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

[shacklebreaker]

But that's absurd! They're Wright-dono's friends... And she only a child, to make that kind of decision... Why would she put her father through that?

[...And yet it was still a very likely possibility at the back of his mind this whole time, but had tried to ignore. Good job, Keyes.]

Perhaps... Perhaps she didn't realise that in granting us immunity, the other team would be taken in our place...?

[murimurimuri]

Because she believed they were bad badgers. She wasn't particularly subtle about it.

That and magicians are like, always megalomaniacs. Have you ever met one?

[shacklebreaker]

Not personally... I find no entertainment in trickery.

[Ever the buzzkill. He just hopes Phoenix doesn't find out about this -- he'd be devastated.]

[murimurimuri]

No? I bet your friend likes it when they the doves fly out of the hat, though. I always thought it would be fun to train a bird of prey.

[shacklebreaker]

He would, though I admit, where the clink has honed my hunting instincts, it has dulled Taka's. He is far too accustomed to being fed within the confines of the courthouse and prison.

Still, you are a skilled animal tamer, are you not? If you can afford a bird of prey the trust and respect it deserves, it will respond to you in kind.

[murimurimuri]

My major worry is that it'd eat everything else, you know? All my poor little chipmunks. I'd ask if they can do hair, but you obviously don't know.

[shacklebreaker]

Keep it well-fed and obedient, and it will harm nothing you do not instruct it to. Raptors are not animals that hunt for pleasure.

As for hair... Would you really wish for a predator's claws near your scalp, or your eyes?

[murimurimuri]

No, of course not. For a trick like that, it would use its beak; you have to tie it into the nesting instinct or it doesn't make sense to them. I had a couple of hummingbirds to do my pigtails back in the day.