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]

Shut your mouth. Didn't you already say you got money from last game? How much money does one man need, anyway?

[partcompany]

Hey, that's not my only prize. And I'm trying to completely change the galactic corporate landscape. That's not cheap.

[golden_dream]

Oh, really? Well, I'm trying to completely change my life from being absolute garbage, so don't you judge me and my sentimental prize.

...Money was my consolation prize, anyway.

[partcompany]

There are plenty of ways to change your life besides forcing an asshole who already abandoned you once to marry you. That sounds awful, actually. Money sounds like a way better start.

[golden_dream]

You don't know the details, and you've not had my life! So shut up, Rhys!

[partcompany]

Ooh. Ouch. Nnnnot really sure what details would change my mind on that, but whatever you say.

[golden_dream]

You wouldn't. You're a man... and you don't have children, do you?

[partcompany]

I don't, but I don't see how your kid would be happy with you married to some asshole either.

[golden_dream]

She needs a father! And stop speaking like you knew him... he wasn't "some asshole!"

[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?

[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.

[partcompany]

I guess it's not any of my business.

[golden_dream]

...Thank you.

[partcompany]

If you end up regretting it, maybe they'll bring you back for another try.

[golden_dream]

...

[partcompany]

Just saying.

[golden_dream]

I think I'll pass...

I already lost my sister. I don't know how that's going to work.

[partcompany]

Unfortunately it's not like they give you a choice about it...

But, right. Yeah. That's... that's gotta be rough.

[golden_dream]

A little... I don't know how her family will take the news...

Maybe they can just think she's on vacation...

[partcompany]

A very long vacation, alone and completely out of contact, sure.

[golden_dream]

...I guess so.

[shrugs]

[partcompany]

If the rest of your family is as willing to give people the benefit of the doubt as you, who knows, it might work.

[golden_dream]

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

[partcompany]

Went abroad, no contact her her loved ones, but surely there's more to it than the obvious? Not ringing a bell?

[golden_dream]

...No. It's not.