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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.))
demonstration - part three
You know, it's really silly to get so mad when you don't even know all the rules. And all of you saying you'll never play...well, you're lucky I don't hold you to that promise.
[Critter moves aside from when it is standing. Behind it is Bonnie's corpse - no, wait, hold on a moment.
The blood and gore from her death is still splattered across the cave walls, but the injuries on the girl are gone. She's alive and breathing, unconscious but unharmed.]
See? See? Look what I can do!
Can anybody guess why you're going to play yet? Just try!
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You mean you gonna bring em all back afterwards? [Hope. Confusion.] Is this some kinda experiment?
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You're almost there, you're almost there!
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You'll see.
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Just spit out the rest of the rules, why don't ya. Do a guy a favor. I said I'd kill her myself if you pushed me for god's sake.
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Re: demonstration - part three
[but it looked sick, was the problem...] Or, is it because you can do the same to us?
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...because you want to see how much we'd kill for something we want. Is that it? An experiment?
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What I want is for you to understand.
Re: demonstration - part three
You're really going to make us guess?
[ It feels like someone's trying to teach her something. She hates lessons like this. Not that this is like any lesson she's ever had. It goes beyond anything she's every experienced. She isn't fond of it at all. ]
You're going to manipulate us.
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I'm going to tell you all the rules and let you decide whether to play! It's a really great chance!
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May I examine her?
[He wants to see if she's really unharmed.]
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[Critter steps aside.
The girl's wrists are still bound and she's unconscious, but if he examines her, he'll find a perfectly healthy young girl who appears to be in a deep sleep.]
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He doesn't leave the body, but turns his head over his shoulder to look at Critter.]
Was she ever dead to begin with?
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[Critter's tone is flat.]
You don't have to believe me, but I don't lie. At the least, she was no more or less dead than the other prey you kill will be.
Re: demonstration - part three
Would we ever get to use... a power like that? [There is a certain rush, and she's not going to deny it]
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Read the special rules!
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That's...that's just not possible...
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