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Character Name: Ciaran Cassidy
Team: Blue

Ciaran had been lucky enough to have a private ticket fan meet with Jade after all, and she had done her best for the game and the small defeat had her a bit bummed. She didn't show it much on her face, and immediately perked when Cass came over to her booth, sliding up to her.

"Oh you saw that?" She laughed awkwardly, "I'd make a lame line about how I am better then that but I wasn't." She ran a hand nervously over her leg and then rose a brow.

"Sure I could." Ciaran didn't want to tell the girl she was good at bouncing back because she was definitely interested in getting to know the green haired woman. "Whatcha got in mind?" Her eyes twinkled at Cass.

Character Name: Queenie Powers
Team: Spectator

She heard her name being said in that very stern, very teacher-like tone and Queenie Powers inwardly winced a little bit. It wasn't that she disliked Ms. Ellis, no, but a knee-jerk reaction developed from years of stern talking-tos from both Ms. Ellis and all of the other Crystal Academy teachers. The question itself seemed more rhetorical than sincere - like something to be expected of a superior of her favorite little underling.

And yet...

"Ashley?"

Her nose scrunched up at the question, perfectly plucked eyebrows rising.

Was she even supposed to be watching that dunce? Why should she have to be in charge of trying to keep up with that dullard - after all, what did Suri Ellis even need with such an unenthusiastic slacker when she had someone like Queenie at the ready to help with whatever she needed?

And still, she asked specifically for how Ashley was doing?

The young woman couldn't help but wilt a little at the notion that someone so frustratingly annoying could favor her boss's attention and not the redhead who was actively trying so very hard to win that coveted spot. Stupid Ashley, she hoped he got snatched up by some stupid senshi or some stupid nerds or whatever else could be possibly running around in the convention right now. Would serve the dummy right.

"I'll go find him, ma'am."

The enthusiasm had left her voice, eyes refusing to meet those of her boss's as Queenie, defeated, turned away and disappeared into the crowd, fingernails pressing deeply into her palm as she did her best to keep her irritation at bay.

AMItotic

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Character Name: Loren Malinowski
Team: Red team
Prompt #: 2 ( Rudarius)
POINT TALLY: 5

The actual arena was... something else. Loren had to admit that the novelty of it was a lot of fun, and they hadn't even actually done anything, yet. Honestly not really caring what he ended up doing, Loren observed passively while his team decided who should go where. Since he was playing a melee class, everyone else figured he should be fine to just... go off on his own. His stats weren't as delicate as the ranged character, after all, who would probably need the shield character to protect them while they moved. Otherwise, the ranged character might end up getting picked off.

So, he went down the center path by himself. That was fine, honestly. He was feeling pretty good about the game so far and anticipated the idea of running into an enemy with a bit of excitement.

Actually running into an enemy, however, made him jump a bit when they popped out of the grasses to challenge him. Fortunately, he was able to recover quickly enough to try and attack them, and he was pleasantly surprised to discover that he had a cohort with him that he had somehow managed to miss before. Unless they just popped into existence for fights, which, well, was not uncommon for how video games worked, if he remembered correctly. He guessed it would take too much effort and money to try and render each individual NPC that followed him around.

Plus, follow dynamics could be weird, or so he had heard. Players getting stuck on corners, and all. Anyway, Loren readied his sword and got to work. By the end of it, he and his NPC friends had gotten a few of them. So... yeah, that was pretty cool...

Character Name: Loren Malinowski
Team: Red team
Prompt #: 4 ( Rudarius)
POINT TALLY: 6 + 4 = 10

Loren was... pretty sure he was at least halfway through this gamut? Again, he had not paid nearly as much attention as perhaps he should have when the rules and layout of the game were being explained to him. So now, he was going to have to play it by ear and hope he didn't mess up something obvious. He moved forward down the path by himself. Well, him and his NPC helpers, anyway. He hoped this was not one of those games where his helpers could catch enemy aggro, because that would suck. They did the sort of typical NPC milling about whenever he stood still for a moment, so he tried not to stand still.

And yet, he found an enemy anyway. Taking a moment to say something unkind, Loren moved to try and strike the enemy down with his sword. To his helpers' credit, it did not seem as if they had attracted the enemy's attention, so that was something at least, and a point to the game system mechanics? However, Loren was able to input the correct commands and button presses to get rid of the enemies that had challenged him without too much difficulty.

He paused to be surprised, for a moment, watching the last one fall and assume the "dead" position. He was going to have to try video games more often if they were all like this. At any rate, because he and his helpers had not attracted any extra attention from enemies, Loren kept going.

Character Name: Loren Malinowski
Team: Red team
Prompt #: 6 ( Rudarius)
POINT TALLY: 8 - 3 = 5

All by his lonesome, Loren managed to make it to the enemy base that had been looming in the distance before. He did rather wish he had not managed to lose all of his helpers in the previous leg, but he supposed he was also lucky to have made it this far. He was just shy of taking the wild button mash approach when challenged, and he had to keep double-checking what some of the less-common game controls were. So, at the very least, he was still alive and able to look up at the enemy base with a distinct sense of foreboding.

He tried to be optimistic, but he was pretty sure that was the end of the line.

Loren started forward toward the enemies that awaited him, and he tried very hard not to just button mash his way through the battle. This was probably a final battle, if his sense of cinematic video game timing was right, and he knew this meant it was probably going to be very hard. Button mashing was not going to get him through it like it'd done for the other ones.

That did not mean he did not try to do that anyway, instinctively, especially as he got embroiled in the final conflicts.

Predictably, it did not work, and he was killed and booted out of the game with a "Game Over" message. ... Well, hey, that had actually been pretty fun. Maybe he'd pick up an RPG or something on his way home. Something to play between otome titles, especially since he was waiting on a sequel title to come out that kept getting delayed...

He had been so close with this game, too. Almost to the end! The last dude! The last! Dude! He was a mix of proud of himself and frustrated. Loren decided that, yes, he was going to buy himself an actual RPG, and he was going to play it, and he was going to beat it.

He wasn't going to get knocked out again in the eleventh hour jeez.

Character Name: Cassadega Bright

She really shouldn't have been wandering off again after only being back for a short period of time but the testing had been winding down and they'd already thinned out the winners of the first round and then the second.

Arnold could handle things, the stuffy dude probably liked pretending he was in charge.

So, she grabbed Ciaran's hand, lacing their fingers together, and leaned in to whisper in her ear, "Oh, I have more than a few ideas, c'mon."

With that, she led the girl off to somewhere more...private.

Whenever they separated, Ciaran would almost definitely be sporting green lipstick somewhere.

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