night one; hunters

[gamehead]

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.))

Comments

[rebut]

[ Congratulations, you are now way up there with Monobear on the list "People Naegi Actually Despises" in just one night!

Frankly, he doesn't trust that demonstration at all, but if someone had to be forced into this, better him than Maizono, Kirigiri, Asahina, Oowada and even Fukawa... He'd rather die playing the game than let anyone coerce them into killing again. They should have been done with this when they left Hope's Peak, regardless of their alive or dead status. Therefore, he really had no choice but to say an extremely reluctant "yes" and try to find a way for everyone to escape the game after that. ]

.........Yes.

[ If worse comes to worst, however, as scary and dreadful as the thought feels (hello understatement), there was always Oogami's example to copy... ]