graveyard part 4

[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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[speakveryclearly]

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Not really.

[therealrobin]

Tt.

You should work on that.

[ SARCASTIC TONE JUST TO SEE IF SHE GETS IT. ]

[speakveryclearly]

I'm sure that's the best possible application of what may be the last few days of my afterlife.

[therealrobin]

Yeah, because understanding what's going on around you is sooooo not worth it.

[speakveryclearly]

THE JOKE IS ON YOU!

I WAS EMPLOYING SOME OF YOUR SARCASM JUST NOW!

[KANAYA... DON'T SOUND SO PROUD...]

[therealrobin]

[ Damian leans forward and starts rubbing his temples.

This can't be happening.

And no, it isn't fun at all. ]

Get me some paper and pens. Some for each of us.

[speakveryclearly]

[Kanaya skims some off from the voting supplies.]

[therealrobin]

[ Damian takes some of the pages and writes an answer key. ]

Okay. Do you even know how tests work?

[speakveryclearly]

Yes. And, you know, I know what sarcasm is. The only reason I have such difficulty detecting it is because it's so arbitrarily used by humans I don't know when to assume the opposite of what's being said is the intended truth.

[therealrobin]

So we'll work on detecting it.

You ready?

[speakveryclearly]

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In all sincerity I think we should do this tomorrow.

[therealrobin]

Or tonight when we're waiting for people to die?

[ Come on, Kayana. He's bored. And in case you haven't noticed, his father is hardly a laugh-a-minute. ]

[speakveryclearly]

But--

[Uuuuuuuuuuuuugh.]

Fine.

[therealrobin]

Fine.

[ For now, he sets the paper and pen aside. ]

Tonight, then.