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

[court_chesster]

............




That's in 2027, right?

[FML]

[exequte]

It's.... Not quite. It's a little further than that. But yes, within a few years, six billion people....

[court_chesster]

[Laughs bitterly.]

Of course! It would figure the world couldn't let me have something nice without collapsing in on itself.

You think we can sneak out somebody else's doors?

[exequte]

[THERE'S A LONGISH KIND OF PAUSE, and then she pulls back her sleeve to show CRASH KEYS written on her wrist again.]

It doesn't have to. Do you remember when you asked me about this tattoo? I didn't lie, but I didn't tell the whole truth. Crash Keys was created by me and my brother. Most of the reason it exists is to try to prevent that future. You... you could help us try to prevent it, if you wanted.

[court_chesster]

[Puts away his villain face and regards that tattoo seriously.]

...I suppose I would have the time to build up some resources and preparations.

[exequte]

We managed, together, to get a fair number of things amassed fairly quickly, but more help is always useful, and you would have much more time.

[court_chesster]

Well, it beats dying in a decade. Make me a list of the people responsible and I'll take care of them.

[exequte]

[She smiles at that, and there's something in the expression that is very tired.]

Of course, I'll tell you now. As far as I - as anyone I've found - knows, the plague is released by a cult and terrorist organization called Free the Soul - or Free the Soul of Y, but not many people even know the full name. Free the Soul is led by a man named Brother. I wish you luck in finding out any more than that, I haven't been able to. I might, one day, but I haven't been able to tell myself anything if I do.