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.

Comments

[construe]

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Think about it, Kanaya. Of all the things the creature can do... If it truly wanted to stop Lithuania, it would have, yes? It would have brought Hanekoma back to life just as before. But it didn't. It only got angry. Therefore... sacrifice... was not entirely against the rules.

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Lithuania... understood that better than any of us. In a way, I am envious of him. He found a loophole in the game. He used it. But not everyone is brave enough to do what he did. They are fearful for their lives and will not defy the rules now.

[speakveryclearly]

Some of his peers were offended by the suggestion he was truly suicidal - but we've seen how much that means in this game - I think you're right! In that case... by his actions, the prey lost not one but two members at once!! It's undeniable that... if he thought the hunters were in the right then given the promise of death for all prey that their victory brings he could not have wanted to live...

[notyetlost]

[Listening to people talk about Lithuania when they didn't know him at all is just adding to Poland's malcontent at this point.]

He wouldn't do that, you have like absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

[construe]

There was no reason for him to assume, at that point, that he'd ever return. It was an actively suicidal thing to do.

[notyetlost]

[If only looks could kill.]

He was not suicidal.

What's suicidal is not keeping track of how many freaking guns are floating around when your friend is the one giving them out.

[construe]

I could not 'keep track' of it, as you say, because that idiot- [ gestures towards Charles ] fooled Maizono into providing his group with weapons.

[notyetlost]

Are you kidding me, it's basic math! There were probably like ten or eleven guns made by the time yesterday rolled around, right?

Obviously if she wasn't giving the guns she made to you or any of the other wolves then she was giving them to the prey!

Shooting America, I get. Waiting until they had a buttload of guns to shoot America?

Everyone keeps lauding you as some genius savior or something, I don't get what's supposed to be so special.

[construe]

[ She stares at him blankly. ]

Aren't you supposed to be a centuries-old being? Such immaturity does not flatter you.

Were you even paying attention, by the way? The only two guns I was unable to account for were those given to Charles and Ciel- the other gun they obtained was taken from Mondo Oowada, who received one much earlier. By then, Maizono had stopped talking to me; there was no 'waiting'. That's how it fell into place. No more guns remain now, anyway.

Everyone is lauding me for a good reason. [ She says this factually, tilting her head at him. ] After all, I am the one responsible for deducing the identity of Rapunzel, for arming the hunters, and, on the reverse side of things during my work as the prey's protector, for taking out three hunters personally. Does it bother you that much that I am being lauded? It really shouldn't. How petty of you.

[notyetlost]

[Poland's just going to ignore all that sensible stuff Kirigiri just said because he doesn't actually want to listen, he just wants to start fights with everyone in the room.]

Oh yeah, if you're so great what are you doing here?

[construe]

I knew my time was up when Ada used her gun. Naturally they'd suspect me. But... that's okay. We did enough, and it was significant enough, to buy us enough time.

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We're on the same team, you know. I am sorry your friend is lost... But we just have to hope for the best...

[notyetlost]

You weren't supposed to buy time, you were supposed to win.






And if you were really sorry about him, you'd listen to me when I tell you he didn't commit suicide. You think you're so smart about everything, but you totally don't know anything at all when it comes to Lithuania.

[construe]

Then I'm listening. If you know him so well, what did he do?

[notyetlost]

It's impossible to know a hundred percent or anything, because like I haven't been around him in a week or whatever but like. It seriously could never be suicide.

Liet's always been like super pessimistic and he worries about everything. Like to the point that he gives himself ulcers and all kinds of stomach problems. And like. As a nation that's kind of a big deal because it's not like we have weak bodies or anything normally. I mean sometimes I get sick if I see something really gross but that's it. We're not like humans

So like when he saw that clue in the church, he was like. 'Wow so the wolves aren't the bad ones?' So that probably led him to thinking, 'Oh my god maybe the prey winning is a bad idea.' And then 'Critter wants the prey to win.'

And it's not hard to see all the weird stuff that happened start to make sense once you realize that.

'Wow what was with that weird drawing that first day? The one that led the protector to shooting Hanekoma, a super useful hunter? And then Hanekoma came back as a prey? And he gets to be a blood hound? Also Ukraine died? But she gets to pick a new lookout in her place?'

'We were having so much trouble with this at the beginning, why is everything so easy now?'

They basically had almost all the remaining wolves lined up for execution by the time Lithuania realized. And if the wolves all died and the prey won what would happen to him then? He had like a whole country to get back to. He couldn't just keep playing into his own death and he didn't know what we got if we won.

That just leaves the clues, but we weren't getting them out fast enough with just one a night. He knew we were out of time.

So he shot Hanekoma to try to prevent what few wolves they hadn't managed to totally confirm and give everyone more time. Yeah it's cheating but like. America and England were cheating. I'm sure Liet figured he might die, you know like how I died or how you died. And like how Mayu and Hanekoma came back, he'd be able to come back too once everyone solved the clues with the time he gave them.

The mystery clue option seemed way better to him than what he suspected happened when the prey won. He didn't want to die working towards the game ending that Critter wanted.

That's not suicide. That's putting your faith in someone, or a lot of someones in this case. He was relying on us to save him too.

[construe]

[ She could argue that it's a lot like suicidal behavior but ... ]

I see. He gave up a lot.