[Mafia] Your Final Frontier: Go 4th and perish!

[PointMaid]

Karma is going to go back to the rec room and curl up in one of the bean bag chairs again... it's probably more comfy than the beds in the cells.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Ugh, Lloyd said upon looking at the mess hall.

Great, I need to go to the bathroom, but at this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if their toilets have sewage spilling over. Damn my morbid curiosity...

> Check out the bathrooms now

[wingedcatgirl]

"Verrrry curious," Hallie mutters to themself, tapping on the courtyard floor. "I wonder how they control this thing?"

>search the area for anything on how they control this thing

>... also punt Lucinda, just for funsies

[Florien]

...Floran really didn't expect you all to have thiss kind of reaction to a mannequin. Violence, violence, violence, this iss what, the fourth time now?

Iss amussing. Iss sstill ssurprissing.

Ugh. They can't even work with a statue, how do they expect to work even remotely together?

[Kennifer]

Inez is going to go back to the rec room too; it might be boring but it's slightly less so than most of the places in this... well, "shithole" was probably generous.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Lloyd also comes into the rec room.

This place is pretty run-down, but the bathrooms are surprisingly very clean and very hi-tech.

[Florien]

Run down? This is a hell of a lot better than most prisons I'll tell you that.

We could have just dumped you all in an actual gulag, or, you know, a prison in any other place. This is way nicer than any standard prison. In fact, I think we should have dumped you in a gulag or done this with fake prisoners.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Yeah, whatever, pal. I'm not phased by your threats.

[PointMaid]

Oh, hey.

And to the voices...

[*yip*] Or, how about the fascinating alternative, and not putting us in a prison! I still haven't heard any charges that would really hold up for things we haven't already been punished for.

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

Bright (who's totally been here all this time, I swear) exits the storage room carrying an empty crate with a crudely drawn face on it...

Don't mind me, this is just me and my new friend...

[Florien]

Eehhhh... quite frankly arbitrary detention iss a thing we do. Alsso, like, you're all criminalss enough to be on our radar, sso you musst have done SSOMETHING.

Iss not about whether you desserve it, no one desservess good or ill. Iss about whether we can and should do it, which yess and yess. It'ss better for uss and for floran sspecifically.

[Kennifer]

"Good to know about the bathrooms, at least."

A pause.

"And using fake prisoners or more weird mannequins or something instead of us would've been a good option, if it probably didn't mean you would've executed us instead of bringing us here."

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

How sweet. Why don't you kiss some babies and you'll be lauded as a true hero, Lloyd snarked. You overgrown palm tree. He whispered.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

(The color mark-up failed me, "he whispered" is not spoken dialogue)

[Florien]

yeah, exactly, good attitude Cortana. You'd be dead if we hadn't brought you here. Other nationss borderss can't ssave you from a determined government, and whether you end up shot to death while hailing a cab or imprissoned with a chance of not being dead, one of thosse iss clearly a better option.

And fuck no, floran'ss not kisssing the sspawn of otherss. That'ss weird and grosss. And alsso like, that has nothing to do with heroissm. People are complex, and people will ultimately believe whatever they're told. If floran jusst makess ssure people ssay floran'ss a hero, floran'ss a hero. Not that it matterss, like what other optionss do you have in sspace? The protectorate and their refussal to deconfederacize and leader-for-life-or-until-retirement thing? They can't enforce their own lawss, and cozy up to the megacorporationss.

Megacorp territoriess? Hell no. The democraciess? They're all part of the protectorate, sso what are they going to do to protect you?

There are no heroess except for thosse that otherss believe in, and floran'ss working to get that cult of perssonality rolling. It'ss rolling, sso floran'ss a hero. Iss ssimple.

Floran could go on.

[Caret]

Bow heads back to the Rec Room and claims one of the bean bags for herself.

"Lucinda? Yeah, it's definitely creepy. The mannequin is a crime against Arceus. It keeps stalking us for no discernible reason, and its so-called 'video game' can go die in a pit of Muk. Does that sound like a normal mannequin to you?"

[Florien]

Hey great newss everybody, Dan issn't real and was a lie the whole time! There iss no ssuch persson as dan it was a cunning trick.

Meet Bit! She's the new Dan, except Dan didn't exisst.

(...new hydroxyl, get ssomeone to make ssure thosse floor tiless don't drop and casst people down sseveral hundred feet onto sharp rockss anymore)

[MadameButterflyKnife]

As they say this, Bit emerges into...wherever this conversation is taking place. "Aw, thanks, then. I'm Bit, new and improved, and I don't fall down floor tiles. Don't know which genius made that, but. Now, what's going on, why don't you give me the status report?"

[PointMaid]

Karma wags her tail. Hi! I'm Karma.

...That bit about Dan is weird, though. Did we all have a shared hallucination?

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

I saw the guy, too. Wouldn't doubt that they brought him here just to fuck with us.

[MadameButterflyKnife]

"Well, I didn't see him. Could just be because I wasn't there to meet him, but I doubt you guys are being delusional. Unless you guys got drinks here. You guys got drinks here? I could take one."

[Caret]

Bow waves at Bit. She finds it somewhat odd that the newcomer resembles a Glaceon, but doesn't point it out.

"Bonjour, bonjour! My name is Yvonne, but l go by Bow. I had to introduce myself quite a few times. At this point, I sound like a broken record. 'Oh, my name is Yvonne, but l go by Bow!' It get tiring after a certain point."

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

> See if there are any alcoholic drinks and pass them around to everyone that wants one

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Lloyd comes back and brings out a bottle of ethanol.

It was all I can find. Drink up, I guess.

[MadameButterflyKnife]

"Thank you, scarface. Bit takes the bottle and takes a sip, before offering it to the next person. "You seem like good folk. Not like that wannabe dictator over there. Wonder what they're trying to do."