Murder Mysterium - Game End, Part 1

[idolpro]

Who: You!
Where: The Game Tower
When: Day 365, Morning

[ Surely, this time, it must be over. This time, this time, it must be over.

The remaining structures still standing collapse, crumbling into the rest of the demolished mansion. You notice, too—the flowers begin to stretch at every entrance to the garden mazes, vines and leaves and branches and thorns sealing them away from you, completely removing access. Some people may be stumbling out of the gardens now, but it's evident that if they aren't here with you now, they must have been kicked out of the game.

The space in front of the mansion—just in front of the doors—splits open, the space suddenly seeming two-dimensional as the space folds for a door. The door, actually—the door to the elevator that leads you home.

It's not open for business yet. Before you run off, away from this place forever—

You'll want to gather around the fountain.

Its water's stopped, though rather than any stillness in water you can instead see the water drain away, revealing a set of stairs as well as . . . every unit in the Graveyard. Ah, there they are.

Not all of them are intact—while LiliS, sensitIV, future is now, and AlcheME! are completely uninjured (barring any injuries they accrued on their personal time and/or while in the PvP pit), avante en garde and YOU-kai are injured, and sea.Di . . .

. . . well, those sure are some chunks, huh. . . ]

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Comments

[purrrnicious]

[She doesn't move to touch her, not even when she almost topples -- not without some clear sign that contact would be okay.]

I'm fine. I was––whatever happened didn't reach us in the garden, I guess.

[unbr8kable]

[Thank heaven for people who get it. Nemesis doesn't 'relax' so much as 'try less hard to look fine,' but close enough.]

Hah... Guess I shouldn't've tried so hard to get out.

[Scrubs at her face a bit]

What about the kid--the others? Bad End?

[purrrnicious]

[Try biting and clawing, people eventually get the message.

She frowns a little in confusion. Since when do they care about BE=DE...]

Bad End...? They're fine. It's just you guys and Youkai that're injured.

. . .And, uh, I think those pieces are Sea.Di.

[unbr8kable]

[It is harder when you don't see them coming first :<]

...Huh. Guess I'm fine missing that part.

[A pause]

Still seems like too good to be true, if it's just us.

[purrrnicious]

[She scoffs a little, settling back on the balls of her feet in a crouch.]

Really? Two would've died per round, from what I saw. We're setting a pretty low bar now if we don't count the murders that get all healed up by the end.

[unbr8kable]

Since when'd this place have anything but a low bar for anything?

[purrrnicious]

I don't know, people seem to have pretty high expectations about how you're not allowed to be mad about anything they do.

[unbr8kable]

[Shrugs, a little stiff, and rubs more at her ear]

If they're just gonna say they're sorry, what's even the point?

[purrrnicious]

What, you don't seriously believe them, do you?

[unbr8kable]

Does it matter? They still won.

[purrrnicious]

Yeah, they always do.

[She straightens so she's standing, folding her arms and considering Nemesis, but not making any move to leave yet.]

So? What're you gonna do? Is your stalker from Heart gonna get you, or do you want me to walk you back?

[unbr8kable]

[Shrugs again, staying where she is]

You got two arms and two wives. Pretty sure you got your hands full.

[purrrnicious]

And there's two of me, so cool, we can all count. But if you'd really rather crawl back I'm not going to argue with you.

[unbr8kable]

[Frowns, though perhaps it isn't about the prospects of a Stability-fueled controlled fall out of the game tower]

...Right. Is Zrael okay? I was s'posed to check back in.

[purrrnicious]

[Tilting her head to the side, just slightly, trying to puzzle something out.]

Sabre was with us. She was the only one I saw here.

[unbr8kable]

Yeah. So long's she didn't beef it.

[purrrnicious]

...

Since when are you two friendly?

[unbr8kable]

Just got some similar interests is all.

Avante and Zrael ain't been rivals since the very beginning, anyways. Made sense to stay out each other's way.

[purrrnicious]

What, like, trying to keep Heart from doing something stupid?

[unbr8kable]

I ain't sure that's possible...

[purrrnicious]

[Frowning a little, her tail flicking.]

For some of them it just comes naturally, I guess.

[unbr8kable]

Not every team sticks to their brand, but they really, really do.

[Leans back against the fountain, suddenly very tired]

Ain't much else to do but suck it up.

[purrrnicious]

...

No.

[unbr8kable]

That's how they are. That's how they want to be.

Don't gotta like something for it to be true.

[purrrnicious]

I know Adora. I know she's like that and she'll never listen.

But everyone always acts like it's okay –– like somehow that makes her admirable or heroic, if it's always, always her that is supposed to be sacrificed. They expect it and act like it's just what should happen, and even if there's nothing else I can do, I can at least be the one person that doesn't think it's okay to trade her life to get what I want or for the "greater good" or whatever other stupid reason people want to try and justify that with.

Maybe I want her to live. Maybe I think she should get what she wants, for a change. If you all want to call me selfish for that, then fine, whatever. I don't care any more.

...It's the least I can do for her, after everything.