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[vicedirector]

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.

The living can be seen walking around, going about their daily lives, and if you concentrate, you can even see the buildings as they once were--in working order, clean, and in one piece.

As of Monday on Week 10, however, there is a door, seemingly pasted into the middle of the street. As the days tick by, the doors will increase in number, one for each victim.

Comments

Mole Time

[herbgrace]

[And there it is. And now Lithuania can finally properly address Alisha, Rhys, and even Break.] Alisha--Alisha, have you been alright? We've been worried.

[Rhys and Break...] I thought you two would--well. Are you going to be alright, Rhys? All things considered. [SHE CAN'T EVEN BRING YOU GUYS FOOD RIGHT NOW!!!]

[crazily]

[ Break sighs heavily, but his shrug is much lighter. ]

I wouldn't have, but that's just semantics at this point. We were never exempt from this game, but just particularly lucky.

[ Since, I mean, it took until the last week to really make a dent in their numbers, huh... ]

Though I would have preferred that Rhys not have gotten dragged into my mess. Leaving Roxy and Inaba as the ones left is troubling.

[herbgrace]

Especially considering how everything looks right now. [Roxy can handle herself in a fight, but Himeko... Also, Buddy has access to all those weapons...] Do you think we can just--say what was going on, now...?

[crazily]

[ Break laughs, but it's rather short and sharp instead of being humored. ]

Oh, I wonder~? I've been sharing all of this in far less direct words for a while now. I hardly give a damn at this point, and I've said as much since we learned of that idiotic gamble.

[ If Gilbert is around, he'll gesture towards him to indicate who, but it's probably not much of a surprise. ]

After all, I don't imagine the rest of our living will take this well, do you? At least here, no one can really do anything about it, or so I've been told.

[takanome]

I know I'd really appreciate it if you'd do us that kind of huge favor!

[Takao is shaking with anger, lips grimaced apart enough to flash an attempt at a smile, but his typical slight formal language towards adults is all messed up. HE GOT DROPPED OFF A ROOFTOP FOR THIS??? WHAT'S "THIS"???]

Seriously, moles? [He throws out his hands in an exasperated gesture.] How much more reality television bullshit do we need? Where are the cameras?

[keepshispride]

[Moles. A secret group. That looks like Rhys' work too so- ... Morrigan is going to be so damn smug.]

... What the hell were you doing all this time? [NONE OF YOU EVEN KILLED ANYONE??? WHAT?????]

[herbgrace]

[Well. MIGHT AS WELL.] Trying to ensure the dead return to life after all of this. [So. Everyone here.]

[keepshispride]

And what does that mean, pray tell? [This just sounds stupid. How did they keep this going for nearly three months.]

[thebonezone]

[. . . . . sans comes back from sloth bullshit to deal with this bullshit. great. but he has one question before anything else.]

do none of you know what a mole is? it's not just the cute animal.

[BECAUSE THE WHOLE GAME WAS TALKING ABOUT SAVING GHOSTS FOR A WHILE, SO???]

[detanimetion]

[Undyne surprisingly doesn't look shocked in the least on this reveal, though she does give Lithuania a rather irritated look.]

What, there were more of you? Seriously? What was the whole point of that 'oooh secrecy' bullshit if that many of you guys knew what was up already?!

[jackhole]

[ have the peanut gallery ]

Well, Break and I were the only ones doing shit. Inaba kept blowing our cover half the time and we had to make sure it didn't go badly for us.

[herbgrace]

[Hey!] It wasn't just you two doing things.

[detanimetion]

Ha! So Astrid really was right about her too. [SHE'S SO PROUD OF HER PRIDESIS the only one who didn't hit betray] I'd say everyone should have just listened to her from the start, but maybe it's a good thing they didn't.

So now that everything's out in the open, can you finally tell us the details? Don't tell me you're still planning on going along with whatever was proposed at the start of all this.

[crazily]

[ Ah... Break just ends up crossing his arms, but he laughs rather lightly. Actually, he seems a little relieved to finally be able to speak of this more freely. ]

That's the part you're taking issue with?

[ he's asking to get another can of beans thrown at him at this rate ]

[detanimetion]

[Undyne snorts, but at least her face slides from irritated to just mildly annoyed. Improvements all around!]

Come on. Didn't I say I'd trust you at the start? I'm not about to take it back now. Besides, it wasn't that hard to figure out what your goals were.

[SINCE BREAK MADE VERY LITTLE EFFORT HIDING IT....]

[thebonezone]

[oh my god she WAS hiding something?? he was so busy thinking of sloth and thinking maybe he was being overdramatic he BRUSHED IT OFF]

i'm wondering the same thing.

[SINCE UNDYNE KNEW?? AND HE DIDN'T]

[detanimetion]

Ask them, not me! All I know is that Break was super paranoid about not letting a single person know.

[EXCEPT THEN IT TURNED OUT THERE WAS A WHOLE GROUP OF MOLES???]

[herbgrace]

It wasn't all of you we needed to keep it secret from, exactly.

[detanimetion]

Judging from the fact that Astrid figured out your group's existence, it might have been better just to let all of us into the know!

[But okay, she doesn't actually sound seriously angry, just kind of annoyed. She's already dealt with her feelings about this, she just didn't expect the group to be that large.]

[friendboned]

[listen buddy HE HAS A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU]

UNDYNE... YOU WERE PART OF A SECRET HERO CLUB??? [clearly that's what mole really means]

YOU'RE EVEN COOLER THAN I THOUGHT!!! [okay maybe it's not really a bone and more skelefanboying] BUT WHY DIDN'T YOU INVITE ME?? I'M GREAT AT KEEPING SECRETS!!

[no you're not Papyrus]

[stardustreverie]

[And someone is fairly confused.]

Wait...Wait...What is going on now?

[herbgrace]

If everything works out, we get to come back to life. [THE SHORT VERSION. The long version is all over the place.]

[stardustreverie]

Huh...Just you guys from this little craziness or all of us?

[Because she'll be fairly pissed if Ryouta and her got left out..although would understand.]

[princessantly]

... Yes. As well as can be expected, at least.

[ But... she really just looks tired now. ]

[herbgrace]

It's almost over. ...One way or the other. [She can't be sure which way it's going to go at this point.]