WEEK SEVEN: FAREWELL

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FAREWELL

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As Sunday morning arrives…you may find yourself actually sleeping in? For the first time in several weeks, you do not find yourself awakening at 9am. You don’t have that slight nagging feeling that you’re going to be late. You don’t feel pressed to rush out the door and go somewhere.

The restaurant is currently serving a piping hot breakfast, and your luggage is packed nice and neatly. Somewhere outside, it’s almost like you can hear the pleasant chirping of birds.

And then…the hotel begins to rumble. It’s the same ominous, quaking movement, building swaying from side to side before the front door of the lobby suddenly bursts open. Your stay at the hotel is over, dear guests. But perhaps you ought to venture outside and see what’s new.

Along the grounds of the hotel are several portals that have been opened, dark swirling shadows that remain for you to venture through once you’re ready to depart. However, these portals work in two directions. While you have the understanding that stepping through one of these portals will send you wherever you’d like, you may notice there are people starting to exit through them.

Your hostages are safe. They are delivered one by one, unharmed and returned to you for you to bring them back where they belong. The original staff also appears to finally be released...do be careful with them.

But that’s not all. Every now and then the portal will flicker and someone new and unexpected will exit. Your friends from home may step through these portals. You may recognize some of these as people that you’ve met in your previous murder adventures, too. All of them seem to be in possession of a flyer that reads:

Congratulations! You’ve won an all-expenses paid visit to the Starlight Hotel. Check-in begins at 3. Please sign on the dotted line upon arrival.

You may want to warn them, actually.

You don’t have to be a guest of the hotel to enjoy its fine amenities one last time. All of the floors have been opened once again, and every room is accessible except for your previous bedrooms. You will also find that you’ve been unnerfed, powers you once possessed returning to you and back where they belong.

Everything is peaceful…until you hear the sound of the Nightman.

H̸o̷w̴ ̴c̸o̷u̸l̵d̸ ̵y̸o̴u̸ ̸n̵o̶t̶ ̸f̶i̷n̵d̷ ̴a̴ ̴l̷o̶o̵p̴h̴o̶l̴e̵?̷ ̸N̷o̴w̵ ̵t̴h̷e̴y̷'̴r̵e̶ ̸a̶l̷l̸ ̷f̶r̵e̸e̵!̵

Hm…too bad. It seems as though the proprietor of this hotel is unhappy with circumstances. But regardless of where you look, you wouldn’t be able to find him. Seems like he’s gone off to try and restructure his business model.

As a parting gift from the Starlight Hotel, you will find that your typewriters are now pocket-sized palm pilot models. You do want to stay in touch, don’t you? It’s been several long weeks for all of you…

…you can check out anytime you want, but you can finally leave.

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Happy Golden End, friends! You may use this post to thread out your final day at the hotel. You can thread with your hostages if you'd like. In addition this post is open to past gamemates or canonmates. You are free to bring characters from previous games or their canonmates to play off of each other.

As the post states, everyone's powers are back and you have universal texting. Fun! Characters will be able to return to their own worlds or depart for another world of their choosing whenever they'd like to leave.

Should you have any questions about their current condition, or simply questions about endgame mechanics in general, please feel free to ask us. Have fun!

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█ LOCATIONS █ STATUSES █ PROFILES █ AUDIENCES
█ REPORTING █ PRIVATE CONVOS █ MURDER

Comments

[ercnerd]

[Sieghart, whose left arm grew back the instant his powers returned, dashes over to the nearest person in a hurry.]

Hide me!

[Regardless of whether the person is shorter or taller, he ducks behind them while a teenaged girl wanders over. In a quiet voice, she can be seen asking around, "Didn't Sieghart just pass by? I'd like to study him while the effects of the hotel's seal may be lingering."]

[overlimit]

[hey guess who's also free and who just looks immediately intrigued at this girl's suggestion.]

Study him...? Now that sounds interesting. Count me in.

[sieghart now has two teenage girls to hide from.]

[ercnerd]

[Oh, no. Sieghart dives behind a bush—anything that'll conceal his presence.

Rita's reply is clearly not the norm for Mari, whose eyes glint where her expression remains impassive. "Are you also interested in bioengineering?"]

[overlimit]

It's not my field, per se, but sometimes I like to branch out a little. Didn't know the old man was that interesting of a specimen.

[ercnerd]

["Sieghart is a special case. There's no way a mere transfusion made him immortal. The Highlanders must have altered his bio . . . "

Before she can finish, Sieghart shouts:]

Old man? Show some respect!

[lifeless]

[manwol immediately bats (affectionately) him on the arm,]

She's definitely going to see you... You're too tall! Crouch down a little more.

[manwol says, extremely loudly]

[ercnerd]

[Oh, okay. He crouches right away when he cringes at the volume.

Mari rears her little head their way. Then she promptly walks up to them and talks straight through Manwol while Sieghart continues to cower behind the latter.

"Will you let me study you now?"]

I'm not letting you dissect me here!

[lifeless]

[sieghart.... this is all your fault........]

Maybe she should? I know I'd want to.

[she'd also want to dissect -- beat up claude so fair is fair!!! (NO!!)]

[ercnerd]

[Don't dissect Claude.

Sieghart angles his head toward Manwol with a furrowed brow and a confused smile.]

Why do you want to?

["Maybe she's interested in researching immortality as well."]

[lifeless]

[she makes a face at the word 'immortality']

I've lived too long to be interested in that. Now, if you want to dissect Sieghart because he ran away to a hotel without telling you, then I'd understand...

[she's very magnanimous like that]

[ercnerd]

I didn't run away!

[Mari perks up a little at the first sentence, but doesn't say anything in regards to it.

"No. I want to study him in order to restore the lost technology of Kounat. I'm certain there was bioengineering involved."]

I told you, it was a blood transfusion!

[lifeless]

[wait]

-- You became immortal from a blood transfusion?

[HELLO???]

Did someone bite you or something?

[ercnerd]

[The furrow in Sieghart's brow deepens while Mari listens patiently, because she might hear something new if she lets them converse.]

What? No. I was dying and they resuscitated me by sharing their blood.

[lifeless]

[vampire........ sieghart was the first edward....]

I feel like you do that way too often...

[she means DYING]

Anyway, I traveled all this way, so I deserve to talk to you without you getting dissected. That can happen after.

[ercnerd]

[Mari watches the two of them for a bit. Then, saying, " . . . If it means I can study him later, I'll return," she turns around and wanders off to go ooh and aah at the hotel.

Once she's out of their lines of sight, Sieghart sighs and straightens.]

. . . Thanks. I thought she'd really do it this time.

[illomened]

[HELLO. THIS IS SO FUNNY. Souji is probably shorter than Sieghart how is this going to work.]

Ah? Oh, dear... [sir your hostage. He's apparently the only person yet who will actually make an attempt to help, though, gently backing Sieghart into a corner with a potted plant.]

[ercnerd]

[Everyone is shorter than Sieghart back home, and he still hides behind them. He makes it work by crouching (ineffectually).

Mari continues to wander like a shark on a hunt.]

No matter what, you can't let her see me, okay?

[illomened]

Don't you have to go back through the same way together, Si-san?

[It feels like he is simply delaying the inevitable...]

[ercnerd]

Nothing's saying we have to go at the same time. She'll leave once she's had her fill of the hotel, so just keep me hidden until then.

[illomened]

I suppose so... Well - shall we go to a different part, then? I'd imagine she'll comb as many places as she can, but she doesn't know it as well as-- ...well, I suppose neither of us know it that well, either.

[ercnerd]

We know more than she does. Come on.

[Souji needs to move in order for Sieghart to make his getaway. Mari can spend this time touching everything and sating her natural curiosity.]

[illomened]

Alright, alright - keep your head down, I suppose?

[WILL THAT SAVE HIM?? Souji will look around for Mari before trying to move in the other direction but it's hard to do this even remotely subtly when hiding a wholeass man.]

[ercnerd]

[The power rests in Souji's hands. Sieghart ducks his head, but whether or not Mari rears her head their way is now up to the powers that be.]

[illomened]

[the fates rolled in sieghart's favor... Mari doesn't look their way until Souji's managed to scoot them both on outta there.]

Goodness... You really are a magnet for trouble.

[ercnerd]

[Thank the gods.]

Me? I'm always minding my business when these things happen.