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foxhounds ([personal profile] foxhounds) wrote2015-08-02 07:46 pm

graveyard.



You remember dying. In fact, you remember the exact feeling and fear of how you died, and yet in the next moment, you're suddenly standing in a cold room. You're not sure how you got here at all, but it's as if you were suddenly put here the moment after you died. As you look around, the first thing you'll notice is that you're standing in front of an open casket.

And you're inside.

The corpse inside the casket is definitely you, and it's also definitely dead, which certainly makes this confusing. Luckily, here's someone here to explain. When you wake up, there's footsteps walking closer, and then a familiar face appears. Iván is here, or someone that looks very much like her is. All she starts off with is two simple words—

"You're dead."

Which would seem obvious, but she explains that you have been before you ever arrived to the island. The shipwreck and the island are't real, after all. This is purgatory, and the Hunt is a way to judge the souls of the living. People show their true nature when they're put in a stressful situation, so it was deemed that this was the way that these judgements would be passed. She explains that you'll know your fate when the game ends, but if you really can't wait that long, you could always ask, but hope isn't lost. After all, the "killers" are on your side. If they can win the game, then everyone can come back to life. They know this, and it's why they're fighting so hard to win. It's a shame that the odds don't seem to be in their favor, but that's also part of the Hunt.


Exploring your new surroundings, you'll realize that you're likely at the bottom of that giant sinkhole, at least if that light far above you is any indication. You no longer feel the need to eat or sleep anymore (technically, you never did, but the habits of being alive are hard to break), so it's a good thing there's enough to do while the game continues.

You can watch the proceedings of the Hunt in one room where there's plenty of comfortable couches to sit in and lounge, as well as a fully stocked bar, if you feel like indulging. Another room offers a game room with cards, billiards, and any other games you'd like to play in a group. If you ask your host nicely, she might provide more, but for now, there's not much to do other than to watch and wait for the Hunt to end.

snackoosniper: (i'd rather not.)

[personal profile] snackoosniper 2015-08-17 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ AND NOW Ema is overhearing because they're in a public place and also so Lucy doesn't have to go over this again. ]

Wait... It was you who did that to our bodies? The General wasn't involved at all?
liven: (SIT ► glance over at.)

[personal profile] liven 2015-08-17 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It's what Zaroff does. [ SHRUGGING AGAIN. You were dead anyway, Ema. ] Mutilate the bodies the hunt gets to, occasionally kill. And then win the game or go straight back to the start to do it all over again. So it isn't the last time I'll do it, though it's the last time for this round...

[ How many rounds has she played if she doesn't even count them any longer. ]
snackoosniper: (pardon?)

[personal profile] snackoosniper 2015-08-17 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Honestly, she's more okay with Shijima chopping up her body than Hijikata. That creep. ]

What's the point? Having a third party come in to rearrange the General's victims seems unnecessary... unless he was afraid someone would stumble by and catch him in the act, I suppose.
liven: (REMARK ► whatever don't care.)

[personal profile] liven 2015-08-17 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
...To inspire fear and hysteria? To punish me? I don't really know. I'm not going to apologize for doing all I can to get out of this infinite loop of games, since I'll play my role next time as well. Why do any of the roles exist?

[ She knows how she became Zaroff, but she admits the only point she sees to it is as punishment...she'll keep trying to escape anyway, since infinite murder game loop is sort of fucking horrid. ]

My main goal was to cause confusion, I will admit. [ SHE SUCCEEDED AT THAT AT LEAST, DIDN'T SHE...did she confuse anyone...like okay she also might have attempted to get Hinata to throw up but Shijima wasn't the nicest person even before she began infinite murder game loop and it hasn't done wonders for her disposition. ] To make it as hard as possible to find the true culprits of anything.
snackoosniper: (well...)

[personal profile] snackoosniper 2015-08-18 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ As punishment? Hum. And she did confuse people... somehow... a little...? ]

You said the first game you played went wrong. What happened?
liven: (WHATEVER ► ask me if i care.)

[personal profile] liven 2015-08-18 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
We broke the game. [ Point blank. ] No one could be judged, and as far as I know, the others are in limbo as well...probably. Unless they won their own respective forays into replaying, I suppose?

[ so you know that's a thing ]
snackoosniper: (keep out the riff-raff if you would.)

[personal profile] snackoosniper 2015-08-18 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
And how did you break the game?

[ If she says they voted for Ivan......! ]
liven: (POINT ► as a matter of fact.)

[personal profile] liven 2015-08-18 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
We listened to idiots, is all.

[ A flippant wave. It's nothing she likes talking about, because SHE'S STILL MAD. ]

It's eons ago, and I hate thinking about it. You lot aren't going to do what we did, don't worry about it.
snackoosniper: (man get off my case)

[personal profile] snackoosniper 2015-08-18 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ omfg shijima HERE'S MORE POUTING. ]

Tease.
liven: (FIGHT ► let's hit it.)

[personal profile] liven 2015-08-18 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ LOOK

SHE FUCKED UP AND IT GOT HER INTO THIS SITUATION, DON'T MAKE HER TALK ABOUT IT ]


Tch...I'll answer whatever other questions you have, I just don't like talking about that first game. [ even tho it's the only game where she didn't cut up bodies as a role ]