Act 1, Scene 1: #99

[opening_act]

[ A notification on your phone goes off, letting you know the purchase of your meeting with Exael has gone through.

There is an attachment. Where are you, when you open it? ]

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[opening_act]

[ There's a yelp as the lava lamp crashes and shatters, and Exael's voice responds ]

How should I know what your memories are like! So far you haven't shown any!

[ no retaliatory blow comes though, and her voice seems to be coming from all around him. ]

[rollwithdisadvantage]

So you don't watch the ones viewed in private. ...Those idiots. All of them.

[Getting to his feet and scanning the entire room.]

This is your last chance. I could be your guy on the inside. Take it or leave it.

[opening_act]

[ a voice from right besides his ear: he might remember her trapeze ]

You weren't the only one to offer, 99~

[rollwithdisadvantage]

[Jerks away from where the voice is.]

But I'm the only one that can deliver.

[Eyeing the door to her apartment as he takes a step or two in that direction.]

Guess I've got my answer. See ya!

[Bolting to the door.]

[opening_act]

[ That's good, because there was a thud where he was standing just a moment later, like something dropping right on that spot—

He bolts to the door.

Is he heading out it, back to the elevator? ]

[rollwithdisadvantage]

[He did not make that correlation with the trapeze. YIKES!

Out the door and back to the elevator. Jamming the button for it to go down. Didn't anyone teach you to take the stairs in case of an emergency 99!]

[opening_act]

[ it's okay! The elevator takes him back down to the lobby, safely.

The lobby is empty, and empties back out to the city of Tokyo-F. ]

[rollwithdisadvantage]

[Are those creepy shadow heat sources still around?]

[opening_act]

[ nope. You're in Tokyo-F. ]

[rollwithdisadvantage]

[Just going to sit down in this empty lobby then and try to digest what the fuck was that.]