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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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Miharu Rokujou | Nabari no Ou (Audition)

[hersin]

1

[Hey, so that bit about all your memories having vacated you? Not for this guy! As such, he's flipping through the profiles and shaking his head slightly, looking vaguely inconvenienced by the whole thing.]

36-24-36...

[He's a fucking twig of a 15 year old and short to boot, there's no way those are his measurements.]

3.

[Steal the portrait that depicts your true love...

Well. There's only one portrait that he recognizes in this place, and he's standing below it and staring up at it with a somewhat neutral outward expression. He reaches out and touches it gently, lips pursed.]

4.

[He's just gonna grab a random letter and open it—

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

—and then gently rips it into pieces. Bye.]

Re: Miharu Rokujou | Nabari no Ou (Audition)

[fieryironman]

I don't even get the point of those numbers. What are they even measuring? A giant hourglass?

[This kid had freaked out for a few minutes and after clawing at the walls a bit, has decided reading what's on the phone maybe does have a point. It was worth investigating.]

[He just doesn't....understand some of the things.]

Flora/The Voice of the Planet | OC

[methanosarcina]

3

[ There is an avante (or a LiliS, whichever) approaching you waving her paper in her hand with a wide grin on her face and a pep in her step that's vaguely "excited dog" in feel.

She looks kinda like she hasn't taken a bath in weeks? She's also very clearly malnourished, though the paleness of her face is more akin to someone who's dead than someone who's sickly. ]

Hey, hey! I got 'steal a heart', know what that means?

4.

[ The same person can be found sitting on a table in the lobby, flipping through a bunch of doujin starring herself - she also looks much more well-kempt here, though if you even vaguely make eye contact with her and don't come over she'll be getting up to approach you to...

...

show you a random incredibly pornographic page of one of the doujin. ]

Ah, hello, yes! Human or non-human entity,: I presume either way you are well-versed in mortal body-having, and as such we would be very much indebted to you if it were at all possible for you to explain to me, as well as us, the acts taking place, here! We understand they are reproductive acts, but we do not recognize them and it seems that these books have been given to us as a gesture of love? Am, perhaps, I being courted?

4

[chillingly]

[ a look of intense thought. before she gives a shrug ]

I don't see what else it could possibly mean. They're obviously very passionate about you.

3

[constellationprize]

Well, um -

[ that could mean a lot of things, she opens her mouth to say, but

startles, seemingly; based on the timing of the reaction it isn't likely to be related to the words, but more - ]

- A-Are you okay?!

Vergil | Devil May Cry

[auguryofinnocence]

1

Does it matter? How do we know these are accurate to anyone, or that they have the answers? Just take one and go.

[He'll just take one at random. Likes volleyball shorts? Horrible, but sure.]

2

[People are staring. That was not how he expected to receive a memory, especially after doing so many demeaning things to earn it. Maybe he can just...scuttle off before anyone tries to give him some awful pity. Bye.]

4

[The fire in the lobby sounds like the way to go honestly. The few he's had the misfortune to read are just peak secondhand embarrassment, no one else should suffer what he's just been through even if they weren't intended for him.

Starting that fire is another thing.]

Can I bother you for a lighter?

[Don't ask why maybe he's a smoker okay?]

3

[gigadevilbreaker]

[When Nero's addressed, he turns his head and-- freezes in his tracks. His mouth hangs open, but no words are coming out. Just, dumbstruck.

He has to be going insane.

What feels like an eternity later, the only thing he can shakily spit out, is]

What the hell?

4

[selfpreservationist]

[... why]

You. You can't be serious.

3

[devilmightcare]

[ Vergil cannot escape! because there's yet another person who will be be staring at him like he's just seen a ghost. honestly, a lot of emotions pass across his face for a second -- surprise, frustration, anger, and then it seems to settle on an exasperated bafflement. ] ]

Oh come on, you've gotta be kidding me.


[ also, there's a sword strapped to his back he's already putting a hand on the hilt of. ]

Miya | OC

[featherbeaned]

1.
[ There's a very new, very tall woman in BEDE today, bouncing into the common room in cute lace booty shorts & crop top pyjamas. There's hair everywhere. Everywhere. It's thick and floofy and oddly iridescent in the light, and comes complete with a pair of twitching ... cat ears? Or are they hair, too? ]

Hi, hullo! Good morning! Where am I?

3.
[ In this memory, she and a group of others have been sucked, jumanji-style, into a game of Betrayal at the House on the Hill. Oh no. One young man, dressed up like a little girl with a teddy bear in his arms, insists that they should just stay here! They don't have to play, if they do they'll get haunted; they need to wait for the magical boy and his dragon to come save them!

A young man wearing a labcoat, shakes his head — how can they grab their attention from inside a board game?

And she — wearing a red shirt, jeans, and no shoes or socks because footwear is dumb — pipes up to say that when those two appear, there's usually a giant monster on the loose already. The best chance they have of escaping is to play. Another guy — clearly Mr. Labcoat's brother, rockin' it in a purple crop top and booty shorts — starts to argue … and that's when the memory ends. ]

OOOOOOOOOoooooooooohhhhhhhhhh!

4.
[ Speaking of thick, floofy hair — ]

Just come into my home … [ Picks up a handful of hair, looking between it and the letter in her other hand. ] … and strangle me? With your hair?

[ Looks at the letter ]

[ Looks at her hair ]

[ Looks at the letter … ]

3

[ferociousfuckingnerd]

['Betrayal at House on the Hill'............]

That, er, looks like a lot of excitement.

4

[kingofexplodokills]

If you wanna set that shit on fire the bonfire is that way.

[ points ]

Korwa | Granblue Fantasy

[happiendo]

1

[Here's a tall, elegant lady strutting into the room, reading through the profiles viciously as she hums. Her ears twitch sharply as she peruses the list, tapping her foot impatiently on the ground, before she finally seems to find what she wants.

When that happens, she nods to herself, satisfied, before she turns to you.]

I'm certain of it. I'm looking for my long lost sister! After all, that's the story with the best potential for a happy ending, isn't it?

[... That's her reason?]



3

[She approaches with a mission, sizing you up quickly as she starts to turn circles around you. In fact, when she seems satisfied, she struts right back in front of you, teeming with energy and a goal.]

That shirt won't do. I'm afraid I must ask you to take it off.



5

[Wildcard me!]

3

[time5kip]

Well. I'm afraid you're going to have to ask someone else.

Try to take it off and I'm going to stab you.

Aak | Arknights

[malpractises]

1
[ There's one (1) short cat...guy...sitting cross-legged on a chair and scrolling through the profiles on his phone. His tail is swishing lazily. ]

"You have the right to not act within his range of support." Nonsense, I bet I can support perfectly fine!

[ ...What 'support' is supposed to mean here is a mystery to both him and everyone else probably but why would he ever admit to that,,, ]

2
[ This memory involves this cat (along with a big dog and a tiger) offering medical treatment to an injured police officer. Which is all well and good if you ignore the questionable manner in which he administered aid and the shady (but seemingly harmless?) drug.

...Then as soon as the police officer thanks him and is out of earshot, he starts noting down the experimental results of the drug, satisfied that it's mostly working as intended. It's pretty obvious at that point he didn't really do it entirely out of the goodness of his heart. "It works, he didn’t die."

The owner of this memory doesn't seem very bothered -- in fact he may be accosting you. ]

Hey, do you have pen and paper?

4
[ This guy can't help but be curious, especially when someone else's fanmail is just lying there out in the open for anyone to read. It's free game! (Manners, what manners?) So like a true busybody he's reading everyone else's fanmail before he even thinks to touch his own. Chances are, he's reading yours. ]

Hahaha, what sort of fans are these?

2

[marsascending]

Oh, I can give you some.

...as long as you tell me what you're using it for. I'm curious, after seeing that.

Shepherd | OC

[firstgrave]

3: Game Time

[ Soooo... your unitmate is marching up to you, looking Real Pissed Off. What unit? Whatever unit, roll with it. ]

Hey. Come here. Right now.


4: Fanmail

[ It's been maybe a week since she's gotten here and she already has fanmail! Isn't that nice?

Except she doesn't look very excited about it. ... in fact the longer she stares at it the more distressed she appears. Until-- ]

GggrrRRRRRRAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! [ she balls the letter up. and chucks it across the room. ]

SCREW IT!! This is stupid! I'm going home!


5: Wildcard (Button Game)

[ the situation is as follows:

you're in a plain white room with a big red button at the far end of it.

if you push the button first, you win.

if the other person pushes the button first you lose and face a Punishment.

powers are on.

and the person in the room with you is a feral looking young woman has lowered herself to the ground like some kind of animal about to pounce.

in a growl, ] Move and I'll rip your arms off.

Re: Shepherd | OC

[presentational]

[ doing exactly as she asked. well. told. ]

Okay.

[ AWAITING FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS ]

[firststone]

Prompts 4: Fanmail

Aw, they want an ass shot, huh? Haha, how nice! But tight pants are such a pain in the ass with these legs... Hey, hey, you got any booty shorts I could borrow?

[ handsome lady with 4/4 prosthetic limbs is talking to you!

even if you are not remotely her size. it's ok we'll figure something out ]

1/2

[expurgating]

Me, me, pick me!

Eyes Rutherford | Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning

[lacrime]

1 : Amnesia

You may measure me if you want, but I assure you those are not my 'sizes.'

[ Cue a s c o w l, listen he can't explain why his waist is so thin, but look at it logically—those numbers are clearly too high.

And even if you dare to actually carry through with it, he does seem like he's ready to jump out of his skin the instant you're in his personal bubble. ]

2 : Memory Regain

[ So how long was this going to last? Watching... whatever this memory was, tediously on repeat.

This is what he paid for? A kid's hands squishing raisins? ]

I don't imagine this is entertaining anyone right now. [ And thus, absolutely useless with how little information he's able to glean from it for the time being.

Heck, he feels like finding something to squish determinedly himself, with the way his fingers twitch amidst crossed arms... ]


4 : Fanmail

[ Another package that felt suspiciously squishy, again, and as he turns it in his hands he can't help the vague frown on his lips. ]

This one will also probably be the wrong colour and too short, if that is what they're asking for.

5 : Wildcard

(( What it says, hit me! ))

2 - Memory Regain

[bondsofsuffering]

Looks like you're ready to do the same, yourself.

[We'll pretend for the sake of this thread that they're already acquainted in that they've like, seen each other around or something, I don't want to do intros twice and this ain't canon.

Anyway. Someone hasn't grown up all that much, have they?]

Noctis Lucis Caelum | Final Fantasy XV

[runawayprince]

1

[Don't mind him he's just looking at these profiles.]

Mud wrestling....? Huh. Guess it keeps you from getting bored.

[Why are the people apparently on his phone so weird?]

3

[Steal the giant statue from the center of the museum. Of all the luck, he'd get the most troublesome option. How he would go about it was anyone's guess.]

Are we allowed to ask someone for help?

[He is not lifting a giant statue by himself, thanks.]

4

[He sifts through the mail, turning each letter over in his hands with growing befuddlement. His fanmail ranged from childish drawings to raunchy letters and - more bizarrely - a pair of boxers with hearts on them.]

I- [He looks around helplessly for a moment before looking back at the boxers.] I am not keeping these. Ugh.

5

[ooc: Wildcard! Feel free to shoot me a message if there's something else you want to do!]

3

[innerdaemons]

[ there's really only one proper reaction to people showing up from home that he recognizes, in Absinthe's opinion, and that's to act like he doesn't know them whatsoever. it's both fun and neat in the sense that he doesn't have to deal with any messy revelations.

so it's with full composure that he looks over Noctis, then towards the statue. ]

I don't see why not.

Tohru Honda | Fruits Basket

[notafruit]

[ THREE ]

[ Oh no, oh no, oh no...! This... it's one of those games everyone told her about! Her heart is hammering in her chest like crazy! But... maybe this one isn't so bad? They told her that not all of the games were bad. ]

Um...! Excuse me...!!

[ HERE SHE GOES! ]

It...looks like your shoe is untied...!

[ FOUR ]

So this is the so called fanmail!

[ She looks wide-eyed and sparkly. ]

T-To think that someone would so graciously take the time to write something so important as a letter to me! I can barely believe it..!

[ Clutching a couple of letters and packages she has received. ]

Thank you so much, Anon-sans! I really am not worthy, but I can't wait to read what you sent!

[ Opening the first letter up and... ]

'Come into my home and strangle--' EHH?? WAIT--! Anon-san! I'm pretty sure that it would be a terrible idea!?

Four

[fieryironman]

[That is certainly the emotional journey she went there and it's not hard to see why. It's not like she's wrong. It's nice to think people actually want to write things to them!]

[It's still weird to think they have fans.]

[But it looks like she isn't fully aware how fans can be.]

[He reaches over and pats her shoulder.] I'm....pretty sure they don't mean it literally? People can get, you know....wild? About their...uh. Fantasies.

Rio Takeuchi | Spiral

[explosively]

[ one ]

Cheaters. I'm never going to figure anything out with these lousy descriptions. What lazy person wrote these anyway? Aren't they all just made up? I bet they are.

[But scrolling through she stops at a name--]

...Kono...hana...sakuya? [ ... ] THAT'S WAY TOO LONG!!

[Likes: Melons, sweets, games, explosives--

................]

Is there really a person like that here? No way...

[ three ]

[This does seem like fun. Her brain is already churning up different ideas of how to accomplish her goal. Yet her face is the picture of innocence.

Steal a kiss... that's almost too easy.

Whatever her target is in the middle of doing, they 'll find it hard to miss a cute girl running by-- or at the very least, the sound of her tripping very suddenly.]

...waaah!!

[Down she goes...]

three

[bondsofsuffering]

Whoa-!

[Good thing he has good reflexes?! Reaching out to catch her before she hits the ground too hard at least.]

You okay there?

Kai | The Hollow

[fieryironman]

1

[So this kid took a minute.]

[Or two.]

[Or a few to kind of freak out. Trying the door, listening through the walls, wondering if everyone in the room is dead. There's definitely some accusations thrown around.]

[But he does wind down after he seems to get the anxiety out of his system. At least enough to talk like a reasonable human being and pick up the phone.]

Think this is strong enough to bash a hole through the door?

[Okay, maybe he's not quite fully reasonable yet.]

2

[So that memory was Real Weird. Because the kid was certainly dressed in modern day clothes....and was talking to a giant mutant spider centaur dude, building him prosthetic legs using wood and vines. With mild use of fire powers.]

[Said kid is staring at the screen in utter confusion.] Giant mutant spiders are real?!

3

[Top hats and cloaks? He's all for that! He puts them off with a flare and even finds a monocle to add to the look. He seems ready to throw himself into the game.]

[At least until he gets his target, frowning at it with Concern. Then he grins widely and he'll pocket it before approaching you.]

And how are you this fine evening?

4

[He jumps away from the torrent of fanmail, staring at it in bewilderment.] You know, I'm pretty sure email would be a lot less...messy. Are these even really all for us?

[He's picking one up, surprised as he sees his name....and what's written.]

[' 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.']

....well. At least they're nice? Wait, what haterz?

4. Fanmail

[indomatible]

[ He's going to just read all the VERY INTERESTING fanmail and wow. People sure are weird but he can roll with it. ]

Well! That's certainly an interesting declaration. I don't imagine my hair would make for a good weapon, but all the same, I thank you for your, huh ... interest, in being strangled with it.

I must say I'm honored and humbled, to have such passionate fans. You'll forgive me, however, for not considering marriage quite yet.

(( Audition, if you wanna play as unitmates that's fine we can pretend they're on the same unit ))

Re: 4. Fanmail

[asonoficeandfire]

You don't need to take them seriously. They write what they want.

Michael | Angel Sanctuary

[dontcallmethat]

[Option A for audition flavor and B for amnesia while I try to figure out which one I like more!]

1A.

[Hello fellow Unitmate, were you asleep? You aren't anymore as there is a very short boy with a dragon tattoo on his face kicking the door just as hard as he can.]

ALRIGHT, OPEN UP, ASSHOLES! I AIN'T PLAYIN' AROUND!

Stupid demon bullshit. Can't even fight me face to face so you trap me in a room with some losers, I get it! You just wait till I get my hands on you...

[More loud kicking ensues. He was probably told how to get out once but he's already forgotten it.]

1B.

[Boy this is a weird predicament. He can't remember a thing, and his first instinct is to stare at his phone blank-faced.]

Hmmmmmm.... Nope, can't make heads or tails of any of this.

[Turning to the nearest person.]

Hey buddy, did I hit my head or something? I feel like I forgot something important, but I'm not sore at all.

2B.

[Well he's figured out enough to get his first memory back! It's one where he's in a weird aircraft and he's on a video chat with another guy... a friend??? Whatever, he's got a lot of cool body parts of dead demons and they're presents for his friend so he just jumps from the aircraft and utterly destroys that guy's house instead of using a door like a normal guy.]


.............

That's... so COOL! Ah heck yeah! I look awesome in that! Hey, hey, did you see?!

[He's absolutely willing to replay it for anyone who shows even the most remote interest.]

C'mon, check it out! There's a sweet explosion!

3A.

[He's got a sword now, much to the chagrin of all involved.]

Ugh, this is the worst. Bad enough some demons are making entertainment outta my misery, now they want me to pull some stupid shit "heist"?

[He stares at the statue. Oversized. Made of some hard material. He doesn't have the strength of an archangel.

....Calculating....

......

......]

...Ain't no one ever said I have to take the thing whole.

[So he just starts whacking the legs with his sword. This is probably a good idea. NO, this IS a GREAT idea. Good thinking, Michael.

He doesn't seem to notice when the whacking starts to work, the oversized statue leaning... towards him. Precariously.]

1a

[widenessofthesea]

[ hello small unitmate, here is an also pretty-short woman. ]

Didn't they tell you that you can just pick a color to be let out, dear?

[ she sounds like a grandma in a way. but she is also already picking out her color on her phone: black. ]

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III | How To Train Your Dragon

[protectshisown]

1

[So, the one thing about nightclothes is Berkians aren't big on them. So he's just kind of here in pants. Luckily??? He's also grabbed a blanket because he's not big on just wandering around in just a shirt. Maybe because of the assortment of scars over his torso, who could say.]

[He's already tried all the doors because of course he has to check, before really paying attention to the smart phone. Which he's looking at with a deep frown.]

Okay. So. I think it says something that the most reasonable sounding thing on here is mud wrestling a god. Like that sounds more real than the rest except maybe finding a sister, though I'm not sure what they're doing to find them.

Seriously, I don't know what a fourth of these words are, and ones I do make no sense with their context. And what's with the numbers?

[His frame of reference hasn't prepared him for Idol Life.]


2

[LISTEN]

[Phones are hard.]

[So cheap version is on play and there's this guy who is trying Super Hard to take off Hiccup's head or at least stab him on a boat. Where in Hiccup is absolutely playing distraction with this guy while his friends are freeing dragons from cages and dealing with other people. It's pretty effective because it's hard to say if the crazy red haired guy wants to kill Hiccup or to marry him. Between a lot of the snarling rage is compliments and an odd focus on Hiccup being dainty and also calling him brother.]

[It's a little weird.]

[Then Hiccup launches himself off a catapult and right into Toothless and they take off with the dragons and riders, red haired guy cursing him.]

.... [How does he react to that, honestly. He'll take a minute to process.]

3

[He's currently circling the statue in the middle of the museum. It's kind of super obvious as he looks around. Worse thief ever?]

[Who can say.]

4

[He's reading through some letters and his expression gets progressively more and more unimpressed.]

Yeah, not really in control of what kind of pants I get at the moment.

[The utter sigh in his voice.]

2

[iamverybadass]

[ This kid clearly doesn't need to wait before giving his 2 cents on the matter ]

A risky strategy...but it's quite impressive that it worked. I'm curious how much was planning and how much was luck though.

adora | she-ra

[adorabilities]

amnesia

[ you might think it's obvious, teammates, what needs to be done but realistically, all you get is being woken up from your nap, locked out of your dorm, or just. you know, trapped by this panicked girl, who is slamming her fists repeatedly on the door. ]

Let me out! Lemme out! Come fight me, you cowards!

[ oops. ]

game

[ or. maybe you have to walk her through, you know. a game. because she gets down to the "steal a heart" part of the list, and then holds up the knife that she just got? through another thievery? and looks back and forth between them. ]

Wait.

They don't mean that, right? Ha ha... this is a joke?

fanmail

[ or you can just watch her face become steadily more scarlet red the further into her fanmail she gets. help a girl out. someone direct her to the bad end live, because she does not know what to do with this. ]

fanmail

[hissterics]

[ Does a distraction help? Maybe?

At any rate, Adora will see a streak of red and black before she's being bodily tackled to the ground. ]