Week 5, Saturday

[foundationmods]

[Saturday arrives, and the contestants are welcomed back to the Studio officially at noon. When they arrive, they ill find that the entire place has been rebuilt, and that both the power and the cameras are back on. It took a week, but those prinnies have been working hard.

The studio is ready for them, with the stage having a raised circular platform on it. On that platform are twelve smaller circular platforms, arranged in a semi-circle so that everyone can see everyone and also be seen by the cameras once they are in place. There appear to be no assigned spots, but only one person is able to enter each spot.

Dazai stands there as well, smiling and ushering everyone in.]

Come on in! Pick a platform, and we'll get started.

Comments

[guileturncoat]

[This is an unfortunate position.]

I wasn't, I was trying to get a message out.

[darkova]

If we picked up on it so would anyone watching!!!

[Whsiper yell??? He stands up]

Alright, I'll get the potions and come back. Moriarty will need to stay this way for now though.

1/2

[guileturncoat]

[Yeah, Dazai will go ahead and stand up too.]

Yeah, we can't continue this game with them like this-

2/2

[foundationmods]

Having fun?

[The inquisitive response comes from a young man who just stepped up on stage. His body language is loose and open, giving him the appearance of someone who's just walking by and happened to peek in.

Of course, going by the way Dazai freezes in place as a flash of sheer terror flies through him, there's probably more to this man than meets the eye.]

[duskhound]

[...Okay, I might be a frog, but I can still bounce protectively in front of Doezai.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Same.]

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[Also same.]

[odasaku]

[ WHAT DID HE FUCKING TELL YOU.

he'll bounce in front of doezai too but ]

(What now?)

[duskhound]

(Now we try to buy time until someone gets back with the antidotes.)

[However much time... frogs can buy...]

[darkremnants]

[ Okay... just...

Can he hop up on Dazai? ]

[prayerwheel]

[ yyyyyyyyyeah joining the frog train in front of Dazai ]

[darkova]

...Azura. Head for the garage. You should be able to reach my potions with a good jump. It's the potion with an 'M' tag.

[prayerwheel]

[ ribbits indignantly

frog stares

and stares

and stares

but fine. she'll hop off to the garage and get them with the unspoken warning of DOEZAI HAD BETTER NOT BE DEAD WHEN I GET BACK ]

[darkova]

[Said potions are on the counter- there is a M one and a few others already prepped in different colors and letter'd tags]

[dereban]

[ looks between dazai and the new man and then dazai again

yeah that's

not good ]

[darkova]

[Ingway snatches up his chain and puts himself between Dazai and the newcomer]

Salutations- usually you need an invitation to join in someone elses' Game, I should think?

[foundationmods]

[The newcomer sees how nearly everyone is putting themselves between him and Dazai, and it makes him chuckle.]

It seems like he has quite the defense squad, despite his best efforts.

And to answer your question, normally I would say yes. But this 'game' has never really been a game, has it?

[Azura can hop off to go get the potions, though. This newcomer makes no effort to stop her.]

[darkova]

Oh, is it not?

[foundationmods]

[Don't mind him, he's going to just. Move over and pick up the remote Dazai had been holding previously.]

The traps he had built into the stage are survivable by some of you, so long as you have your powers. One of the rewards you could have purchased was regaining your powers. Additionally, he didn't state the point values of the questions for the second segment. It would have been easy to rig it so you just barely get enough points to get your powers back. With those factors in place, it was trivial for him to control just how many of you died today, as well as who even had the risk of death to begin with. Just like he has been rigging all of the games so far.

[He looks to Dazai, who has been backing up slowly during all of this, and who now jumps at the sudden attention. But when he speaks, it's not to Dazai. It's to Ingway and the others.]

Or did you not notice how those he has grown closest to somehow get miraculously spared from a certain death each time misfortune falls on them?

[dereban]

[ froggy facepalm ]

( You fucking idiots. . . )

[houndumb]

[ANGRY RIBBITING IN THE BACKGROUND AS THIS FROG POINTS AT HIS EYES AND POINTS AT WHOEVER THIS IS]

[oceanicbutterfly]

(Who are you?!)

[Karen you're a frog he probably can't understand you]

[duskhound]

[Yeah, no. Still gonna stay here guarding him. You wanna go after him, you have to go through my tiny froggy body first!]

[houndumb]

[CAN SHIT STOP HAPPENING WHILE HE IS A FROG]

[Since Crimepafrog is down for the count he's just going to. Hop over warily but as fast as he can and give new dude the stinkeye. Who cares about Doezai tbh.]

(CAN YOU FUCKERS SLOW DOWN FOR FIVE SECONDS.)

[iblistriggered]

[the rest of team frog seems to have this covered, so Silver will just hold on to Moriarty defensively]

(Who's this joker?)