graveyard part 4

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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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popcorn thread for the trial!!

[encored]

[yeah eating his like 20th churro over here while watching this mess unfold on the screen.]

Ugh, people who want to die should just keel over and do it already so the work of others isn't wasted. Joshua, the next time we meet in a game like this let's stick to our original plan and leave the helping to the idiots, yes? [HARD KNOCK LIFE...]

And I'd like to request honorary wolf status since my team has officially embarrassed me. Afford me this kindness, if nothing else.

[purethingsonly]

( Ada giggles )

You want to be a wolf? I suppose that's okay - we'd accept you.

[encored]

I believe I'm one of the only people in this room who actually eats humans, so it seems fitting.

[purethingsonly]

I guess that's as good a reason as any.

( don't mind how pleased she... somehow seems to know this. she's just weird like that )

[construe]

Have you decided to completely close your mind to everything? Have you learned nothing? Did Lithuania's death not, for even one fraction of a moment, cause you to realize that perhaps something is wrong?

[speakveryclearly]

I think it's a deliberate decision on his part.

[Casually sitting somewhat near Kirigiri on the couch nbd right...]

Obviously it's a key coping mechanism for any prey. I'm sure you remember how it felt back when you were our protector. Numbers and methodology reinforce the feeling; not much else does, but then you have to face the reality of decimating a group containing over a dozen individuals.

[construe]

Selfish, smug victory is not what matters here. This is not a game of team versus team. Everyone's fate is in the balance here. Treating it so trivially is terrible. Wilful ignorance is even worse.

Had I remained the protector and not been converted, by now I would have more than realized that there was something more to things. To go this long determined to ignore all clues otherwise speaks of a remarkable ignorance in that boy. [ the 'boy' being Charles. ]

[encored]

I just don't like to see my work thrown back in my face. I couldn't care less about the rabbits or the wolves, to be honest. [ca...sually.....]

Well, like I said, it won't matter one way or another in the end.

[encored]

Do you think we aren't aware of the fact that it may be a better thing if the hunters win? Joshua's speculations are the reason for Lithuania's action yesterday, you know. I'll tell you a secret now; no one is going to make it out of this game alive no matter what happens, no matter what that creature told you hunters. That's the way these things work. Haven't I told you about applying human rules to inhuman things?

[construe]

[ She would laugh, if she cared to. ]

A secret? There is so much you don't know. [ She's watching Fukawa talk to Beat. ] She understands. She recognizes your foolish puppetry and refuses to bow to it.

We are very fortunate that you were not able to heal yourself. The only regret is that we did not kill you sooner, because you may have irrevocably ruined things for everyone.

...

However, I will maintain hope that the remaining ones can turn it around.

[purethingsonly]

Miss Kirigiri that's just... it's how he is. I won't say it's right but at least he's consistent. I don't think he has any hope it will end well regardless of which side wins.

[construe]

It is utterly unforgivable. More than Ciel, more than Joshua or Spain or Hanekoma, he may be the sole reason none of us will-- will-

[ She's not allowed to say it, according to Critter, so she stops there. ]

[destage]

[Don't mind her, she's just going to be watching this with the most pained expression on her face. No. No prey, what are you doing, are you all really believing the critter and the hunters here.

Face. Is about five seconds from going in hands, good god. If there is a god out there, she is damning them to hell and back.]

Why...

[encored]

[just quietly pats her hand...] We gave it our all. Nothing else to do now but wait until the game finishes.

[destage]

[Don't mind her, she's just going to put her face into her hands at this point--there's really nothing in this that isn't getting past 'prey please'...]

I suppose so. I only hope that it won't be their downfall...

[Even if they are stupid, she gave them the means to win and dammit. She could admit she was wrong if she wasn't basically dying for pieces of paper.

She won't vocalize that particular bit of thought, though.]

[fortissimos]

[ tensing up like woah when she sees this. Madoka, why. ]

There's still two hunters left. If we start letting them kill prey off, they'll outnumber us before long.

[yajackass]

Why are we still talking as if there are sides here? [says little miss hunter.]

[fortissimos]

I want the mystery to be solved. But I can't accept Madoka sacrificing herself for it.

She needs to live.

[encored]

[after this comment, which he finds surprisingly touching, he glances over to Sayaka.]

That girl isn't so bad. I hope she won't make any mistakes that will land her here with us.

[condescent]

Ah, that would be my cabinmate. I have to admit that I'm quite fond of her, even if she's one of the regular abstainers. At least she seems to be doing it for her own reasons rather than simply following along with the pack. [it also helps that she's one of the few who actually feels bad about the way he died...]

[condescent]

[internally facepalming all over the place here]

I predicted this the first time the three of us met up, didn't I? That the only ones left at the end would be the hunters and the softhearted abstainers. You're right, we should have just laid low so we could turn it around at the last second instead of expending all that effort for nothing.

And I'd like that honorary wolf status as well, seeing as how it was my unfortunate speculations that led to Lithuania's betrayal and this situation in the first place.

[encored]

You did, you did. [sympathetic nodding] It's a shame you didn't predict the fact that we would still be around to watch things crumble even if we don't actually have to be there. ...You know, the worst part about this is how surprised people will be when it turns out to be a lose-lose situation no matter what the outcome is.

[here josh have a churro it'll make you feel better] Ada's handed me my honorary status so by proxy I'll hand you yours. Welcome to the team that is slightly above the flopping fish on a boat deck level that the preys are on.

[notyetlost]

Yeah it was like definitely your obnoxious whining on a video tape for six hours that made Liet do what he did. Not like all the clues pointing in that direction or Critter's ridiculously obvious bias towards the prey that everyone could plainly see or anything.

You really think super highly of yourself don't you?

[expiatrice]

[propping her chin up with her hand and


seems to be making a legit effort for once to look neutral, which is... saying something for her, JUST A LITTLE...]

Would it be too much to hope for that I may be included as well?

[she just wanted to shoot everyone on the other team no matter which side it is, ok. THAT COUNTS, RIGHT...]

[encored]

[here ciel you can have one of his churros too... the only things keeping him from flipping his shit at this turn of events are these bountiful pastries, all of the praise he received upon arrival, his promised reunion and the fact that he didn't want to stick around to see what would be won anyway.

but mostly the bountiful pastries.]

You're naturally included. Joshua has proposed that we form a group of our own separate from each floundering squad of ninnies and I for one fully support that decision. What do you think? We were never suited for rabbits anyway and the wolves here are a shame to the actual animal.