day nine

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dreamland day nine 10 players remaining. There are no clocks in your dorm room to help you mark the passing of time, but at a certain point, in the early hours of the morning, a cheerful chime tune plays over the loudspeaker. Whether you're awake or asleep, the door to your dorm room is now unlocked. You'll have about a forty five minutes, in which you can get ready or grab some breakfast, before the door that allows you into the park unlocks. By this time, you may or may not have noticed that one of your number is missing. Oh, there's one other thing this morning - your bracelets are no longer working. Fortunately, your rooms have all been left unlocked, as is the entrance to the park. Oh, and you still might not want to go near the fences; the automatic weapons in the guard towers are still a thing. The chimes play again, to announce that the park is open, and the rides and music begin to come back to life as a voice plays over the loudspeaker. "Congratulations to the tippy top ten! You made it!" You will have until 4 PM to explore the park and talk amongst yourselves. Somewhere in the park, you'll find the body of Oz Vessalius. rulebook character statuses private conversations graveyard

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[royalizing]

[ She stops short when he seems to skitter away from her. Is he... afraid of her? It's so absurd, that he should be afraid of her when the most brutality here has been from the VIPs. But his reaction definitely shoves away the personal comparison, because he's so much younger and so much more frightened than indignant.

So Natalia swallows and tries to lower her voice. ]

I'm not going to hurt you. Please, I just need... [ What does she need? She needs all of this to have been some awful nightmare, and wake up safe and snug in her bed at the castle. ]

... I need to talk to you.

[cheats]

I can't—

[ He bows forward on his hands and knees after he stops retching, hiding the view before him, because every time he sees the scene before him, it's too hard to distinguish between what's really in front of him and what's long past. Is this the room of the ceremony or a circus tent? Are the cages empty, or is he inside it? Or is it that he's on the altar, or is that Oz?

He can't discern it, or maybe it's that he can't remember it. It's both and neither. And that gets Ciel's shoulders to shake in a way that's immediately obvious that he's starting to cry. ]

Please— Someone save us, anyone...

[ So it should also be clear enough that Natalia won't be able to talk to him here. She'll have to take him outside of the tent. ]