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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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Fujiwara Katsue (OC) | avante or Taisho

[emptymind]

option A [truth or drink]
[ the rules are simple: ask each other questions and you are compelled to either answer truthfully or take a drink. every time you make your partner drink you get a point!

Katsue fetches glasses for both of you and pours drinks, you first, then her own cup. ]

Please, join me. Would you like to go first?

option B [endgame]
[ post trauma game! can tag as a unitmate or as someone from a different unit, maybe who hit them. Katsue isn't too worse for wear - just a stab wound through the gut that doesn't seem to be bothering her much - but some members of her unit came out a lot worse off. now that everyone's been let out into the gametower lobby, she's surveying the crowd and taking in the extent of the damage with a pensive look on her face. ]

A

[claestrophe]

[ Truth games are notoriously deadly for AlcheME!s. And yet this particular one seems to be in good spirits? ]

Don't mind if I do! What have you remembered from back home so far?

Re: A

[emptymind]

Ah, luckily I bought my first memory just yesterday. It was the final round of a fighting tournament. I emerged victorious, and went to visit the family doctor afterwards to have my wounds tended to. I have a younger brother who accompanied me at the time, along with my sponsor. What about you, miss?

[claestrophe]

My mother.... she's a very scary woman. And she hates my hobbies....

[emptymind]

Why is that?

/2

[claestrophe]

I think she hates farmers. Perhaps she had a tragic accident involving a hoe when she was a child....

[ no that's not it

but she's so dumb, it doesn't trigger the lying mechanism ]

[claestrophe]

Well, never mind that though. You say you're a fighter, and a strong one at that? [ she did not--but ??? has implied that. ] That's so incredible! Your family's okay with that?

[emptymind]

Mm, of course they are. In all my public appearances, I act as a representative of my family.

Your hobby is... farming?

/2

[claestrophe]

I suppose it might be more accurate to say that it is both my hobby and my back up plan... just in case.

[claestrophe]

But yes! I quite enjoy it. What's it like to be your family's representative?

[emptymind]

Mmm... Truthfully, I must be vigilant in my conduct. The Fujiwara clan has a great deal of power and influence. It would be unacceptable to speak or act without propriety, but it would be equally unacceptable for me to appear to debase myself to someone of a lower station. Not only my words, but also the volume of my voice, the method and depth of any bow, whether or not to pour another's drink, whether or not to make eye contact, and many other things must all be chosen very carefully.

Option A

[innerdaemons]

[ he offers a tip of his head, not reaching for his drink quite yet. ]

May I start by asking your name?

Re: Option A

[emptymind]

Of course. You may call me Green. In return, may I ask yours?

Re: Option A

[innerdaemons]

Absinthe. A pleasure to make your acquaintance.

Re: Option A

[emptymind]

[ for the record her clothes are absolutely not green, whatever they are. dips her head ]

It's a pleasure to meet Absinthe-shi as well. Then, what does Absinthe-shi remember from before coming to this place?

Re: Option A

[innerdaemons]

[ he's not judging okay!

.... but he is drinking. ]

You're really not holding back, I see.

Re: Option A

[emptymind]

Eh, is it a sensitive subject? Please excuse my presumptuousness...!

Re: Option A

[innerdaemons]

You're forgiven, for now. It wasn't as if you could know, after all.

A

[notadrop]

Ummmmm, not really?

[ He fidgets in his seat, looking down at the cup. Clearly pretending to be nervous is the best way to hide that you're actually nervous -- ]

Like, I don't drink very much. So...

Re: A

[emptymind]

Then, would you like to ask something first, instead?

Re: A

[notadrop]

Oh! Oh! Yes! Um...

Who's the cutest girl here?

Re: A

[emptymind]

[ stares blankly ]

... Eh? Ah, that's... Please excuse me, I have never considered it before now.

[notadrop]

I'll give you a hiiiii~nt!

[emptymind]

Is there someone you would like me to name in particular?

[notadrop]

No way! You're supposed to tell the truth, you know.