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]

It used to be that way, but it's becoming less and less common. Besides, I'm not actually that any more. It just means I'm that sort of selfish, violent person, who doesn't even have an organisation to keep her in line. It's too far gone, I've always done this, I can't just change what makes me useful now.

[If she couldn't get rid of his opponents and do his dirty work, would Rudolf still love her now that she's made it her thing for so long?]

Make sure Akane doesn't keep on this track, okay? She can still be a sweet girl.

[unexpectedboner]

You-- You don't have to just be useful, you're a person, not a--a shoe or something...

[this last is edging dangerously close to concern; how did this even happen, he was doing so well at being angry, even???]

I know, about Akane. I won't let her turn out like you.

[meatitfeedson]

Not really. I wasn't born to be a person, and by now rather than growing into personhood, I've only turned into a demon, don't you think?

[Junpei is too good for this. Just be angry with her and storm off.]

Akane might be teetering pretty close, but she's definitely still a person. Especially with someone like you to care for her. Thanks, Junpei, I want her to be happy.

[unexpectedboner]

[alas, being swept up in feelings about ladies with problems is kind of his thing now]

"Happy"? If you really wanted her to be happy-- If you really care about her, then maybe be a good example instead of a bad one. Don't revel in being some kind of "demon" or whatever just because you're too lazy or frightened to change. Because you can, if you can feel even a little remorse for what you've done, if you have even the smallest interest in making things different, then you can. You're too strong to just give up! And...and I know there's a good heart inside you, unless you're saying that everything you've ever told me was a lie!

[meatitfeedson]

[That's...Actually quite the talking to. She's left fairly speechless for a moment.]

...No, I don't tend to outright lie, half-truths are another thing. I'm sure I meant everything I said to you. But what does that really change.

[unexpectedboner]

It means you can change, if you want to! You have agency over your own life, you have responsibility over your own actions. Sure, you got a shitty start, but you're the one who decides how you're going to continue--whether you're going to play the hand you were dealt or if you're gonna change the game altogether. And that doesn't expire! My parents' dog is like ten and I taught her to shake hands last summer, you can certainly still think about trying to be someone your kids can be proud of or not.