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

[expiatrice]

[She'll politely decline and stick with her bowl of beef curry (shhhhhh), but thanks all the same.]

It's still relieving to hear it in person, at least, so I appreciate it.

...

Call it an Agency or a Coalition, depending on what you have in mind. It sounds more practical and gives less room for misunderstandings or false impressions. What do you think?

[and without batting an eyelash...]

Thinking on it, it's likely far more accurate to call us monsters with human faces. But it's easy for normal people to take something like that the wrong way, isn't it?

[encored]

[he's starting to pick up on that curry affinity now ciel...]

You deserve it. [chinhandsing with his snacks balanced on his knee] Even if it might be taken the wrong way, I'm actually quite fond of that. It would serve as a potential warning and a statement of motives all in one, would it not? [especially the last part. he is laughing at those who think they were too dim to notice the clues when they were just too ruthless to care...]

The agency of monsters who wear human faces... I like it.

[expiatrice]

[there's nothing strange about it...]

I feel like I haven't done enough sometimes, honestly. Do you think actors can blame it on the restrictions of their roles, sometimes?

Aha, you like the sound of 'agency' better? It makes us sound like a business. I wouldn't mind, but it would be awfully shady if we're to deal with dead bodies, aha. [gallowhumor.jpg] But then 'coalition' makes it sound political... Which is actually a little fitting, on second thought.

Is that really okay? I'd think it wouldn't sound poetic enough for your tastes, Charles.

[encored]

Certainly. The biggest and brightest stars have used excuses like that before, you know?

What, you prefer coalition, then? [makes a face] I suppose it has a nicer ring to it than agency, but we're hardly anything political unless there are politics to dealing with death. ...Well, abnormal politics aside. [WHY ARE THEY SO ABNORMAL]

That wouldn't be our actual title, though. Think of it as a subhead.