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]

I'm almost glad I came here alone, it's just so pathetic how it keeps happening.

[notyetlost]

Like seriously, do you think anyone would be playing if that was the case?

Well. Except Syo maybe.

[speakveryclearly]

Prrrrrrobably not.

Hopefully three times will be the charm on that. Bruce, Tony, Naegi...

[notyetlost]

If it does happen again that should totally be a triple shot.

[speakveryclearly]

Yes.

Extra if it's for Hope's Peak again? [And that... is bittersweet because. Wow. Kyouko.]

[notyetlost]

Or a nation.

[Poland hasn't had enough liquor to be okay with saying that yet actually so... bottoms up!]

[speakveryclearly]

Or -- oh! Oh, that other group that came here together. The one Tony was in.

[notyetlost]

Aren't they mostly dead by now anyways?

[speakveryclearly]

Less than halfway there. Tony and Bucky comprised 40%. There's still Steve Rogers and Sharon & Peggy Carter.

[notyetlost]

Ohhhh yeaaaah.

But shhhh... Don't say Sharon too loud though, Ukraine might punch through a table or something.

[speakveryclearly]

Sharon too loud.

[notyetlost]

Pfftahaha! [Poland is laughing way too hard at that, here take the bottle Kanaya he doesn't want to get plastered.]

Oh my god... ahahaheh.

Ehehehe.

[speakveryclearly]

[Yeah you've had enough of this stuff aaaaaand you know what she'll pour a little into her own gla--oh god it's awful never again.]

I'm really going to lose my glass spherical playthings before much longer. It's hard to remain invested in the game when it's looking more and more like the hunters really are vindicated somehow by their secret incentives.

[notyetlost]

[He usually has better tolerance than this, Critter must have taken away his super booze tolerance when it took away America's super strength.

He's just a little buzzed though, Poland's ridiculous personality is just making him seem worse than he actually is.]

Duuuh! I'm telling you, we're not the bad guys here.

[speakveryclearly]

I know that, I know that, what I mean is... more than that. [Wow jesus she should not have even tried that stuff it turns out she's kind of a huge fucking lightweight.] I mean, of course you were forced into it, that's been a given ever since Bruce killed me. What I mean is starting to look like - like we should want the hunters to win. Which is very frustrating.

[notyetlost]

[Poland shakes his remaining finger at Kanaya scoldingly.] Nuh uh, you're not gonna get me to spill just because I'm like maybe buzzed. You have to figure it out yourself.

But it's really so obvious though. I mean. I guess England and I are ridiculously selfish and that we could be skewing your thinking, but what could possibly drive someone like Bruce to play?

[speakveryclearly]

It's frustrating because obviously the prohibition against you telling us means we'd instantly stop trying if we knew the truth. My instinct is that there's something really important - perhaps even on a planetwide or multiversal scale - that you need to bring about or prevent. Like create a new universe. I would understand that.

Bruce and Naegi, though, they're so lily-livered... it makes me think that somehow you're under the impression murders committed here don't even count. The thing is, though, that's eerily similar to Sayaka's delusions.

[notyetlost]

[Poland won't comment on any of that, except briefly the last thing.]

We might not have gotten to pick our roles, but we had a choice to play.

We weren't brain washed.

[speakveryclearly]

...I'm never going to understand, am I.

It won't matter if the prey win, which will probably happen. Such a straightforward side to be on, as England said.

[notyetlost]

Aww... you're totally giving up on the clues already? I guess Mayu really was the neutral buffer between us.

In that case, you'll definitely understand when the Hunters win. Which I know they will.

[speakveryclearly]

Things were easier when she was around... [CLUB-BREAK]

I just... don't know what else to do. I thought it would be so easy to defeat the hunters, and now that we finally might do that...

Death is so odd on Earth.

[notyetlost]

[Yeah, he misses Mayu too. Even if the alternative is that she'd still be dead. This trio's down to two.]

Well to be fair, I don't think anyone from Earth really thought this was how their death was going to go.

Of course I've never experienced death prior to now so like, maybe everyone really does go to a big spooky cabin in the woods when its their time.

[speakveryclearly]

I did, you know. [Her lips quirk up; she remembers it vividly, now, and showing the resultant hole in her torso to Kyouko.] And I assure you this is not awaiting literally everyone.