murder manor - reunion

[productions]

murder manor reunion



[You are in a darkened theater.

In front of you is an enormous cinema screen. On it plays video of the manor, accompanied by appropriate sound effects and background instrumentals when fitting. The seat you're sitting on is large and plush, and while there's many of them, there's enough room in the theatre for you to fully recline the seat into a comfortable bed if you wish.

Follow the stairs up and you'll reach what should be the projection room. There are no projectors in here, however; it is simply a large and well-lit room above the main seating area, and a good place to hang out with your fellow eliminated contestants if shouting at each other across the aisles proves too much to handle.

If you leave the theatre through the door in the back, you'll find yourself in a hall. On one end is a concession stand. It's stocked with standard movie snacks - popcorn, candy and the like - but if you're feeling the urge for something else, you'll be able to find it stocked somewhere in the back. On the other end is a table with thirty wrapped bags and a placard reading 'A star for our stars! Please accept these lovely giftbags as a token of appreciation for your hard work, sponsored by [illegible smudge]'. Each bag has a tag bearing the name of someone in the mansion; you will only be able to open the bag with your name on it. As soon as you open it, any memories that have been taken from you, including those of the other people in the mansion that you may have forgotten, will be returned in their entirety. Within the bag are also objects from your home that you may want for your stay here, though you will find no weapons.

There are no other doors in the hall save for the one leading back into the theatre room. There are also no windows; it is impossible to tell where you are and what is going on in the outside world. Any attempts to break out will fail. So in the meantime, why not sit back and enjoy the show?]

Murder Manor reunion week has begun! The next week will take place outside the game (and will not be remembered by the living characters). Once the week is over, the living characters will be right back where they left off, Sunday night in the manor.

All the dead characters and eventually all living characters will participate in this week, through Belarus and Yuzu will just be empty shells who cannot interact with the others. Dead characters (except Lithuania, who never arrived) will all be in the theater from the beginning, whereas living characters will only be brought in once specifically introduced, and will be given their memories at that time.

During the times when Doris is taking questions, characters will not be able to talk about things that are 'off topic.' They can talk and reunite with one another, but need to focus on things relevant to that week or topic of discussion. Any time they get off topic, they will find themselves stuck trying to make the words come out of their mouth and will simply trail off. There will be breaks where characters can talk without this restriction, but the same will happen to anyone who, at any time, starts trying to talk about anything to do with there being a Mastermind or player to benefit from the game or planted player who isn't Lithuania. Codes and other attempts to get around this rule will still result in trailing off.

Comments

[notyetlost]

You already blew him up, you don't get to execute him again!

[Uncute-Doris he will fight you. STOP IGNORING HIM UN-CUTE DORIS.]

[vytis]

I suppose I can't be more dead. [Or can he? Actually he probably can since he did manage to miss a few days before showing up here.

But he probably deserves an execution anyway see also guilt issues.]

[notyetlost]

[You do not deserve an execution. Shut up.]

Don't just accept it, idiot!

[vytis]

What do you want me to do, charge the stage?

[notyetlost]

At least do something!

[vytis]

I--guess I could charge the stage? [This is the most uncertain suggestion of attack ever.]

1/3

[notyetlost]

...

[For all his vehement refusal to let anyone touch Lithuania]

2/3

[notyetlost]

[maybe what Lithuania actually does need]

3/3

[notyetlost]

[is a punch right in the face.]

[vytis]

[Well, that catches him by surprise. He's caught off-guard enough it even kind of hurts.]

P-Poland--

[But Lithuania isn't actually sure what to say. Give him a minute.]

[notyetlost]

Do you feel better now?

Or should I string you up from the projection room and let you hang? Poison you? Dismember you? Smother you with a curtain?

Should I get some gross space slugs to devour you? Replicate whatever the hell kind of total mindfuck that went on in Kaoru's or Touko's executions? Lock you in a coffin for a thousand years while you watch everything turn to dust?

Blow you up again?

What's it gonna take Liet?

1/3

[vytis]

Feel better...? [Lithuania's jaw tightens.]

Nine weeks. That's all it was. Nine weeks--to someone like me that shouldn't be anything at all.

2/4 I lied

[vytis]

[And then the final, battered layers of his carefully-maintained mask of composure, exhausted and limp as they are, shatter.]

But it was awful. It was awful--nine weeks where if I made one mistake they'd just--just blow up my people. I don't even know how the repairs to the courtyard of the Vilnius Cathedral are proceeding. Some--some television show held me hostage! They never had the right! It wasn't even just me, there were multiple nations and people and entire species under threat for what--for ratings? I made five people miserable because I couldn't take the chance they weren't bluffing, and those five people killed seven people--and four of them got themselves killed--for the same reason, because everyone has a price and if this place is good at anything it's good at completely fucking with your head and so everyone--everyone just played along. I played along and the designated killers played along and, and I knew.

[He laughs.] That's the worst part, Lenkija.

[vytis]

I got my assignment on the first day. The first day, they told me to play the villain. And I did it, and I'd do it again, that's the really awful part. They knew I wouldn't say anything, even when I was told that I was going to die. First they just said it was difficult, but it was obvious from where I was. I was never on the suspect list even once. I was always the one who had to deal with the designated killers. Drawing attention to Miss Aozaki's final words. Everything about Miss Nevermind's trial. They tied the noose around my neck the first day, it just took me nine weeks to stop kicking.

[vytis]

So--no! No, I don't feel better! I'm so angry I could tear this place apart myself, if it would mean anything! Maybe even if it wouldn't mean anything, if I thought I could do it! But everything--except maybe the very end, it just went the way they wanted, didn't it? I've spent nine weeks running through a maze with no exit!

1/2

[notyetlost]

[Poland flexes his hand, appraising his knuckles for a moment. Now it's probably going to swell and bruise and look totally gross later.]

2/2

[notyetlost]

[After a moment, Poland wraps himself around Lithuania tightly.]

[pasodoble]

There are more of us and only one of her.

( #helpful )

[vytis]

...I guess most of us here are already dead... [So it shouldn't matter if they attack her or not.]

[pasodoble]

Well, twenty one is still more than one.

[vytis]

Do you think that would stop anything? [Apparently they have extra Dorises, or something.]

1/2

[pasodoble]

It might!

[pasodoble]

But I think Miss Doris has been through enough.

[vytis]

[Lithuania looks dubiously up at the Hostess.] I don't think it's even her.

[pasodoble]

A sister, perhaps?







... An identical twin?