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.

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[fortissimos]

[ That gets a reaction — her anger had largely cooled until now, but she clenches her fist, staring down at the ground with a furious expression. ]

I don't care what they're fighting for. If the hunters win, they get to hurt Madoka. [ Or Critter does. She shakes her head. ] I might not be much of a warrior of justice anymore, but... if I wasn't brainwashed, there's no way I would have killed people like that. They really are monsters.

[condescent]

I had wondered for a while whether it was something like being able to bring everyone back to life if they won, but after what Critter said would happen to the prey...not that I trust it in the least, but there's something odd going on here. [he shrugs] Still, it's too late for them now.

You may have been brainwashed, but you still targeted hunters before anyone else. As I told Madoka, that takes quite a strength of will. I wouldn't be too hard on yourself there.

[fortissimos]

I still hurt someone innocent in the end. They should have stopped me sooner.

[ She's grateful for the fact it was only one person, but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with. In the end, she's angry less about her own death and more about the method — there was no need to make everyone else see what was left afterward. ]

... We know that thing can bring people back. If we're lucky, it might do the same for the rest of you. [ Herself excluded; she gave up that right when she killed her first non-hunter. ]