graveyard part 3

[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]

Well, that certainly drastically reduces the number of tokens we ghosts will be able to distribute. So much for winning the real game, whatever that meant.

[condescent]

You mean the mementos and clues being left around? I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but unless they have to do with some bonus level we're not aware of yet, they haven't been exactly helpful.

[speakveryclearly]

We've got a list.

If your plan goes off without a hitch, though, it will be much too late to reach the end of that list.

[condescent]

I doubt anything short of Critter announcing that he'll bring everyone back to life if the prey lose will stop Charles and Ciel from killing all the hunters they can now. Especially with Charles being poisoned. A dead man is a desperate and dangerous man.

[he shrugs] Ah well. As long as the prey win, I have no regrets.

[speakveryclearly]

Which would be an incredibly logical explanation for the hunters' behavior throughout this entire game, but of course Critter would never announce that. We're not supposed to want them to win and will be killed ourselves for betrayal if we do.

[And then she tilts her head.] Oh? Charles poisoned? Well, at least I'll get to speak with him again if that's the case... no real consolation, I know.

[condescent]

It would make sense, wouldn't it? But I wasn't willing to risk everything for the sake of a hunch.

No consolation necessary. I'm sure he'll enjoy lording over the hunters the fact that he managed to catch nearly all of them.

[speakveryclearly]

The hunters won't be happy with him. They still root for the pack, even here and with former friends on the other side... I don't understand.