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graveyard part 4
 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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STARES FAINTLY HORRIFIED AT THAT DESCRIPTION OF BODY BURNING AND WAS GRATEFUL FOR THE TEMPERATURE TRANSLATIONthinks for a while about how to answer her.] I don't think we have more information than you do except what I just told you about wearing a wolf mask sometimes. Of course there's the thing that you know from how it greets us every day, that we're not allowed to tell you prey - I don't think that has anything to do with what Critter really is, though. What it really wants, maybe, but no surface physical or historical information if you catch my meaning. ...It's hard to talk around it, I know - my point is I'm pretty sure we don't have any especially good idea.What you saw on the video was probably part of how it makes all of us shadows. You know, I've been wondering why it played audio more and more in the later tapes when at the start there was barely even any lip-reading. Thinks it's trying to make things even easier for you guys than they already were?
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SOME OF US WOULD'VE MADE BETTER WOLVES THAN OTHERS, THIS IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE]I see, so the wolves are equally left in the dark.
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Wait, but if it wears a bunny mask during day to greet prey, and a wolf mask to greet wolves at night, then that means its true identity could really be something else entirely! [Her frown deepens.] It'd be strange and wouldn't fit to think Critter has any relations to the starving wolf mother, if it made crystal clear that it doesn't want the wolves to win. It did declare clearly it hates humans, but among the people it brought to Prayer's Pass, some weren't human at all until they were forcibly humanized. That means a 'human' in the literal sense wouldn't apply, but if that's the case, just what is it, and what motivates it?
[Rubbing her temple, she follows along.]
Hmm, well... Was anything significant ever said between you and your chosen kills, at the start? Tension did escalate as the kills grew more and more personal.
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Kanaya and Rikku and the Doctor and Charles are all saying they're not human. Even the nations if you believe them. But the nations are clearly [C R A Z Y] a clue. They say they're not human but they sure act like it. Lithuania and Spain proved that today. Reading Abigail's diary... the humans who hunted the wolf - they said "oh, it's different because wolves don't have souls like us men do". So maybe here a human is... someone who can talk and think and vote and use weapon and that sort of thing.
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[She nods firmly.] I know full well Charles isn't human, I've seen others of miss Kanaya's kind elsewhere. They're not lying, and if we're to believe the nations as true embodiment of countries, then their claims do make sense: no human can live for centuries and live with the experiences that they must've gone through. [amen to that though holden, AMEN] Not all humans believe that, however. I've an nonhuman acquaintance who loves animals far more than he loves humans, he would treat bugs kinder than a human child. He could still look perfectly human, of course, but the criteria must be wider than that...
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It thinks this is a good game for humans to play, you know? I can't remember now if it said that at a pack meeting or a trial. But obviously this also applies to aliens and whatever.
What's weird is how Critter's clearly not an alien... is it human by its own rules or not?
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Or so it says, yes. I remember quite clearly. It speaks like a child and has no concerns for morality, as far as I can tell. Sometimes, what you see is also what you get. Does it matter whether it's human or not? It doesn't see itself as human, and that's likely all that matters to it.