ENDGAME

[kentucky_mcgiygas]

[A wall panel in the green room slides out of view, revealing an elevator. Get in it and it will take you down to the hotel (description here), where your fellow contestants - alive and ghostly - await.

You may spend as long as you want here, ordering up as much room service as you like, but when you're read to go home, you'll find that one floor (new to the current hotel occupants) has nothing but doors with your names on them. Exit, and you'll show up exactly where you were when you left.]

((THANK YOU FOR PLAYING EVERYONE. Ghosts, feel free to materialize and talk to people. You may now speak about your prizes.))

Comments

[meatitfeedson]

...Ah, that's right, I hadn't even payed attention to that - I dropped my vote for her, but Junpei was still supposed to do it!

[partcompany]

Look, I'm just going by what you told me. He left the country to leave you, and lied to you about why he was doing it. Pretty sure that makes him an asshole?

[unexpectedboner]

...?

[keybroad]

You know... Aoi-kun told me something really weird once. That you were his only "friend" from home. A sister doesn't really count as a friend and all.

[unexpectedboner]

...More diaphanous silks?

[jinglebros]

.....

Mary?

[meatitfeedson]

You can get people to invest for you alone if you can prove you're going to be able to walk through fire and come out alive!

Pretty well. He has a lawsuit going on, so we'll buy our way out of that and see where the rest goes. At least getting a trip in or something like that would be nice, though.

[Especially after all this.]

[golden_dream]

What if you were wrong?

[manuscripture]

You're not invited.

[bookmarking]

I bet.

Still, even if you think you're a reminder of terrible things, she'd love you all the same and wouldn't want you to go.

[golden_dream]

He was supposed to?

...I believe you. Junpei is a lot more conniving than any of us counted on.

[shakes her head]

That and I don't even know what Natsuhi-nee-san's prize was. That's yet another cog in the machine.

[scribbly]

[Mary looks up, locks eyes with Santa—even now, she doesn't have anger in her; her eyes have gone wide like a deer in headlights, and she takes one big, stumbling step back.]

[jinglebros]

there's other reasons too.

It's not just that.

[ FFfrowwwns, and mutters something. ]

[jinglebros]

I wasn't. She confirmed it directly to my face.

[jinglebros]

...

[ He thinks about telling her, but decides that she needs something untarnished. ]

Okay, Mom.

I'm sorry about what happened.

[golden_dream]

I don't know why he did it! I never knew why... [...] If he wanted to just leave, he didn't need to go that far. There had to be more to it! All right?!

Anyway, I won! Nothing else matters.

[meatitfeedson]

[She just laughs and shakes her head. She takes a few even, likely even bleeds, but when she's had enough, she grabs Natsuhi by the wrist and squeezes, only to push her back with as much force as she can.]

Anyone who says they wouldn't do the same is a goddamn liar.

[scribbly]

...

[s...staring... and then taking a few unsteady, shuffling steps backwards]

[partcompany]

Man, I don't think I'll try that one. There are already some people who basically worship me, and while that's kinda satisfying, it is also more awkward than you might expect.

That's a good idea though. Maybe I should take a trip to Eden-6 or something myself. Get Sasha and Fiona to come too, maybe.

[jinglebros]

Probably. He'd want to know you're okay. And that he hadn't fucked you up too badly.

[jinglebros]

[ He dashes forward to try to help her before she falls. ]

Are you okay? What's going on, Mary?

[bookmarking]

[Clover steps back from him, and lets out a loud sigh.]

Boy, the last leg of the ride leading up to this has to be the most intense.

[She leans against the wall.]

[golden_dream]

...

[scribbly]

[Oh, okay, nope, there's the anger, or maybe it's just panic; regardless, Mary shrieks and shoves him away as hard as she can. Unless he catches her, this is definitely going to make her fall ingloriously onto her ass... Enjoy getting covered in zombie mustard, Santa?!?!]

[keybroad]

[Blackly comedic:]

Nobody can fuck me up worse than Ichiro did.