No, but I'll start anyway. Better to just get it over with, I think. [With a soft sigh, Lisa starts in again.] Behind the poster was the backstage area. Stuff was strewn everywhere - props, backdrops, you couldn't move a meter without bumping into something. Which was the problem, it was a maze, and the prize was in the center: you. There was a staircase up to the stage, and we could see you up there, and all we had to do was reach you - you were right there - but... there was some... big... black... star... red... thing?? It kept shooting at us. Throwing things at us. Dropping lights and setpieces on us. Strobing lights, I had a headache for days. I'm getting a headache now thinking about it. So we had that to contend with while we were tyring to get through, but as long as we didn't stick out trying to move forward, it... kind of ignored us? We ran out of cover eventually, but... I'll come back to that.
[Lisa shakes her head, and her expression dims.]
The bigger problem was that you could never trust anything you saw was what it looked like. There were Torments in there, and... also things scarier than Torments. I saw a couple, big, nasty things, and I took a few scary shots. At one point I ran into some kind of space set - command consoles, starry backdrops, cushy chairs. And I fought someone that looked straight out of Star Journey, it was weird. I think he was a Torment? But he found this weird... alien blaster thing. Kinda like Caesar-chan's knives, definitely looked real enough to do damage. And I- nn! [She gasps and twitches; her right arm comes back from around Junna to hold her side. Lisa's face pales a little and her eyebrows are creased; she sure seems like she's in pain, but from what?] Psychosomatic bullshit- guh. Um. I may have gotten shot. Again. In the same place. I'm not really hurt but it's bugging me sometimes, still. But it really, really hurt in the moment, and I may have screamed bloody murder. And screaming attracted attention. I'd just finished dealing with the jerk that shot me, aaaaand then Hibiki's Night Terror came around a corner? Somehow???
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[Lisa shakes her head, and her expression dims.]
The bigger problem was that you could never trust anything you saw was what it looked like. There were Torments in there, and... also things scarier than Torments. I saw a couple, big, nasty things, and I took a few scary shots. At one point I ran into some kind of space set - command consoles, starry backdrops, cushy chairs. And I fought someone that looked straight out of Star Journey, it was weird. I think he was a Torment? But he found this weird... alien blaster thing. Kinda like Caesar-chan's knives, definitely looked real enough to do damage. And I- nn! [She gasps and twitches; her right arm comes back from around Junna to hold her side. Lisa's face pales a little and her eyebrows are creased; she sure seems like she's in pain, but from what?] Psychosomatic bullshit- guh. Um. I may have gotten shot. Again. In the same place. I'm not really hurt but it's bugging me sometimes, still. But it really, really hurt in the moment, and I may have screamed bloody murder. And screaming attracted attention. I'd just finished dealing with the jerk that shot me, aaaaand then Hibiki's Night Terror came around a corner? Somehow???