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*round 6

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[The blight would not stop.

The world's leading experts have been trying to find a cure, to no avail. Th blight keeps changing, keeps foiling all attempts at being fully understood. It's almost sentient, or at least more sentient than any disease that's been encountered before. People fear the disease jumping from what's left of the grapes into other plants, into animals, or even humans.

You can only watch as entire economies and ecosystems collapse. You can only bury your head in your hands as your own business comes to its end. The destruction of the clusters of grapes has not simply destroyed the wine industry, either-other businesses are being destroyed by the plague. Food, transport, retail, nothing is untouched.

You look on your own vineyard, its yield almost entirely blackened and dead.

This can't keep going on.

-

A week has passed since everyone's arrival. No one has died, yet. But surely no one is holding their breath to see if they would survive this unscathed. They are veterans of the game, and they must know that whoever it is that is in charge demands their pound of flesh. The question is when it will happen.

It is the second week, after all-and when the second week of the game comes, death is not far behind. Not even when you wake up, feeling something different in your mind as you remember the truths you originally woke up with, deep in your mind. You feel...lighter, somehow, when you realize there is a change.

Even so, there are 15 strangers left in this place.]

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Yeah, of course, makes sense...

[Whispered a little bit, before going back to his normal volume.]

I think I know who this belongs to. Someone from the train I was on.

[Headtilt.] So it doesn't belong to anyone here?

No, but I think I'd like to get it back to the person it belongs to. I'm pretty sure Ris really liked that thing.

[He didn't see it that much, but she wanted to stab Kyubey with it, so...]

[Next time we see Kyubey, get a stab in for her.]

Sure. Here. [He'll pick up the knife and hand it over. Casual as he is about it, he is experienced in handling knives, so he's quite careful with it.]

[He takes it carefully, and examines it a little bit, before sighing.]

Yup. This is definitely Ris'.

I think they're mocking us again.

[It's Bailey's bandana all over again...]

Probably. The sock box gave me some of the ice cream we made with Rosa, but it still tasted like sand.

[Rude.]

Yeah. The popcorn I got was both stale and tasted like sand.

Good to know they're being as petty as The Conductor, then.

[And he still doesn't forgive her for all the stuff she put them through.]

I guess it'd kill them to make this place actually nice. It doesn't suck, but the bar's not exactly high.

[Spider. Mansion.]

Probably. As soon as they show some actual kindness, I bet they'd drop dead of heart attacks or something.

[He won't mention that this is a downgrade for him, then.]

....If that is the Link Zelda mentioned, maybe they already did...

…I really hope that's not it and they're just possessed. I'd prefer to not find out they're really walking corpses.

Might be. Our memories did get changed, so she might've been wrong.

I can't believe I'm hoping someone's memories are wrong for the second time in my life.

[He's hoped for worse, but the fact that this is happening twice just makes him feel more awful.]

Any idea why they messed with your memories that way instead of getting some taken away like us?

[Referring to the train group when he says us.]

Yeah. They had some kind of morality manipulation machine, but it did that instead of directly affecting morality. ...I know I wouldn't have been as desperate, if I'd remembered properly. Though....knowing what I do now, things might actually be worse...

Point is, it's more of the stuff they cooked up to try to make us go insane and kill eachother.

Seems like that's the main reason why they mess with our memories. I didn't know about the first train I was on when I got on the main train and had to deal with all of the crazy stuff there.

I'm sorry you had to deal with that.

[While he hates what taking away his memories did to him, he feels like it's better than having you memories changed in some way to get you to murder sooner. That's gotta be worse.]

I thought Ricky'd turned against my guild, and that there were five more Gungnir units....and other stuff. I know better now, but it only kind of makes things better and I still need to get back home.

[King probably doesn't actually want to know the whole situation. It's not Minato level bad, but it's pretty bad.]

You were on two trains?

[Yeah, he has no idea what a Gungnir unit is, and is just assuming it's something dangerous, while he's assuming Ricky is a friend of his. Not as bad an Minato, yeah, but still not exactly good.

King holds back his sigh this time.]

Yeah. The first time it was The Vespertine. Something weird happened there, then I got put on The Eventide. You can probably imagine what it was like.

[He found a body, a smug guy got someone else executed, then immediately after got killed. Normal murdergame stuff.]

Geez. Once wasn't bad enough, huh? Was everyone on the first train fighting the whole time or something?

No, it wasn't that bad, but...

[Lets out a small growl, thinking about Cayenne again.]

Let's just say that one guy was a pain, and everyone is glad he's gone.

[…except maybe Minato, but they need to work on getting him angry.]

Sounds a little like Felicity. And maybe Eddie. And definitely Bingbong, or whatever her name was...

Most of our group was at eachother's throats the whole time.

B-Bing-

[He knows this is an emotional moment. He knows this very well. Laughing at a time like this would be very inappropriate and would probably earn him some hatred.

But now there's an image in his mind of an elephant made of cotton candy that cries candy being an unrepentant murderer and he's trying so hard to not laugh why is this happening to him

He's...mostly holding it back. But he also has to keep a paw in front of his face to hide the grin that he can't control.]

I'm...very sorry you...had to deal with so much...at the mansion.

[He looks like the biggest a-hole right now, doesn't he?]

[It's fine you can disrespect Bangladesh, Eddie, and Felicity all you want.]

....d'you know someone named Bingbong too?

[Thank goodness, he didn’t need anyone else hating him.

He takes a deep breath, trying to steady himself, and succeeding somewhat.]

Sort of? I know of a person with that name and...let’s just say, the idea of him trying to kill anyone is laughable at best.

[WHO’S YOUR FRIEND THAT LIKES TO SLAY]

[Listen they deserve it.]

Huh... Bandanna was really loud, I never talked to her so that's all I really remember. She stabbed Jun or something though? And was ready to kill from day one.

[Still feels weird to laugh about dead people.

And that nice feeling is gone now, hearing that this woman, whoever she was, stabbed a child.]

That’s...completely awful.

You said she didn’t make it out of there, right?

[Or at least implied it? Because otherwise King’s going on a hunt for an attempted child murderer...as soon as he gets out of here, anyway.]