WEEK 3

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 3



[The week begins as last week began. But there's is a great difference-murder. It has happened. Blood has been drawn; it cannot be undone. The Game has made itself known. The Game is paramount. The Game simply is.

As morning dawns, those who were not present with the DEAD lock will find that the doors that were locked are now gone-and a whole new area has finally opened up to them. They will also find that they remember something they had not been able to recall beforehand. The question is, was it worth it?

And-is it you, or is the ship getting...colder as the hours go by? No, it's not just you. By the end of Sunday, the ship has started to dip into freezing temperatures. It might be difficult for people to bundle up-unless you're Brain, who will find his closet inundated with winter clothing that fit him perfectly.

Yup. This is going to be a long week, as if last week wasn't bad enough.



There are currently 16 strangers in this place.]

Comments

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes pets the giant robosnake on the head which is something he doesn't really get to do at all.]

You don't have to if you don't want to! And don't worry, Thanatos is always like this. SoIrene! Can you tell me a little bit more about yourself?

[not_a_lego_maniac]

Well, I like plushies, and hugs, and milk, and my mom and dad, and of course my big brother!

[The doll bobs up and down as Irene "talks".]

[somuchshipping]

[Aww, how sweet!]

It sounds like you have a great life! Want to give me a hug?

"If you touch this skinny mound of pipe cleaner, you'll poke yourself and hopefully bleed to death! HAHAHA!"

Thanatos, you're just jealous because nobody can hug you because of how massively round you are!

[Hermes carefully places the Thanatos doll to his side and opens his front leg/arm things for a sweet hug.]

[not_a_lego_maniac]

Yay!

[And the doll gives Hermes a big tight hug!

Or, well, the best a doll can give.]

[somuchshipping]

[Robo huuuuuuuugs!

Hermes lets go after a while and gently pats Irene on the head.]

You're adorable! I bet you're friends with a lot of people!

"Not with me!"

[not_a_lego_maniac]

Well, she's only a year old, but...I'm sure she has friends in her nursery school.

And I have my big brother! I love him loads!

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes will NOT ship it.]

Aww, you two seem to get along very well for a brother and sister! I hope you like Zack Jr., too!

I've never been to a nursery. IMeanAsAStudentThere!

"You belong there even now, junk-for-circuitry!"

[not_a_lego_maniac]

Oh, I've never met Zack Jr. He's just in big brother's head!





Why is Thanatos so mean to you?

[somuchshipping]

[Wh- huh...! Hermes never really got asked this question before... He hesitates, looking a little embarrassed at not knowing immediately how to explain it.]

"...Because he deserves it."

Shush, you deserve it, too, buttface! Anyways!

It's sort of his personality and traits for him to be rude... See, he's really into being big and murdery and intimidating AndHeSpendsMost OfHisTimeInTartarus! And don't worry, nobody who he kills is real, Irene. We're both from a computer game!

[not_a_lego_maniac]

Oh, that sound neat!



Tartarus?

[Zack...actually looks confused by this.]

[somuchshipping]

It's Thanatos's prison! He's also the guard there, and he guards all the people that get put into there if they don't get thrown into the tutorial-

[Hermes shuts his mouth because he thinks he may have said too much, TIME FOR A DISTRACTION!]

"Any loser wimp that tries to escape faces KILLING HOUR!"

[Nailed it.]

[not_a_lego_maniac]

...That...so. Hm.

But killing is bad!

[somuchshipping]

"Fine, I'll just let you morons all just overpopulate and then starve to death! And I'll just hand my job over to some worthless mortal since they seem to know more than I do about the job I've been doing for eight thousand years!"

Yeah, sometimes what may been like a bad thing is actually a good thing! I sometimes help Thanatos with his job, even though he's an ancient pile of junk.

"We call it Killing Hour!"

[not_a_lego_maniac]

..................

[Uh, Zack? Earth to Zack. Poke poke poke!





Oh right. I. I don't have fingers. Like this. Shit.



Hey, Hermes, bud, I know you can't hear me, but help a narrator out, yeah?]

[somuchshipping]

Zack...?

...Zack?

...

Don't worry, it's only a computer game. Nobody in it is real, including us.

[not_a_lego_maniac]

[blink blink]

Oh. Sorry, mate, I...blanked out there. But...you're real here, you know?

[somuchshipping]

Noooooo, my shell being here in the real world doesn't mean I'm real!

[not_a_lego_maniac]

But...even so. You're here, right? If something happened to you here, you'd be...you'd be dead.

[somuchshipping]

[...]

[Hermes doesn't want to die, true, but still...]

If I die, there'd be another first-gen Hermes to replace me the next universe...

[not_a_lego_maniac]

But that's not right! You shouldn't just be replaced!

[There's that accent again.]

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes pauses. This is odd, seeing someone care so much about him as an individual. He thinks it's time to try and steer the conversation more towards the mechanics of the game.]

I kinda have to be. All the Greeks and Romans and Limbos do if they die. I wouldn't want someone to stop playing Fortuna because it's too broken to function. We all have our jobs to do. That's why replacements get spawned in.

[not_a_lego_maniac]

...

...........Why would someone do that without...thinking of how to fix it so you could live peacefully?

...Y-yeah!

[somuchshipping]

Pffft, my game's not about peace. There's gotta be action! Loot to get! Bosses to slay!

"Losers to murder! Four-legged and rusted lightning rods to belittle!"

What I'm saying is I'm meant just for the entertainment of others. Whatever the players want to do to us, we can't argue with them. They're the ones in control, not us.

[not_a_lego_maniac]

That's just sad. To be under someone's control, with no...no way to escape that...it's wrong.

[somuchshipping]

[Zack, you're being weird about this now. Hermes's ear flaps droop a little.]

...

The devs worked really hard on Fortuna. What else am I supposed to do other than let the players do what they want to me? To us? To anyone in the game?

Listen, just... The big secret to the game is that sometimes... people just die.