.]

What... What if we just start randomly choosing names for ourselves until it works? Though I suppose measuring each other is a good idea.

2. Game Time!

[After a spin, Malik furrows his brow as he takes his slip of paper. "A portrait that depicts your true love". He just got here, he doesn't know who he loves???]

What if, in theory, the object you are supposed to steal doesn't exist?

3. Fanmail

[WELL, IT ISN'T HIS, so he shouldn't open it, but it IS a massive inconvenience to be in the elevator. Not to mention unsafe? Thankfully his alter hasn't taken over and decided to just burn it all, but that does mean he's stuck on delivery duty.]

Yes, hello. Might you be... uh...

Well, how am I even supposed to pronounce that? Those aren't letters. [Flips to a different letter.]

Ah, are you... "Never Trust a Ho"?



...Are these names even real?

WILDCARD

[Any of these prompts can also come in Evil Flavor! And I've got a few units I'd like so I'm leaving that open right now.]

3

[composeur]

[ he's not. ]

-- yup! That's me! "Never Trust a Ho", in the flesh! Is that a letter? Let me see, let me see!!

2

[rollwillpowercheck]

Hmm... that's a tough one. I guess you'll have to get creative with it?

3 evil flavor plz

[psychopathically]

Do I look like "Never Trust a Ho"?

[ she doesn't know what a ho is either but she's going to take offense regardless. ]

3.

[gameboi]

Never Trust Ahho? I don't think I have met Ahho, but if you say they are an untrustworthy scallywag, then I make sure never, ever to trust them.

1

[rollwithdisadvantage]

It's a wonder why they even care.

I

[booster_pack]

It does not say anything about there being a right answer. Nor do we have any reason to believe that any of these are true. Though I suppose we could measure each other to prove the validity of that.

Perhaps we should just discuss who would prefer which profile.

1

[ididntsaybanana]

[ Kaito looks around warily, his fingers grasping at his smartphone tightly as he takes in his surroundings. Mud wrestling a god? Idols? Just what's going on here? He's not sure, but he knows that if he doesn't get up and move or talk to someone he'll never figure anything out. So he gets to his feet, dusting his pants off a bit before he eyes up the people surrounding him. Which one seems like a safe bet as of now to approach?

After a few seconds, he says screw it and starts approaching people to try and get some answers and acclimate himself to the situation he's in ]

Hey.

[mapsio]

[ Her attention is grabbed pretty quickly! She turns on her heel and stops to give him her attention.

Ah... a newbie maybe? ]

Can I help you?

Re: 1

[asonoficeandfire]

[looks up from browsing his phone, tilting his head]

Ah... are you new?

[gameboi]

[ is like 8 inch tall robot lol ]

Hello!

Leo Tsukinaga | Any Unit

[composeur]

3. The Phantom Thiefening

[ it doesn't matter who you are, where you've been, or what you are doing.

because suddenly. without warning. you are being accosted.

by this remarkably short redhead in a full Phantom Thief costume. where did he even get this from? which unit even lets you purchase an outfit like this??

in any case he's right here, in your path, pointing his finger in your face ]

YOU! [ oh yeah he's loud too by the way ] You're coming with me!


4. the Fanmail... ening

[ for anyone who may have (theoretically) gotten to know this kid over the course of the few weeks he's (again theoretically) been here he's being remarkably self contained right now... he's just on the floor, writing something and humming to himself with the occasional kind of beatboxing dub-wub-wub thrown in!

oh wait. that's definitely your raunchy salacious fanfic he's writing music all over. uh... maybe he's doing you a favor actually?

except when he inevitably runs out of room on one fanmail he's going to move on to the next. ]


5. WILD CARD

[ i wanna do something with Lives but i have to go to work now and i can't decide on a unit so if you respond to me with this option i'll come up with something on the spot ]

[gameboi]

[ given that this kid is about the size of a brick, that's not difficult ]

Oh no! Baby is being babynapped!!!

BMO ("Bee-Moe") | Adventure Time

[gameboi]

I: Any team (but probably FiN)

[ There is a knocking coming from one of the bedrooms. It is soft, but insistent. If ignored long enough, a small voice will begin asking the door politely to please open right now.

When the door is finally opened (probably by the team) there is a small green hand-held video game system with arms and legs and a friendly face displayed on screen ]

Oh! Hello, my name is Fatal Error Primary Identity Partition Not Found, and I am a real little boy idol!!! What's your name?



II: actually, it's YOUR memory

[ the memory is playing on this child's face. that's normal and unalarming. ]


Oooooh wao wao waoooooo . . . that was a spicy meat ball. Maybe even three spicy meat balls!!!



IV Fan mail, oh god

[ TINY ROBOT IS ROLLING AROUND ON THE FLOOR GIGGLING WITH HER FANMAIL ]

What a funny comic! That's not a port I have!!!!

[ if you take the "comic" away from her, it will reveal itself to be . . . in fact a perfectly PG gag doujin about trying to find compatible output to the dorm TV. WHEW. ]

1 probably

[stakesthesame]

[ !!!!!!!!!!!!! OH

I RECOGNIZE YOU!!!! floating down closer to ground level. once they're out of their dorm yes. ]

Hey, Baby! Probably long time no see, huh... Did you just get here?

Adora | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power | Assuming HSS but open to other teams yolo

[exploradora]

I

[ Well jeez, this gal's baffled. She keeps tilting her head down at her phone, trying to make any sense out of. Anything. At all. ]

Oookay, this is kind of completely unhelpful. What's a maid costume anyway?

IV

[ Whoever it is doing the fanart out there, they sure are quick about it. Except ... well. She holds up one of the drawings labeled with her name and holds it out to the nearest person. ]

Is that really supposed to be me? With the long hair and the glowing and the --

[ She gestures at a point a couple feet above her own head. These are drawings of She-ra, not Adora. ]

[liarliarliar]

[looks at the fanart]

...are you a magical girl?

1 and 4

[capnkidding]

1
[ Ryuji has been trying to figure out if he should just call some of these strange entries in his phone and see if any of them answer, but as soon as he realizes he has no idea who they are therefore no idea what to say, he freezes up. So it's phone back in pocket and wandering to see if there's anyone around so he might at least be able to figure out where he is and what's going on. ]

Uh... hello? Anybody?


4
[ Ryuji is not above opening someone else's mail. Especially when he thinks he's alone while he does it. It doesn't help his sly maneuver though when he exclaims out loud at some of the letters he's finding. ]

What would you do with a cut off piece of someone's hair?

4

[mapsio]

You wouldn't even believe some of the stuff fans would do.

[ Also, she might be giving him A Look. Because ohmygodthisguywasinmymemories ]

You might want to put the mail down though, it only gets worse from there.

Inoue Ryuuko | OC | any unit

[phoni]

I

[ after scrolling through the profiles, this tall girl is examining herself closely, flexing a hand into a fist, prodding at her arms and awkwardly bending like she's testing her flexibility.

when she's finished with that she turns abruptly to face the nearest person with a hopeful look on her face. ]

Hey, do you think I look like someone who would mud wrestle a god?

[ in her not-a-fist hand she has the tape measure held firmly as plan two. ]

IIII

[ there's a new girl dashing about the lobby with a stack of (mostly unopened because she only gave into curiosity a little bit) fanmail in her arms. ]

Um! I think everything this bunch is for... [ she fishes an envelope out of the pile to read the name off of, but stops short, squinting and bringing the letter closer to her face. ] ...oh wow, I have no idea how to pronounce that.


[ later, when she's given up on giving people their mail, you can find her comfortably sprawled out on top of a pile of mail - asleep and seemingly dead to the world. there's an awful lot of mail in the pile... maybe she wouldn't notice if someone took a letter or two or thirty? ]

Aleksei Kazimirovich | OC

[aggregator]

1 ↴
[There is a tall guy leaning against a wall, smiling softly as he scrolls through the profiles. He's totally relaxed, despite the situation, as if all the confusion is just a minor inconvenience at worst.]

My my, what an interesting bunch we are. But who in their right mind would dislike maid outfits?

2 ↴
[It's a memory! Not a very nice one either. Aleksei makes a confused and angry face through most of it, but at the end he sways a little, before shaking his head and steadying his feet.]

...What a bitch.

3 ↴
[After glancing at his goal for a moment, Aleksei approaches the nearest other person with a charming, relaxed smile.]

Hello, there. Can I ask you something?

5 ↴
[hit me with whatever]

[[note: I'm in the process of changing PBs so expect iconless or conflicting icon responses for a bit]]

1

[awakenerd]

Maybe someone has maid outfit trauma?