onceuponacomm | CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 6

The dead now outnumber the living.

There's only one area that stayed a mystery until now. A new path revealed itself, leading to another town, surrounded by sturdy stone walls. Even from some distance away you can see the tower, rising high towards the skies. The path that leads to the city turns into gold before long, and the sky itself seems to take a beautiful tone, like it's painted with watercolors. It's such a peaceful-looking town, welcoming you with open gates. It must be nice to have another urban setting, after living in the same place for so long.

But no matter what you find it doesn't change the situation you're in. Now that your numbers are dwindling that's impossible to forget.

The story is nearing its end. There still are a handful of pages left. What will they bring?

[[Welcome to Week 6! Feel free to make top levels at your discretion, and remember to note it in your header if you plan on investigating any locations. However, please try to keep investigations to Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday! You can also privately contact Hamelin at your leisure.

In addition, a reminder that any Murder Proposals for this week are due by Tuesday 3:00 PM EST/12:00 PM PST; this is the last week for murder proposals as week 7 is endgame. Also, please note the shop's discount on magnifying glasses! ]]

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[Someone's happy to see that bracelet. Or just happy to see Alexei, or both. Probably both.]

Yes Although I've realized I don't know very many card games

Unfortunately, I don't either. The others in the knights would try to get me to play with them sometimes, before I became Commandant, but I was always too busy with my personal studies.

[He has always been, and will probably always be, Fucking Boring.]

It's good that you're having a good time, however.

I've never been to a casino before Are they usually this glittery?

I wouldn't know - I've never been myself.

It doesn't seem like your kind of thing Not mine either really There are better ways to lose money

[Mm.]

I always had more important things to do. This past month or so is the first time I've done anything unrelated to work in an extremely long time.

Worst vacation ever

...Yes and no. I find that I can't complain about all of it.

...I can't either Like I've said, everyone here is very kind to me But then those kind people keep dying

We'll find a way to revive them. I don't care that it seems improbable; everything about this situation is. We'll come up with something.

We will We won't leave anyone behind

[No matter if they killed, who they killed, or why - they don't deserve to be trapped here.]

I spoke to Raven about that. He knows I don't give up easily.

Good I'm glad you're on our side

[He isn't glad that Alexei is here, in this murdergame, but he's glad Alexei is helping them.]

I honestly wouldn't have cared enough about any of this a while ago. I'm still not sure what I think about most of it.

But we'll see things through. I'm sure of that much.

Well For what it's worth, I'm glad you changed your mind

...Yes, well. I ought to at least do this much for people before...everything else.

[You know, the whole...returning home to be executed thing. It's said in that sort of blunt, brisk way that implies he's trying not to think about this whole thing too much.]

[...Ah, right. He'd been trying not to think about it too much either.

He reaches over to lightly pat Alexei's shoulder. He's here if you need to talk about things.]

...I would tell you not to worry about me, but I've been informed that half the things I say are either disturbing or valid cause for concern.

[HE KNOWS...]

I'm a worrier You might as well just accept it

Either way, I'll be all right. We've spoken somewhat about fixing things; we'll just have to see what can be enacted and what can't.

For now, there's the more immediate concern of trying to get as many of us as we can through this alive.

For better or for worse, it seems like we don't have much time left in this game

It seems so.

...We should likely try to enjoy ourselves tonight, then. While the lot of us are still here.

We should Want to play a game Yeager taught me how to play poker

...I don't see why not.

[He hasn't played poker in so goddamn long, Suga, but yes, sure, let's do that.]

[that's okay, Suga has no poker face, they can both struggle and fail at it!!]

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