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pandatreasure ([personal profile] pandatreasure) wrote2017-12-24 12:44 am

GRAVEYARD

[You know you must have died—nothing is ever easy around here, certainly not quick, so you must remember burning, bleeding, falling, dying?

And yet. You're waking up.

Do you recognize it here, once you pick yourself up off of the hard floor, maybe half-strewn across a couch or beanbag chair? This room died, too: you're in the library, good as new and maybe better than that, only barely smelling of burnt paper and you only sometimes kick up ash, just like those old wounds that finished you off only ache every now and again, dully.

The book selection isn't quite the same as you remember it—all the bad erotica that didn't die is missing here, sorry to say, but so are the books on everyone's home worlds. Snoop around enough and behind the librarian's desk, you'll find tablets: one for each participant of the game, and with enough experimentation, you'll find the one that reacts when you press the button. You're already logged into your Recyclr account and can read the feed, but the same rules apply: 140 characters, one tweet a day. The voting app is gone, replaced by a sort of security monitoring kind of app. Characters can view different rooms of the school, or even place a few side by side so they can view a few at a time, and they'll be able to see the living go about their day to day lives. There's even an archive of recordings, but only the important ones: murders, executions, investigations, trial highlight reels, and major events like libraries being burned down. Was watching yourself die once not enough? Boy have I got good news for you!!!

It's kind of exciting that you can go around touching stuff, probably, despite being super dead and vaguely transparent in a way you notice like your own breathing; you don't and then you do and it's all you can think about, but your tangibility only extends to the inanimate: try to touch any of your fellow deceased and you'll find that you just pass right on through like touching cold air.

The windows aren't bolted up with those big metal plates on this side of things, but look out of them anytime and it's just pitch-black and still outside, so that's demoralizing. There is, of course, the door out of the library—but for now it's locked up tight. Whatever is a ghost to do?]

((Recyclr

Offerings/Letters
Day 11
Day 14
Day 16))
purrtagonist: (Are they one-way stairs)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-30 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[jerks his thumb towards the locked one]

That one.

Which may be behind several more puzzle doors, come to think of it.
insurgeont: (to make this account.)

[personal profile] insurgeont 2018-01-30 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
The one we opened led only to a locked fuse box.
purrtagonist: my barbarian, i will have to slap you (sir if you do not stop kicking)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-30 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
I saw. [taps his tablet for emphasis] But that means there has to be a way to open that locked fuse box.

And just like before, the answers are probably here. Not on the other side.
insurgeont: (Geez man I'm sorry.)

[personal profile] insurgeont 2018-01-30 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ooo, a tablet, he's gotta get himself one of those. ]

That's right, you have been sending us the answers. How did you find them?
purrtagonist: (Roll to conjure fish)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-30 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
[THIS THREAD IS NOT THE THREAD I THOUGHT IT WAS, DON'T MIND ME]

In the books, mostly. The answer to the cat piano puzzle, for instance, was on the re-shelving cart. The first letter of each book there spelled out a score for you guys to play.
Edited 2018-01-30 06:06 (UTC)
insurgeont: (to make this account.)

[personal profile] insurgeont 2018-01-30 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, that is why it was labeled "reshelving cart." Interesting. This is not something that could happen by accident. It was designed to be this way. But why?
purrtagonist: (Can I roll to intimidate the XP counter)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-01-30 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[mmmm]

An experiment on how easily bonds are broken in high stress environments where survival is everyone's number one goal?

With everyone at each other's throats because of the murders, it's no wonder that the ten winners would leave without rescuing the dead.
Edited 2018-01-30 14:31 (UTC)
insurgeont: (These keywords won't be good.)

[personal profile] insurgeont 2018-02-01 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
If it is an experiment, there are many things it could be testing. There are many variables, as well. It lacks academic rigor. The primary purpose is likely to be entertainment, regardless of what excuse they use. Perhaps giving us some hope of escape is simply more entertaining to whatever force is behind the raccoons.
purrtagonist: (roll for sass)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-02-01 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Whatever excuse they have, it doesn't hold up. In my humble opinion.

[FUCK THE RACCOONS]

. . . I know Shuichi said something similar, just the other week. But he came from a game where the hope of escape was part of the show.
insurgeont: (Like all the filthy kinky porn--)

[personal profile] insurgeont 2018-02-02 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
I cannot draw much from my own experience in this regard. The gladiator arena provides no hope of escape for its prisoners. It is a much more straightforward form of cruelty than this.
purrtagonist: (So what happens on a triple botch)

[personal profile] purrtagonist 2018-02-02 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Which almost makes it seem less cruel.

[at least then they aren't filling people with false hope]