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

Night 4

[murimurimuri]

[Starts stomping on the badger head.]

[protoshepherd]

[ Rude.

Voice is not muffled at all.]

Why?

[murimurimuri]

Only because I don't have any way of setting you on fire.

[protoshepherd]

Proto can Team Matt Engarde fire.

[murimurimuri]

[Picks it up by the... spikes? Crown? The pointy bits— and yells at it.]

This is Team Phantom's fault! They threw your game! If you're going to kill somebody, kill them, but leave the rest of us out of it!

[protoshepherd]

Not fun.

[murimurimuri]

Of course it's not going to be fun if people are cheating.

You're bored, right? I have an idea to make it all more fun.

[protoshepherd]

[ okay now EVERYONE can hear this, and will be able to hear what he says from here on in. ]

Depends. What idea?

[murimurimuri]

You want to be free, don't you? Of the white walls.

[protoshepherd]

Used to it. Been in white walls for twenty six years.

[murimurimuri]

But you're bored.

Was it interesting when you had me and Engarde take care of Team Gavin? Did you like that?

[protoshepherd]

Yes.

Funny see you run in gown.

[cardboard_journalism]

A-ha! Long enough for you to harness your psychic powers and use them against us?!

Who did it? Who defended you at your trial?! Was it Mr. Wright, or someone else?!

[protoshepherd]

No trial.

[cardboard_journalism]

H-hey... take it easy...

[Oh boy, the badger was doing a one-way conversation thing, wasn't it. It was hard not to see it as him having an argument with a decapitated badger-head though.]

[murimurimuri]

My life depends on people suddenly deciding they don't hate Dahlia Hawthorne after all! How am I supposed to take it easy!?

[cardboard_journalism]

You don't know that! How's it gonna kill you?? We're all here in the same room! If you die, we all die!

...

[murimurimuri]

It did say that only winners would be given "life." And we've all already lost, haven't we?

[cardboard_journalism]

No!

Well, in terms of losing the game, yes, but we're not losers!

Listen, game ends? Everyone out there walks away? We can work with that. He said it didn't he? We're here because "it's boring".

[shacklebreaker]

[lol othersimon]

You waste your breath. Our host cares nothing for abiding by the rules -- why should he care if we bend a few of them as well?

[murimurimuri]

...You raise a good point, Blackquill. It likes to break its own rules. By the way, did it claim to release your hostage?

[shacklebreaker]

It did not. Only that she has been removed from the game, now I have been removed from it. A logical enough move, given she was being used purely to coerce me.

Is there anything you'd like to say about it?

[murimurimuri]

Nope! I just couldn't stand how smug you looked.

[shacklebreaker]

And I can scarcely stand the sight of a monkey having a feral tantrum, so we're even.

[murimurimuri]

I'd rather go down kicking and screaming than throw myself on a sword and die, but we're each a little different.