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)

Comments

[agentx13]

Does anybody know why Gundam and Syo fucking lynched me, by the way? Why the hell couldn't they get it? I dropped enough hints, didn't I?

And Jesus. I like Fukawa, but Syo... I should have killed her.

[construe]

...

We come from an environment of mutual killing. To them... survival must have become desperate...

[agentx13]

[ Damn it. She's angry enough that she's forgotten Kirigiri was friends with them. ]

I'm sorry. I just...

Fucking Gundam.

[tsunneverset]

Fucking Hope's Peak in general, really.

[He lets out an angry exhale.] No, fucking Critter. It's not their fault they wanted to survive. They were likely as fooled by this supposed real game and the clues as we were. Thinking it was some way out for everyone when instead....

[agentx13]

[ Sharon holds up her hands. ]

Wait. I think I missed something when I was being eaten to death by rabbits.

The game wasn't a distraction from the hints, it's the other way around?

[ She stops for a moment, then laughs. It's the sort of laugh of someone who hasn't had reason to laugh in a long, long time. ]

I managed to hold out a day longer than I should have because of a stupid distraction? Oh, God.

[ She covers her eyes with a hand. And that distraction had given her hope, and now she has nothing. ]

[tsunneverset]

I don't know. At first, I thought they were clues telling the prey to let the hunters win, but then the last one...it doesn't make sense. Maybe it was just false hope the entire time. Or maybe the real game was only about bringing the hunters back, since Critter started this whole thing about the dead wolves in the first place.

Well. It doesn't really matter now, does it? Not unless we're still missing something here.

[yajackass]

Hey, I just thought of something. Critter would hate the hunters because they're wolves, right? Even when it was trying it's hardest to pretend to be on both sides, it was always against us.

This is kind of a theory, but... what if Critter had to play this game before and tried to give something up to bring someone back?

[agentx13]

Like... it's humanity?

[ Scoff, scoff, scoff. Freshly dead girl is still a mite bitter about it. ]

[yajackass]

I wouldn't be shocked. Whatever Critter is, it's still going to pay. One day. [Even if no one here's around to see it.]

[yajackass]

I think he knew that it wouldn't accomplish anything. He wanted to be done with it, and the easiest way to finish you off was to get you to vote for someone that wasn't on the list.

Ugh. What an asshole.

[agentx13]

[ Her features darken. ]

He'd better hope I don't go back. I may still kill him.

[yajackass]

You can't blame him that much. I couldn't trust either of those guys. Him and Syo, I mean. They don't seem right.

[agentx13]

Syo, definitely not.

But Gundam... I'd expected better.

What a mistake to make, huh? Putting too much faith in the wrong person.