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critter ([personal profile] gamehead) wrote2013-05-15 05:04 pm
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graveyard part 2

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.
tsunneverset: (YOUR MOM is a washed-up ex empire)

[personal profile] tsunneverset 2013-05-24 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Hang on, what the bloody hell did I do? I didn't kill any of you lot!
axeforasong: (I can play too!)

[personal profile] axeforasong 2013-05-24 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mayu can only shrug (and is still showering you with handfuls of popcorn)]

I don't know; just wanted to beat the Illiterate Country.
speakveryclearly: Kanaya shining like the compass rose of justice and morality and retribution and a girl with really scary fangs. (Monster)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-24 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
YOU'RE THE REASON PREY WAS NEVER ONCE PROTECTED AT NIGHT! You cheated terribly!!! You're a liar and dishonorable in every way imaginable!

I hope you're not looking forward to leaving a less vague message for the town, because your deception has cut down on our slots for such sendouts significantly.
tsunneverset: (why do i bother with these muggles)

[personal profile] tsunneverset 2013-05-24 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
No, that was America. He didn't actually find out I was a hunter until the night Ema was executed, so everything before then lies solely on his shoulders. Actually, him letting Akane die came as much a surprise to me, I certainly didn't tell him to do it.

...well, except Ukyo. I did trick him into saving her, for all the good that did us. But it's not like he would have managed to save a prey that night anyway. And what message? Are you finally going to explain those strange mementos?
speakveryclearly: Kanaya with crossed arms, trying not to make the leap from passive-aggressive to plainly aggressive. (Jealous)

1/2

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-24 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[She punches him. Just once. In the gut. Then crosses her arms.]
speakveryclearly: Kanaya stares at the viewer with a sharp predatory glow, glaring jade-ringed eyes and matching lipstick. (Very Serious)

2/2

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-24 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
We pick something to give up so that it can be sent down every night, along with some kind of clue to winning "the real game" - which I don't understand any more than you do. Though sometimes Critter renders the loss symbolically. Poland for instance is actually missing his own hand, not a painting.
tsunneverset: (pic#6102964)

[personal profile] tsunneverset 2013-05-24 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm...I figured it was something along those lines. All right, I'll go tonight then. My sight should be enough, shouldn't it?
speakveryclearly: Kanaya, bitterly pale, frowning over being pushed away and ignored by Rose Lalonde. (Rejected)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-24 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's actually surprised about this magnanimity.]

Yes. Nobody's actually done a sense yet but it's one of the primary options. Some ghosts were so reluctant to part with their possessions or memories or senses that they opened up the fourth category of body parts.
tsunneverset: (Default)

[personal profile] tsunneverset 2013-05-24 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I didn't really bring anything valuable with me and I'm certainly not giving up any of my memories when they're all I have left. It's not like I'll be doing any heavy reading in here anyway.
speakveryclearly: Kanaya with pursed, green lips, looking up at the sky skeptically. Offscreen her hand is on her hip. (Tch)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-24 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
We spend basically all of our time watching television footage of the town, though.

I guess you can just pretend you didn't ever receive the upgrade from radio.
tsunneverset: (pic#6046426)

[personal profile] tsunneverset 2013-05-25 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Not having to look at Spain's smug, ugly face may actually be a blessing. [He scowls blackly at the TV.] Though at this point, America is infuriating me so much that I might just give up some choice memories of him, that stupid ungrateful selfish childish....

[He trails off, muttering darkly to himself. It's clear that he doesn't actually mean what he's saying though, he's just extremely upset.]
speakveryclearly: Kanaya with mercilessly raised eyebrows and a wide smirk on her teasing lips. (Smug)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-25 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
I know you're not going to actually do that. You're worse about each other than Poland and Lithuania.
tsunneverset: (why do i bother with these muggles)

[personal profile] tsunneverset 2013-05-25 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Are not. And ugh, don't even talk to me about Poland and Lithuania. Six days of handling that git with kiddy gloves and whatever rubbish I could think of on the spot about Poland's ghost, which I was right about. I should have just hit him from the start.
speakveryclearly: Kanaya looks down at a computer screen casting purple light on her intense face. (Serious)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-25 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
...He really wanted to hit you right until the moment before you hit him, you know.
tsunneverset: (pic#6067710)

[personal profile] tsunneverset 2013-05-25 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Who did, Lithuania? I would have been happy to let him hit me - at least it would have been some sign of emotion.
speakveryclearly: Kanaya grumbling with one hand pressed to her face. Jade lipstick. (Frustration)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-25 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
No no no [waving hands dammit why is Hetalia such a sausagefest] Poland was so angry at you for saying his vote for me was suicide before you hit Lithuania and announced that we ghosts were trying to send all of you messages. And that made all of us ghosts very happy and Poland in particular lost any and all resentment he experienced towards you.

By the way, you haven't said hi to me for Charles yet.
tsunneverset: (bomb these walls down)

[personal profile] tsunneverset 2013-05-25 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
...ah, I can see why that might have sounded bad. Though really, Poland should have known I'd drain the Channel first before I'd ever genuinely call one of his thoughtless mistakes anywhere near an actual strategy, let alone a smart one.

Right, Charles says hello. Did you kick Nightray for him yet?
speakveryclearly: Kanaya very serious over a needle and thread in her hand and mouth. (Determined)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-25 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
As much as I'd like to talk things over to him with my lips or my legs, no. Not every ghost's presence here is equally strong. Players eliminated by Critter may not show their faces as shades at all.

...Don't let Poland hear you taking him to task for that. He's very sensitive about the whole thing and putting the hunters' victory at risk for whatever secret reason it is that you have. You'll understand his psyche on the deep level that Sayaka and Mayu and I do when you've been dead for more than a day. It's just kind of something that happens here.

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terryplz: (pic#6034166)

[personal profile] terryplz 2013-05-24 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
You're not going tonight. I am.
tsunneverset: (ponder)

[personal profile] tsunneverset 2013-05-24 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
No, it has to be me. I told Lithuania and America that if I was right about the mementos being some sort of message from those who've died, I'd send them something. This way, they'll know tomorrow that it's not just some taunt from Critter, but us trying to communicate.

...well, Lithuania will. Even I don't know how America will interpret it.
terryplz: (pic#6131034)

[personal profile] terryplz 2013-05-24 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
...

Fine.

[He's annoyed really. This has not been going their way, no matter how the Prey think of it. But, England should have been the last on Rapunzel's list. They'll be going in blind once again come tomorrow.]

You'll understand when the time comes what to do, but I suggest not opening a building. The buildings are pointless without the clues within them unlocked. Got it?
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[personal profile] tsunneverset 2013-05-24 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[He nods.]

I'd been planning on doing so anyway. The buildings have been completely useless to us thus far. The video today though...you saw it, I assume? What did you make of it?
terryplz: (pic#6034169)

[personal profile] terryplz 2013-05-25 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
It wasn't worth an arm.

[...Oh, right, besides that.]

Interestingly, the only time something got shot in the video it was a wolf. Right before then, a circle of ceramic rabbits together in unison. One person was seen burning, the other being frozen, reminiscent of the deaths of Sam Winchester and James Sunderland. And the assailant, a man in a rabbit mask. The laugh at the end sounds much like Critter as well.

This "game"...this isn't the first time I suspect. Perhaps that museum wasn't just for show or to scare - it may be a collection of things from the previous instance. Like how we've been leaving signs of our continued existence.
tsunneverset: (ponder)

[personal profile] tsunneverset 2013-05-25 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
You noticed the same things I did, then. This has likely all happened before to another group or even groups of people.

More than that though...it was the wolf being shot that seems to have led to the whole chain of deaths.
axeforasong: (but look I'm completely innocent yo)

[personal profile] axeforasong 2013-05-25 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
The axes weren't any use?