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]

... Thank you.

[she'll... slowly start to retract her pen-fist]

...Kyrie-nee-san must've known that too.

[bluescreenofdeath]

The robots here do first aid so they can probably help with your injuries. If you want. [NOT THAT TAKANE CARES!!!] ...I'm not gonna let Kyrie off the hook so easily.

[golden_dream]

Gee, thanks...

[mutters, shaking her glass-pierced arms]

...I have nothing else to say.

[she wanted to... give Kyrie one last defense... but the adrenaline was wearing off and her entire body was hurting enough that the prospect of fighting again over it was terribly distasteful to her]

I'm going to get treated, and then I'm going home.

[bluescreenofdeath]

[Man she got super mad didn't she, glass was probably too far, she was aiming for her face...] Yeah. I bet Maria will be happy to see you. You at least get a good prize out of all this?

[golden_dream]

...Maria's father.

That's my prize.

[bluescreenofdeath]

[Takane is going to assume he is dead because why would it ever not be dead people. Her eyes widen for a moment, then she tries to turn back to casual.] Yeah? Sounds like she'll be real happy. Congratulations.

[golden_dream]

[she's sure as hell not going to correct her]

...Thank you, I will be too.

[bluescreenofdeath]

After all this, you better be! Make sure it was worth it.

[golden_dream]

... I know.

[whether it would be was one of her main fears at this point]

What about you...? Are you going to haunt this place, forever...?

[bluescreenofdeath]

...Dunno. They haven't exactly told us what's up with that. Maybe I'll become part of their audience, or maybe I'll get to go home and haunt some folks there. It's all up in the air.

[golden_dream]

...Who are you?

[bluescreenofdeath]

You don't know? Ah, right, I guess I didn't introduce myself. I'm Enomoto Takane.

[golden_dream]

...Nice to meet you. Ushiromiya Rosa.

I don't remember you being in the game... were you?

[bluescreenofdeath]

I was a little more blue last time you saw me.

[golden_dream]

You're Ene?

[bluescreenofdeath]

That's more of a nickname.

[golden_dream]

Ah... we never really talked, did we?

[no, but Rosa felt guilty now for being tangentially related to the conspiracy to destroy her]

[bluescreenofdeath]

[Ehhh Rosa peripherally plotted to destroy her Takane smashed her with glass, call it even] Eh, with certain decisions, I decided not to try and make too many friends... Kinda backfired in the end.

[golden_dream]

[that's right, her role was relegated to going 'yeah sounds legit' when people talked about her as a threat]

...Not to be nosy, but weren't you... mechanical?

[bluescreenofdeath]

Um, yeah... That's a long story.

[golden_dream]

I believe you.

... Um... this might sound weird but...

I had a sister who died here... I haven't seen her ghost, yet.

[bluescreenofdeath]

...If you have any last messages you want to give her, I'll keep an eye out.

[golden_dream]

... I did all I could. Kyrie-nee-san said she would see Eva-nee-san delivered to the hotel. I knew she'd want to stick around. She was never the type of woman to settle for second best, in anything. I tried... I argued we still needed her. I hoped it would be enough, but apparently it wasn't. I couldn't do anything... my vote was for her last round.

She never thought of me as a sister. She only thought of me as a stress-toy for her to beat on when she felt pressured. --I would've liked to have really been her sister. I wanted to believe Eva... would've wanted that too... deep down.

[slight pause, as the emotions caught up with her]

... But it's never going to happen. I'll try to soften the news that she's dead to her husband and son. That's all I can do.

... That's all.

[...pause]

Oh. One more thing.

I'm almost one-hundred percent sure we were right about Father. --She'll know what that means.

[bluescreenofdeath]

[WHY ARE ALL YOUR SISTERS TERRIBLE] Yeah. I'll tell her all of that. I'll make sure to find Eva, promise.

[golden_dream]

[thank god Rosa turned out okay]

It might not matter, but I would like to think there's some closure with... her.

Thank you, again.