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

[golden_dream]

...I don't care.

[she sniffs, voice catching]

I get to be happy... I get to go home and have a husband who loves me and will be a caring, devoted father for Maria...

[she blinks back tears]

I didn't kill anyone, other than not voting for Ronove, who apparently was a ghost the entire time anyway... I refuse to feel miserable because of this!

Everyone played the same game! We all knew the risks! Everyone wanted to keep playing! People did much worse than us in the name of winning and staying alive, so don't you judge me, Natsuhi!

[golden_dream]

...Yes.

[she didn't even need to ask]

[also, they probably... reached the bar about now? She'll pass Kyrie whatever drink she want and start on her own]

Ronove... wasn't too happy with me. But then he disappeared. ...Like magic. In the middle of a sentence.

[rowboats]

Con-so-lation.

[ sounding it out. okay, she's got it. ]

Even if it will help them?

[ Ib wants to say that, too, but...she's torn. ]

[meatitfeedson]

You could have just told us not to use the hotel pass.

[Otherwise she's not really fussed though.]

[golden_dream]

...

[meatitfeedson]

[She's feeling hard liquor after this. A shot of whiskey or several. Sitting at the bar gives her an opportunity to get out a compact mirror and check just how bad her makeup is too (it's awful, with all that crying).]

...Ah. Sorry for getting you involved in all that.

[golden_dream]

[she sipped a mixed drink, for once choosing the weaker option]

...It was inevitable. If I skipped voting for Rhys, I'd have Rhys' ghost in my face. If I hadn't voted Junpei, the game would still be going on.

Though with this outcome... it does feel like five or six different plans all came together at the same time.

[refusedtoleave]

That's right. [There's a small smile.]

What could be worth all this? My prize will help now. But the issue would have been resolved 10 years from now.

[meatitfeedson]

About that. There were obviously things I didn't know about. But my involvement in this outcome was heavy.

And I gave you false information in order to do that. Sorry.

[partcompany]

In fact I did not poison anyone or anything. It's true I got pretty lucky, I didn't even get stabbed this time...

[refusedtoleave]

Heh... I guess I should wish you luck. But I don't think you'll need it. I'm going to stay here an try to work a few things out.

[partcompany]

That's intense. Well, if that's what you think. We don't have time machines or anything yet, so this is probably your only chance.

How much of that did you orchestrate, though?

[golden_dream]

...It's fine. You don't have to apologize.

I mean... I knew I didn't have control of the situation. There's nothing I could've done.

[meatitfeedson]

It's more that other people are blaming you for it. Like Natsuhi-neesan.

[meatitfeedson]

Nijimura-kun -

You were a good kid, I'm sorry it ended up like this.

[golden_dream]

Oh.

[she shrugs]

They're just sore losers... especially Natsuhi. She was put in the hotel right away before things really got ugly. She can't understand.

--Anyway, we're not going to see most everyone here ever again.

[meatitfeedson]

Then I guess that's it. Tell your employees all about the woman you met who would go way further than they could ever dream, okay? Maybe it will up productivity if there's some kind of challenge.

...Well, I thought it would be down to seven contestants if everything went as planned. You, me, Rosa, Eva, Santa, Corrin, and Ib. There were a bunch of times that list changed though, Eva was supposed to go to the hotel at first, Rohan moved on and off the list... It was a stressful day, basically.

[meatitfeedson]

That's right, that is pretty unfortunate. I actually did like a lot of the people we teamed up with. And others too.

[She avoids saying that she'll particularly miss the Kurashikis she accidentally adopted and then betrayed though.]

[golden_dream]

[sneers, bitterly] Really? Not me... I can count maybe two people I thought were decent, but the rest I won't mind forgetting about.

[golden_dream]

[...then she flashed her a smile]

Present company excluded, of course.

[she'll offer to clink glasses with her?]

[refusedtoleave]

Are you expecting to believe that was all you did? When you were working so much with Kyrie? You can't claim no involvement when you were so close to the middle of it.

[Still that same blank tone.]

There's no way you couldn't have noticed what was going on even if you were solely focused on surviving. I saw it, Lotus saw it, before we'd even been sent here.

I just know that even if I'd gotten my grand prize I wouldn't be happy knowing how much it cost. So enjoy it if you can...I don't care.

[She's walking...]

[golden_dream]

No, I don't, actually! Are you trying to say I set the bomb? Or poisoned those people?! Or stabbed Santa?! I didn't do any of that! I don't know what you're acting like is so damning, but it's news to me!

[meatitfeedson]

[Absolutely time for a little cheers.]

Oh, I'm glad! I really liked getting to know you better.

[golden_dream]

[she'll take a healthy sip]

Who knew we had so much in common? We should really do this more often.

... [pause]

...You know, share a drink and chat.

[meatitfeedson]

Not fight for our lives, get poisoned, spill our deepest, darkest secrets, and kill people?