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]

...I shouldn't have lied to you. That's what got me here.

[Blaming him isn't going to get her anywhere.]

[keybroad]

I'm really happy. I'm so happy. [voice catching in throat, struggling to cover it up with comedy] I almost thought nobody would ask you to "prom".

[rowboats]

[ If Junpei doesn't have anything else to say for himself, Ib will make her leave, stomping away. ]

[jinglebros]

[ Quiet nod. He's not sure what to say here. ]

[refusedtoleave]

How did you manage that twice?

[She seems amused at least?]

[manuscripture]

I already had a prom date.

[meatitfeedson]

It has to be about money, right? Especially if they really are embezzling from Father...

[keybroad]

[Looks down at floor, nods.]

I know what you mean. His future spouse is never gonna get to meet her, things like that. And it's not like her husband will be happy to hear what happened...

[partcompany]

I guess it's not any of my business.

[partcompany]

You too.

[partcompany]

Honestly, I worked my way up the ranks at Hyperion. Compared to that, this place is actually less cutthroat in a lot of ways.

...A key part is knowing when to keep your head down.

[scribbly]

[Oh... Mary deflates a little at that.]

Ib gets to go home now.

[She'll never see her first and best friend again, so she'll never hear Ib say she loves her, even if it's true.]

[refusedtoleave]

.....What is happening?

[keybroad]

[actively choking back tears now; her stupid extended metaphor about a school dance of all things is finally hammering home the reality that he's alive]

You already had someone you'd get in the backseat of a car with, that's different from someone who gets a matching corsage or runs with you for prom king.

[Mac can't run for prom king because he's dead... well, that seemed pretty likely, but wow, Rohan has been bereaved now? that part is only sinking in just now]

[scribbly]

...

Huh?

[yeah she's got no fucking idea]

[meatitfeedson]

...Yeah, you don't need to create a cult.

Eden-6 sounds pretty nice by name alone. Are Sasha and Fiona the sisters you mentioned?

[partcompany]

That's them. Fiona won with me last time, so she's got her own pile of money.

[meatitfeedson]

You want to know something else? I was planning to kill her, with my own hands. Mary, that is. I just didn't get the chance.

[manuscripture]

[ LEAVE HIS MOURNING ALONE. ]

Bah. I just--

... Are you about to cry?

[golden_dream]

...Thank you.

[keybroad]

No! No!

[in fact actively crying]

It's not like I'm surprised you... didn't... die...

[meatitfeedson]

You guys sure have some luck, huh?

[There might be a bitter tone to that.]

[golden_dream]

...I don't know. They already live on the island in the mansion... don't they have all the money they need?

[manuscripture]

[ Frown. ]

Lotus... [ It's not like he CARES OR SOMETHING. With a quick glance, he reaches out and pulls her into a hug. ]

I'm here. See? It would take more than that to kill me...

[rowboats]

[ Ib wipes her eyes with her sleeve, but it's not doing much good. She has a hard time believing that, because why wouldn't Mary have any friends? She was one of the best friends Ib ever had.

But she doesn't say that. She just bowls Mary over in a hug. And she'll stay there, as long as she can. ]