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

[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...]

[encored]

[and then madoka became an honorary member of the murder posse...]

Yes, I do appreciate that much. She seems like an honest girl, you know? I ought've talked to her more while I had the chance. Before I retired for the night she told me that she was a magical girl. Isn't that something? I can't tell if it's human or not, but she seems like she'd have made much better company than what we kept.

[condescent]

I quite enjoyed talking with her as well. She certainly comes off as genuinely kindhearted instead of holier-than-thou like some of the people here, and at least she realizes that her choice to abstain doesn't erase the fact that people are going to die anyway. If she and Sayaka are the good examples of the people in their world, I'd like to visit it some time. [yes adopting both magical girls into their murder club]

[encored]

The two of them do seem like impressive individuals. Can you imagine how well this game would have gone if we could have replaced the dead weight with others like them?

[WHAT A COMPLIMENT. wow are they going to become the meguca squad]

[condescent]

Sayaka alone has done more for the prey than the good majority of the people in this town, despite not even being sided with us. Still, if we're going to talk about what-ifs, can you imagine how well it would have gone had we been hunters?

[encored]

She was a fine person to have no matter what side she was on. That kind of conviction is difficult to find. [pointed look at clara and the doctor when the screen shows them...]

Ah, the game wouldn't even be a game if that happened. It'd be more enjoyable for us, certainly, but that would truly be a massacre.