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15strangers2020-02-01 11:51 pm
strangerpeople) wrote in 15strangers2020-02-01 11:51 pm
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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.
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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.]
his house??
Doubt it.
[ McBurn was probably the entirely wrong person for this, but they had to interact at some point. Also because I do what I want.
He wondered who would be more susceptible to the motive, and though he could care less about their well being, it might be good to gauge their capacity to act. And maybe it'll lead to a quicker trial if things went south. ]
What'd you think of their offer?
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Haha. Just killing boredom, then? Understandable.
[And ah, the elephant in the room. Well, it would be foolish to think McBurn wouldn't bring it up.]
...I'll admit, it's tempting, but that's entirely their point, isn't it? So that's not telling you much you don't already know well for yourself, I'm sure.
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And yeah, he just casually walked all over that elephant and kicked it a few times for good measure. He's good at that. ]
It hasn't. Though, they really did go over the top.
[ Like the zany images and such. He wasn't expecting that...clearly the most important thing to focus on here. ]
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You can say that again. Goodness, what an awful way to wake up. They were so loud I couldn't just go back to sleep, either...
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[ He'll yawn to make a point, but he supposed it was a matter of time before someone would be able to make him listen to a motive throughout the entirety of it. ]