[They have arrived! Up close, the mansion really is more pretentious than ever. There is so much carved, artistic stone.]
Yeah, mostly.
[the two of them: WE HATE IT HERE jason: leads them straight into the mansion
Up the staircase to the front! Enjoy. It's kind of interesting, aside from the distasteful air of spooky. Before going in, he pauses to look around the balcony, then out over the overgrowth.]
The jungle is out there with the ruins. And a sinkhole. This is all we had, whatever was here. Nothing changed.
she joins jason in looking at the overgrowth, tugging cloud closer. she's a little unsettled, but she feels better when they're both close to her. not for her sake, for theirs.
and then:] This must have felt like a dang marathon, huh. After just being here for a week.
[ this is not the time to be snarky, but he has to ask. cloud's observing the mansion doors while they look around, peering pensively. why are all mansions terrible. ]
[To Lup. He gets Cloud is being sassy, and it actually does make him sort of huff a kind of laughter. He's SO MAD Cloud always makes him laugh by being a dry asshole.
But he answers sincerely anyway. Shut up. Being on the island is making him feel weird. He didn't expect to see it here, honestly.]
The hole was where the "dead" were. I don't think the living could reach us necessarily, but... we were down there. Later on, a few of the swords started throwing bodies in it to hide them. They'd land down there with us when it happened.
[He starts pulling the daisy chain along again, leading them inside. The interior is just as old European pretentious as the outside. It'd really be a cool place to stay if not for the overtone of murder. And, uh, purgatory.]
Well. In a way. When you woke up after you died, you were standing over a coffin with your body in it. So we were down there with them, yeah. Sounds fucked, but maybe it isn't once you find out you've all been dead from the start.
[To the cellar...! He's taking them to a door that seems like it'd be a cellar, but instead of going down into enclosed earth, it's a winding open stone staircase all the way down a hole.
At the bottom is an open cave with fancy dinner setup on a long table. Each place at the table has a sketched portrait. Jason's portrait--it's surprising how baby-faced he looks when he's only a bit younger than he is now actually--is between a portrait of a hooded man and a portrait of a girl. There are a lot of portraits around the table, even one Cloud probably doesn't want to see.]
[Sephiroth is out there. Now he is covered, though. Lup is valid.]
Yeah. [To both of them.] As soon as the votes were tallied and announced, someone would get picked to off them over the dinner table. [Well, they could fight all in the cave, but he's going for the joke of getting stabbed or shot at dinner.] We killed a lot of innocent people. I think... we didn't kill anyone but innocent people except for when I died.
Then it was time to get thrown back into the jungle for another night.
I don't want to hear that abstract self deprecation, Jason, if I'm not allowed to do it, you're not either.
[she calls across the room, picking up portraits to look at them. maybe he's not innocent necessarily but also he was in a game with fuckin sephiroth and royce]
[ cloud is pretty sure that is not entirely what jason meant by innocent, but lup isn't wrong that jason can't go five minutes without a self-deprecating joke so he's not going to defend him. instead he's moving through the portraits, but also, you know what never came up for him
tsurumaru was on the island
cloud's staring at the portrait tiredly and decides to not acknowledge this ]
Didn't your partner throw you under the bus as a gambit anyway?
[Cloud is right, but Lup is also valid for the call out. Jason makes a face about it regardless, as if he doesn't get why he's being scolded when he didn't DO anything.]
What the hell...
[Also, yes, Tsurumaru was there. Which is how I fucked over me and Francy's CR because Jason has trust issues with swords even though they were doing them all a favor by killing.]
Yeah. [He juts his chin at the portrait with the cat man on it, expression disgusted. Auger.] That was him.
He had a suspicion one of the seven swords was a General. So he got another one to be a mole. Made him tell the rest I was a Fox. When I died, he knew it could have only been them. Through his mole, he got protection from the Rainsford too. Since one of them was also a sword. [He looks away.] It's why I'm not... a big fan of so many people with close ties in games like these.
[ cloud looks between them with a little bit of hesitation before he decides to not pronounce himself on that subject verbally, coming closer to jason and knocking elbows with him gently as he looks at the jason portrait
[This is genuine. Chunky friend group or not, he trusts this about Lup even if he sometimes wonders what she'd do if this place took advantage of that. Choose between one of your boyfriends and your found family immediately.
He bumps his elbow back at Cloud some, glancing from him to the portrait. Ughhh, don't look AT HIM. He looks at Lup instead.]
He was, but I guess... he never pretended he wasn't to me, so... [He should have expected it.] Can't blame him for trying what he could. Even if it was a dick move against me.
[she says, flatly. don't even ask about the boyfriends versus found family she'd just shoot herself. anyway, she looks at a couple more portraits, letting cloud take care of the comfort for a second.]
You can always blame assholes for being assholes. [ he's agreeing with lup. also lup left him with the comfort part but cloud is terrible and he lifts up the baby jason portrait; ] If I drag this back, it'll be a picture of a picture, right?
[He snorts, wry and resigned.] It's alright. I punched him in the face at the end. [He will accept that in lieu of not being able to shoot and skin the cat.
His attention returns to Cloud when the portrait is taken up. He's so instantly embarrassed by this. Reaching out, he covers the front of it with his hand. HE WASN'T EVEN THAT MUCH YOUNGER THAN HE IS NOW.]
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... Whew. Morbid. [her ears press back a bit.]
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which is to say he hates it too thanks ]
It always felt like this?
[ then again, when it's one week and they're being hunted to death every night, it might not be so weird for it to feel bad ]
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Yeah, mostly.
[the two of them: WE HATE IT HERE
jason: leads them straight into the mansion
Up the staircase to the front! Enjoy. It's kind of interesting, aside from the distasteful air of spooky. Before going in, he pauses to look around the balcony, then out over the overgrowth.]
The jungle is out there with the ruins. And a sinkhole. This is all we had, whatever was here. Nothing changed.
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she joins jason in looking at the overgrowth, tugging cloud closer. she's a little unsettled, but she feels better when they're both close to her. not for her sake, for theirs.
and then:] This must have felt like a dang marathon, huh. After just being here for a week.
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[ this is not the time to be snarky, but he has to ask. cloud's observing the mansion doors while they look around, peering pensively. why are all mansions terrible. ]
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[To Lup. He gets Cloud is being sassy, and it actually does make him sort of huff a kind of laughter. He's SO MAD Cloud always makes him laugh by being a dry asshole.
But he answers sincerely anyway. Shut up. Being on the island is making him feel weird. He didn't expect to see it here, honestly.]
The hole was where the "dead" were. I don't think the living could reach us necessarily, but... we were down there. Later on, a few of the swords started throwing bodies in it to hide them. They'd land down there with us when it happened.
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... That's - uh, horrific. [sweats.] Are you sure you want to be here, Jay?
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[ this is helping no one but it's the question that comes to mind because that's yikes ]
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[He starts pulling the daisy chain along again, leading them inside. The interior is just as old European pretentious as the outside. It'd really be a cool place to stay if not for the overtone of murder. And, uh, purgatory.]
Well. In a way. When you woke up after you died, you were standing over a coffin with your body in it. So we were down there with them, yeah. Sounds fucked, but maybe it isn't once you find out you've all been dead from the start.
[To the cellar...! He's taking them to a door that seems like it'd be a cellar, but instead of going down into enclosed earth, it's a winding open stone staircase all the way down a hole.
At the bottom is an open cave with fancy dinner setup on a long table. Each place at the table has a sketched portrait. Jason's portrait--it's surprising how baby-faced he looks when he's only a bit younger than he is now actually--is between a portrait of a hooded man and a portrait of a girl. There are a lot of portraits around the table, even one Cloud probably doesn't want to see.]
This is where we had trial. [...] And execution.
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she lets go of them just long enough to check out the portraits, wandering over. if they need her to be clingy they know where she's at, it's fine.]
An all in one, huh. [she murmurs, poking through...
she pushes sephiroth's facedown as she passes it.]
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after he's broken out of that he peers at jason while lup explores ]
Executions for you guys were immediate, weren't they? No... waiting for the next day. [ because they only had 7 days. ]
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Yeah. [To both of them.] As soon as the votes were tallied and announced, someone would get picked to off them over the dinner table. [Well, they could fight all in the cave, but he's going for the joke of getting stabbed or shot at dinner.] We killed a lot of innocent people. I think... we didn't kill anyone but innocent people except for when I died.
Then it was time to get thrown back into the jungle for another night.
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[she calls across the room, picking up portraits to look at them. maybe he's not innocent necessarily but also he was in a game with fuckin sephiroth and royce]
I'm sure a lot of bad people died.
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tsurumaru was on the island
cloud's staring at the portrait tiredly and decides to not acknowledge this ]
Didn't your partner throw you under the bus as a gambit anyway?
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What the hell...
[Also, yes, Tsurumaru was there. Which is how I fucked over me and Francy's CR because Jason has trust issues with swords even though they were doing them all a favor by killing.]
Yeah. [He juts his chin at the portrait with the cat man on it, expression disgusted. Auger.] That was him.
He had a suspicion one of the seven swords was a General. So he got another one to be a mole. Made him tell the rest I was a Fox. When I died, he knew it could have only been them. Through his mole, he got protection from the Rainsford too. Since one of them was also a sword. [He looks away.] It's why I'm not... a big fan of so many people with close ties in games like these.
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I mean, understandable. [she says, after a moment, staring at the cat portrait.] I wouldn't do that to you, though. I haven't.
[she knows it's easy to say, but - she likes to think she's been pretty trustworthy.]
... What a bastard.
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he baby... "it hasn't been that long" he baby ]
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[This is genuine. Chunky friend group or not, he trusts this about Lup even if he sometimes wonders what she'd do if this place took advantage of that. Choose between one of your boyfriends and your found family immediately.
He bumps his elbow back at Cloud some, glancing from him to the portrait. Ughhh, don't look AT HIM. He looks at Lup instead.]
He was, but I guess... he never pretended he wasn't to me, so... [He should have expected it.] Can't blame him for trying what he could. Even if it was a dick move against me.
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[she says, flatly. don't even ask about the boyfriends versus found family she'd just shoot herself. anyway, she looks at a couple more portraits, letting cloud take care of the comfort for a second.]
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[ don't do jason like this cloud ]
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His attention returns to Cloud when the portrait is taken up. He's so instantly embarrassed by this. Reaching out, he covers the front of it with his hand. HE WASN'T EVEN THAT MUCH YOUNGER THAN HE IS NOW.]
Why the hell do you want to take that thing back?
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lup snortlaughs though, at cloud's question]
You should absolutely bring it back to check!
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Maybe I really want a picture of you and this is the closest we'll get.
[ THIS BLATANT LIE ABOUT SENTIMENT ]
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Why do you even…
[Want a picture of him??? UGH. He takes his hand away, but won’t look at Cloud and the picture. Embarrassing.]
I’m right here.
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[puts hand to her forehead]
I'm going to have to pop in to grab one later.
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