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

[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]

[ HAHAHA


GUESS



WHO IS HAVING MASSIVE GUILT NOW after hearing all of this ]

[duskhound]

[Hey! That last one wasn't even his fault! None of know what the heck happened there!]

[darkova]

Oh no, I hadn't noticed. But a backwater sorcerer like myself is rather ignorant of these modern things.

[Ingway don't sass]

[houndumb]

[Angry frog doesn't even change expression, actually. It just flips this guy the double bird.]

(Yeah, what's your POINT. We already know he's a fucking asshole.)

[Who's we, whatever, he's just over here yell-ribbiting.]

[prayerwheel]

[ HELLO SHE IS BACK IN TIME TO HEAR THIS AND

she wants to say something but there's nothing she CAN say

so she's just going to focus on defrogging everyone. congratulations y'all have human hands again. ]

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[snzzzz]

[iblistriggered]

[sits with!!]

[houndumb]

[I mean, he's human and he's still flipping the guy the double bird. It changes to a single while he goes to retrieve his spear BUT THE THOUGHT IS THERE.]

[odasaku]

[ great amazing, just in time to pull out both his guns and stand in front of saki, just in case. ]

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[Well, Saki's here, and she's still between the newcomer and Dazai, so.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Karen's standing in front of Saki too... probably behind Oda though. He's the one with the guns.]

[foundationmods]

[Interestingly, MC seems entirely unbothered by the presence of weapons. Be as threatening as you like, Oda, he doesn't seem to care.]

[duskhound]

[Yep, being unfrogged doesn't make her any less fighty this time, it seems.]

[dereban]

[ okay defrogging is happening which is a definite relief but even though she's aware of the games being rigged, not to mention that she's been saved by him instead of panicking, she instead decides to speak aloud.

cold, cool.

indifferent. ]

Where's your physical proof, then? If you're so sure, you should be able to prove just that, right? Otherwise, it's all just stupid conjecture.

[foundationmods]

[SHRUG]

I don't need proof. I'm not here to punish him for anything. I just saw all the frogs and wanted to see what was going on.

But maybe you should be a bit more careful with someone playing favorites so blatantly. And maybe you should ask him who he intended to have die today.

[And then he presses a button, and the floor of one of the platforms drops out.

The one that Dazai had accidentally backed up onto, and had been standing on until it decided to fall out from under him.

Bye Felicia.]

[duskhound]

[Yep, she's dashing over to that platform and preparing to jump down. What's down there, anyways?]

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[Oh no oh no oh no oh no...]

[oceanicbutterfly]

(Half of us have died and you have the gall to) RIBBIT RIBBIT RIBBIT

[darkremnants]

[ and no longer a frog eventually and just going to scoff at that. ]

You haven't been paying a lot of attention then. There was a couple people who died he was close to that were useful to keep around.

[ S'up MC. ]

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[She gives a quick nod in agreement.]

I don't understand. Do you want us to die, or not?

[foundationmods]

[He's not responding to either of these.]

[iblistriggered]

Well, if that is true, maybe he could see how unfair this whole thing was to begin with.

[foundationmods]

[MC smiles at that, but says nothing more.]

[iblistriggered]

Hmph...

Who's side are you on, anyway...