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

[meatitfeedson]

Are you kidding? That place has to be draining money constantly. And Krauss is such a piss poor business man.

[golden_dream]

...I see. So debt-forgiveness, or something like that.

[she knew all about that.]

[meatitfeedson]

Or to repay all the money they stole from Father...or just a plain big lump sum. That's what I'm getting.

[golden_dream]

Is it the gold?

...That's what I had as a consolation. Just my share.

[meatitfeedson]

No, I'm not even sure how much, it just said "loads of money" with a weird video.

[I'm just taking my signup super literally because I realised I never specified and now it's hilarious to me ok]

[golden_dream]

Oh... well...

I'm sure Rudolf-nii-san will be happy...

[meatitfeedson]

He'll be thrilled.

It's just...I would have been plenty grateful for just that, if only a miracle hadn't been waved around in front of my eyes.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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]

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?]

[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?

[golden_dream]

[laughs]

Oh... I can do without all of that.

[meatitfeedson]

Really? That's a shame. I'd love to do it again.

[Okay but she would for the sake of her prize...]

[golden_dream]

Really...?

[sighs] Rhys did mention that...

[meatitfeedson]

I'd do it ten times if I had to, for the chance at a miracle. Wouldn't you?

[golden_dream]

...One and done for me.

Sorry. I... I don't even know how good this miracle is going to turn out.

What if I can't forgive him, Kyrie-nee? What if we grow apart after a few months? I just... I don't know.