[Fin] The Carousel of Chaos (role madness murdergame)

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

Looking at Lithium with panic in her eyes...

No, no... It's... Fine... Really! I can handle this... I... Can... Handle...

(Thud)

[Kennifer]

"That doesn't exactly look okay to me."

[PointMaid]

Hmph. Really, you had nothing to do with this? Well, *I* didn't vote for you, Jack. So keep your vulgarity for the people who deserve it. This time. Be brave. And professional. Remember, people are watching. Candy walks up to Jack and straightens his tie.

In any case. I suppose this serves you right for trying to kill me back when we hosted together... but then I'd deserve it too. So I'll find out who *is* behind this, show you up, I certainly will, and make them pay. You'll see. ...Or, I guess you, at least, won't, Jack. I am sorry. We seemed to be agreeing recently.

[Caret]

Votes (7/12 to confirm)
Jack: Avril, Bronwyn, Autumn, Leonie, Fourto, Lithium, Jack 🔨 🔨 🔨
Autumn: Candy

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". . ."

Rouxls starts laughing in disbelief.

"You pathetic Worm! GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Welle, Rageth Quitter, looks like you were too Softe to keepeth playing! Waiteh Patiently whileth we prepareth the Gallows!"

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

It's funny, isn't it, Candy? We all became bitter enemies back in the booth and it's you who turned out to be one of my biggest allies in the end. At the very least, you're a lot smarter than these pathetic excuses of investigators. Bunch of sheep, that's all they are. Guess it's up to you to lead them away from the slaughterhouse. Good luck, Candy. And I mean that strictly for you and you only. Everyone else can go suck a fat one.

[awe921]

Khom hangs his head in shame, even though he never voted.

"i-i tried to not vote. i didn't want anybody to die."

[Kennifer]

"I had a couple of suspects, picked the wrong one. Or maybe they were both wrong, it's not like we had a lot to go on this time."

Plus the whole "brain fog" thing that she hoped to clear up soon, definitely didn't help.

[Zanreo]

"...ooof" was all Fourto had to say.

[Oggy123]

"So it wasn't Jack! What other suspects do we have?"

[Kennifer]

"Autumn, Bronwyn, possibly me and Fourto since we also voted for Jack 'though I don't know if I'm high on the list... maybe the people who've been quiet the whole time like they're hiding something? Don't you pay attention?"

"I think that was it, anyway?"

[wingedcatgirl]

Arena Event!
Reality is shifting rapidly...!

An enormous timebomb has been installed in the middle of the arena. Although the explosion is capable of obliterating anything within the arena, the Gamemakers have arranged flights to a new arena to allow tributes to survive... if they manage to board!

Jack Kilborn gets to his gate just before it closes, managing to get on board.

The tributes are trapped in a besieged castle.

Jack Kilborn escapes the castle through a secret passage.

The remaining tributes all walk through some magical doors so that they can be gifted some magical abilities.

Jack Kilborn somehow receives no gift whatsoever.

The remaining tributes...



... encounter a jester.

"Bye-bye!"

With a swipe of the Devilsknife, Jack is bisected.

💔

A single cannon shot can be heard in the distance.

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Jack Kilborn was a Watcher Two-Shot Commuter.

"What fun, fun! But soon it will be lights out! Don't die!"

[awe921]

"H-He wasn't lying? So..."

Khom looks down in sheer shock, trying to process what the hell just happened. What...?

[PointMaid]

Candy grimaces. Goodbye, Jack... and your horrible sense of style. At least we weren't fighting at the last.

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

Kizuna's body is lying face down... Struggling to get up...

please... No .. more...

[Oggy123]

Kirby, after trying to comprehend what just happened, tries to console Kizuna.

"We're gonna be okay, poyo."

[Whistle]

Autumn stares in disbelief... somehow she survived catastrophe again.

... Oh my God...

She runs into the cage and cowers in guard.

[Kennifer]

"Okay... okay... okay next time, we'll get the right one next time... oh god there's going to be a next time... think, come on think you can do this..."

That last part was directed at herself.

[Florien]

Good Riddance. I spit on your shallow grave, may it never be found by Irekhin.

Avril doesn't even flinch at Jack being revealed as innocent. It's weirdly composed about the situation, actually, considering the state it's tended to be in. Its tone is even and relatively steady.

What... you expect me to act all shocked and horrified? No. Good riddance. We were given nothing to work with, and our captors probably are just going to execute us all at the end anyway. This was a perfectly acceptable outcome. We're better without him anyway. We're imprisoned and going to get killed by jesters. What a joke.

[noodlesnook]

Bronwyn says nothing, staring blankly at the scene. This was all too reminiscent of…
Forget it.
It's better to let some things sink away into the dark sea of memory.

[wingedcatgirl]

And then, as promised, the lights click out.

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The sun will rise... in a few days, presumably.
Send in your night action decisions, even if the decision is to do nothing.
(The faster we get everything worked out, the faster the sun can rise.)

[wingedcatgirl]

B O O M !

The lights click on.

There is a massive smoldering crater in the middle of the second ring, with the body of Fourto lying exploded within.

... there are also the bodies of Khommodior and Leonie taped to the knife-thrower's board, knives scattered in and around them.

Khommodior, Jailer Announcer, has been killed.

Leonie Langdale, Mason Hider, has been killed.

Fourto, Dualgunner Two-Shot Commuter of Chaos, has been killed.

"It really is the true and neo Chaos out here!"

[noodlesnook]

“Oh… oh no…”
Bronwyn gingerly approaches the crater, then turns and walks over to where Khom and Leonie are pinned to the board, lifeless, like taxidermied butterflies in a picture frame. “How in the…”

> Inspect knives

[Florien]

Well, someone got one!

Avril comments on seeing the smoldering Fourto crater, before processing the deaths of Khommodior and Leonie. It does not react well.

But the other scaled one... the... dead... I... I'll get you. I'll get you yet. I'll bite you in half. I'll EAT YOUR CORPSE. I'll.. I'll REND YOU! You don't stand a chance. Oh no, I'll KILL you. I'll TORMENT YOU FOREVER!

/Vote Candy Watermelon

Don't you DARE question this or use this to suggest my guilt. I have no reason for this other than that she associated with Jack. We have nothing else to go on as of yet, and until there's something else, I'm going with her.

[Whistle]

Autumn YELPs awake from the explosion. The smoke and ash blow into her cage, making her cough and sneeze.

She sees the three dead... Leonie, Fourto, Khom... what kind of massacre was this?

> smell the air

[Oggy123]

"Oh my!" said Ribbon.

"Wait! One of them's the bad guy!" said Kirby. "But that was scary! Who could've done this!?"

> Inspect the area