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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

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Comments

i have no idea where he's supposed to bring this now that he has something needs to read more

[bloodyhoneymoon]

[determined, but how fast will he be able to climb, if his foe is now floating in the air? here, let him rub some salt on that wound...]

The kiss was totally worth my time!

[wink.]

[motorcycle_noises]

[ On the one hand: Floating is very bad and hard to combat. On the other hand: Tatsuya has superstrength that kicks in when he's fighting.

He grabs the nearest person-- sorry Nya, he wasn't paying attention to who-- and hurls him with ease in Death Boss's general direction. ]

Give me back my damned lighter!

[floriographys]

[Wh-]

HEY!

[Well this sucks]

[bloodyhoneymoon]

[wow thanks so much! this sucks so bad.

HOWEVER!

you have activated his trap card :)

by which we mean that even as nya slams into hades, he panickly activates nightmare vision so enjoy having images of this course of actions going very, very, very wrong.

even as hades and nya fall to the ground slammed into a sandwich, but otherwise very okay.]

[motorcycle_noises]

[ WHY NIGHTMARE VISION, THAT'S HIS LEAST FAVOURITE ZRAEL POWER?!

Which is to say that he drops to his knees and clutches wildly at his head, breathing harsh and unsteady. It takes a moment before he lets go of his head and starts crawling towards his fallen former friends.

Even if things went horribly, horribly wrong-- he still wants that lighter back. ]

[floriographys]

Fancy meeting you here...

[NYA IS GRUMBLING BUT HE'S STILL TURNING YOUR STUPID LINE ON YOU.]

[bloodyhoneymoon]

[rude.]

H-hello?!

[hades is thankful that your horns didn't pierce his eyes...he looks over to see the other one slowly crawling towards them even as he tries to seperate himself from nya and groans.]

Awww shit. I didn't mean to do that. Mostly. I got steal an object on my wheel spin...what should I be doing with it?

[he's the worst phantom thief.]

[motorcycle_noises]

[ As the cobwebs clear from his mind and he starts to be able to tell what's (somewhat dubiously) reality and what isn't, his movements become more purposeful until he's close enough to attempt to snatch his lighter back. ]

[bloodyhoneymoon]

[there's more than cobwebs in that mind tbh as nya grumbles away, hades takes this time to get back on his legs and does the most logical thing in his mind

which is to use his powers to toss the lighter high, high up in the sky

please don't kill him!]

[motorcycle_noises]

[ Hey, did you know that members of BAD END=DEAD END have superstrength when they're fighting?

Hades is taller than Tatsuya, but not so much taller that Tatsuya can't lift him up by the front of his shirt and dangle him just high enough that his feet can't properly touch the ground. ]

Drop it. Give me the lighter back. Right. Now.

[bloodyhoneymoon]

I-in exchange for one of your shoes!

[he's in no position to argue against him, but nothing ventured, nothing gained? honestly, he's just stupid.]

[motorcycle_noises]

[ He's incredibly stupid, but Tatsuya considers that for a moment before he nods. ]

Lighter first, then I'll give you the shoe.