gamehead | graveyard part five

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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It looks like Critter is trying to convince them to change their minds though.

( Watching Critter and Clara speak and he really can't help but look horribly confused by the entire conversation. )

Is she really English?

( She's too nice. Too sweet. Too good. Not drunk. )

Wh -- of course she's one of mine! She's a brilliant example of my people!

... Did she immigrate?

( "Was she adopted?" )

Ahaha! Seems was the answer!

[AND THIS IS THE PERSON BRINGING HER BACK /SO PROUD]

For the clues?

( He doesn't

really

get it. )

For game!

Critter wasn't expecting this, yes?

... So this was all another trial?

Well, why not? Is voting list yes?

Now all have sacrificed for all.

"This kind of game is a good one for humans to play?"

( Wasn't that what Critter said? A game about sacrifice...? )

[YOU HAVE AN AMUSING LOOK ON YOUR FACE]

That was lesson!

They couldn't learn that another way?!

( oh my god can't people just read about Jesus or something easier. )

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"They suffer and hunger as we do, so can we really condemn them for stealing one of our lives to preserve their own? They were, after all, created to be predators, and would defy the laws of God to do otherwise. I think they did not deserve such a fate."

[Lithuania, at least, thinks it really might have to do with the clues, yes.]

Ay Dios mio.

( suddenly things are falling in place and clicking and making sense. )

Everyone has sacrificed so much to reach this point. [Lithuania likes things making sense.] Maybe things will turn out alright in the end.

[Which is saying a lot for someone as pessimistic as him.]

Yes, you're right. ( And he'll look back the screen quietly, ) ... I hope it will.

I believe they've made the right choice. [Lithuania looks, too.] They're good people.

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Critter... is confused and angry. It doesn't like that they're willing to give up so much for those like us.

This must be it. Why else would Critter try so vehemently to get them to change their minds?

Exactly, yes? Cannot think as human after all!

No. It seems it can't.

A supernatural being misunderstanding the morals and values of average everyday person. How very typical.

( Was that sarcasm or... )

... Do you have a lot of experience with these things?

More than you can imagine.

[He's seen things Spain. A lot of things.]

( If Spain hasn't seen it after all of these centuries then he probably never wants to... )

Are you... a demon hunter too?

( Is this becoming popular again? )

No.

[Really Spain?]

Ah, I didn't think these things would be so common, you know? But everyone seems to be an expert here.

( Spain doesn't know anything in this place anymore. For all he know, England could actually be Atlantis and Toro is a horse. )