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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

[rollyourluck]

Gametime

[ So this wolfboy is very much enjoying this costume change. He's got his top hat slightly tipped on his head, covering one of his ears and his tail is wagging excitedly behind him. He's looking down at the slip of paper in his hands and he's grinning excitedly at it.

If he sees you around, he might call out to you ]

This is fun, right?!

Fanmail

[ He wasn't expecting the avalanche of letters to come out of the elevators. He wasn't quick enough to dodge out of the way and quickly gets covered in letters in a pile. The pile shakes slightly before he pokes his head up and out. He shakes his head, dislodging a few of the letters stuck there, but he has one in his mouth. He reaches up to pull it out and takes a look at the front. ]

--I have no idea who this is for.

[ He shrugs before he starts to open it. Ok sure you do that-- ]

Wildcard

[ Feel free to hit me up on plurk at lycanroc if you want to hit me up for anything specific! ]

fanmail

[nohalation]

[lets save for potential maybe reunion intros later]

Wowee! I hope you got a lot of mail for yourself!

Gametime

[eatsthecanary]

Are you that easily entertained?

fanmails

[littlestshadow]

[Was anyone truly expecting an avalanche? This little guy just had good reflexes, jumping up out of harm’s way before it could get entirely buried with no hope of escape. Standing on Mt. Papier, it turned to give wolfboy a look. You were opening that? Whyfore.]

[puzzlekeeper]

I. amnesia

[ Your unit has a new person today! Though as you go about your morning routines, you may not even notice him at first, because he appears content to lean against the back wall, arms crossed, observing everything wordlessly for however long it takes to be noticed.

Once he's spotted, he just raises an unfazed hand in greeting, like he hasn't been skulking in dark corners like a creep. ]

Yo.

[ Hope you don't prance around naked or talk to yourself or sing offkey or something when you think nobody's around to notice. ]


II. amnesia pt 2

[ Alternatively, you can find him giving his phone a dark look as he flips through it, growing increasingly unimpressed by all the inane profiles where he knows what.... some of those words mean...? None of it is answers to the questions he actually has, so he eventually tosses the phone aside altogether. Bye. ]

Hardly helpful.

[ Hopefully the phone doesn't hit anything hard. Or anyone. Alexa play Despacito. ]


III. GEIMU STAATO

[ FINALLYSOMEGOODFUCKINGFOOD.JPG

He holds the folded slip of paper between his index and middle finger, eyes sliding to whoever's closest. ]

I have a proposition.

I

[grandschemed]

[ Oni's kind of at an unfair advantage because he has a bit more of a blind spot than the average person. and particular people on his team are good at quiet sulking so he's not particularly trained to seek any one person out over it.

he'd actually been about to covertly light a cigarette -- but when he spots the new arrival, when he hears the sound, though, he practically jumps, flicking his lighter back into his pocket ]

-- Ya nearly scared the shit outta me.

[3]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Do you now, short stuff?

[Trying to steal that piece of paper from right between his fingers]

Don't keep us in suspense. Spit it out.

II

[rollwithdisadvantage]

[Getting beaned in the head with the phone as he turns the corner. Holding his head as the phone his the floor with a clatter.]

FUCKING. What the hell?!

[vivalamarie]

[ Suddenly. SUDDENLY. Your own phone beans you in the back of the head :) ] Oh, so sorry. She didn't see you there.

II.

[nohalation]

[peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeering over his shoulder, this girl has small wings and scars along the side of her mouth that makes a big smile.]

What isn't helpful?

I.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ You're lucky she's done this song and dance three times by now and it's become old hat. She rubs at her sleepy eyes twice before toddling back into her room, calling over her shoulder, ]

One moment.

[ She comes back out moments later, still dressed in an ankle-length nightgown, this time carrying with her a pamphlet. It appears to be a handmade informational brochure? It may or may not be very helpful. ]

Here. You'll want to start with this.

1

[littlestshadow]

[But what if it is a skulking in dark corners staring contest? Who noticed who first? Tiny creepy whatever the heck or nonchalant leaning dude man? The world may never know, but it was certainly looking at him from its own observation corner.]

III

[criminaljustice]

[not even looking over to]

I try to make a point to not proposition-accept propositions from newbies.

[... wait.

looks over to.]

--oh, wait, you mean about the game.

Sure?

II

[rollwillpowercheck]

[following the phone's arc with his gaze, wincing slightly as it hits the ground.]

You're going to want that back, you know...

III

[malignstar]

[ Had been in the process of filching a sash from an unsuspecting Taisho but his eyes immediately fill with interest, as he turns back to Atem. ] Sounds exciting. [ Smiles a smile that's all teeth, particularly those slightly longer canines. ]

[vivalamarie]

[ 3.

This tall handsome lady is looking over one of those slips of paper with some serious thought, almost displeased... but then she smiles, and shrugs, immediately turning towards you-- yes, you-- and beckoning you over with a hand. ]

You. Come here.

[neverbeentogeorgia]

[ This tall young man in Bad End=Dead End rags looks up from what he's doing--setting the slip of paper held between his fingers on fire with the help of the cigarette in his mouth. He finishes what he's doing, flicking away the bit of flaming ash from his fingers, before finally responding. ] 'm not really in the habit of taking orders. You got a good reason, or do you just expect me to agree like a good little boy?

[littlestshadow]

[Did you mean them? The two foot tall mascot character? No? Well that’s who trotted over to look up and up at her. Hi.]

[malignstar]

[ This peppep had been twirling a card in his fingers and appearing to seem uninterested in the goings on around him. That is, unless you were paying especially close attention and managed to catch the upward flick of gaze from time to time. Calculating and excited. But the call catches his attention. He smoothly pockets the card and saunters over. ] Need a hand with your goal, beautiful?

Sakuya Kira / Nanatsusaya / Lucifer | Angel Sanctuary

[neverbeentogeorgia]

Amnesia

[ This Pep!Pep! is looking--wow. Almost kind of dreary? Grouchy? Slouchy? Where's that energy the team is supposed to be all about? He's sort of... crouched over in his boxers and squinting closely at his phone screen, slum. Is he... having trouble seeing? ]

... This is bullshit. Just what fucking sadist runs this place? Giving me this phone with this tiny-ass screen and no goddamn reading glasses...!

[ What he's saying just sort of devolves into a slew of cursing. Yeah, somebody's definitely woken up on the wrong side of the bed. ]

Game Time

[ The museum map indicated that you could find in this room a priceless vase that could easily be stolen off its pedestal. It seemed like easy pickings for a phantom thief, right? Only when you get there--you find not an ancient piece of pottery but calling card in its place inviting you up to the museum rooftop.

How badly do you want that prize--and those five hundred points? ]

Fan Mail

[ AlcheME's tallest and newest member is hitting the LIVE Button in front of these mountains of letters and flashing the audience--is that you??--a charming grin. ]

And for my next trick, I'll make all of these letters go away!

[ He produces a potion, the contents of which are growing bright radioactive green, and jiggles the flask in his hand. ]

Would you care to try to predict exactly how I'll do it, fair one?

[ Oh, yes. He's definitely referring to you. ]

Fan Mail

[shortfuse]

[Here is your resident 5’0” ZRAEL asshole staring at the AlcheME and his radioactive potion.

He turns to look at the camera, gives a middle finger-]

I hope you choke on a dick, fucking annoying asshole!!

[And goes about his merry way.]

[littlestshadow]

1 Amnesia

[It’s clear that someone in whatever recruiting team existed was either bad at their job or wanted a laugh, but there is definitely a very small something or other sitting in the corner of the room. That just makes it look even smaller, and the empty eyes of its face? Mask? Are definitely empty, not reflecting any of the light from the cell phone that it is tapping on.

They don’t seem all too bothered by their situation though. It doesn’t remember anything, but it has a feeling it didn’t know very much in the first place. Maybe you’d gather that too, when it wandered up to someone to point at a word over and over like a question.

What is Roomba?

But it also might make for an easy answer: some of those numbers seemed suspiciously small for measurements, but.... wowwee get a load of those doll sized proportions. Huh!]



4 Fanmail

[It already encountered this avalanche before. They came back to it though, hopping up on the pile with ease to pace around the papery landscape. Deep in its bones (?) it understood what a progression blocker was, and this was it. To go forward, it had to be removed. So, lacking any other means of doing so, it began to move letters out of the way to be stacked in and around the hallway in neat and orderly fashions. This was... going to take a while, but it didn’t seem to mind the repetitive nature of it all.

It was still covered in glitter in a few places from one of the other envelopes that had exploded earlier. The glitter was kind of getting on every other envelope. What kind of monster would do this.

There was also the chance to encounter it when it suddenly brandished a letter in your direction. Where? Anywhere! They were just there, offering letters from a basket it had found somewhere. Was it yours? What about yours?]

I

[dragonheartedgirl]

I'm not sure.

[ more importantly, what are you? She's... trying not to stare, but it's hard. Actually, is it staring back? Without eyes or eyelids, she... really can't tell. ]

[theyregooddogs]

amnesia

[Someone is going slowly through his phone, scanning over each profile . . . Then, around the twentieth one, he starts speeding up and mumbling to himself.]

How many can there be? More than forty, fifty—?


game time

[Will has shunned the cloak and top hat. Once he gets a glance at the wheel, he is going to start walking away from the crowd, rubbing his temples.]

Is this supposed to be theft, sexual harassment, or some kind of joke?

amnesia

[sancrimony]

Fifty-four to be exact, I believe -

[ with a pause, sensitIV's dorm is kind of hilarious with its mouth-shaped mats and the kotatsu and the style of fashion matches it, pastel goth and pink as the primary unit color. this one wears red too, with white accents; his hair is braided loosely and wrapped around his neck like a scarf and he's in a big skeleton printed sweater and leggings. casual. this is sure a look ]

Ah, fifty-five now, with you. Good morning.

[sassinassassin]

Secret~

[Karma is so charming in his tophat. And his cape. And his walking towards you with a Big Smile at a pace that may not put you at ease. Once he's only ten feet away he tips his hat]

Easy way or hard way?

Fanmail

[Karma is parked on the floor with all the doujin that has been sent to All the Units and. is cutting out Choice Scenes and then gluing them to a collage that he is making

He seems pleased at least]

secret

[rollyourluck]

What do I get in return for either one?

[ this wolfboy responds. he's got his own top hat tilted on the top of his head, covering one of his wolfears and his tail is swishing along behind him ]

Shinkai Kanata | Ensemble Stars

[holdhandsandsing]

1:
[BRANDISHES THIS TAPE MEASURE THREATENINGLY
Okay, no, he's just pulling out the tape and letting it fwoosh back in a couple times while looking at the other new arrival. That means you. Time to stand up really straight.]

3:
Hmm~... I think I would rather ask nicely, though? "May I borrow your clothes, please?"

5:
[w/e if you have something else you'd like try. please and thank you.]

3. i'm just immediately sorry about him

[composeur]

.... WA HA HA! What's this? A heartfelt plea for points?

[ speaking of, he's absolutely dressed Heat To Toe in phantom thief attire thanks google. he's living this. ]

Or could it be a boldfaced attempt at robbery? The best phantom thieves steal their targets in plain sight. Are you saying you're the best phantom thief? Are you challenging me? [ he clearly wants this to be a challenge. ]

Laine Brick | elDLIVE

[youyousa]

AMNESIA

[ He feels like he should be more bothered by the fact that there is a large gaping hole in his memory. But he's more distracted by the smartphone, feels kind of old fashioned to him somehow. ]

These somehow feel unreal, and very wrong.

[ He spots YOU, yes you. ]

Hey, mind telling me a little bit about these profiles?

GAME TIME

[ Steal a life? Nah. Steal a Heart? No thanks? Stealing an object seemed simple enough. So, don't mind this guy snooping around...let's say a kitchen. They didn't say what the object had to be right?

Stealing a frying pan shouldn't be THAT suspicious. ]

FANMAIL

[ One-eyed wonder here, reading over some of this fanmail. Sure it was out of curiosity. But now he has real and valid concern about some of these letters.

The nearest person is going to get one of these papers handed to them. ]

I have no idea who this is for, but, the fact that it says "please step on me"... do you really think the recipient should see that?

WILDCARD

[ Feel free to do whatever the hell you want with this Space Captain here. You can also hit me up on plurk @ megaevolve

Amnesia

[nohalation]

[This young girl with wings flapping excitedly looks up from whatever nonsense she was doing, probably doodling.]

Who, meeee?