Abstaining randomized your vote for someone. You could vote for yourself without penalty, so some did that. Most people voted for someone. Royce always voted for who he thought was guilty.
[A one-shoulder shrug.]
We did. We got rid of The Judge supposed, and Ivan was freed. She said not to worry about the hunts or my deal. We were dead, and we got to go back alive. But... [Gestures.] You know. I'm in another one. I guess they knew I'd come if it was someone I wanted out of these things.
It was only a week, yeah. You say that, Aikawa, but it was only this place scrunched down into a shorter time. We didn't have half the stuff here. And some days, we had five bodies. We just had to point fingers for the most part.
We argued over the dinner table about who was guilty then kept voting for innocent people.
[Dry.]
Almost all of us were dead by the end, but I guess that doesn’t matter when you are already dead and are supposed to die. [A glance at Aikawa.] I’m expecting more too.
It's weird, but--you both read the contract, right? Our game warden doesn't want mindless bloodshed left and right, so... one makes a bit of sense. If we dropped like flies, there'd be no more entertainment left.
Maybe Nightman is doing something about it with the shadows because the rest of us are too apprehensive about pulling the trigger on our own, hostages or not.
I remember. Survive eight weeks of this shit, checkout, get your hostage set free... Though there was this weird part with the "and/or".
With the set up like that, and with all of us bein' exhausted of these things.... That shadow thing is probably a failsafe for them to have the entertainment they're lookin' for. The less people kill, the more people get out with their hostages.
The condition about the lobby is weird, yeah. But after everything the shadows have been doing, the Nightman, too... I don't know if I trust anything.
[He nods at Aikawa with his head.]
Like Big Guy said, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Someone up there is wanting to step through loopholes. [He flicks a hand in an unsure gesture.] I guess they're looking for drawn-out murderous entertainment, something almost funny maybe. Not a horror show.
[ He doesn't, but he's also not really bothered about people using nicknames on him as long as they're not 1. genuinely derogatory and 2. impossible to tell its him. ]
They said it was the owner of the hotel. Think it's just one guy? Or like, a whole conglomerate of rich fucks using us for entertainment?
[ You know, the typical Belko Experiment, Squid Game style bull. ]
It does say Nightman instead of Nightmen, but maybe we're being broadcast to others too. Kind of hate the idea of that more. Then again, not much different than the weirdos in Gotham.
[ Me who barely exists when the lore drops happen because they drop when I'm sleeping, being like when did we mention a Nightman, help. ]
You know, the more I hear about Gotham, the more shitsack it sounds. And for the record, that's coming from me, and not a single person has responded positively to me telling them about my world.
I don't wanna hear that from you after hearing you complain about what North's like. At least the Sorcerers' World isn't a shithole, permanent-blizzard wasteland. It just has shithole people.
[ Flatly. ]
Show me Gotham in the simulations sometime and we'll see how much that holds up. But also, creepy! Alternate same-dimension bullshit, eugh.
North is better than anywhere else. [says the Northborn wizard with his clear and obvious bias.] You probably won't run into Owen and Mithra. [Truly the worst parts of the landscape.
He looks between these two, then back to Aikawa.]
Teachers tryin' to... what was it, extort their students?
[Some things you can't quite remember a year later.]
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Were they just votin' the people they hated the most. [He thinks Mithra and Owen would do that, but neither of those fucks are here.]
Thought you guys managed to stop the Hunt on the island? Ain't you all free?
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Wow, that's... that's kind of a lot.
[ He has a vague '???' look. The Judge??? What... ]
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[A one-shoulder shrug.]
We did. We got rid of The Judge supposed, and Ivan was freed. She said not to worry about the hunts or my deal. We were dead, and we got to go back alive. But... [Gestures.] You know. I'm in another one. I guess they knew I'd come if it was someone I wanted out of these things.
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[His tail swishes back and forth, the way a cat's would when it's annoyed]
Really know how to reel us in. Your thing was an island that lasted a week, yeah?
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Wish this bullshit just lasted a week, we'd be outta here already if that were the case.
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[Just like this future trial, haha!]
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Ugh. [Body pile ups... Bad.] Did the group get whittled down to half or so?
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There were at least two dying every week in Wiwaldi, weren't there?
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[Dry.]
Almost all of us were dead by the end, but I guess that doesn’t matter when you are already dead and are supposed to die. [A glance at Aikawa.] I’m expecting more too.
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[ Bites a fry.
He's not a tiny mana stone. He's probably not actually dead yet. ]
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So, kinda weird to only get one person dying three weeks in a row, and then you know, the whole thing with Cloud coming back from the dead.
This place is wack.
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Maybe Nightman is doing something about it with the shadows because the rest of us are too apprehensive about pulling the trigger on our own, hostages or not.
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With the set up like that, and with all of us bein' exhausted of these things.... That shadow thing is probably a failsafe for them to have the entertainment they're lookin' for. The less people kill, the more people get out with their hostages.
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Yeah, I mean. Figures, but.
[ He chews over it, trying to figure out if it's just him being pessimistic or not. ]
I just figured for something as sadistic as hostage-taking, it'd be a bit more chaotic.
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[He nods at Aikawa with his head.]
Like Big Guy said, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Someone up there is wanting to step through loopholes. [He flicks a hand in an unsure gesture.] I guess they're looking for drawn-out murderous entertainment, something almost funny maybe. Not a horror show.
Does it make it any better? Nah.
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He lets out a long, frustrated sigh.]
Really hate bein' used as entertainment.
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They said it was the owner of the hotel. Think it's just one guy? Or like, a whole conglomerate of rich fucks using us for entertainment?
[ You know, the typical Belko Experiment, Squid Game style bull. ]
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It does say Nightman instead of Nightmen, but maybe we're being broadcast to others too. Kind of hate the idea of that more. Then again, not much different than the weirdos in Gotham.
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They'd want people to watch this shit? Like this guy is the mastermind and everybody else's takin' notes?
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You know, the more I hear about Gotham, the more shitsack it sounds. And for the record, that's coming from me, and not a single person has responded positively to me telling them about my world.
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[He snorts.]
Gotham and where you're from are just two sides of the same coin probably. An alternate dimension Gotham.
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[He says living in a country with no laws wizards just doing whatever the fuck they want. At least they don't send people into death battles.]
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[ Flatly. ]
Show me Gotham in the simulations sometime and we'll see how much that holds up. But also, creepy! Alternate same-dimension bullshit, eugh.
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I don't know anything about your world, but I agree. It's probably just as bad.
[Aikawa just gave him a decent idea anyway.]
Sure. Just a forewarning: it's a shithole in a lot of places and it has shithole people.
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He looks between these two, then back to Aikawa.]
Teachers tryin' to... what was it, extort their students?
[Some things you can't quite remember a year later.]
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