graveyard part five

[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. (The graveyard so far)

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INTERMISSION

[notyetlost]

[As per Damian's request Poland will be performing the de facto British national anthem 'God Save the Queen.'

While dancing. In a dress. For your entertainment.]

...Ow! Kanaya you're supposed to sew the fabric not my flesh!

[You know as soon as he's ready to come out from behind the couch.]

I NEVER THOUGHT I'D GET TO USE THIS ICON SO LITERALLY

[speakveryclearly]

[Speaking around the needle and thread in her mouth:]

It's a difficult distinction to make on you pink monkeys!

[And after a final dramatic thread-pull and knot-tie--]

There!! --I'm sorry.

I make dreams come true

[notyetlost]

...This dress is totally hideous.

[speakveryclearly]

That's why I said I'm sorry.

In the unlikely case that you're still interested when we ever see each other again after this is all over and we come back to life, I'll make you a much better one.

[notyetlost]

Oh don't worry I'm like always interested in clothes. [She probably meant the coming back to life part being unlikely but that flew over his head.]

Plus you need to redeem yourself for this atrocity against the color pink.

[axeforasong]

Hat would help, yes? [she taps her own]

[notyetlost]

Yeah, okay give it to me.

It can only distract from Kanaya's franken-dress.

[axeforasong]

Can't really sing English too well; backing a capella?

[notyetlost]

So what I don't either. [If you abandon him Mayu he will never forgive you.]

Back a what a?

[axeforasong]

A capella! Is instrumental, using voice instead of instrument!

...And am professional singer you know! [REPUTATIONS AND STUFF]

[notyetlost]

Yeah, fine do that whatever. [Poland's not even entirely sure what all the words To God Save the Queen are and he just went to the Olympics at England's house last summer. So. Good luck carrying the instrumental bit Mayu.]

I know!

[vytis]

What are you doing? [Lithuania is still not entirely sure what's going to be happening.]

[axeforasong]

[POPPING HEAD ABOVE COUCH]

Is nothing, nothing!

[vytis]

[INCREDIBLY SUSPICIOUS.] A-Alright...?

[axeforasong]

Is surprise; don't worry! [she says, whilst unpinning her hat]

[motheringnation]

[Leaning over.]

Do you need any help?

[notyetlost]

Um... I dunno let me think. Oh wait yeah.

Getting me out of this would help.

[motheringnation]

You know I can't do that yet.

[tsunneverset]

Poooooooland. [England's voice is a sing-song.] Stop hiding and come out already, won't you? Damian sacrificed quite a lot to bring Lithuania back, you know - and this was after you tried to strangle him too. Are you really going to break a promise to an innocent boy who helped you out from the goodness of his heart?

[vytis]

He what? [Poland...]

[notyetlost]

Damian started it!

[tsunneverset]

Damian is an angel and also ten years old. You shouldn't be picking fights with children, you're not America.

[vytis]

[Damian, Damian... Lithuania thinks back.] The ten-year-old?

[notyetlost]

Fine!

[You know what England's blind anyways. He won't know the difference if he comes out from behind the couch or not.]

G...god save our gracious queen... Long live our something... or whatever... [mumble... mumble]

[tsunneverset]

I'm blind, not deaf. Louder, please! If you can't remember the words, I'll be glad to help.

And the deal was a performance. I can tell you're still behind that couch.