day seven - afternoon

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dreamland day seven 15 players remaining. [As the day wears on into the afternoon, the dead aren't getting any deader. It's late in the afternoon, and the air is beginning to cool, when the chimes play again over the park loudspeaker. "All of us here at Dreamland wish you luck, guests! Let's meet up in the Hall of Mirrors!" Wherever you are, it's time to make your way over to the House of Horrors, where you'll have to brave the funhouse to find the room on the top floor. Don't delay, or your guest identification bracelet will begin beeping. The House of Mirrors is a large room, more than capable of fitting a crowd. Tall mirrors line every wall, and the door you entered through seems to vanish into a mirror as well. The mirrors give the impression that many, many more are among your number, standing in the background. In the back is a jar filled with blank raffle tickets. You'll have to take a ticket, write down a name, and place it back in the jar. Hopefully you already know who you're voting for, but if not, you only have time for a brief discussion before you're out of time. rulebook character statuses private conversations graveyard Voting will close at 10 PM EST on October 10. Voting

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[fanbase]

Thanks for letting me live.

[ It surprisingly doesn't sound sarcastic. Clash is dressed to the nines (as dressed to the nines one can be with the clothing that's offered here) and is wearing her signature fuzzy neon coat. Her make-up has more precision than ever and she looks at herself in one of the mirrors before she smiles to Oz standing next to her.

She stands tall and addresses the entire room. ]

I wanted you guys to wait until we got here because this is how I want it. I want it to end this way and even if you guys don't think I deserve that, I do.

I didn't know I was the bomber until yesterday. Like the VIPs, I blacked out when I killed people. It was always in the morning and I didn't notice until yesterday when I reached into my pocket and found… [ She holds out the detonator again. ] This.

I don't know where I hid it before or if I hid it in such an obvious place yesterday because I wanted to be found, but I didn't want to tell you guys this earlier today because… I didn't want you to think that I wasn't a monster. I didn't want you to convince yourselves and find ways for me to live, just because I was being controlled like the others.

When I started realizing what happened during those moments I couldn't remember… I was terrified. I'm still terrified. I don't want someone else to make decisions for me! I deserve to be able to choose what I want and when I want it.

Which is why I want all of you to choose to execute me. That's what I want more than anything else… because if I'm not stopped now, then they'll keep making me kill people. At least the medical team can protect someone from the VIPs. No one can protect people from me.

You've still got VIPs to kill, but I know you guys can do it. You guys can end this once and for all, but to make sure you can do that you have to stop me first and… I want all of you to have the chance to do that. I don't want to kill any more people.

If you all really care about each other, you'll choose to end my life tonight.

[murimurimuri]

..............um.

[fanbase]

Are you still surprised?

[uncoincidental]

Couldn't someone with a detonator key just blow you up right now? Then we'd be able to take care of two threats at once. You're gone, and we can get a VIP, too.

[murimurimuri]

Well, uh...

Are you sure you didn't just get a new key yesterday? From the Detonator?

[fanbase]

She can if she wants to, but then all of you wouldn't have the justice of taking me down.

[uncoincidental]

I'm pretty sure getting you blown up counts as taking you down. It'd be more fitting than just letting you hang - you'd suffer the same way you made the others suffer.

[fanbase]

No, I know I'm missing memories from other days too. I can't really recall what they are or what even happened, but... it's the same type of thing of how we got here.

[cheats]

[ Ciel had come into this with a notion in mind already, indignant and angry, ready to hear some ridiculous theory about why she had done what she had done, but... This isn't it. As such, his expression is still cool and distant, as Ciel always is, but there's a note of sympathy there. ]

So that's it. You simply want to stop killing, even if it's at the cost of your own life?

[ It sounds like there's another question there, but he wants this one addressed first. ]

[fanbase]

If you really feel like that'll make all of you feel better then... [ She shrugs. ] I really don't blame you.

[uncoincidental]

...I'll leave it up to the majority, I guess. Most of the others were closer to the people you killed.

But if it comes to a vote whether to blow you up or hang you, I'm voting for blowing you up.

[fanbase]

There's no other way. The longer I'm here, the more people I'll kill. I can't stop myself no matter how I wish I could.

[cheats]

[ He cants his head ]

Then why all the posturing earlier? Why make it seem as if this was your choice? I hardly disagree with what you've presented here. If you are the mystery bomber, than you present more of a danger than the VIPs, clearly, since these murders did not choose sides. But this is a stark contrast from earlier.

[foetida]

Don't forget the MVP vote. We only get that if we execute a VIP - and whatever she is, she's not that.

[fanbase]

I'm sure whoever has the detonator's key will want to do that too, but... thanks for listening anyway.

[uncoincidental]

Exactly. It'll keep a lot of people much safer if we don't lynch her.

Can you do it? Can you blow her up right now?

[fanbase]

I wanted you all to hate me enough to execute me. I didn't want you try and sympathizing with me before the trial, because then I would be alive and I'd still be killing people all because you guys would probably feel sorry for me. That's even worse than hating me.

I really wanted you guys to believe that everything I did was on my own... until it was too late to know otherwise.

[uncoincidental]

...actually, I've got one last question.

What you said about having things to say that you could only say here... that was a lie, right? Because if it's not, you better start talking fast. You could have said any of what you just said outside.

Or did you just want to change your clothes to make yourself even harder to forget?

[sunshade]

Then why the theatrics earlier? Why pretend to be some kind of mad bomber supervillain? 'I did it because I could.' Were you trying to get us to hate you, to execute you?

[cheats]

You should have said so earlier.

[ Ciel breathes out a sigh as he says it, but then shakes his head. ]

I doubt we would have been swayed by such an emotion, though... I can see why you would think that. But this is a game of survival. Even if we didn't think you a monster, you're dangerous. I do pity you. It is a tragic thing, to be held responsible for such deaths without knowledge, and I pity Ibuki and Tamaki for the same reasons. [ a pause, then he adds quietly, ] But I would not lay down my own life out of pity, you understand.

[photoshot]

Unless anyone has a lead on a VIP, we should vote her.

Also, the act probably wasn't necessary. But I appreciate the effort.

[fanbase]

[ Clash's lips curl up into a little smile. ]

I did want the attention but... that wasn't a lie. I just didn't want you guys to feel sorry for me and see me as some pathetic helpless person. I'm tired of being seen like that by everyone else.

You've seen how people act toward the VIPs. They say blackmail... or that we should keep them alive enough to ask them even if they can't remember. Everyone likes the VIPs, even after what they've done. I really wanted to make you hate me until it was too late to treat me like everyone else has treated the VIPs.

[murimurimuri]

. . .

Bullshit.

[fanbase]

Yeah, I was. Simple as that. What good would keeping me alive do if you all tried to sympathize with me?

[fanbase]

What do you mean? I'm telling the truth!