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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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That's an exact description of the only other living members of my species!
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but that expression quickly smooths out and he nods once.] From the planet, ah— Alternia, was it? Like I said once near the very start of this mess, these games are nothing new to me. You arrive, you play, and chances are, you die.
But you don't stay dead. Even if you never wake up again in one world, you will always wake up in another. You see now? Even if we do all die here, it isn't detrimental to us in the long run. Anyway, I was in something like this that lasted for three years before arriving here so I do hope you'll excuse my desire to finish things as quickly as possible no matter how things are finished. [wait a second—] And why are there only four of you left, anyway? [...] Three, if the pie child is gone.
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We played a different sort of game. And lost - or rather won but human error meant we lost. The original dozen troll team that had survived the apocalypse didn't take the whole thing very well.
Do you really think we'll be able to play another...
Game, after this?
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Ah. [a quiet, thoughtful pause.] That's quite a large error to make if you triggered the apocalypse with it. I'm uncertain as to whether or not you ought to be grateful to escape that place. I understand a little if you are, you know, but I've been away from home for a long time and I'm a bit exhausted. As far as games go, there's a high chance of that happening, yes. Perhaps not here, but I've come to realize that the string of multiverses around us exist solely to make us miserable.
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To be honest... I've had better companionship here - from you, Ciel, Kyouko, Sayaka, I won't say something inane like "everyone" but quite a few people - than I had remaining to me at home by now. I've literally outlived my usefulness there. I don't care about whether I personally can get home or come back to life at this point. What's going on here... is the only thing that still matters very much to me.
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as for her admission, he looks quietly surprised for a second, but that's a sentiment he can also understand. hadn't his closest friends come from similar situations? the trials were difficult and he fell more often than he can count, but... well, his bonds with Ciel and even Joshua are a testament to how much these places can do.] —Then you'll be right at home if you also find yourself in another after this, won't you? With luck you may even remember this so you won't be as frantic. [so you won't forget your friends.]
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I certainly will. I must admit I hope I do remember if it does happen to me - that'll make it easier to deal with the endless confusion of different dimensions, and people who don't know what sylladices are, and abrupt departures. As awful as most of these memories are, it'd be much worse forgetting.
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Forgetting would certainly be worse. Then you would have complete strangers coming up to you knowing your deepest secrets and what you had for breakfast on a day you don't even remember. Isn't that eerie? [SHUDDERS. thankfully he's never been on the receiving end of that.]
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he opens his mouth to say something else but his attention is drawn back to the screen since Touko's busy cursing him and slapping his only allies left TOUKO PLS...] —My, there's some spirit. It's a shame she didn't grow a backbone until four out of five people in the game were already dead.
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It probably won't be, of course, given the hunters have clearly been ignoring such nonthreats; Holden and Sharon said as much. More likely a stronger soul like Fukawa or Tanaka's is at risk.
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[he sighs and leans back where he sits, looking displeased but not surprised.] Anyway, Joshua predicted this outcome on day five. It'll be a bloodbath because the only people left are the Claras of the group and the wolves. Goodness, they all just fell apart as soon as those of us trying to move the game forward took our exits.
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Oowada is the biggest risk, and I think he may have been armed. He was pointing out the name you carved into your door: Mayu's. And demanding she be lynched on this basis. His murder by the pack tonight could be construed as self-defensive.
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—He's armed with a knife, I suppose. I asked him to carve that for me if both Sayaka and myself died as I didn't have the strength to do it. At any rate, that was all just for dramatic flair. It's Beat's note that has the solid evidence for what little good that's done. My plans were all made based on the idea that I'd have to convince the prey who to lynch, not that I'd have to convince them to go after the wolves in general. [WEARY SIGH]
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During the trial where Syo took Holden hostage, didn't Critter say that sort of weapon wouldn't actually work? So his knife probably can't be used as a weapon to that... point...
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Oh, no, the knife is useless. Now that the guns are out of the picture, we're going to be stuck here for longer than I had hoped. [THE TRUE TRAGEDY... he truly looks like he's lamenting this extension. screw the time limits okay he still believes they all lost on day one.]
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[Trails
off
considers survivors]
We're fucked, aren't we.
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Right as rain, you are! Every mistake I've made in this game has come from overestimating my opponents, so I won't assume they'll be able to figure it out even if the last clue literally spells out the answer for them. [and then this happens and wow WOW ARE THEY REALLY GONNA DO THIS]
...You know, it may be better that things haven't gone as I planned. The unpredictability makes for a much better show.
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[Watching a little more.]
...the doctor is just so self-righteous. I abhor that trait whether it's in a rabbit like him or wolf like Bruce.
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[pointing at the Doctor with a half eaten churro] I actually knew him quite well in Mayfield, you know, so I wasn't surprised to see this behavior. It's why I avoided him here; I knew this would be a game he'd play miserably.
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[...
Quieter:]
During the trial, it was before Kyouko had been converted and... and she avenged me after all. I was so proud of that. And I wonder what would have happened instead if I'd lived longer.
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I still can't believe that none of the hunters voted for me that day. I really can't decide which side came off worse during that trial.
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