dreamsland | day three

dreamland day three

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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 Edea Lee hangs from a red rope noose, as a cackling voices pronounces: Guilty!

The ride turns away once more, and comes to a stop. A list of votes has been posted on the wall. You now have the rest of the evening to explore the park, before night comes again.

One more thing: because of the successful execution of a VIP today, you now have a chance to vote for a MVP.

MVP vote
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.

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So we were right after all...

[It doesn't feel much like a victory.]

"I do not believe myself to be killing." What did she mean by that...?

...Maybe that is what the VIPs honestly believe. When Edea and I spoke, it was as though she was aware and yet unaware at the same time.

If that is the case, if their minds are being altered... then there truly can be no hope of peace between us. You cannot convince someone to stop doing something that they don't even believe they are doing.

Yes. I honestly cannot imagine someone as noble as Edea wishing to kill, yet if her perception was that she was never killing at all...this situation is even worse than first imagined.

We do all have those head wounds, right? [Belgium reaches up to touch hers. Who knows what they were for?]

To think they could have been messing with our heads like that... [ Not a fun thought. ] How would we even begin to do something about that?

Are there any brain surgeons here? [This is not a good plan.]

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mediumburgers - 2014-10-01 02:25 (UTC) - Expand

belgian - 2014-10-01 02:26 (UTC) - Expand

mediumburgers - 2014-10-01 02:57 (UTC) - Expand

Villains who believe themselves heroes, a Detonator who kills in the name of the VIPs, people disappearing in the middle of the day with nary an explanation... everything is being stacked against us.

Yes. Though we at least have the buddy cops and detective to assist and one of them is certainly confirmed now.

I wonder what's become of the buddy cops? I expect we'll find out when one of them dies.

jingler - 2014-10-01 02:24 (UTC) - Expand

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Do you think they tampered with our memories or that she was just really good at hiding her guilt?

I'm inclined to say the former. Though I've only known her for a few days, I feel as though Edea was a very honest person. Not truthful, but forthright and open. I do not think she was lying when she said she didn't believe she was killing people.

[The way she always spoke about protecting others and her honor as a knight...he can't believe someone like Edea would willingly murder unless she didn't think what she was doing is murder.]

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What was she believing she was doing, then...? After all, shooting someone, or bludgeoning them...that isn't very easy to wave off as something that is, ah, not killing.

Hm. Yes, that is where the question lies. Perhaps something was done to alter their perception of reality, so that they genuinely believe themselves to not be killing people. Like a consensus reality experiment.

...Can such a modification be possible, though? It is one thing to hallucinate, but...for this long?

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eventhandler - 2014-10-01 03:48 (UTC) - Expand

So she just... forgot? If the rest of them are like that too, then...

[ She finds it hard to finish the rest of that sentence, it makes her stomach churn. ]

Either she forgot or she simply never saw what she was doing as committing a murder. No matter which way you go however, the fact is Edea truly thought she had done nothing wrong.

It's just like Legion said, they could have easily messed with his programming to make him a VIP. But to do that to humans too? It just makes it sound like the VIPs have no choice but to do it and they might not remember that they even did.

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fanbase - 2014-10-01 03:05 (UTC) - Expand

Near the end, I believe she knew she was going to die. Yet she never wavered in maintaining her innocence.

[ What would be the point...? ]

But even so, the choices they made and the way they carried out the murders... Is it possible they tampered with more than just their memories? I find it difficult to believe Edea could be capable of such cold-hearted brutality.

Yes, I think that may be the conclusion to make here. Something has certainly been done to the minds of the VIPs to make them act in a way contrary to their true nature.

Then if they don't even remember their actions at night, how are we meant to find them during the day?

[ She sounds frustrated at the idea of being helpless but for waiting for results from the detective and cops. ]

I don't think Edea's directly killed.

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At least, not for last night and the night before. She said she never used a gun before, doing the water gun with you was her first time.

Yes... When we played the water guns game, she squirted herself in the face when she first picked it up. [ It's accompanied by a slightly sad smile at the memory. ]

But if her memories and mind were being manipulated, perhaps... she wasn't herself at night.

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royalizing - 2014-10-01 03:47 (UTC) - Expand

A last-ditch ploy to attempt to stave off her execution.

[She just shakes her head as she passes by Miko on her way out. Even though they "won," Peko doesn't look pleased about it at all.]

It doesn't matter now.

[ With a sendoff like that, Missile feels worse about shying away from Edea earlier than he does about getting her in trouble with the scariest ride. A dog is used to not knowing why humans do things, but not even the other humans seem to know what was going on! ]