day two - aftermath

[guestcontrol]

dreamland day two 38 players remaining. As the voting period comes to an end, a bell goes off from the ticket machine, and the metal bars blocking the tunnel at the end of the Hall of Mirrors lifts. A voice speaks over the loudspeaker: "Attention, guests! Please make your way onto the ride! For your safety, keep your hands and arms inside and do not attempt to leave your seat!" Through the tunnel, single cars on a track stop and wait for each remaining player to step on. Don't dawdle, or your bracelet will begin to beep a warning. Once in a car, the safety bar locks you tightly inside, unable to move. The car trundles along a dark, twisting track, nearly veering into cartoonish obstacles, but veering away at the last moment. Music and cackling laughter echoes loudly through the ride as you drive faster and faster. Suddenly, your car veers off to the left, through a courtroom, where a towering cartoon judge threatens to bang a gavel. Your car jerks and evades, but somewhere, before one car can pass, the gavel comes down and the car spins off to the side, through a dark doorway. Each car comes to the end of the ride, but doesn't stop, and instead jerks into motion and, even faster, veers through the ride a second time. This time, your car does not enter the courtroom, but the doors to your left nonetheless open, showing instead of a courtroom a red room burning with cartoon flames. Above the flames hangs a corpse in a noose. The body of Levi hangs from a white rope noose, as a cackling voices pronounces: Innocent The ride turns away once more, and comes to a stop. A list of votes has been pinned on the wall for your perusal. You now have the rest of the evening to explore the park, before night comes again. character statuses private conversations graveyard This is a general post-vote mingle encompassing the time from the end of the trial (about 5 PM until the fireworks at 11 PM). You are encouraged and welcome to backtag discussions in this post until the next day post, or to have afternoon private conversations.

Comments

[chronic]

We could go plenty further down, brah. [ yes he just called you 'brah' HOW DO YOU FEEL ] Cross your fingers.

[photonement]

[WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN, KID??]

I just mean... we have a detective now, and we're not gonna have a conversion, and the buddy cops might be drunk off their butts right now given the general sanity level this game but just as likely they're biding their time to actually do something right.

[chronic]

[ IT MEANS YOU'RE HIS BRAH ]

No-- it's- it's definitely best if they stay quiet until they have something solid.

[photonement]

[Her eyes flicker down at him as she hears him stumble over that first word.]

And this will be the third night, won't it? So they're getting more and more to work with.

[chronic]

I just hope they nail an actual VIP soon.

[photonement]

Have we even learned much about what the VIPs want? How they're thinking... My brain turned into a pretzel just trying to wrap around that guy's plot.

[chronic]

I don't know who could be swayed to go along with this, or why.

[photonement]

[For the first time all day Mahiru remembers the bandages around her head and touches them self-consciously.]

Maybe they're not even in their right... minds...

[chronic]

...There's a theory. Huh.

[photonement]

Whether they've got blackmail or mind control or just a bunch of plants... there's nothing the rest of us could do about any of that. We have to protect ourselves and each other. It's hard, but is there anything else to it?

[chronic]

Yeah. No matter what their reasons, we have to take them down if we want to live.

[photonement]

And we do want to live. Everything that's happening is devastating... but we all should keep up a desire to live.