The Murder Challenge

[TenOfSwords13]

Oblivion awaits you all in the end. You should try and get used to it, as it may come sooner than you would hope.

Ctharlak seems annoyed at something. Probably the fact that they might not get to kill people.

[Florien]

This idea is impossibly stupid. This is how people get killed by adventurers. Anyway, vote made.

Anyway, back to the topic, yes, Selen(ium), you'll find that my statements are not evaluated by the FDA. It was clinically studied, not FDA panel-checked. So no, I'm not a corporate glowie. As for you all insufficiently redpilled, the glowies are the big-government creeps trying to sneak around and doing all kinds of weird bullshit, like dragging people into killing games. Like this one. But really, the point is, Mizheldtiv, possession bullshit is easy enough to counteract.

If you suspect you may be about to be possessed, I do have demon-ghost-blocking pills. We call them Beta-Blockers in the Wellness Community. I can sell those to you to prevent possession. I do need to keep my bottom line in mind, after all, I do have to eat.


Bywyn's takes out some pills in a nice translucent brown pharmaceutical-looking bottle to show them off.

I take Uvigeld or US Dollar in Cash, Paypal, or Venmo, and I also take Souls as long as you have a document showing that the soul hasn't previously been sold to another claimant.

[TalesofUnder]

I am deeply, chasmically bored. To abate this boredom, I must explore these uncharted lands!

>examine pool

[Cassie]

Oblivion awaits you all in the end. You should try and get used to it, as it may come sooner than you would hope.

Ctharlak seems annoyed at something. Probably the fact that they might not get to kill people.

...Can you at least, shut up about it?

[Dookie]

>examine pool (Tales)

Everything looks fine at first, but when you try going over the fence into another neighbor's yard...you can't. You simply can't, like there's an invisible wall between the other side and you.

[PointMaid]

...I've been having these really vivid nightmares about killing games. Not quite like this. In one, I was in an arcade in the 1980s. That's the one I got... smashed by a game. She looks nervously at Sega and Nintendo. A big heavy game cabinet. The person who did it was huge. I think I was into New Wave? Then, the other dream I keep having I was on an island. A bit older. And into, ah, mathcore.

[Cassie]

>examine pool (Tales)

Everything looks fine at first, but when you try going over the fence into another neighbor's yard...you can't. You simply can't, like there's an invisible wall between the other side and you.

...

Well, despite whatever you're trying to do, we know there's no way out for real...

[Kennifer]

Michelle's been quiet the whole time, as if thinking about something. Probably because she was. She'd been in situations that... well, allegedly they were going to be what this would become but everybody had been released before anyone died. And there was a fuzzy bit or two she couldn't remember completely; they'd felt like dreams, she thought, or like she was watching herself but... not herself? Weird.

For now, she'd just listen to the others. Well, the ones who were sharing stories anyway, not the ones who were doomsaying or trying to shill whatever sort of snake oil and/or multi-level marketing scam thing those pills would turn out to be.

[Zanreo]

Hypercam has mostly just been listening to the others. "so wat im gettign is.. this is a recuring thing 4 some of u? ive nevr been in a game like dis befor but atleast it seem if i die heer i wont necceserely die irl 4ever.. right? And possible... no on else either?" He clearly tries keeping his hopes up, despite everything...

[Cassie]

...Yeah. About...dying forever...

Sericle sighs.

I've lost someone twice but eventually, they managed to come back, despite everything, even my doubts about it...

...She seems to be drifting off in her thoughts. Man, she never told them HOW she almost lost her friend...

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

Kanade comes back to everyone, overhearing the conversation...

... I know how it feels... Losing someone you've known for a long time... To one of these games... I don't even know how many of these I've been in OR how I've been able to come back every time... I'm cursed... Aren't I?

[PopcornPie]

"So, essentially, something is keeping us from dying for good. What if we just died here and now? Would we wake up somewhere else? Maybe I'd return home."

[Oggy123]

"I only survived because i could be easily rebuilt. But now i'm again at the mercy of potentially dangerous figures, and i might be doomed again..."

"I've never been in a situation like this, to be frank."

[PopcornPie]

"Don't worry. I'll rebuild you if someone rebuilds me!"

[Caret]

"I THOUGHT MY DEADLY TANGO WITH ALIENS WAS A DREAM AT FIRST, BUT OH! HOW I WAS WRONG! SOMETIMES, REALITY CAN BE MORE RIDICULOUS THAN DREAMS." Mettaton sighs.

[Kennifer]

"Why would people even host these anyway, what sort of sick sadistic mind thinks it's fun to watch people actually kill one another?"

[TenOfSwords13]

Mortal suffering is enjoyable, yet it would take a very troubled mind for a mortal to inflict it upon their own. Perhaps these "Crazy 8s" are... other evil beings?

[Zanreo]

"i mean im a camera so they cold prolly rebuild me, but still i dont wana die ya kno?"

[PointMaid]

Selen(ium) nods at Michelle. Right? Surely there are more fun things to do.

[Kennifer]

"Gonna disagree with you on the 'mortal suffering is enjoyable' bit. Take it from a mortal, it... really isn't. Eugh."

She shudders a bit. Ew.

"I think I'll stick with happier things, thank you. At least as long as I'm still here to enjoy them."

[PointMaid]

Yeah. Not enjoyable. Don't understand why anyone would want to inflict it an others. She directs that to the organizer of this little 'party'.

Then she takes out her guitar and starts slowly strumming a few harmonious chords. Humming 'Om'.

[PointMaid]

*on others

[PopcornPie]

"I still think this is a social experiment. Only now we're going to see how many murders we can go through before we break."

[Cassie]

...How does one even get people "possessed" anyway, given what it implies to get people possessed in the first place... Sericle sighs.

[PopcornPie]

"The closest scientific thing to possession would be if we were chipped, and some of those chips were activated at night. Feel anything in the back of your neck?"