graveyard part 2

[gamehead]

hunter's game the graveyard You wake up in an unfamiliar cabin. At first, it almost seems like you're in an entirely different place and that everything had been just a dream. The interior of the cabin looks nothing like the run-down, old-timey shacks that you had been living in before. Everything in here is sleek and modern, from the enormous flat-screen TV mounted on the wall to the fridge and mini-bars stocked with all your favorite foods. There aren't any individual rooms in here, just a common area large enough to house everyone comfortably, no matter how many more people join you...and there will be plenty more people joining you before the week is over. Because if you look outside the window, it quickly becomes clear that not only are you still in Prayer's Pass, but that you are no longer among the realm of the living. Judging from the tombstones directly outside, you're now in what had been the abandoned broken-down cabin in the graveyard. The cabin's not all that changed; the world outside has gone completely grey and everything you see appears to be faded and blurry. The only things that remain sharp and in color are what's inside the cabin, including your fellow ghosts. Occasionally, people who are still alive may enter, but it's clear that what they're seeing is completely different from what you're seeing. The door's unlocked; however, a mysterious force prevents you from stepping beyond the threshold, no matter how hard you may try. After all, this cabin is a cage for the dead - a gilded one, perhaps, but a cage nonetheless. On the flat-screen TV plays everything that is currently happening in the town. It will shut off once night starts...and something else will appear instead.

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[yajackass]

[Ukyo Kuonji's first few moments in the graveyard weren't happy ones.

From checking her head for a bullet hole, to realizing that she was still involved. Of course it couldn't be that easy to get away. Of course not...]

Goddammit!

[It's about all she can get out. She wanted to cry, but she wouldn't let herself. It was her fault, it was only a matter of time anyway. Out of the frying pan...]

[speakveryclearly]

Welcome to the afterlife, Ukyo.

[Kanaya's demeanor was mixed, cool. On the one hand, she'd liked Ukyo well enough and getting to know her better could have been nice. On the other, she had been revealed as not only a hunter but a werewolf.

She didn't look the same as when Ukyo had last seen her. For one thing, there was an air of ghostliness about her, death clinging to her skin still - for another, her left horn, the one with the hook, was missing, leaving only one left.]

[yajackass]

[She nearly jumps at the sound of Kanaya's voice. The afterlife? So she really was dead... given the fact that Hanekoma was still alive, she should have known that Critter could cobble this together.

Kanaya's appearance was somewhat frightening. Just what had she been doing-- and how could anything keep hurting her after she was dead? Either way, she had something to say.]

Thanks. [And she bows her head.] I'm sorry.

[speakveryclearly]

[Her contrition... she expected something like this. Like Robin.]

You should be. But. You shouldn't have to be. In death we... understand things; look at the game from a different level. I still don't understand why, but things are more like red and blue than black and--

[But then suddenly the intense thirst for knowledge flares to the front of her mind--] Can you tell me whom you converted.

[yajackass]

[She was somewhat relieved that Kanaya understood, though it didn't help her. She didn't feel good about it.]

I didn't want anyone dead. I'm not a killer, I just... [She bit her tongue. She helped. Shaking her head, she held onto her arms.]

I don't know if I can say.

[speakveryclearly]

I know a lot of your tongues are bound, it's just... it's just that...

[This was hard for her to admit but death had made her own tongue loose.] A lot of them just said Kyouko Kirigiri was the top candidate and... I'm not sure I could bear that.

[yajackass]

...[She's completely and utterly silent at that, doing her best to keep her gaze away from Kanaya.]

[speakveryclearly]

...

[She's not sure if this is an affirmative stare.

But the longer she keeps up the stare the more it looks like an affirmative stare.]

Hope you don't mind the threadjack!

[glowing_skye]

Did Kyouko Kirigiri kill you last night?

[WHAT IS TACT?]

nooooot at all!

[yajackass]

[She's quiet momentarily, before nodding her head.]

Yeah. It was her.

[speakveryclearly]

[Well this is a shocker.]

Why did you ask her that?

[To Ema, and then to Ukyo--]

Which question were you answering?

aaaawoop

[yajackass]

Both of them.

[glowing_skye]

Because her death fits Kyouko's prey role, which allows her to kill one person by gunshot at night. It was the last thing she managed to communicate to me before my execution.

This means she can't have been the convert. And it means there's a lot of communication going on behind the scenes.

[glowing_skye]

....

Wait, what? Then how...?

[speakveryclearly]

--!

!--

[FORM WORDS, KANAYA

YOU CAN DO IT]

--!

I have never felt this much pity for any specific individual in my entire life.

[yajackass]

There's someone that gave her guns. Since we needed to atone for America's cheating for us, and I thought I was going to die anyway... she shot me.

That way, she could still be seen as prey.

[glowing_skye]

...because Sayaka Maizono gave her a gun.

Dammit.

[speakveryclearly]

We've undoubtedly lost!

[glowing_skye]

...

I'm getting a beer. [Who cares if it's first thing in the morning?

And, true to her statement, she goes to the kitchen, grabs a beer (and Snackoos, but that's a given), returns with it, and flops down with more vehemence than is strictly necessary.

MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH GLUG]

[axeforasong]

[...]




[shrugs]

Oh well. It's been fun.

[speakveryclearly]

You're a scavenger, your argument is invalid.

[axeforasong]

Why? My team is out anyway.

[notyetlost]

Great! Now you can totally focus on the real game.

The prey scavenger hunter thing is a distraction.

[speakveryclearly]

[WHIMPER...]

Right...

[notyetlost]

[Poland will just take his hand and pull on the corner of Kanaya's mouth with a finger. This would work a lot better with two hands but that's life death.

He's careful to avoid her 'carnivorous' teeth, he'd like to keep his remaining body parts.]

Smile!