FINALE

[whimsicalism]

End of the Tale

It's... over. Mostly, anyway. A decision has reluctantly been made by the group about the doll that started this mess and it seems that, perhaps, it's time to at least get a grip on what's going to come next. Not just for you but for everyone here. Nanami has cleared the way to the Academy and the Little Brothers are there to lend hands if needed against any stray monsters.

Take a deep breath of sea air. It's been a stressful seven weeks but maybe you'll be able to put all this behind you for good soon. It might take days, weeks, months, or even years yet... It's a small comfort but when the night comes it's a moonless night.

It seems the game of the Kaguya Doll is truly over for good.

OOC

Thank you for your participation in Round 2, everyone! This is your golden ending log. You may celebrate, cry, mock Kakuya or Father. Father is still in his cube and the sheep aren't exactly happy with him and will bring him up for you to throw water at. This is a post purely for Round 2. Tomorrow at 12 PST/3 EST we will be posting a reunion post for R1, R2, and castmates either played by other players in this game or NPCed by them. We hope you've enjoyed this round as much as we have.

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[temmapathy]

[Emma is still very tired after all that. She's sticking close to Hunter for the most part, although she's willing to peel away for a conversation if approached. And eventually she does head to her room to sort through everything and see what she wants to bring back with her. It comes out to mostly just her bicycle and some random items, as well as her various notebooks.

Later on, she can be seen by Father's cell, smiling just a tiny bit as she repeatedly presses a button to shoot water at him, chuckling loudly as he tries to dodge.]

[bellabellabella]

[When Father's cube is retrieved, Edward stands in front of it for several long moments, regarding the being who is trapped inside, and presumably not happy about it. He's still burning, he notices, and a shudder of remembered pain trembles through him, just for a moment, though his expression doesn't change.

And then, still with an expression that is so mild it's almost serene, he walks around the cube and finds the environmental control panel, and sets it to rain.

It's a drizzle at first, barely anything, and Edward just continues regarding the figure in the cube as he deliberately turns the force of the rain up and up and up.]

[Later, Edward has found his way back to his room and found the portraits he had drawn of everyone in pencil, still sitting where he had left them on his desk. Most of the things he'd left that final day were, actually, which surprises him a little. He finally removes the school uniform, deliberately rips his handbook in half, and dresses again in the clothes he had been wearing when he'd come here, putting the lock of Bella's hair in his pocket. Afterwards, he ventures again to the hall, and uncertainly approaches his classmates, unsure of his reception, but wanting to offer them their portrait if they'll accept it. They're small things, done on blank cardstock flashcards, but reasonably accurate.]

You don't have to take it.

[cellpreservation]

[He's gathering up some of his actual clothes from the closet but if Yuta seems like he's in a hurry, you'd be right! Catch him near the dorms before he manages to find his way out?]

[violence_ensues]

Closed to Deadland Denizens

[Adorabat has managed to coralle everyone who had died, both victims and culprits and leads them over to the cafeteria. There, she points to a wall with names and drawings on it and objects laying under each name. For Luz, a drawing of an owl and a familiar book. For Reika, a doodle of a bow and arrow. For Thomasin, doodles of a goat and a tray of ginger bread with wax figures laying underneath. For Edward, blood drops and his pictures of Bella. For Valmont, a drawing of a turtle and THE AMULET laying underneath. For Yuta, a sun with a big, dopey smile and his pictures laying underneath. For Dylan, a doodle of a dog and bat, with two rabbit plushies, the helmet, and the skateboard sitting underneath. For Jeanne, a doodle of a rectangle with spikes inside of it with the finger trap laying underneath. There also appear to be the words "NOT A MONSTIR" next to the name. For Carrie, the doodle of the sunrise. For Koishi, a drawing of a rose. And finally, for Ava, there's the drawing of a spaceship with the keytar laying underneath.]

There's all your stuff I used for the memorial wall.

Out and about

[After giving everyone that died their items back and finishing the rest of her business with people, Adorabat can really be found anywhere. Slimy is either riding on her or sitting beside her or otherwise nearby. Simon can also be found nearby. You may approach.]

[lets_dewey_it]

<sub>[Deep breath in. Deep breath out. Deep breath in, deep breath out.

It's all over.

And as he sheds the uniform that he modified while he was here and throws them away into the ocean of this strange new location, down to his regular shirts, he sings.]</sub>

Look to the stars, my darling baby boys

Life is strange and vast

Filled with wonders and joys

Face each new sun with eyes clear and true

Unafraid of the unknown

Because I'll face it all with you...

_{[And as he finished, he casts his axe away.]}

[bellabellabella]

[When Edward had been here last, there had only been one memorial up on the wall. He hadn't expected to be added to it, given what he'd chosen to do, and so seeing all of them lined up there almost takes his breath away, or it would, if he had needed to breathe.]

I didn't expect you'd... want to keep reminders of the killers, even if you did of the victims.

[hashtagwoof]

[ The first thing Hunter does when he gets back to the school is go to his room and grab his laptop. Second thing...

Well, he's been stuck listening to classical and jazz for over a month so you know what? He'll be taking that laptop to the AV room and plugging it into the audio jack! So now there are more modern tunes pumping through the school, starting with the music of Linkin Park! You're welcome. ]

[violence_ensues]

[Adorabat pokes her wings together.]

nnnnn... I thought what Reika and Thomasin did were very mean... Emma did their names and drawings, and Ava did the drawing for Luz, but I did the rest.

I just wanted everyone to stick together and be happy...

[noblesnow]

[Reika's first impulse is to check on everyone, wherever they are. It seems like nobody is physically hurt, but there's been a lot of chaos and a lot of yelling and she wants to see if people are doing all right, and also check whether everyone has somewhere to go. She's also somewhat conspicuously trying to subtly ask if everyone has access to a bookshelf, for some reason? Of particular interest to these questions are Yasu and her newly enfoxed girlfriend, for whom she has a gift.

Later on, she can be found on the ocean platform... glaring at her Smile Pact. She finally got it back after all that time, and for whatever reason she still can't transform! It's not that she especially needs to--the sheep seem to have the monsters under control, and she's fairly certain that between the bow and arrows she's retrieved and this belief magic they have going now she has things handled--and she doesn't think she's to the point of needing to worry about whether something's wrong with it, since nobody else seems to have gotten their powers back either. But it's annoying. And yet... it's hard for her to be too mad about it, because it is, at last, just annoying. For the first time in nearly two months, the worst thing she has to deal with is a misbehaving magical trinket. Honestly, it's relaxing.

And on a related note... she goes looking for Ao after a while.]

Father's Cell

[violence_ensues]

[There's some giggling from behind you. Adorabat flies on in with Slimy riding her!]

That looks like fun!

[hashtagwoof]

[ If she's following Hunter around, she can help him organize stuff in his room.

Right now he's putting his gun and hunting knife to one side, his laptop is sitting next to that propped up picture of his cat, he's currently wearing his cat's collar for a bracelet for safekeeping, and... Well, as horrible as the experience was he does wanna take the school uniforms with him and incorporate them into his style. Just gotta take off the embroidery, for start...

He pauses...

Then he remembers she can't hear him if he's not facing her, so he turns around before trying again. ] Think those backpacks in the school store will be enough for all our stuff? It's not like we have a car with luggage space.

[bellabellabella]

[Honestly that surprises him even more, but after a moment he just smiles.]

So did I.

[violence_ensues]

[Bat hugs. No, she doesn't care how cold you are or how much you flinch away, this is non-negotiable.]

Thank you... I picked up the slack while you were gone. 'n I'm sorry Thomasin was mean to you. In the future, if anything happens like that again, tell a cop.

[bellabellabella]

[He is surprised by the bathugs, but after a moment brings his hands up and cuddles her in response. He can feel the warmth of her tiny body, and the feeling in itself is incredible.]

I deserved far worse than what she did, Adorabat. And I'm not sure if a cop would be the best person to help me, at home. But I shall take that under advisement.

[violence_ensues]

[Adorabat giggles.]

Don't be silly! All cops should help people. And if there's any corrupt cops that don't help people, you have my permission to beat 'em up, agardess of any jurisiction!

Asides, you were only trying to defend yourself and get Thomasin to stop!

[bellabellabella]

[There's still some sunlight, so Edward does not come up next to him, but does regard him from inside the shadow of the building.]

I didn't think you sang, only played.

[The words are mild and warm and perhaps slightly teasing. It feels like a weight has been lifted, after everything that has happened.]

[bellabellabella]

[He sighs and drops his hands a little, giving her ample room to pull away as he's sure she's about to.]

If anything, she was trying to make me stop. She... she was worried about what I might do. What I did do, in the end. To her. I killed her, Adorabat. I made the choice to. It's not a choice I wanted to make, but it's still one that I made.

[violence_ensues]

[...Still hugging.]

If she was worrying so much, she coulda talked to someone else about it, but she chose to be mean to you instead. Even though you ended it, you didn't start it.

And that's why I forgive you, Edward.

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

[Well...it's not really an ending Dylan likes...but it's an ending Dylan will take.

First things first though, this dalmatian is on a belief based mission.

If no one stops him, he's searching the dorms as thoroughly as he can. Searching for one thing; a board game that might-somehow-do some good.

And, when that's eventually done, he's at one specific room-his own dorm room. Staring at...all of his stuff...]

I'm...gonna need some help. Bringing things home.

[He will. Break his back, if he tries to carry all of this. Someone please help him.]

[canreallymove]

[Sonic, meanwhile is packing.]

Oh, hey there, Dyl.

[All in his backpack. Except the turtles and the ghost jellyfish, obviously.]

What's up?

[lets_dewey_it]

I don't really sing... often. But... It's a lullaby my mom sang to me and my brothers when we were still eggs. Then my Uncle Donald took to singing it to us when she was gone for a while.

It's special to me.

[lets_dewey_it]

Of course! _{[Dewey will gladly walk in and help him pack and carry stuff around. While he was doing that, he spoke aloud.]}

I wonder if we can get to each other's worlds through Closetland...

[canismajorcontrolfreak]

I have...a lot...I'm gonna need to bring home...

[Not even just his own things. Is he going to have to wear most of this stuff just to get it out of here? And what does he do with the weapons? He can't take them home-would it be responsible to just leave them here? And also the things he doesn't even want-]

[bellabellabella]

[For just a moment, he almost trembles at those words.]

Thank you. It's... it's more than I deserve.

[And hugging back again.]

[bellabellabella]

[He smiles just a little, a fleeting thing, at those words.]

It's a beautiful song.