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

[jinglebros]

I didn't want you to die...

[meatitfeedson]

[Her voice drops to a whisper.]

What else am I going to do now? Everyone knows, and there wasn't even any point.

[jinglebros]

What do you want? Do you want to die now? You'd just come back as a ghost.

[meatitfeedson]

No, it's just... Nevermind.

[jinglebros]

Just what?

Please, talk to me.

[meatitfeedson]

There wasn't any point to anything I did! And I wouldn't have even wanted the prize if it wasn't dangled in front of me! The first time I came within a hair of getting it, so it's just the same the second time?! What kind of torture is that!

[jinglebros]

Maybe you need to change how much you want him.

[ Quiet. ]

[meatitfeedson]

[To be honest, that would be a good idea. As much as she hates to hear it, she can't even deny it.]

...That wasn't all. It - was part of it. But I'd have wanted it just as badly even if he wouldn't have married me. When I was pregnant around your age? It died at birth. That's what I was going to get.

[jinglebros]

...I'm sorry.

[ He hugs her a little tighter. ]

I can't imagine.

[meatitfeedson]

I mean, it happens to plenty of people every day, but... He was born on the exact same day as Battler. So I have to be reminded every day, that I was too weak!

[jinglebros]

...

Who was Battler's mom?

[meatitfeedson]

Asumu, Rudolf's first wife. She was pregnant too, like some kind of soap opera, you know?

[jinglebros]

...

[meatitfeedson]

....Anyway.

[That's too depressing. He won. June's safe. She stretches up to kiss his cheek, despite her face being a mess. Red and blotchy with makeup running.]

[jinglebros]

No. Go back.

Think it through, Mom.

Rudolf's a fucking liar.

[meatitfeedson]

What's there to lie about? I know it sounds ridiculous, but that's what happened.

[jinglebros]

...

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

Okay, Mom.

I'm sorry about what happened.

[meatitfeedson]

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

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

[jinglebros]

Yeah, well. Now you lost and I won.

Isn't that enough of a punishment?

[meatitfeedson]

...Yeah, more than enough. Why, is there more?

[jinglebros]

I'm not going back.

We'll never see each other again.

[meatitfeedson]

...What?

[Did she just lose three kids today?]

[jinglebros]

My grand prize. I changed it.

It's still saving June, but it's also going home with Corrin and Niles.

I'm never going back there.

[meatitfeedson]

[She can understand why. He doesn't have to say it at all for her to know. He has to run from the law. And maybe even from June.]

...I hope you like it there, then. Rhys offered me a job at his corporation, that would be right up my alley. ...But obviously I can't.

[jinglebros]

Sure you can. We're allowed to go through other peoples' doors. Ronald says he doesn't care.

...of course, leaving them behind...