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sevenvirtues2016-02-09 10:05 am
vicedirector) wrote in sevenvirtues2016-02-09 10:05 am
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You awaken to blackness. Frightening, although familiar--this is the same terrible thing you narrowly avoided during your first trip into Lebensbaum. The pain of your death is still real, echoes of the wounds you suffered appearing on your skin. Inspecting your surroundings will tell you that you've woken up inside of the cooled, empty bonfire pit....and the town as it was is nowhere to be seen.
The sky is a whirlwind of blank, dark void. What previously acted as roadblocks on either side of the town seems to have moved upward, blocking out most of the sun's light. The street is barren, filled with piles of broken concrete, shattered glass, and smoking craters where many of the buildings used to be. Old bloodstains dot the pavement, mixing in with overturned cars and crumbling brick walls. Lebensbaum is a dead town, in more ways than one.
Except for the hotel. It stands, as dusty and abandoned as it ever was, but no worse for the wear. Scorch marks can be seen on the ground around it in a clear border, as though it had a barrier protecting it from whatever destroyed the village. If you venture inside, everything is in its place, as though the outside wasn't completely obliterated.
Concentrating will let you be able to see the living as they move around the hotel, going about their days--or perhaps doing something more sinister. It's only when they cross the scorched border that their already-flickering images fade from view entirely.
You're welcome to roam about. Doing so may even be beneficial, as you'll quickly discover that you aren't quite alone here.
Some additional points of reference, as asked:
• References for the locked rooms
• No one will be wearing their talismans
• No one will feel hunger or thirst, though they can sleep if they wish
The sky is a whirlwind of blank, dark void. What previously acted as roadblocks on either side of the town seems to have moved upward, blocking out most of the sun's light. The street is barren, filled with piles of broken concrete, shattered glass, and smoking craters where many of the buildings used to be. Old bloodstains dot the pavement, mixing in with overturned cars and crumbling brick walls. Lebensbaum is a dead town, in more ways than one.
Except for the hotel. It stands, as dusty and abandoned as it ever was, but no worse for the wear. Scorch marks can be seen on the ground around it in a clear border, as though it had a barrier protecting it from whatever destroyed the village. If you venture inside, everything is in its place, as though the outside wasn't completely obliterated.
Concentrating will let you be able to see the living as they move around the hotel, going about their days--or perhaps doing something more sinister. It's only when they cross the scorched border that their already-flickering images fade from view entirely.
You're welcome to roam about. Doing so may even be beneficial, as you'll quickly discover that you aren't quite alone here.
Some additional points of reference, as asked:
• References for the locked rooms
• No one will be wearing their talismans
• No one will feel hunger or thirst, though they can sleep if they wish
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[Takao jogs towards them though staying well clear of the pit's interior. Guess who can't see anything that happened inside the chapel? And has no reason to believe a scapegoating occurred instead of an execution?]
What happened? Why did she kill both of you?
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[Hello Takao.....]
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[Now's not exactly the situation to be worrying about others in.]
Save your lectures for someone who gives a shit.
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[Empathy? Basic human decency? Zelos has a point, though - he'll save it for whoever cares. His brow furrows. Zelos might actually know about those things.]
You might be on to something there. A monster ate Kawara and that's why he's here, he didn't even play the game like us...
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[He is, when you look at it, the only person who's here because he wanted to be.]
Are you expecting me to help you solve this mystery? Save your friends?
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[Suddenly something very important comes back to Takao and casts a shadow over his eyes. Zelos wanted more of a say in who lived or died... did he mean control over eliminations instead of exemptions?]
Do you? Is that what this is about, is it what you wanted?
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[RUDE ZELOS. He's bitter though. Bitter and angry because he was so certain this would work. Somehow it's only backfired.]
You're no genius, that's for sure. Yeah it is. But if I presented it rationally none of you bleeding hearts would have agreed.
[So he just had to hope. With a narrowing pool of victims his card would come up eventually. His luck wasn't that good.]
Honestly the way things are going I would have expected to find you crying in a corner. Or are you just selfishly happy not to be alone anymore?
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[It's a snappy, defensive statement and Takao jerks up his arms to wave the sentiment away.]
Like I was gonna say, though, I don't want anyone else to go through this crap. Besides, I've never been alone. I don't even mean "my teammates are always with me in spirit" or anything. Literally, look for a little while, the old witch and I were never alone here.
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SHIT
IT'S KAZUNARI
Well that steals the wind from Youko's sails. If she was still on top of Zelos, once Takao makes his presence known she is off. ]
No... He tired to kill me first. [ She still sounds grumpy when she says that, though. ] That child... [ ...whose name she clearly does not remember, if she ever knew it at all. ] she stabbed him. And then me.
Oh, yeah... Morrigan was there too, I guess...?
[ Youko's eyes widen in realization. Oh. The accomplice rule. But then... was there always supposed to be two?! She was planned as well??! But that girl had been so upset, what-- and why had the redhead...?? What??? ]
What is going ON?!
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[His voice is rising too - to think that four people were out that night (five if you count Ranulf), it's too terrible. He shakes his head.]
Look... you need to know that we can't see what happens most of the time, just like they can't see us. So I have no idea what happened in the trial, and I guess... neither do you? Did they... vote for Morrigan just because she was there???
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[ Thanks for the helpful height indicator! It's the only reason why she can answer.
Now, time for the rest of that to sink in. ]
...We can still see what happens some of time?!
[ THAT'S RIGHT, SHE'S DEAD, ISN'T SHE... She's really dead, and in the afterlife... Now that she's not bullying Zelos, she can absorb her surroundings a little better. ]
What a gloomy place... You're right, I don't know what happened - just how I died. Was it the same for you?
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[He nods, it was the same for him. Getting more sad in his eyes as he inches towards the memory of the second week as the main previous example.]
My last memory was falling. I thought at first that I had just survived that because of being in the same place. The witch, she was right there at the same time - Makise-san and Mikazuki-san were the same way. Though...
[Oh jeez how does he...]
Sisuca-san... wasn't in very good shape, and now she... She's...
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[ She's almost grateful for the distraction that worrisome news provides. ]
Sisuca? What happened to Sisuca?
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[There's a big lump in his throat and suddenly Youko is really blurry, why is that, vision is one of the few good things about Kazunari]
Sisuca-san... I don't know why, but she was killed earlier, not by Mikazuki-san, right...? And then she showed up like... it was horrible, she wasn't better the way the rest of us were, and she just... ascended into heaven? [He isn't a Christian. He's pretty sure heaven isn't a colorless darkness. But he sure hopes she is in some kind of heaven and not... what it looks like.] it was like they pulled her up with a big chain, and she just vanished into the void.
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But they're not close. So if Kazunari wants to wear a tough face in front of a pretty girl, then... it's not her place to tell him he doesn't need to.
So instead, she smiles for him. ]
I'll certainly try to follow your brave example.
[ HEY... THERE ARE PROBABLY PLENTY OF GOOD THINGS ABOUT HIM... the rest of that sounds very, very bad though, holy shit. ]
Mm. We don't know what happened, or who did it - we were told there wouldn't be a trial. ...I assumed that meant our host was responsible, and that Sisuca had done something very, very wrong to piss her off. I don't know.
...But chains were also involved in her death.
[ She's not about to say how because this child clearly does not need more nightmare fuel - but it does seem relevant. ]
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Did she not vote or something...? [He says without knowing the list of voters or lenience received for not voting the first week. That kind of pacifist action seems almost plausible from her. After several weeks, "left in the chapel to starve" has slipped his mind.] At least now we know for sure, there's more going on than just us being stuck there. It's really reckless violence, though.