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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: (well...)

[personal profile] snackoosniper 2015-08-28 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The way I see it, this game was meant to be confusing and misleading from the start. The evidence everyone's been given has been far from conclusive, day after day -- Gi-ne excluded, of course. Is there really a way for anyone to be "good" at this game?

[ Fuuma is doing his darndest, that's for sure. But as Gi-ne said, he's much, much too clever for his own good. Not everyone is as crazy and manipulative as he is, it turns out?? ]
ossifragant: (Ô got hurt a long time ago)

[personal profile] ossifragant 2015-08-28 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I don't think there's a way for anyone to be good at this-- it's simply not possible. The Hunt is meant to bring out our true nature, isn't it?

People tend not to work well under stress.
snackoosniper: (that's a shame.)

[personal profile] snackoosniper 2015-08-28 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Our true nature...

[ In a way, Kashima was the luckiest of them. She could still be brave and foolish and just while refusing to kill Mary. She still had hope then, that they could all defy Ivan and find a way out together. But when that monster ripped the two of them apart, so did it kill something a little less tangible in the hearts of everyone there to witness it... ]

What a horrible game.
inspiritus: (> half moon)

[personal profile] inspiritus 2015-08-29 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ Don't mind if he puts in his two cents again?? ]

Quite. In the end if things are like this, it makes you wonder what brought this on as a good idea in the first place.
ossifragant: (Ô got hurt a long time ago)

[personal profile] ossifragant 2015-08-29 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
It makes you wonder, doesn't it? Why was this chosen to judge us?