retrospec | let's play a game y'all apparently

hellooooooo! ♪ i'm bored, so let's play a game! i bet most of you are familiar with the base of the one i want to modify here, buuuuuuuut playing it without the modifications is just no good. the answers aren't exciting enough! so, we're going to change it up! but, the base is marry, kiss, kill. more or less!

but because those aren't funny enough when it comes to answers and thought processes, let's do it this way!

elevator, partner, betray! what do those mean, you ask? ☆ happy to explain!

☆ elevator means you have to spend a whole day with the person in a broken elevator while the most obnoxious kind of music plays in the background! this kind of commitment requires a lot of thought, right? it's pretty hard to find people you can go through the worst times with, without at least a little bit of yelling ♪ so maybe you'll pick someone who likes games? someone quiet? someone you know or someone you don't?

☆ partner has two options depending on what works for you! it's a person you have to partner with for a huge project! if you're a student, it's your final project and it's worth 100% of your grade. if you're not a student, it's a big work thing and your entire future at your current career hinges on this project! the catch is this person has to be responsible for at least 50% of the work...so you can't do it all on your own and pick this one as an easy option that way! so who would you partner with and trust your future to?

☆ betray means you pulled off a crime or a prank with someone but you both got caught~! oh no, right? but you get to throw this person to the wolves. and you have to! no taking the fall yourself. soooo, who do you leave to take the fall? it's a little mean, but maybe there are nice ways to think about it, too! after all, that's a trick for everything, isn't it?

so! comment here to get three names from whoever and play! if you need a starter pack, let's see: santa claus, the trix rabbit, and cleopatra! tough call, right?

oh, but if you'd prefer real living people, you can choose from hinata aoi, leader arisato, or bruno mayer! ☆ that's allllll! come on, let's play already! and it's no fun if you don't explain your reasoning a little bit, so try to do that! of course, its not a rule, so if you really want to be cagey i can't stop you. also, if you like bowling lmk because i need to find people to go thanks!!!

[ and given the nature of the game being an ic meme basically threadjack away to ask one another lists of names if u like or hinata will just make up increasingly weird combinations solo. ]

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the last two are correct, but how cruel~! why have i been betrayed, huh?

The thing is, I don't know "Bruno Mayer" at all, so it would be awkward to betray him. However, although it's the first time you and I are speaking, the fact that we are having a conversation means I can apologize for my betrayal directly.

that's a pretty nice reason to betray someone!

but it's your turn to give me three names you know~!

Jamie Doh, Minato Arisato, and Hinata Aoi.

well partner with leader of course!
then i'd elevator you, and betray me! since it'd be lonely to do either thing with myself, wouldn't it?

cinderella, goldilocks, sleeping beauty!

I gave you the opportunity to betray me in return, but you chose not to take it. . . .
I feel even guiltier now.

I guess I would partner with Goldilocks because she has high standards, so our project would come out just right. And I would betray Cinderella because her fairy godmother would help her out. Although actually now that I'm thinking about it her fairy godmother never came to help her at all during her whole life until that one time?? That's not good.

Ok, I will elevator with Cinderella then. And I will betray Sleeping Beauty because she has a solid alibi already.

it's fine it's fine i forgive you already ☆

your turn to ask again! but i didn't even think of sleeping beauty's alibi, that's so smart
but doesn't goldilocks steal other people's work usually~?
i wonder how that will really go!

It's a group project, so even if she takes the credit,
we'll still get the same grade, right? I think she's more thoughtless than malicious, so I don't think she'd go as far as badmouthing me to the professor. . . . I suppose I should be ready to defend myself if so, though.

Oh, right!
Monet, Matisse, and Rembrandt.

these are all artists right?
hmmm!

i like rembrandts work so we can partner!
monet can be in the elevator with me because i like his too
and matisse can be betrayed because i'm less familiar with his!!

barney, blue from blue's clues, or a teletubby?

I'm surprised. I thought you would want to partner up with Matisse for sure. He was so good with scissors.

I feel like it's too much of a cliché to betray Barney, but I really want to partner with Blue and spend time in the elevator with a Teletubby. They have a calming presence.

Rachel Carson, Mae Jemison, or Boris Yeltsin?

i'm not familiar with him like i said
i should read up though!!

ummmm partner with mae because engineers are smart
elevator with rachel because we could talk marine stuff
and betray boris!!

blue, green, or yellow?

To be honest, these constant betrayals are beginning to take a toll on me. But I think you made the right choice. Economic shock therapy caused a lot of problems for the former Soviet Union.

How do you know Arisato?

i met leader arisato in a haunted house, and we formed a party to journey out of it! how do you know him?

That haunted house!!
The one with the basement?

We're roommates.

ohhh! that's even more reason why i can't betray you, then!!

and yes, that's the haunted house! he was really helpful in getting out~

I know the word of a traitor may not be worth much, but . . . I'll never betray you again, either!! I promise!

Speaking of that haunted house.
It was built special for the Halloween season, wasn't it? That is--it wasn't a permanent structure.
Right?

and on this day a new unbreakable duo was born ☆

i think it was built special~!
normally they have that kind of event at holidays...
this city has always been very into them!

That's what I thought!! It was built special, right?? In an area where the structures change seasonally!

So
How was it possible for it to have a basement??