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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.
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[personal profile] bloodofgrima 2013-05-16 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[...Robin is genuinely speechless. That... what the hell was that execution?]

By the gods...
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[personal profile] notyetlost 2013-05-16 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
That was way worse than yesterdays.

[Apparently the only thing more stressful than a trial split between a hunter and a prey, is a trial where there are no clear leads at all.]
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[personal profile] bloodofgrima 2013-05-16 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
...I'm not even sure what to think of that.
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[personal profile] notyetlost 2013-05-16 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
They basically left it up to Critter, what's possibly worse than that?

Re: day six - post trial

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-16 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Guess who's here now?

Ema wakes up as disoriented as can be expected after being executed. She sits up and pats herself down.]


...how the hell did I survive an acid bath?

[She looks up, recognizing some faces almost immediately. And she frowns.]

Of course it's not as easy as simply being dead.

Dammit.

[Oh hey, there's a kitchen. Time to see if there's something she can munch on as her mind catches up and realizes that she's actually kind of really fucking angry.]
Edited 2013-05-16 03:49 (UTC)
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[personal profile] bloodofgrima 2013-05-16 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Robin is... watching Ema from a slight distance. She wants to say something -- anything. To apologize, maybe. But like with Kanaya and the rest here, she doesn't really feel like she has the right.

Sorry, Ema, hope you don't mind a gloomy tactician just leaning against the wall by the door.]
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[personal profile] bloodofgrima 2013-05-16 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[She... can't really speak on that. It's almost better than damning someone themselves, isn't it? ...except no, it's not.]

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-16 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh thank science, they have Snackoos. Ema tears into a bag, crunching them with a vengeance.

After a few moments, she notices Robin hanging around nearby. Out of principle, she chucks one at her.]


You were a hunter.
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[personal profile] bloodofgrima 2013-05-16 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Robin makes no attempt to stop it from hitting her, or even to dodge it.]

Yes.
speakveryclearly: Kanaya holds sleeping Karkat's head in her lap, petting his hair, and looks down at him somberly. (Dedication)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-16 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Hi, Ema, remember the alien girl whose throat Bruce Wayne cut? She's one of the faces here. She stands between couches, ghost-like, with her hands folded.]

Welcome to the afterlife, ma'am.

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-16 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[That was an unsatisfying reaction. She's used to people getting bent out of shape over getting hit with a snack projectile.]

You lied because you had to. At least, that's the hypothesis I have, based on everything that's happened so far.

[Fucking Critter.]
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[personal profile] bloodofgrima 2013-05-16 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[If she was going to get bent out of shape she would've had to think she didn't deserve it... and you wouldn't have hit her at all in that case.

Though that's... honestly a better reaction than Robin had dared hope for. She nods slowly, though.]


It's true.

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-16 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh hi alien girl who also died for being helpful.]

Thanks. I think.

[She pauses for a few seconds before her anger boils over.]

Can you believe them!?
speakveryclearly: Kanaya drawn in sketchy black outline on jade background, suppressing a protest. ((>BT)) (Reluctant)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-16 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
You should know England has been lying about being protector. I don't know how they do it so well. I had to die at Bruce Wayne's hand to lure him out. Where on Earth is the bloodhound?

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-16 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
So it's fine.

At this point, I hope your side wins.

[MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH.

She may not mean that tomorrow. Right now, she's just mad.]

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-16 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
I know. America told me that he's actually the protector, and that England is covering for him...

[That second causes her to pause mid-chew.]

Bruce Wayne... You mean to say England's a hunter?!

[Dammit.]

Your guess is as good as mine about the bloodhound. Their silence is frustrating.
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[personal profile] bloodofgrima 2013-05-16 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
I do too, but likely for a different reason.

[Sorry Ema, blame Critter and his rules for Robin not being able to be overt about this.]
speakveryclearly: Kanaya, white as cinderblocks, burning with platonic hate manifest in a dark squiggle over her head. (Bitter)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-16 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
At this point with so much abstention? It looks like the hunters' game. [ ha ha ] I'm almost wondering if that's a good thing, considering how many supposedly decent people have seen it fit to play along based on secret incentives of some kind.

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-16 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
You died because of the game. I died because idiots decided to assume I was converted without any proof.

[She mad.]

I've earned the right to want my side to lose.

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-16 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Quite frankly, I want us to lose.

[Because she's pissed about her execution. Her opinion might be different after she calms down.

Maybe.]


We certainly deserve to.
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[personal profile] bloodofgrima 2013-05-16 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not debating that. I simple wonder if you truly mean that, or if it's just your anger and betrayal speaking.

[personal profile] glowing_skye 2013-05-16 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
...

It's snack time.

[MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH]
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[personal profile] bloodofgrima 2013-05-16 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Uh-huh. She thought so.

But Robin won't bother her if she doesn't want to be bothered. She'll just stay here on the wall. Looking into the main room quietly.]
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[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-05-16 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
We are doing a pretty awful job of playing. Half of us won't vote, and out of the eight special roles our game has, one is your son's, which I needn't enumerate the dangers of and shouldn't even have reminded you about actually, I'm sorry; one is America's, which he's allowed a hunter to steal, and the other six... are entirely out of the public eye.

Critter implied this utter incompetency is part of why it brought Hanekoma back.

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