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The Directors ([personal profile] productions) wrote2014-07-30 09:14 pm
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graveyard pt ii

the theatre




You awaken in a darkened theatre.

In front of you is an enormous cinema screen. On it plays everything that's currently happening in the castle, accompanied by appropriate sound effects and background instrumentals when fitting. The seat you're sitting on is large and plush, and while there's many of them, there's enough room in the theatre for you to fully recline the seat into a comfortable bed if you wish. Under each seat is a sleeping mask and noise-cancelling headphones, in case you'd like to take a break from watching the show.

Follow the stairs up and you'll reach what should be the projection room. There are no projectors in here, however; it is simply a large and well-lit room above the main seating area, and a good place to hang out with your fellow eliminated contestants if shouting at each other across the aisles proves too much to handle.

If you leave the theatre through the door in the back, you'll find yourself in a hall. On one end is a concession stand. It's stocked with standard movie snacks - popcorn, candy and the like - but if you're feeling the urge for something else, you'll be able to find it stocked somewhere in the back. On the other end is a table with thirty wrapped bags and a placard reading 'A star for our stars! Please accept these lovely giftbags as a token of appreciation for your hard work, sponsored by [illegible smudge]'. Each bag has a tag bearing the name of someone in the mansion; you will only be able to open the bag with your name on it. As soon as you open it, any memories that have been taken from you, including those of the other people in the mansion that you may have forgotten, will be returned in their entirety. Within the bag are also objects from your home that you may want for your stay here, though you will find no weapons.

Past the hall is another door, this one wooden and seemingly decayed. If you go inside, you'll find a fairly simple, wooden room, that is empty except for a very large machine. It is difficult to tell what the machine is for; it has a touch screen that appears to be a control panel, as well as a large open space that seems to be part of the machine, but the machine is dead and won't turn on no matter what you do.

Still, at least you aren't alone here. You have your fellow players, as well as a few guests to keep you company.

Oh, and one more thing. At midnight following each execution, once all those who've died that week have woken up, a video will begin to play on screen.
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[personal profile] bloomnobly 2014-08-03 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ flippantly waving her hand ] 'Yes, yes, I'll murder three people and then go complain to our host about it! Better yet, I'll go save one of the women I killed in the first place!'

[ because at this point she can't even begin to blame Kouha for being the one to physically supermurder her. Considering how backed into a corner he was ]
Edited 2014-08-03 02:34 (UTC)
speakveryclearly: Kanaya with pursed, green lips, looking up at the sky skeptically. Offscreen her hand is on her hip. (Tch)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2014-08-03 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Kanaya puckers her lips to swallow the pain and simultaneously channel her inner Susan Sto Helit. This was the first time it sank in that Gundam must have a reason, just like Kaoru does. She stares up at the screen and riffs off in her truth-or-dare, never-have-I-ever voice.]

If I say "we continue to wait", will you punch me, because I know I'd like to punch somebody so I completely understand if doing that would make you feel better.
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[personal profile] onethirdthesoul 2014-08-03 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
If he's helping to end this blood bath, then that's good enough for me. I'm sure he won't let, ah... Stilinski-san die in vain. None of them will.

[Hopefully he got the name right; he knew it from eavesdropping.]

I feel guilty for ever suspecting the host. I wish I could have thanked him.
speakveryclearly: Kanaya with her mouth closed, smothering laughter; her shoulders shake from it. Jade lipstick. (Amused)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2014-08-03 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[She's actually producing laughter for the first time all week. Even Sebastian getting shot wasn't very funny to her.]

So what living:dead ratio did you end up with? Two to one? I'm just curious since that was ours...
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[personal profile] bloomnobly 2014-08-03 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ she actually has to think about this for a moment ]

Counting myself and the two others as deceased, nineteen out of thirty. Ah, but thankfully to our dashing oni, nine of us were able to be rescued.
speakveryclearly: Kanaya in red Japanese clothes on a pastel background. Swift strokes. Simple, slight smile. (Ordinary)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2014-08-03 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
That's... pretty good...

[Her voice is a little fainter now. She's been bad about the breathing]

I'm pretty sure... he was an alternate. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Just because Kaoru... was with us this whole time until... shortly before the season premiere.
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[personal profile] bloomnobly 2014-08-03 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
No, alternate timelines aren't very strange, at this point. After all, there were versions of all of us who died miserable deaths out there, he included. That is...why we were there.
speakveryclearly: Kanaya looking over at something, not entirely satisfied, flickering. (Calm)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2014-08-03 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Because you were miserable? Because you had died? Was it the conjunction of both? [Yuyuko is providing somewhat valuable information, at least relevant to many of the newer guests, and a concrete focus is far superior to the increasingly ineffective panacea of "soon".]
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[personal profile] bloomnobly 2014-08-03 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ puffing out her cheeks in irritation ] By causing a bloodbath of his own. But now isn't the time to be pedantic, I realize.

What miserable cowards...executing that poor boy, and in such a fashion. [ moral highground was something she struggled with back in that cat's domain so wow is it ever refreshing to be certain of your moral superiority!!! ]
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[personal profile] impheired 2014-08-03 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, I won't punch you. If we've gotta wait more then...we've gotta wait more. [He doesn't look particularly happy about it but he also really doesn't want to fuck this up, so...] That's all there is to it.

But from the sounds of things...we don't have a whole lot of time to wait around. [Gundam keeps talking about an expiration date and he really doesn't like the sound of that, tbh.] So we should be working on a goddamn plan while we're waiting, yeah? Since it sounds like whatever you had in the works isn't going to happen now.
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[personal profile] bloomnobly 2014-08-03 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ a short chuckle ]

You know, that is how he beat me. I gave him too much information about myself, trusted him too deeply.

[ ...... ] But, ah, I don't really have much to lose, at the moment.

We had all died, irrevocably, with a zero percent chance of survival.
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1/2 why not

[personal profile] onethirdthesoul 2014-08-03 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
S-sorry! [Ryou blurts out, waving his hands in front of his face. He settles down once Austria starts talking serious.]
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[personal profile] onethirdthesoul 2014-08-03 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
That's true... [Ryou brings a hand up to his face, covering what is an obvious pout.]

I was hoping maybe Sebastian-san was just saying things like that to deter people from trying to murder him.

[Ryou: seeing the good in everyone to a fault.]
speakveryclearly: Kanaya grumbling with one hand pressed to her face. Jade lipstick. (Frustration)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2014-08-03 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Well...

[Putting a hand to her temple. Think, Maryam, think. She's avoided doing the thinking - like this. The plan was never of her personal sole devising. Look at what happened the last time she was left to execute something so serious with her own devices: Rin, still alive and well - thank goodness for that!]

There are several key elements that are still in place - and I use the word "key" deliberately. [Please appreciate her lexicon in this trying time, Fuyuhiko.] We know there's a way. We knew from the start that there was a way. He can find it...
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[personal profile] onethirdthesoul 2014-08-03 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
...Violence shouldn't be solved with more violence, but... [The word lingers, and Ryou seems unable to figure out just how to word his thoughts.

More death was wrong and he knew that, but after all these producers have done--after 50 seasons worth of death--they weren't going to stop if they just asked them nicely.

Being marginally okay with the death of a human being, taking it as some sort of bittersweet victory...that was terrifying.]


They deserve it. After all they've done...I can't even argue against it.
Edited 2014-08-03 03:43 (UTC)
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[personal profile] hollowheart 2014-08-03 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
He got careless. [It's easier to be angry at a dead person than herself.]
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[personal profile] hollowheart 2014-08-03 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Sorry. It's a rare show of emotions and she takes on the napkins surreptitiously. At least she's not blowing her nose.]

What... What did we go through all of it for?
speakveryclearly: I'm not describing this because it's supposed to be very versatile for hugging of all types (Hugging)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2014-08-03 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[In that case, the hug is happening. Fortunately Kanaya has experience with stiff huggers; she has been one herself. She is content to loosely encircle Peko's ribcage with her arms, letting her body itself remain unmoved. Her head is over Peko's shoulder now, not looking at her, and she speaks in a slightly lower voice to account for the increased proximity of their sensory organs.]

I got the impression that... the guy who somehow endeared himself to all of you... [and earned all the undergarments] the one with the [ahoge??? she doesn't have a polite word for that which quickly comes to mind] tie... they had a lot in common. He's out there... the other guy from that class [Naegi] is out there... [And she actually has no idea if Kuzuryuu's sister was an actress or not - May obviously was, but Kanaya's not an expert on nearly as much shit as she tries to claim and killing actresses can't be put past this show.] They might even be able to help us now, or at the very least they seem like the types to approve of the sentiment that their mere existence is an aid to the cause.

[The detanglement occurs about now.] And as angry as I am at him for going through with this... Stilinskisn't that stupid. He was always able to play these games at a very high level beyond the reach of the camera... and pull another clue from out of his sleeve.

All that about how this had to work out after so much time, isn't any less true because... of complications. I will admit this was not a complication I'd expected, though frankly I hadn't expected such a fascination with hostages specifically.
Edited 2014-08-03 04:14 (UTC)
speakveryclearly: Kanaya drawn in sketchy black outline on jade background, suppressing a protest. ((>BT)) (Reluctant)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2014-08-03 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[GOOD THING THAT RIN IS ON TISSUE DUTY...]

That martyr complex got the best of him... [The real questions: are any of the teenagers this season Teen Wolves?]
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[personal profile] humanic 2014-08-03 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a frantic gasping sound in a corner of the theater before Stiles jerks straight up to his feet, looking around him wildly. It takes him a few seconds to actually realize what he's seeing and that he's not completely and irrevocably dead, but once he does, his eyes widen and he manages to choke out a single sentence.]

Oh my god, it actually fucking worked.

[And then he stumbles backwards into a seat, his legs giving out under him as he buries his had into his arms and just has to breathe for a while, trying to stave off the incoming panic attack. Your host, everyone. Give him a minute, he's just been tortured for a week and then shot in the head. Actually, maybe give him ten.]
speakveryclearly: Kanaya sparkling white, covered in human blood, which she licks off her face. Zahhak shades for extra hardcore. ((BP)) (Ready)

[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2014-08-03 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
[STILES IS NOT GETTING ANY MINUTES, which Kanaya will regret in like seven minutes given how well she knows he can freak out in these situations, but as soon as she smells blood she is on the move and so Stiles gets at most thirty seconds thanks to that rainbow drinker fastness.]

I don't know if I should hug you or hit you, so let me know if there isn't time for either and I will gladly save both for later.
Edited (had to make it meme) 2014-08-03 04:41 (UTC)
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[personal profile] hollowheart 2014-08-03 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[It's okay, Kanaya. The choice is made for her, even though the alien got there first.

Annie is there second, and so is her hand, slapping Stiles upside the head.]
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[personal profile] pasodoble 2014-08-03 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
( Everyone else is 200 times better at explaining things than he is so when she arrives, he'll let them fill her in. Once all is said and done, Spain will approach with his usual, friendly smile and wave once.

It's funny because in a way, Athena is both one of the first and one of the last people he wanted to see again.
)

How are you feeling?
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[personal profile] psychup 2014-08-03 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Ahh, oh no. Well, she is pretty familiar with panic attacks, fortunately. She'll keep her distance a little, but brings him some water and a wet cloth.]

You're okay! Just catch your breath!
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[personal profile] pasodoble 2014-08-03 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
( Spain looks just as surprised as everyone else tbh. Wait, was that..? And the host was--! And Kaoru too! He's pretty speechless and covers his mouth. )

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