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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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[He hesitates a moment more but fuck it. He closes that sort distance and tugs him into a proper hug.]

I will be terribly vexed should you lose your way.

[??????????????????

just kind of. awkwardly standing there. since when were hugs a thing? were hugs always a thing and he forgot????? what even is happening????????

it is nice though.]

[Look he's also recovering from who knows how many years of descent to insanity? We're all fine here. 100% no problems in Ascianville.

When he does let go he just steps back and sinks to the couch, like the tired old man he is.]

Emet-Selch is here as well.

[we're all fine it's great

stays standing, still very confused and weirdly embarrassed and emotional like the tired old baby boy he is]

That is... very good to hear. I had expected I would have to resume my work alone.

[He takes off his mask and features to the couch. It's like, Garlean size but that just makes it big and cozy right.]

Now that would be unacceptable. To tell you the truth I already had plans to find you, if you had not found your way to us.

[comes over to sit, kind of stiff and uncomfortable and definitely too small for the couch because ardbert is not garlean sized]

It is a relief, then, that such efforts will not be necessary.

[a relief to him that he could do what is obviously his responsibility and find them first]

[Lahabrea is definitely tiny on the couch. He's stock Lahabrea datamined model size, so 5'6". Small grandpa.]

That is not to say we so but have much work left to us. But it is indeed a relief. I was beginning to grow anxious about your whereabouts.

[glances... senpai was worried about him how does he even feel about that...]

I am here now, so it matters little. Let us focus on the present moment.

["Not to say we do not" thanks phone.

He just, looks at Elidibus a while, thoughtful, feeling such a mix of emotions he has to look away shortly, pick a notebook up off the table.]

Yes. Well there is much to catch you up on with work of course. But... I think before you dive back into things I will demand you take a rest.

That will not be necessary. Tell me what I need to know.

That was not a suggestion.

I do not take orders from you, Lahabrea.

Let me put this another way.

We have labored ceaselessly for eons, and for what? In the end our plans, our dreams, crumbled to dust, as we each fell one by one, alone.

This is a second chance. And I do not mean to take it lightly. Nor should you.

But with that chance should come reflection, and some time to assess. Rushing will only lead to another downfall, and do you believe we can recover from that?

So I insist that you focus on things other than our goals. Take a little while simply to breathe, Elidibus. Make a friend. Take up a hobby. Sleep in sometimes.

You do not have to turn off your eyes and ears, if you find something of use in the populace here, an interesting ability, a worthwhile bit of magic, do investigate it. But I want you to try to relax. You are fresh from death and hell itself. You have been burning yourself out just as long as I have.

It is... surprising to hear such words from you. And I cannot claim they are entirely unreasonable.

But I cannot follow them.

Surprising, perhaps. I myself was not inclined to take the time to reflect without... some urging on Emet-Selch's part. Sometimes subtle, at others quite insistent.

In the end it has done me a great deal of good.

But why do you say you cannot?

I am Elidibus. As long as that is my name and purpose, I cannot set my duty aside.

[There's so much here.

He doesn't address it.]

....I am not asking you to set it aside.

Nothing is gained by rushing. We have time to consider our options and reasses them. Take that time.

[thank you for not addressing it, if we don't address it we can kind of pretend it's not there]

...Of course. I fully agree.

[just don't ask him to like, be a person,]

[No, please be a person again. Not that he doesn't know that's maybe a little tiny bit hard.]

Mm. And I did mean it about making friends. If someone catches your interest, it would not hurt to further get to know them. Don't set your expectations high, but you might get lucky in finding a soul who is easy to be around.

[sigh]

Is that what you and Emet-Selch have been up to while I wasn't here? Making friends?

[He spreads his hands.]

These mortals are mostly barely better than shards. But, they yet have whole souls. It is difficult to remember at times, but they are not actually abominations by nature, only by choice in many instances. Not all here are even mortal.

Keep an open mind, but do not expect too much. To be truthful I still struggle to see them as true people at times. Perhaps you will fare better at it than I.

[That's not really answering the question but.]

I will make an effort. Having allies may prove useful.

[though it's pretty clear from his voice that he has extremely little interest in trying to see mortals as people]

[Look he has a really hard time remembering the people here are technically real people and not unnatural broken people, there's hardly a difference most of the time? So, fair.]

Indeed. And there is plenty of gossip to occupy you with when you settle in.

How wonderful. I just would not be busy enough otherwise.

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