Last Summer

[Zanreo]

"Sure hope this game doesn't have any weird side effects..."

[Weirdguy149]

Jason stared down at the tiny handheld video game, blinking every so often.

[MadeOfMilk]

The results are in!

Dale - 6
As you reach for (and obtain) a stupidly high score, you can't help but notice you're gone deaf for a few minutes. You get a feeling this is not age-related.

Quinn - 3
Not too bad, kid! Sorry it's going to sound like everything's underwater for a bit, though.

Sollux - 6
You're in luck, you got a high score! You're not in luck, you can't hear jack shit right now!

Monster - 4
I don't know if it's lemon-monster-demon-thing anatomy but you do pretty well and get out with your hearing intact.

Sharles - 6
There's two sad realities you have to face: 1, "getting 9,999 points in Manhole" is not resume-worthy, and 2, you can't hear shit.

Gumball - 1
You can't help but wonder - where did you go wrong? Why can't you beat a simple handheld video game? Everyone else got fairly good scores, but you can barely get past the first level. You feel like you're too stupid to be playing video games, too stupid to compete with other people, too stupid to even be here... maybe there's a pack of razor blades in the utility closet? A rope, perhaps? Something, just something to rid the world of one less hopeless idiot. It's not like anyone's going to miss you, anyways~

Yuki - 2
Ow, ow, ow, ow, OW. Yeah, your ears are going to be ringing for *weeks* even though all you heard the Game & Watch make was simple beeps and boops.... the hell is up with these things?

Lars - 6
Surrounded by silence, you can't help but feel a rush of euphoria seeing the 9,999 up in the corner on the tiny LCD. You can't help but wonder where the sound went, though...

BBH - 4
Not too bad for someone from the late 1800s! You don't get the hubub about hearing loss, either. Why, your hearing's as good as it ever has been! Those whippersnappers from 1983 must be weak!

Setsuka - 4
You get a good score. Not as perfect as you would've liked it, but hey, this is video games, not billiards. Maybe one day you'll get the hang of it and beat the others, right?

Jason - 2
....Damn, dude, might want to stick to shanking teenagers doing the do in dark, isolated places. Because boy howdy that was bad. But hey, at least your pride's not doing as badly as your ears are right now.

[Weirdguy149]

Jason crushed the game in his hand as soon as he lost it. "This bullshit does not fucking help me. I'm going to go in the corner and not kill anybody, alright, BEN?!" He had an irritated look in his eyes as he wandered over to the corner of the room, crossing his arms and staring daggers at Big Ben.

[Florien]

Good! Don't kill people! Killing people is something you should not do!

Big Ben seems pleased with his score, and more than a little confident in his own judgement of the situation.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Wingo, man! , Dale shouts in excitement after getting the high score, except, it quickly dawned on him he can't hear his voice. He frantically drops the Game-And-Watch and feels of his ears moaning, panicked figuring out what happened to his hearing before it comes back.

He ponders in thought, Must have been the Russians using sonic technology to make people lose their hearing and disguised it as a video game....

[artsyGeek]

[. .Gumball's. . crying. Holy shit the kid is crying.]

". .why can't I beat this frickin' game. . why. ." [He whimpered.]

[Dookie]

“Alright I won!….Oh fuck what happened to my hearing.???”

[Kennifer]

...well if nothing else, Sollux didn't mind not being able to hear Jason or Ben right now, but he hoped his hearing would come back before he had to keep his guard up for potential murderers tonight.

[Zanreo]

"Owww..." Yuki puts her hands over her ears, still in pain. "This one too... there's something wrong with these games!"

[Guma]

That was even easier than last year's Christmas raid, oh yes.~

[MadeOfMilk]

NIGHT PHASE ENDS ON 8/14 AT 7:30 PM CST. PLEASE PM NIGHT ACTIONS TO ALL HOSTS.

[MadeOfMilk]

It's a new day. The sun is decidedly not shining, the birds have been long dead and.... where was I going with this? Ah, hell, whatever, lights are back on.

[sigh] Fucking unfunny narrator.... Oh yeah, it's wake-up time, have fun, do your thing, I'm busy right now.

As the Counselor turns away from the intercom while accidentally leaving the mic on, the patrons can hear someone clacking away at a computer keyboard.

[Weirdguy149]

>Ignore the typing for now, there's a body to find.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

All right.... you can do this... you can do this...

Dale takes a few deep breaths before he

> search for someone who did a die

[Kennifer]

ii 2eem two have 2urviived another niight, but that mean2 2omebody el2e probably diid not, unfortunately.

>who is aliven't this time?

[MadeOfMilk]

> Where body

There's a giant lemon chilling in the claw machine.

[Zanreo]

Yuki also wakes up. "Ugh... had an awful dream... sure hope no one died tonight!"

>check for bodies

[Zanreo]

"Wait, doesn't that lemon in the claw machine look like... aaaah they got Monster?"

[Kennifer]

iin the claw machiine... okay that2 pretty me22ed up.

>any incriminating markings on the outside of the machine?

[TalesofUnder]

...a lemon? In the claw machine? What sort of drug-fueled haze is this?

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

> Examine the lemon. Is it Monster's head?

[MadeOfMilk]

> Examine the lemon. Is it Monster's head?

It is indeed. The entire area reeks of blood and lemon zest.

Oops, they killed the Investigator! Silly, silly slashers!~

> Any incriminating markings on the outside of the machine?

A lot of the blood seems to be concentrated around the winner door... maybe this was how the head got in in the first place?

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

> Now where's the headless body?

[Kennifer]

2o another iimportant role down, were probably pretty 2crewed now...

>hand marks, footprints, anything of the sort?