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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Re: day eleven - post trial

[therealrobin]

We might be too, if we don't get the clues unlocked, idiot.

[ Having met you, America, Damian is now Team England. ]

[tsunneverset]

[nod of agreement aww yeah soon the whole batfamily other than that jerk Grayson will be his]

Damian's right. Even if we bring him back, it won't matter if we all disappear into nothingness in a few days anyway.

[asapplepie]

But Lithuania's my friend.

[He's pouting but unsure. He can't actively help kill Lithuania, but he also wants to win. And England...England gave up his eyes for this. He still thinks that was stupid, but even though he might not call England a friend, he's more important than Lithuania.]

[therealrobin]

And your best chance to save him for good is to vote for clues. If those living idiots can figure it out, we all win.

[ Besides, he's already lost Stephanie forever, probably. And Damian can still see the bigger picture. So America had better ball up. ]

[asapplepie]

We don't know that.

We can't give up on Lithuania just for some dumb clues.

[tsunneverset]

He knew the risk he was taking. And Critter said it had the power to bring him back, which means he's not really gone at all. He's probably just in a different location than we are. We can still save him to.

[He sighs.] I don't expect you to vote against him. If it were one of my citizens on the line, I wouldn't do it either. [Or if it was America, but in that case there'd be a lot less passively voting and a lot more kicking and screaming.] But my decision's made.

[notyetlost]

[Oh there will be kicking and screaming England.] No he didn't! He didn't know, he couldn't have known!

Look at all the totally stupid crap we left around around town when we unlocked things, he must have thought we all end up somewhere together when we died! That's here.

Not where ever he is now! We owe him this, he tried to help us!

[tsunneverset]

And we are taking that help. He could have gotten out of here alive. He had to have known that the prey had been a day away from winning. Instead, he chose to give up his life for a chance for all of us to survive. We'd be doing him a dishonor if we wasted that chance and made his death pointless.

[asapplepie]

I know...I'm not going to vote against him, but it's not fair.

[tsunneverset]

Nothing in this game's been fair, not from the start. I'm not surprised the same holds true even in death.

[asapplepie]

I shouldn't have saved him. He'd be here instead of gone and Ada wouldn't of thought to shoot me and I could have stopped everything that happened today.

I messed up everything.

[tsunneverset]

Or maybe Ada would have shot you anyway and everything would have happened exactly as it did, except we wouldn't have gotten the chance to finish unlocking the clues and the prey would have won tomorrow, leaving all of us dead for good.

Stop it. You don't get to blame yourself for the decisions other people made. The mistake was coming here in the first place. The fault for everything that's happened since lies solely with Critter and no one else.

[asapplepie]

It was the one thing I thought I did right.

It just sucks, okay? I was going to do what you wanted but then I wanted to do that and save people, and it didn't work for either.

[tsunneverset]

You did get it right. It's not like you knew he'd be betraying the prey.

That's why you should always listen to me, though I'm glad you didn't in this case or we'd be buggered without Lithuania's help right now. But if we want to talk about things we got wrong, shall I write you a novel? [He begins ticking his fingers off.] Tried to help the hunters win - well, that's likely not happening. Tried to protect my citizens here - Clara and Peggy are still around but Luke and Hermione are dead, so that didn't work out either. Tried to save you - you can see how well that turned out. Tried to survive and bollocksed that one up from the get go. Really, the only thing I managed to do right was punch Lithuania out of his depression over Poland, which lead to him taking the clues so seriously that he got set on fire for it, which actually puts me more at fault for him not being here than anyone else. But I'm not beating myself over any of this because I realize that Critter is behind absolutely everything terrible going on and no one else. [Well no, that's a complete and total lie - he actually has a guilt complex large enough to cross the Atlantic Ocean at this point, he's just keeping it entirely internalized.]

[asapplepie]

I know it's Critter's fault.

[But he still looks frustrated.]

And don't include me in that, I didn't need you saving my butt. I just got a tough role, all the people with roles got shot.

[tsunneverset]

Which is exactly my point. I'm as responsible for you getting shot as you are for Lithuania turning against the prey, which is to say not at all. [Not that that stops him from feeling terrible and guilty about it every second.]

[asapplepie]

[Smiles at.]

You're really stupid.

[tsunneverset]

You're really fat.

[asapplepie]

Hey!

I was giving you a compliment.

[tsunneverset]

What part of stupid is supposed to be a compliment, pray? [s-sounding appeased though]

[asapplepie]

Because I didn't say really really stupid.

But you're also stupid because you keep going on and on about the people you wanted to save and it's funny because you'd make so much fun of me if I did that.

[tsunneverset]

Because you'd want to save people like...Hamburger Man and Mickey D's, or whatever rubbish it is you read all the time. [still has no idea what the fuck a Batman is by the way] I wouldn't mock you for wanting to protect your citizens, that's what we're supposed to do.

[asapplepie]

I'm not your citizen.

And Hamburger Man isn't a real thing.

[tsunneverset]

Well yes, but that's -- I only did it because -- fffff, shut up! It was for my sake, not yours!

[waves a hand] Cowman, Fishman, Chipsman, whatever. It's all utter mind numbing trash anyway.

[asapplepie]

Hehehe, I know. I'm just saying, you're actually way dumber than me but no one notices because your accent makes you sound smart.