Day 10, evening - ZERO VOTE BIDS

[kentucky_mcgiygas]

[ ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! ]

Good evening, Burgers and Mcnuggets! Today we have something special: Two hotel passes for the price of one! Yes, these bids were so good, we couldn't choose between them, so we've decided you can have them both!

First up, witness the amazing, the shocking, the most-likely-death-defying Ene as she completes a grand act you'd never have thought possible! Will she go through with the most agonizing torture her own mind could concoct? Head to the theater to find out!

[ CANNED APPLAUSE ]

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[keybroad]

Nijimura-kun! Nijimura-kun~ Niji--

[Lotus is pacing through the hallways calling thusly with her tablet in one hand and a medium cup of iced tea in the other. She stops, looks down at her tablet, and frowns.]

Oh no... oh for the love of... Really?

[She looks back up with a determined face and turns her walking back towards the lite brite board. There'll presumably be an update in light of this!]

[court_chesster]

[Simon's there, taking out the 'LINK' pegs next to his own name]

[keybroad]

Wow...

[She holds up the depleted bucket of green pegs for Simon to put away]

That really makes it real......

[court_chesster]

Yeah...

[Drops them in without really looking away from the board.]

[keybroad]

[Once they're dropped in, she puts the bucket back down. There is a heavy silence.

Then, trying very hard to sound tactful.]

What now...?

[court_chesster]

I'm not going to waste that vote, so... I g-guess it's on me to choose...

[Somehow he doesn't seem terribly eager to do that.]

[keybroad]

Mmmhmmm... Link definitely would have wanted for you to use it somehow... I think...

[She puts her hand into a pile of yellow pegs, squishing them between her fingers, thinking. Maybe clenching her fist because she's so angry?]

[court_chesster]

[Peers over at her.]

Yellow... Mary's color?

[keybroad]

Oh! You're right! Nobody has voted for Mary!

[THEATRICAL SIGH]

I talked to Niles about it, but I was too late, I found out he's voting for Nijimura-kun, so...

[court_chesster]

[PROBABLY EQUALLY THEATRICAL GASP]

Nowaynoway, why isn't anybody voting for her? She's just a little kid!

[keybroad]

I don't know!

[Theatrically angry at the others not him oR HERSELF

proffers the bucket of yellow pegs helpfully]

If you wanted to do it now... that would help so much... maybe you can take her on a second macaroon date?

[court_chesster]

Yeah, of course! I have to help her!

[Immediately grabs some pegs and starts putting them in.]

[keybroad]

Woah, don't hurt yourself doing it!

[talktothestand]

[ Might be for the best that Lotus missed Okuyasu?

But if she ever needed him, he was too busy being in the kitchen, preparing what looks like cookies and they were being put inside fake-present boxes from the prop room, each one with a label that read "Niles" and another that read "Mari".]

[keybroad]

[Later Lotus walks into the kitchen to pick out some unadorned brownies to shove into the microwave and then her mouth. As she is waiting for the microwave to go off, she sets eyes on Okuyasu. She has this dazed expression like she's seen a ghost, then pipes up mildly.]

Those are cute.

[talktothestand]

Oh? [Too focused on his tying up his personal notes on each of the small boxes that contained the cookies, but he managed to hear Lotus!

Ah, Rohan-sensei's friend again...!]

Yo. Thanks. It ain't much, but I can make simple things good enough.

I wanted to thank Niles for the date and vote. [Because even if the guy just jerked Okuyasu around a bit for laughs, Okuyasu.... felt Niles was one of the few here who acknowledged Okuyasu as his pwn person. ] I also noticed that Mari-chan looked kinda down lately. So I...

...

[ Mari

His fists clench as he resisted the urge to punch the counter. Whoever did that to Mari. They better not be near Okuyasu because this guy would beat the culprit to a bloody pulp.]

Well. I think I'll give it to her after she gets better and rests more. [He long set Mari in her dressing room to keep recovering. ]

[keybroad]

Better than I can make. [She smiles through this with a bit of a deer in the headlights expression:] It's very nice of you to be grateful to him.

[Mari, though...] Mari just keeps taking things on the chin, it's really not fair. Were you hanging out together in that set? It sounds like you were strong enough to help her. I never thought your muscles would be this useful. Good work.