GRAVEYARD aka the locked basement LOL

[protoshepherd]

[ You're dead. Either you were ousted and seemed as an ally of the Bad Badger, or the actual allies of the Bad Badger actually got to you.

You remember dying. If you were already dead prior to this whole game... well, you're alive again.

Your death may have been terrible. Poison, being stabbed multiple times, blunt trauma to the head, hanged... whatever. You can still feel the pain.

But... Where are you? You see white walls around you. You're in a hospital...? You're in a room, but there's no one else but you and a man in a blue costume. He doesn't want to reveal his real head, so he hides behind a mask. A badger wearing a blue jester's hat.

And... another person? Has that other person been there all along?

Then you remember being in a mansion. Was that all a dream? You try to figure it out on your own, but you can't seem to come up with an answer. If by any chance you look into the badger's empty black eyes, you might feel like you're being taken to a completely different place. It's as if you can see the mansion again. You can see the people talking, but if you try to call out, nothing happens. They can't hear you.

You avert your gaze from the badger, and those images disappear.

There's so much happening. Pain, and this crazy badger.

You, on the other hand, aren't wearing a blue costume. You have a white dress on, with an opening at the back. That was definitely not what you were wearing... or was it?

You have so many questions. But at least you're not alone. Someone can answer those questions for you. ]

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[ NOTE Your characters will be able to see the events happening in the game while in the graveyard as long as they're looking at the Proto Badger. They cannot participate in any of the polls, or try to converse with anybody that isn't in this room. ]

Comments

[dekillerqueen]

... Frankly, both of those theories seem equally outlandish to me... but they may be preferable to death, I suppose.

[Or mass hallucination. He's not going to mention that, though.]

[murimurimuri]

We're no more dead than anyone else. I know that because Engarde and I killed Team Gavin last night.

[dekillerqueen]

You... What? How? Why? [SO MANY QUESTIONS]

[murimurimuri]

The badger called us out of the room, and we were overtaken by a bizarre compulsion to murder them in a very specific way. Scuttlebutt claims she was affected as well to pass out and not notice us leaving, but honestly I think she just fell asleep.

[dekillerqueen]

A... bizarre compulsion, you say...

... Could there truly be supernatural phenomena at work?

[murimurimuri]

That would be one way to explain the timeline inconsistencies and the seeming ability to bring people back from the dead.

[Sounding like he doesn't really buy it's the correct way, though.]

[dekillerqueen]

[Oh, yeah, the timeline thing. Sure, even with that explained, he gets the feeling Trucy's a bit too old to be Phoenix's daughter, but... actually, that's the last thing on his mind right now.]

And what is your theory, then? This... brainwashing hypothesis?

[murimurimuri]

Look at us. Look at this place. The implications are hardly subtle.

[dekillerqueen]

[What if he doesn't WANT to think about the implications...? Shellu sighs.]

I can't say I find it much more likely than something supernatural, to be frank.

[murimurimuri]

Either way, we're playing by rules we don't understand.

[dekillerqueen]

... Speaking of rules... Something else has been on my mind.

[murimurimuri]

Oh? What's that?

[dekillerqueen]

Would anybody here happen to know who overturned the vote the other day?

[murimurimuri]

No. We were as shocked as anybody.

[Now please stop making that lack-of-a-face.]

[dekillerqueen]

[IS THIS BETTER SIMON. WOULD YOU PREFER A TINY HINT OF INDIGNATION.]

Hmph. How deplorable.

[murimurimuri]

[Yes, actually. It's slightly more... human. Ish.]

Blackquill thinks it wasn't his sister or Dahlia. I'm inclined to agree, but the badger only shows us things that are going on in public, so all we can do is speculate.

[dekillerqueen]

[Those two were the primary suspects, though, weren't they?

... God, none of this makes any sense. He sighs in resignation.] I suppose so.

[murimurimuri]

Well! My money's on the Wright girl, but I doubt we'll get any evidence. Everyone's gone into hiding.

[dekillerqueen]

... Do you mean the young magician? I would assume she was on friendly terms with the Feys.

[murimurimuri]

Isn't everyone left? Except Dahlia, of course, but she didn't have any reason to do it. All she had to do was wait until Godot and Blackquill were out of the picture and she could have offed them at any point.

[dekillerqueen]

I must admit you have a point.

[PLUS IT'S NOT LIKE HE HASN'T BEEN WRONG ABOUT PEOPLE BEFORE...]

[murimurimuri]

They're probably grilling each other over it in private... maybe it'll come out by the end of the day.

[The wait is a killer, though.]

[dekillerqueen]

I do hope I get the chance to have a conversation with the culprit.

[murimurimuri]

You may yet.

[He does kinda want to see De Killer at work, so long as that "work" is not directed anywhere near him.]

But that'll be awhile from now. Do you play chess, Mr. Doe?

[dekillerqueen]

[Well hey he didn't say he was going to KILL anyone. Maybe just... injure them. A little.]

I do, from time to time.