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

[bluescreenofdeath]

A little girl is dead you can survive a headache.

[unexpectedboner]

What the hell do you want me to do about it? If I could change how this turned out, I would! If I could bring people back to life, I would! But I can't, I don't have the power and I didn't have the chance to get it! What do you want me to do!?

[bluescreenofdeath]

I want you to remember her. I want you to remember what part you played in Mary's death. Don't brush it under the rug and make excuses. You gambled with a little girl's life and she paid the price. Know what you did. And I want you to ask yourself those questions. What could you have done? You did have the power to change this, once, just a few hours ago. What could you have done to prevent it? What can you do to make sure you don't hurt anyone again? That's what I want you to do!

[unexpectedboner]

[opens his mouth]

...

[closes his mouth]

[bluescreenofdeath]

Look, I get it. You're in a shitty situation doing the best you can to get by. You had something important to win, and you were under a hell of a lot of pressure. I understand needing to juggle all that weight and how hard it can be. But she's the weight you let drop, after you promised to protect her. Mary's just a kid.

[unexpectedboner]

I know! It wasn't supposed to turn out like this! And it did, and now I have to live with it! I know I messed up, bad. Could you please just not hit me over the head with it for a couple hours at least?

[sounds more miserable than sulky...at least he hopes so, since that's how he feels]

[bluescreenofdeath]

If you mess up you don't get to decide when your punishment ends. [Despite saying that, she is not hitting him with any more helmets] What are you going to do now?

[unexpectedboner]

...I...I don't know. How am I supposed to go back home after all this? How are any of us, how can there even be a "normal" now?

[bluescreenofdeath]

I'd invest in some therapy for one.

[unexpectedboner]

Yeah...yeah, that's probably a good idea...

[a beat]

...Weren't you a robot? I didn't know robots got ghosts in real life.

[bluescreenofdeath]

My homeroom teacher murdered me two years ago and brought me back to life as part of a demonic ritual, then shoved my soul into a computer. The robot body was entirely the gift of this game.

[unexpectedboner]

...Are you serious?

[bluescreenofdeath]

Nah, I'm messing with you. I just fancied a makeover.

[unexpectedboner]

...Are you serious.

[bluescreenofdeath]

I'm never serious.

[unexpectedboner]

[sigh]

...So if you all had a demon roboticist, you could all just walk out of here? Doesn't Rhys know about robots?

[bluescreenofdeath]

[That is a dangerous line of questioning don't look into my demon robotics] Who knows? We've not exactly been told what's going to happen with all of us. Don't worry about all that, it's not your concern anymore.

[unexpectedboner]

Rhys and Dee and Dennis had to do all this twice. So it could end up being my concern again. ...I'm just saying, if there's a relatively simple way for you guys to walk out of here, it makes sense to at least ask about it, right?

[bluescreenofdeath]

Yeah, yeah, I'll ask about it later.

[unexpectedboner]

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