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night one; hunters
Through the night, the wind howls and a blizzard rages, but everyone is safe and warm locked inside their cabins. Everyone, that is, except you. At 11 PM precisely, the door from your bedroom to the outside world creaks open. If you were sleeping, you will find yourself stir to the sound.
Outside, despite the sounds of a blizzard and the whiteout blocking the views from your window, the world is still and calm. The ground and trees are blanketed in thick snow, but no snow is falling and the wind is no longer blowing.
You find yourself drawn out into the snow, unable to feel tired or cold despite the freezing temperature and the late hour. It is impossible to resist the call you feel to journey out into the dark woods, past the old graveyard, to where the trees meet the cliffs and caves at the edge of the mountains.
Here, you and fourteen others gather. There is a feeling in the air as though you are being watched, but besides the other visitors, you're all alone. For now, you don't know what has brought you here, but you can't bring yourselves to leave.
((OOC: Just a note on how threads with Critter will work! There will be several 'stages' to Critter's explanations, which I'll be accomplishing by posting various subthreads. You can tag into any stage assuming your character has heard the rest, or you can tag earlier on and we can thread until you reach the next stage.
So, for example, in Critter's arrival, when you reach the point of needing to know the rules, your conversation progresses to the next subthread directly below the arrival. You can then reply to that subthread to continue the conversation if you want. I may stall on replying to you if your reply is getting to a subthread I don't want to post quite so quickly.
I know this is confusing, but this is so I can thread with all of you as much as you want without having to get into weird thread orders and so everyone hears all the relevant info.))
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What the hell's gonna happen if none of us do? Will we "starve"? Will you kill us? Or what?
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What if this was Phoebe?
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I'm not--I'm not--I'd never--
If you wanted to use old Phoebe to convince me this is the wrong way of goin' about it, let me tell you that much.
What are you getting at?
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What if I said either this little girl dies, or Phoebe dies. What would you do then? Is that enough?
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[And yet. This gets to him. He imagines it suddenly. Phoebe, dead and gone, just like Allie. His parents torn up. D.B. all over again.
He takes a step closer. To the struggling girl.]
You talk about devouring prey. That's wrong. That's all sorts of wrong. Some of these people have guns or something. It shouldn't have to end like that. Especially not for other kids. No blood or anything.
[But there are other methods. Other methods that don't have weapons like that. Ones anyone could carry out.
Even him.]
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So you would! You want to! You just care whether it hurts, but you know, no one cares about that when they're dead.
Don't worry. Phoebe isn't in trouble right now. I just wanted you to understand why I chose you to be a hunter.
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If Phoebe were here, you know, she'd say "save her over me". She's just -- she's just the nicest kid and--
Are you just going to dangle phony scenarios at us until one of us just goes nuts and does it or are you gonna make an actual threat?
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But I won't need to, because you're going to play my game anyway.
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[He throws up his hands.] Look, I don't--just--if you're gonna demonstrate will you get it over with already.
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