Take Initiative.

[trustharder]

It seems things have been resolved - peacefully, if more than a little awkwardly for most parties involved. However, there's still work to do here, isn't there? Ryuunosuke shrugs after a long moment; tips his head up a bit. "Hey, Glory? Let everyone up." And apparently that's all it takes, though what that actually does isn't something that happens all at once - rather, panels slide out from the wall, forming a staircase up to that balcony they've been standing on. Mettaton doesn't really wait for the others to join them; he just leaves back through that section of wall they entered from, calling something back over his shoulder. "We've got another room to work from back here, darlings, this shouldn't take too long to work out." >Follow?

Comments

[lackinginfaith]

He did run a murder exercise. But that was probably the part of her that came from those two. He was their mastermind, so of course they'd hate him.

[notjustawriter]

I see. Thank you for your help, Glory. I'll be back.

[...and after the whole... conversation about Ambitious, he returns.]

We've agreed on deletin' Ambitious.

Can you.... let him know what's gonna happen to him before you do it?

[notjustawriter]

You're damn right they'd better.

I'm hungry as hell.

[bloodisthicker]

Well, yes. I just woke up.

[notjustawriter]

Been better, kinda feel like I was hit by a bus, but I'll recover, I'm sure.

[captainobnoxious]

[...............]

If it's really a matter of guilty conscience, then we can have Glory tell him of our decision beforehand. That way we won't be going back in. Think that could work?

[captainobnoxious]

What makes him so sure?

[lackinginfaith]

If she'd do it.

[notjustawriter]

....What happened to him, if you don't mind my askin'?

[lackinginfaith]

You'd have to ask him.

[isafraid]

Makes you want to just dance, doesn't it?

[notjustawriter]

I... wasn't sure if we were all gonna make it there. I sure as hell wasn't expectin' this to all be a simulation, a way to bring everyone back to life... I'm glad it all turned out okay in the end.

[captainobnoxious]

I think she will. She's always been a great help before -- she was the one who ended up helping out the most, actually, from all the talks I had with her -- so I'm sure one more request isn't anything she'd be against.

But it's your decision to make. Since you all knew him more than we did.

[cherryblooded]

It means more than I can say that you trusted Sigrun and I.

[Mettaton, Ryuunosuke - they don't nearly deserve the other's trust. He recognizes that.

But almost everyone putting their faith in Cherryblod and Sigrun not to lead them wrong gave Cherryblod a pretty big Emotion, himself.]

[cherryblooded]

There's no music, but I don't mind if you don't.

[lackinginfaith]

He wasn't the first to run a game. His own game was run by someone called Hilda, and he was there with someone he knew from before. Incendiary was the only person Ambitious cared about, and he was a victim one week.

After that, the other survivors got together to do what you did: confront the person in charge and get out. They wanted to make it so that none of this could ever happen again.

Am-- Archer disagreed. He wanted revenge to make every world suffer like he did, so as soon as Hilda was out of the way, he killed the other survivors. He started his own game after that.

[captainobnoxious]

[WELL, THAT'S GONNA BE A PLEASANT THREAD.]

The I guess I will! Been a long time since I had a chat, nice or not, with the guy. And I definitely prefer him to that crazy "mother" of his too.

[She's gotta get around to the others, too, huh. Great.]

Before I do though, honey, tell me: What're you gonna be up to once we're out of here? I'm curious to know what our little princess is gonna be up to.

[lackinginfaith]

He'd agree. He lost his will to live without the person he cared about, and he hated everything else.

[lackinginfaith]

I've got a home to rebuild, haven't I? And also... I think I'd be up for helping all of you out, too. If these games are an expanding industry, we need to stop them.

[notjustawriter]

I'm... glad you're okay.

I didn't think it was really possible, bringing people back from the dead. I guess I didn't have to worry about that, with this all not bein' real.

[captainobnoxious]

[heeee she's so proud of caren... what a cute smile... Sigrun's giving her a hair ruffle. This is how you treat royalty!!]

I won't be heading it myself -- I've got enough on my plate as is, obviously -- but I know Bruce is wanting to do something like that, so you're still in good hands!

I'll always be on call for you though. Whether you need some advice, just someone to talk to, or a helping hand from time to time with the whole murder game thing, I'll be there before you know it. So don't hesitate, alright?

[happysweets]

Still, that's no excuse for you to be all Grumpy McGee! We're alive! You can sleep later!

[captainobnoxious]

Well, don't I just know the feeling.

[And then he turned out to be alive!

But also one of the two gamerunners!]

Then we're all in agreement. You guys, me, the two disasters over there [the gamerunners,] Ambitious himself... Let's tell Glory to give him fair warning before she deletes him.

[though surely mettaton and ryuunosuke wouldn't agree with the "fair warning" part]

[captainobnoxious]

[Well. Sigrun talked to Caren, so once Norman seems a little more not so out of it, she's gonna... you know, come on over.

... It's true there's still a part of her that can't forget that trial, un-fucking-fortunately, but. You know. She's accepted worse people. And Norman himself isn't so bad! It's his mother that's a damn problem!]

How're you feeling, skitters?

[notjustawriter]

[......]

Do the two of you just.... spend all your time fightin'?