day three - aftermath

[guestcontrol]

dreamland day three 33 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 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.

Comments

[eventhandler]

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.

[jingler]

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.

[eventhandler]

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

[jingler]

I don't think it is a hallucination...simply something has been done to alter the worldview of the VIPs. They no longer believe they are killers, yet still murder nevertheless.

[eventhandler]

The brain is a very delicate, extremely delicate organ. To simply go in there, do something that will simply flick on a switch without even damaging any other components...

If you are right...then our kidnappers are quite serious, quite serious indeed...

[jingler]

Yes. This is all speculation mind you, but it seems the VIPs are less willing to kill as we believed earlier today.

[eventhandler]

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The detonator, though. That is still...an unresolved question. Do they understand what they are doing, as well?

[jingler]

I haven't the slightest clue. Whatever they are doing, they don't seem to be on our side given what happened to Yuya and M'gann.

[eventhandler]

Indeed. And the one that, ah, hand belonged to. If he is truly dead...

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What do you think of this extra role? The one that...that was revealed today on the bulletin? The question marks. Who are...they?