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.

Comments

[speakveryclearly]

I know. Trust me, time goes more slowly here. By the time the next day rolls around it'll feel like you've been here forever.

[Oh... also important to mention that Kanaya's left horn - the one with the hook - is... missing, leaving her with only one.]

[motheringnation]

....wonderful.

[She doesn't sound pleased at that.]

So all we do is sit around and watch them?

[speakveryclearly]

Well, when the boys aren't getting into idiotic fights. We just try to figure out "the real game", whatever that means. For all intents and purposes, we're still playing. Just as ghosts rather than hunters or prey.

[motheringnation]

The real game? I thought...that was the game?

[speakveryclearly]

It is... and yet it isn't. It's hard to understand.

[motheringnation]

...Yes, it sounds like it is.

[speakveryclearly]

Well, it helps to have one more head to put together in an attempt to get to the bottom of the puzzle!

[motheringnation]

[She nods. More firmly this time.]

I'll try to help if I can. Whatever this "real game" is, I don't think we want to lose it.

[speakveryclearly]

That's for certain. I think... I think Critter will keep organizing these games until they're "really" won.

[motheringnation]

That's what it seems like.

....I wonder how many games they've already "played".

[speakveryclearly]

I don't know... but it could easily be very many.

[motheringnation]

Well, we'll just have to make sure this is the last then.

[More sure of herself then she actually feels, but how can you be anything else at a time like this?]