The Murder Challenge

[PopcornPie]

Entrapta only moves a little backwards from the knife, still smiling. "Don't worry, I won't hurt you. I'm Entrapta, I was chosen to be part of this 'murder game'. Did you know there are participants downstairs who died multiple times? How do you think that works? Maybe this entire dimension is a simulation!"

"..I have no fucking clue what you're talking about, and to be honest, I don't really trust you."

"So you didn't know your friend was planning a murder game? You can trust me! I drop my weapons." Entrapta finally figured out which pocket had her knife, and she let it clatter to the floor. It wasn't a kitchen knife, more like a scalpel, clearly intended for prying electronics apart.

[Guma]

a scalpel. huh. did you not realize one of our contestants is literally am achine

[PopcornPie]

"Yep! If he ever gets something loose inside him, I'm prepared."

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

Kanade holds up a paper she had on her...

Already wrote my will.

[Oggy123]

Nintendo then lies down on the bed in his bedroom. SEGA looks at him.

"Relax. If we do things right, maybe we could survive!"

[Cassie]

...Look. I held off from telling everyone to hold off on their will because I know someone's bound to die. She tells SEGA.

...Someone's bound to die first if we're going to even have a sliver of a chance of catching the killers in the act, man...

[Kennifer]

Michelle is just going to...

>try to find a fantasy or sci-fi book to read to get her mind off shit for a while.

[PointMaid]

Selen(ium) starts singing something softly. Her singing tone isn't exactly cheerful.

[Florien]

You know, if you'd just take my pills, you wouldn't have to worry about this whole "killing each other" thing.

Honestly, whoever buys the least and fewest of my products probably is the most guilty, trying to get us all killed with irresponsibility. Also, I already have a will, it's being split evenly between my kids, except the ADVENTURER BIG-GAME HUNTER, who gets NOTHING! And the DEPTHCASTER GLOWIE TRAITOR, who gets nothing. So it's getting split evenly between one of my kids and Dad's political party.

[TenOfSwords13]

... would you like lessons in lying, half-mortal? Yours are so... foolish. And mortal.

[Dookie]

Entrapta only moves a little backwards from the knife, still smiling. "Don't worry, I won't hurt you. I'm Entrapta, I was chosen to be part of this 'murder game'. Did you know there are participants downstairs who died multiple times? How do you think that works? Maybe this entire dimension is a simulation!"

"..I have no fucking clue what you're talking about, and to be honest, I don't really trust you."

"So you didn't know your friend was planning a murder game? You can trust me! I drop my weapons." Entrapta finally figured out which pocket had her knife, and she let it clatter to the floor. It wasn't a kitchen knife, more like a scalpel, clearly intended for prying electronics apart.

Ezekiel thinks about it for a second, and then drops his pocket knife, too.

"Now how the fuck did you get here and do you have any what's happening?"

[PopcornPie]

[COLOR=$B396C9]"You see, we were all on this mechanical thing called a 'bus' on a planet called 'Las Vegas'. Someone who was probably Jamie threw the pilot off and then somehow knocked us unconscious. We woke up in our cell in this house and were told in the theater that this is a 'murder game'. He has an audience and everything. He says some of us will be possessed tonight and will try to kill another some of us."[/COLOR] Seriously, why is she explaining all of this with a smile????

[PointMaid]

...'Las Vegas' isn't a planet. It's a city on the planet Earth. 'San Francisco' is also a city on Earth.

Selen(ium) says it as kindly as possible.

[PopcornPie]

"...Oh."

[Dookie]

[color=$B396C9]"You see, we were all on this mechanical thing called a 'bus' on a planet called 'Las Vegas'. Someone who was probably Jamie threw the pilot off and then somehow knocked us unconscious. We woke up in our cell in this house and were told in the theater that this is a 'murder game'. He has an audience and everything. He says some of us will be possessed tonight and will try to kill another some of us."[/color] Seriously, why is she explaining all of this with a smile????

"I'm either tripping the fuck out, or the world is."

He shakily shakes her hand.

"Ezekiel."

Donna comes into the room Entrapta and Ezekiel are in.

"We've tried everything. There's no getting out. I'm scared."

"Really?...This is odd."

"No shit."

[Florien]

I do not lie, Mizheldt! I fully believe in the protective strength of my anti-possession pills. No side effects have been reported aside from spontaneously bursting into song because of how helpful they are! Oh, and mild nausea in about one in twenty patients.

[PopcornPie]

She reciprocates the handshake with her ponytail. "Entrapta! And that's more evidence we're in a simulated world, where only this house and some area around it is programmed. How we can get free is the real question here. It would probably take some hacking from the inside out."

[Kennifer]

(hey did I even need to roll to find a book or...)

[Dookie]

(hey did I even need to roll to find a book or...)

Oops missed that

> try to find a fantasy or sci-fi book to read to get her mind off shit for a while. (Jennifer)

You find copies of Ender's Game, Illustrated World, and Ready Player One upstairs.

[Kennifer]

Michelle decides to go with Ender's Game for now, and is going to read until the next disturbing announcement. At least it's better than listening to talk of making wills and weird suspicions about people who aren't buying into probable snake oil scams or whatever.

[PointMaid]

This place doesn't look simulated, but then again, if this were The Matrix how would I know. Not being able to reach 911 is suspicious, though.

[PopcornPie]

"You know what else is suspicious? The windows being unbreakable. And how we managed to remain unconscious up until Jamie's cue."

[PointMaid]

...True

[Florien]

Hey, so, matrix? I have redpills right here, both literal and metaphorical. Buy them, I need to eat too.

[PopcornPie]

[COLOR)=#B396C9]"Well, Perfuma said I should never trust medicine from a stranger, but if you think your red pill would work..."[/COLOR]