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murder manor end



servants' wing

20 players alive.

[The walls of the servants' wing shudder and groan, but do not give out. Inside, the servants' wing is pitch dark, lit only by the glow of Kanaya's skin. Very slowly, the energy field flickers and vanishes, the great machine stops humming, the keypad goes dark, until it is simply a cold piece of metal.

It's difficult to tell what is going on; outside, it sounds as though a powerful storm is raging. The sound of heavy winds and crashes that could be thunder can be heard, and sometimes the walls themselves tremble as though in danger of giving out. Occasionally, bright flashes of light seem to light up the building for a moment, seeping in between cracks in the wall. It certainly sounds like a storm powerful enough to destroy the shack everyone is huddled in, but the building remains standing.

Inside, it is incredibly crowded. Twenty people, two dogs, a horse, and a dove are all sharing the space, not to mention the rodents, miniature panda, and Rin's lifeless body, and the space is only one room half taken up by a large machine. It is also gradually growing bitterly cold.

Gradually, the lost abilities and memories (including reunion memories) will return to everyone inside. The storm continues on for about a day; you'll have to wait it out.]

Comments

[souredsweet]

[he's silent for a few long seconds after that, staring at the sparkling dust of the tiara left in a smear on the ground. what a bizarre situation to be in... if he had more time to think beyond what just happened he would realize the irony in the situation, too; of Rin being left behind for what she was when he was so used to being targeted for the same thing. his own prejudices being proven wrong had ended in someone else's being proven legitimate. what a vicious cycle.

but those thoughts are for another time. the here and now is too large for him to shove away in its entirety; his attention eventually drifts away and forward again.]

Then that's that.

[notyetlost]

[Poland offers his pinky to Kaoru.]

Promise?

[souredsweet]

[after a few seconds he raises his hand, locking pinkies.]

...It's a promise. [it's a weird experience to say something like that and actually want to mean it.]

[notyetlost]

If you break it you'll be subjected to the consequences of Polish rule.

I don't know if that's enough of an incentive though. You liked calling me Lord Polska, didn't you?

[souredsweet]

I liked saying the word, anyway. I hadn't even heard of a country called Poland until my arrival, but your language is amusing.

[DEADPAN... is he joking or telling the truth who knows.]

[notyetlost]

You're lucky I didn't go by my alias.

[Poland will write 'Feliks Łukasiewicz' on a scrap of paper for Kaoru.]

Have fun saying that one.

[souredsweet]

[he looks at the paper, up at Poland, back down at the paper

and then delivers probably the most mangled pronunciation of Feliks Łukasiewicz (non)humanly possible. think Americans trying to say it is bad? Stiles doesn't have anything on Kaoru.

technically he shouldn't even be able to read it but ~murder manor magic~]

[notyetlost]

Pfft ha ha ha! Oh my god. [Well if he didn't think his language was funny before, he totally does now.]

I considered going by Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz in 1970. [If only they'd taken his memories of the past couple decades instead.] Wanna try that one?

[He's just being a jerk now.]

[souredsweet]

[glowering! he doesn't find it funny anymore!!

no okay he still kinda does, just not when he's the one with the target on his back...]

Is Grigor Breshishishikawi even a real name? [yes he pronounces it pretty much exactly like that despite the fact that he literally just heard Poland pronounce it the right way... Polish is hard.]

[notyetlost]

Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz! Born in Chrząszczyżewoszyce, district Łękołody!

Of course it is, what do you think I just made it up like some kind of cruel tongue twister to totally torment people?

[It's just conveniently both.]

[souredsweet]

...That sounds like something you would do.

[YEAH. yeah he won't believe that's a real thing!! that can't be actually real...]

[notyetlost]

A totally congenial person like myself?

You wound me, Kaoru.

[souredsweet]

Don't you mean congealing?

[it's a small space where everything can be heard okay, and his mind is basically built for holding onto all the dumb little details that normal people would forget on the off chance that he can use them as ammo in the future.]

[notyetlost]

[He's still not actually...






...sure.]

...er. [Crap-- where is Susan or Lithuania to tell him the answer with their faces?]

[speakveryclearly]

[Kaoru has had her eyes - she was considering going over just to swep the pieces into a pile, anyway, before he took an even better tidying approach - so when she hears this? She just starts shaking her head. No, Poland, you do not mean congealing.]

[notyetlost]

[Looking around, Poland sees Kanaya shaking her head at him. Namely because she's the only one who blatantly sticks out in the darkness of the room. Now it's just a question of whether he should actually trust her or not... ah.]

Y...no. N-no!

Ha ha ha! Nice try, but like I totally know what I'm talking about! Ha hah! Ha!

[Please please please please please...]

[souredsweet]

[eyes on u Kanaya...

Kaoru doesn't have a black belt in bullshitting for nothing, though!!]

Really? Because you don't sound very sure of that. Here is how you should remember it: congealing and appealing both rhyme, and an appealing person is usually congealing. [why]

[speakveryclearly]

[Opens her mouth to object clearly cross with this mockery of the English language...

Thinks a little more of all the times Poland has fought with or made fun of her....

Closes her mouth.

You're on your own motherfricker]

[vytis]

[Hmm, maybe he should say something.

On the other hand, this is amusing.

Carry on, Kaoru.]

1/2

[notyetlost]

{No someone help him, English is really stupid!]

Ah... um. Like!

[He has no idea, that sounds totally legitimate as far as he can remember-- Kanaya why?]

I'm. Just. Um.

2/2

[notyetlost]

You're all just making fun of me! That's like way rude! ...to the max!

[Because he wasn't just doing the EXACT same thing to Kaoru barely a minute ago or anything.]

[souredsweet]

[HAHAAA he will never forget this fellow DKs]

Is that really the thanks you're going to give me for going out of my way to help make sure you don't make the same mistake in the future? [you're hurting his delicate heart, Poland.]

[notyetlost]

Well, now I know you're lying!

[Aside from being Poland's snack mule, Kaoru has probably never done a single helpful thing in his entire life if he didn't think he'd benefit from it somehow.]

[souredsweet]

[WOW POLAND that is

100% correct]

How cruel. No one is ever going to want to help you again if this is the way they're treated!

[notyetlost]

[Poland is smushing his hands against your face now-- talk to the hand coz the face don't wanna hear it.]

Just because Liet wants to adopt you, doesn't mean I won't totally beat you up.