randangonpa | Day 10 - NEW FEAR'S EVE

THREE! TWO! ONE! HAPPPPPY NEW FEAR!

This is the last raccoon holiday for a while, so if you'd like a vacation from this murder game before the KILLING NIGHT, check your tablets! We'll even let you leave the campus, so you'd better praise our generosity!

[There's a new app on the tablets that cannot be removed. It will only activate when you are alone in your room, but click the cute carrot icon and you'll be given a simple prompt: "TAKE A VACATION?" with yes/no prompts. If you click "no," nothing happens; the app simply closes, ready for you to click on it again. But if you choose "yes," you'll become a bit lightheaded, and the next thing you know, you'll be back home. But not just any home: The home in which your murder carrot(s) (the best one, the newest one, or maybe even both of them? It's up to player discretion) has already been made reality. You'll be there for a full three hours before you're brought back to Nope's Peak, holding the tablet as if you never left. After that, the app will only say, "You know what to do."]

By the way, if it ain't obvious, that killing night is tonight! If you're thinking about doing a murder, rest assured: We will NOT let the dead mess up a trial like that again!

[In other news, the science lab has been restocked, and the raccoons made a HUGE mess eating out of the kitchen trash, like worse than usual.]

((Game nav
Day 10 Recyclr
Vacation time!
Trust sheets - get those submitted by tomorrow evening!))

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Well, it is hard to think about. That there's an audience enjoying all this...

Because then you'd have to wonder what kind of person would take sick entertainment from other people's suffering.

[ A grimace. ]

The thing is, it's not quite that simple. If they just wanted to see us suffer, that's one thing, but they wouldn't need something as elaborate as this to do that. They want to see what the stress of this sort of situation makes us do, good and bad. How we react, with either hope or despair.

[it loops back to what Shuichi said, about not being able to have hope, if only because that was playing right into their captors' hands. Akira gets it]

Like some kind of giant morality experiment?

If it was really an experiment, there'd be some question about how it would end up. They're just going to keep pressing us until someone has to kill. And then eventually it will end, and some people will emerge victorious, because people want to see that too. It's just a live drama with a set narrative, and we're just characters they're playing off each other.

[ His voice gets dark and sharp, until he gets to the end of that, realizes it, and tries to shake it off. ]

Ah, or... that's how it was before. This game might be different.

[HONESTLY CONSIDERING THIS IS "NOPE'S PEAK". . .]

[and honestly, Akira doesn't doubt that it isn't]

How did you manage to escape from the last game?

Mm... It's complicated, and I'm not sure I'd call it 'escaping.' We confronted the mastermind, who was acting among us, but... it really seemed like she expected that all along, too, and she had the climax all planned out. So, ultimately, we just...

[ He pauses for long enough there that it almost seems like he's not going to continue. ]

...Refused to continue playing at all. The audience gave up on the game, and the whole school was destroyed. We... expected to die.

[. . . heh]

You expected to die. But you didn't, am I assuming right?

We didn't. We made it out of the rubble alive. We assumed... the audience wanted us to live, after all. Even though we weren't entertaining them anymore.

[. . . ah]

I'm glad.

[genuinely. honestly]

[but some part of him thinks it kind of sucks that their ultimate fate was determined by the audience, all the way up until the very end]