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]

Exactly. I think that's why I could get along so well with a surprising number of you. Genuinely I mean. People usually like me but I have to fake it, you know?

[jinglebros]

And you just happened to pick the best faker of all for your son... hahahaha....

[meatitfeedson]

What, you think that wasn't on purpose? Didn't I tell you I started to like you because you were like me?

But again, don't stay that way, okay? Go have fun with your boyfriends.

[jinglebros]

They live in a war torn country. I don't know how much 'fun' we'll be having.

Still, it's better than going home.

[meatitfeedson]

...You could come with me, you know. No one would be looking for you in the 80s. By the time you catch up to your own time, you'd be 60 so they still wouldn't know a thing. Plus especially after this, we have plenty of disposable income. You could have fun.

[jinglebros]

[ he shakes his head with a small smile. ]

I already made my promises. Don't you remember how I never break them? Not even once in a lifetime?

[meatitfeedson]

...Yeah.

[She takes up his hands and finally, finally looks him in the eye again.]

I'll miss you, Aoi.Thanks for everything, having a new son makes it easier, even if I'm losing him too.

[jinglebros]

[ Now that they have actual eye contact, he tears up, but tries not to actually let the tears fall. ]

I'll miss you too. It was great having a mother, even just for a little while.

[meatitfeedson]

I swear I'll find you so at least some version of you can have it! ...And I guess that's a little selfish too really, but.

[jinglebros]

If it's selfish, it's a version of selfish I like.

[meatitfeedson]

Good! I'll make this last few hours up to you that way.

[It's too hard to say goodbye, but she has to doesn't she? Her arms go around his neck to pull him close. Looking at him directly anymore than this is going to set her back to crying too.]

Goodbye Aoi, I'm really proud of you, I hope they look after and cherish you as you should be.

[jinglebros]

I hope Rudolf does.. and Ange, and Battler... Don't let them leave you alone, okay? Make sure everyone cherishes each other... and if you find little me, don't let him be a little shit.

[ He hugs her as tightly as he can with one casted arm. ]

[meatitfeedson]

Rudolf and Ange for sure! Battler...I need to apologise to him before that can happen.

But I love you as a little shit!

[jinglebros]

You better apologize, then. Make things better!

Hehehe.

[meatitfeedson]

I will, I don't know how, but I have to.

[jinglebros]

You do.

But I know you'll figure it out.

[meatitfeedson]

--I mean you're supposed to agree with me and all sure, but!

[Just straight up "you do"??]

[jinglebros]

Hahaha.

Sorry. [ He grins, showing he was teasing her. ]