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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.

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.

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[okay well first off]

Break did what?!

[and then:]

Wait, you knew where the hostages were all this time and you didn't tell us? Why don't we go break them out right now then?!

[and finally:]

And I don't give a shit about Miata or whatever dumb fight she's having with her dumb sister that they decided to pull in completely unrelated people into their dumb plan for! Fuck her! [SHE WILL BE SALTY WITH RHYS FOREVER] So is there an actual plan to revive everyone and kill Katerina and the demons or not?!

Edited 2016-04-27 04:17 (UTC)

That's what Miata's been doing this entire time. She's been learning magic so that she can bring everyone back and stop this from happening, and we've been helping her prepare.

Yeah? Did you know it was going to take this long? Or that this many people were gonna die? Or that she'd be locked in the basement?! How do you even know her plan will work?

No, I didn't. None of us knew. If I could have done something else, I would have. But I know she's managed to learn the necessary magic, and I'm going to believe in her. I can understand people hating her, but I still want to believe in her. [Miata is her citizen.] This is the best chance I could see available.

Believing in her won't help when she's locked in the basement unable to do shit! [SORRY LITHUANIA she's just super mad that this great plan she's been hearing hints of over the past few weeks amounts to trust the person she trusts the least in this town]

Did she at least explain the spell or what she was doing at all? Maybe one of us can pull it off, we have people who know how to use magic here!

[ time to interject with a shitty fucking laugh ]

Pfft, no! Of course she didn't! I told her when Morrigan died that Morrigan could have helped her and she said the magic wasn't the same. That only she could do it. Thanks, Miata!

Of course that's how it is. You'd think she would have made her moles people who actually had experience in magic instead of a bunch of human kids!

What about Leviathan? You said you brokered a deal with her, yeah? Maybe we can try the same with one of the other demons. Not Satan or Lucifer, fuck those two, I want them dead as much as I do Katerina and I trust them even less.

If you ever wondered why I was angry about Morrigan's death, there you go. She could've helped. Miata said she couldn't have but that doesn't make any sense to me. Everyone votes for Morrigan and lets Buddy live? Then Lucy's trial happens and everyone still kills Lucy? Bullshit. Retirement's fake and so is death and this is still what happened. Morrigan's a powerful witch, she would have been an asset and instead everyone let her die.

[ but right, undyne has a point here. ]

Uh, probably? We gave Leviathan our like, energy so Leviathan could make Miata more powerful. I guess the same thing that's happening with the sacrifices and Katerina. Katerina also has a book, that's the thing protecting her... I think? Sort of like her leash for the demons? If you take the book away, she becomes powerless. Miata said if she gave up her overseering position, Katerina would make a mistake because she's like, in love with her or whatever, and somehow that would... be a chance to get the book back? I don't know.

[ a shrug. ]

Actually, I offered to become the Overseer so I could protect everyone this next week instead of leaving us defenseless with no one to run the game except Katerina. Miata shot me down and she never gave me a good reason why not. [ a dry laugh here ] I think it's just because she doesn't like me.

[She just lets the first point go because well...she'd voted for Morrigan because Morrigan confessed first and that was good enough for her. But she doesn't really have any strong enough feelings for Buddy to argue this, so she shrugs it off and moves on.]

Your...energy? So like what, you switched sins? We probably can't pull that off now, but maybe we can tell the people still alive that's an option. And seeing as how we haven't seen hide or hair of Katerina yet, I can't put any stock in what Miata claims will happen.

[She snorts.] You should have asked Lithuania to do it. Though Miata disliking you is a point in your favor, as far as I see it!

[ rhys just gives a nod and, yeah. that's basically it. ]

Maybe? It could be useful but I also don't know where Leviathan is and don't really... trust any of the ones left to do this right. Roxy, yeah. Hinata and Faize, maybe? Oh, Poland's a good choice too, she can think when she's not trying... not to... Anyway, the rest are just idiots so if we let anyone know what's up, it has to be one of those people.

[ haaaaaaah, rhys just grins at that. ]

See, there's the obvious thing again. Astrid pointed out Lithuania, Roxy, Inaba, and Alisha for working with Miata. If this was going to be a secret, again, it couldn't have been any of them. We could've made up a story about how I strongarmed her into it or something, I don't know. Instead she turned me down because...

[ he just shrugs. ]

If she doesn't like me, fine. But the fact that she wasn't willing to consider it because of her own personal opinion of me was really stupid and look how this last week went. Maybe if someone was still overseeing the game, none of it would have happened.

[ ohhh he is so bitter, he is constantly bitter at miata. ]

[It's not actually a super awesome plan, okay, whoever told you that is a liar.] It involves magic circles,like the one on the basement floor, the items we brought from home, and the dead bodies that we gathered. Apparently the magic required is something only she can Katerina can do here. [Gesturing to Rhys since he said as much to Morrigan.] I suppose we could break her out of the basement, though.

[look it was better than FIGHT SATAN and that's all that matters] Great! The hostages are there too, yeah? And we have grenades and enough energy to break down doors by now! Let's tear the fucking thing off!

...As long as we're careful about it. We don't want the hostages or Miata hurt. Though, do you think all of those other doors being unlocked means that the door Miata ended up locked behind is unlocked, too? [What if they can just open the door?]

...or we could just. Go through the door. Since we're ghosts. [HOW DID THEY NOT THINK OF THIS EARLIER....]

But apparently Katerina's holding those hostages as leverage, so maybe not.

...Ah, we could. [Good job, team.] I think we'd have to find it, first. [Since apparently the door is hidden according to Anna.]

[ he won't answer the break thing but here we go. ]

Can't rescue the hostages because Katerina will kill them. I wanted to do that too but Miata said no and that they were being used for leverage just in case. That's why they didn't go home.

[ and the second part ]

See, I don't know. That's what's great about Miata! She tells us she's working on a plan, tells us she needs our help, tells us she wants to break the game and start a revolution -- then we just sit on our hands and do nothing for... months? I don't think we ever actually did anything but made a deal with Leviathan to give Miata more power to take down Katerina. This is all about them and nothing we do even matters! All we get told to do is "not interfere"!

[ he's REALLY REALLY REALLY ANGRY ABOUT THIS, HO' BOY. ]

So then we kill Katerina. Her and all of her demon pets! [PROBLEM SOLVED]

Ugggh, this is total bullshit! So we're still a tool to someone even now? I don't want to entrust our fate to someone who only started telling you shit after her favorite person died and not the dozens of innocent people beforehand! Miata's locked in the fucking basement, how can she even help us now?! How do we even know her magic will work? If there really is a way to revive everyone, I say we do it with our own hands, not hers!

[YEAH SHE IS 100% WITH RHYS ON EVERYTHING HERE team rhys for life]

[ undyne, you are TAKING THE WORDS FROM HIS MOUTH. he just jabs a finger eagerly at her and nods. ]

Yes, exactly! Someone who gets it, wow! [ he's so relieved okay. none of the moles except break feel the same way he does and it's getting very tiring. ] When I came back to Break's room last Thursday, and we were angry? It was because of this, because of Miata saying she was quitting the game because she was sick of the murder and then finally told us why we were dying in the first place after I yelled at her for it. That's why we were so angry.

[She will fill this entire graveyard with an ocean's worth of salt don't you worry Rhys]

Great! Good to know that mine and Clover's and Gilbert's and Lucy's and her own mole Alisha's and everyone else's lives were totally worthless to her. That really fills me with faith in what she's doing.

[She claps Rhys on the shoulder proudly.] Good for you! Maybe her plan really is the best way outta here, but that doesn't mean we just have to take being treated like tools without a single word.

[ oh iyaa... undyne, you keep complimenting him and he's not sure how to handle it. he just sort of grins sheepishly and jerks his head in a nod because, yeah. yeah! ]

We don't. I wanted her to escape and succeed when I thought she was just another victim in this. Now, no? She's just been prioritizing her own people this whole time over us? Fuck that. It's so...

[ a tired noise and rhys just presses his hands to his face, sighing. ]

I just really want to go home, Undyne.

[ he is a sad, tired dog okay. he did a lot! he tried so hard! and he just feels jerked around in the end. ]

[Rhys, you have now been upgraded to Best Dog, especially with Break having been punched out of the running. SHE WILL GIVE YOU ALL THE COMPLIMENTS AND TREATS AND EAR SCRATCHES]

We are going to go home. All of us, including the hostages. With or without Miata's help. [Personally she would prefer without, but ehhh she'll grudgingly accept it as long as she doesn't actually have to express any gratitude. Because hell no.

She makes a broad gesture at the entire graveyard and town.] Look at us! Look at how many people with brilliant minds and a strong will and a good heart are here! If all of us working together can't do as well - no, better than a single selfish cowardly girl can at breaking this game, then it'd just be shameful!

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