WEEK 6

[whimsicalism]

Only one of your group died last week but the castle feels empty somehow. Whatever your thoughts on Alice were she did seem to curb the Cat's--no, the Storyteller's--impulses somewhat. Even if the Storyteller gave an end date for the game there seems to be a sinister air around the castle now. There's an area for the adventurous, at least?

Still, it likely won't help heal the wounds from last week... though, apparently, the Storyteller has decided to refill the library.

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[Hello to week six, the last normal week before endgame! Don't forget to lose a memory. There's no AC this week! You can find the Storyteller at the audience chamber if you really want. As always you can turn in your threads for fabulous prizes!]

Comments

[xxxx_me]

[He shakes his head.]

No. I think the only ones who can pick are me or Teacher. The others are... [... I don't think they can do anything anymore.

I'm the one with the key, though.

[strictura]

Hm... That sounds like a lot of pressure.

[ Who were the rest? Were those his friends, the ones he'd talked about before...? ]

Did you ever make that choice?

[xxxx_me]

Not yet.

[strictura]

...Well, I guess that's one thing that you can worry less about here.

[xxxx_me]

[.............]

Instead, the Storyteller wants us to sacrifice people for other things.

[strictura]

Yeah. I just meant... if it's only through the trials, that's not you alone deciding someone's fate.

[xxxx_me]

No. But it's a lot easier to choose, anyway.

[strictura]

Mm, here there's always an actual right or wrong answer.

[xxxx_me]

Yeah. Everyone who has to die killed.

[For various reasons, but still.]

I wrote down what happened, but it still makes it hard when I've forgotten the stuff the others did.

[strictura]

[ With the washing machine started, he comes over next to Allen to wait. ]

So you don't know anymore what you're supposed to judge them for?

[xxxx_me]

I looked at what I wrote, but I might have missed things. [Frowning a little and pulling his knees up to his chest.]

Everyone was nice at the facility. I don't think... any of them are actually evil.

[So the real answer would probably have to be...

...]

[strictura]

[ Nods. ]

Good and evil are subjective anyway, and nothing is purely one or the other. But I guess that's why you were just supposed to decide who was "the most".

Not that that makes it any easier, of course.

[xxxx_me]

Not really. But it doesn't sound like they'll let us go unless someone gets picked.

[Sssssigh. Why are demons.]

[strictura]

Probably not.

[ Demons suck, on that he is 100% in agreement. ]

Is it that Cheshire cat making you choose in that place too?

[xxxx_me]

[Shaking his head.]

It's the White Rabbit. Since he's the one in charge of the keys.

[strictura]

Ah. And I guess using it on him instead wouldn't work.

[xxxx_me]

No. He's a demon, so he doesn't count.

[In the flat tone of someone who absolutely thought about it.]

[strictura]

That sounds in character for one, at least. He's not the one responsible for that place's existence either, is he? So simply killing him wouldn't do anything?

[xxxx_me]

...

I'm not actually sure. But if he and Cheshire Cat fight all the time, I'm not sure I could kill him, even if I tried.

[strictura]

Your friends wouldn't be able to team up with you to do it either? People always underestimate kids, but when we band together, we can be surprisingly strong.

[xxxx_me]

[Shaking his head.]

No. Everyone else broke.