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.]}

[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. ]

[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.]

[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]

...

[It's over. It's really over. Yet Sonic feels so strange.

This isn't like when they beat Robotnik, where it was a feeling of elation, of triumph. Any triumph feels...subdued. Quiet. There's still an undercurrent of worry-if not for the people here in the school, then for those who are at the castle, wherever that is. Those who might be brought in by other Kings. The machine of Professor S. The weapon spoken of.

A Freedom Fighter's work is never done. There's no way he can simply go home and forget. That much he knows. The question is how he broaches the subject to Sally. Also figure out how to put Nicole back online.

He's wandering around now, looking over the school, checking on things. Gathering papers and making sure he has stuff to bring home as proof of what happened. He also makes sure he's got the jellyfish and his new pets. He'll also be in the kitchen, making one last meal for the group. A kind of celebratory meal for everyone, as it were. Also making some for the road. Spoiler alert, chili dogs are also on the menu.

Lastly, he's working on packing up. Obviously. In his dorm. And then, that will be it, right?







Actually no, that's not it. He's going to see Father at the cells. Maybe he'll have a chance to chat with the jerk.]

[curdle]

[ It's over. Finally, truly, it's done. Kakuya has been bested, and the devil's hold on her is merely figurative. She is damned still, but if she never returns to the ruins of the farm -- and she never will, she knew that even before she died -- that creature can never touch her again.

She wishes the knowledge could cheer her. She wishes she felt safe, or relieved, or anything at all but hollow.

Idling, however, will not fill the emptiness. So she packs what few things belong to her, changes clothes now that she can change them, and then goes out searching for Flora the goat. Her hair hangs down her back in a long blonde braid, and she is wearing her uniform pants.

At the memorial wall, a small warmth comes to her when she sees the drawings of gingerbread, which only lasts so long before the sight of the wax figures freezes her to the marrow. She grabs them quickly, then realizes she has no idea what to do with them. After a sullen pause, she unwinds the string from around the Edward poppet and the tie from its face, then sets it unceremoniously back where it was.

The goat, however, she stares at for a very long time. If any of the survivors catch her at it, she has just one question. ]

Please you, how did it work? The magic of thy belief.

[ For anyone at all, however, at any time of day and whatever she happens to be doing, there's another question. ]

What now?

there's a school uniform prompt and an off-the-chain iron maiden prompt in case you need 2 avoid

[holyironmade]

[Once the children have split up (particularly when it's verified that nothing funny happened during a certain five minute period), Jeanne is MIA for a good amount of time. It seems that she snuck off to take a nice long ablution of some sort, considering that there is a scent of lilacs over the expected odor of white roses. She had spent that whole confrontation in her vestless dress and with hair rather askew from recently being tossed out of Kakuriyo.

So a fresh option brought itself to her attention readily enough... the school uniform. She is pottering about the school gathering stuff in her little red backpack. It's really just like old times. Shamash is with her in medium-sized form. He is finally a little responsive, for example pointing his finger towards potential errors in Jeanne's letter. She's gathering stuff from her room, the memorial, the playground shed that served as the church, the classroom where she is also sitting at her desk looking over stuff in a notebook and writing some kind of letter, and the library, which is also a great place to stare meaningfully through the rungs of a ladder and think about the fact that she garroted a guy.]

---

[At some point after visiting the memorial, particularly on the ocean platform, she can be seen with the iron maiden finger trap on her left ring finger. A faint golden glow, similar to the accompanying Shamash himself, indicates that she is being healed continuously and will not scar. But you don't actually see her in this form for all that long at a time.]

Shamash! Partially Integrate in! Iron Maiden Finger Trap! New Oversoul: Thorn Maiden!

[Then she transforms into an outfit. The innermost layer is a very long magenta blouse-and-trousers set; the fabric is light and forms a loose puffy shape around the limbs, but is definitely opaque and solidly soft. Copper metal is the main additional material, similar to the iron maiden finger trap, but the spikes are pointing outward. Spiked boots, a lemniscate (cursive J) spiked collar that loops around her neck and her voluminous hair, and a bizarre spiked overdress. There's shoulder and elbow joints in the armor over the sleeves, some kind of X-shape over the chest underneath a bar covering the collarbone, and a wide, heavy skirt that suggests rose petals. Topping it all off is an intricate, glittering silver tiara with a crown-of-thorns motif. It is the terrifying fever dream of a cult survivor horse girl. The patterns might be physically impossible without magical energy induced floating.

While of course you can approach her just standing around like this, I can't overstate that she can be heard saying this dialogue several different times because she's going to have to re-transform every time someone wants to hug her or whatever. And there's quite a lot of time for that. Anyone can tell that Jeanne has not yet decided where she will go next.]