Mock Week

[sinphony]

[ After the day before, with the reveal of the full extent of the rules and how the game works along with their hosts, the only thing everyone could do was have a meeting with alcohol and go to bed. And when awakened, everything is the same. It's still the large mansion, they're still locked inside, and there's still the idea that they have the choice to murder each other hanging over them. But now the mansion is free to explore to their hearts' content, save for the room under the stairs outside the mud room. All anyone can really do is just enjoy their week and hope for the best. ]

Comments

[chaseastar]

Wishes... They're really reaching to tempt us, aren't they? It seems really stupid to kill for something like that.

[It's really, really not something she thinks could even be possible.]

It probably would come out wrong like the monkey's paw story.

[bearshercross]

Or a deal with a faerie. You need to be very precise in your wording with that and cover everything.

[chaseastar]

Exactly. Anything I want for my own future is within my own grasp, why would I resort to something like this?

[voltrounds]

Especially since now we know we all have memories missing. [Not that that's a change for Ricky...] You just know you'd find out something changed and your wish was exactly the wrong thing.

[chaseastar]

I mean, unless something changes here but that's a little much.

[voltrounds]

If you get the wish you get to leave anyway, so there wouldn't even be a point in using your wish on something here.

[chaseastar]

You're probably right. What would be the point?

[voltrounds]

Exactly.

[And now she turns to address the room, raising her voice.]

Everybody got that?

[chaseastar]

I don't think people on the moon heard you.

[voltrounds]

Of course they didn't. There's no air in space.

[semperperatus]

...

[You know what screw it, let's get it out in the open.]

Maybe, but I...I can see why they tried it.

[chaseastar]

I can see it, too. It's just... It's just a bad idea.

[semperperatus]

I know just--

[That last part might be a little sharp. He instantly stops, and shakes his head.]

Heh. I'm not the one you need to convince. Right?

[chaseastar]

[She lowers her head slightly, she hadn't meant to say something like that--]

Yeah. I know... I just, I'm sorry. I know it's tempting.

[semperperatus]

Yeah, but...you're right, too. Even if they could grant it...you still killed someone for it. Someone who didn't deserve it and didn't do anything wrong to you.

[Running his hands back through his hair. An irrational transaction - one life for billions, in his case. Bringing back everyone on Earth, including his family. Maybe even stopping the sharknados from ever happening.

Is it that simple? Could it ever be that simple?

It's clear he's having an internal debate.]

[chaseastar]

Yeah, that's... that's the problem, isn't it.

[Even if she had been so sure there was a moment of doubt. Of a memory so clear (So that's it. You've given up on doing anything but living your life as a regular high schooler.) that makes her stop.]

Killing someone for a dream that can't come true otherwise... [The moment on the rooftop. Hinako yelling at her careless words. The fact that her leg never would heal.] How could it be so simple?

[semperperatus]

...It's not.

[He quietly shakes his head.]

But...I know what my answer has to be. Remember what I said at the meeting?

[telecosmetic]

Yeah, screw them. [There's a pause.] By the way...if you see this weird white creature with big red eyes that looks kind of like a rabbit and kind of like a cat...that's probably who they're getting to grant the wish for them. Don't fucking trust it.

[chaseastar]

I haven't seen anything like that but... well. I know that weird magical things usually don't end up well--[Wait]--in stories, I mean.

[pervet]

... No it wouldn't.

[ He sounds really sure of that. Weird, huh. ]

[chaseastar]

We don't even know if it would work.

[pervet]

... I think that it would.

[ He seems really, oddly serious for once. Usual he's dismissive of most of the things happening, but... ]

But if you don't believe, well, that's fine. It's not my problem to reconcile.

[chaseastar]

I believe a lot of things but I'm more worried about them keeping their word rather than if it's possible or not.

[She knows things.]

[pervet]

... They will.

[ ... Again, he has a little too much confidence in that. There's a bit of a weird smile on his face, but his face is always weird, so maybe it's just him. ]

[chaseastar]

[She's just going to back away from him.]

You're pretty creepy, you know?