15 Strangers Round AU Meme

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15 STRANGERS ROUND AU MEME Hello everyone! Not exactly that time again, but we’ve got a treat for you today! The Round AU Meme! Essentially, remember those times where you asked ‘What if I’d brought Person X to Round Y?’ Well, here’s where you can answer that question, with prompts for each round and Mock Weeks 2 and 3. We hope you’ll enjoy! 1. Ungodly Magics & Mysteries You know your day is going to be awful when you wake up on a stone slab instead of a bed. Worse still, it looks like nothing here is past medieval times, in terms of style and tech. Maybe a potion or a sweet roll will get your mind off of this murder business added to the mix. 2. Mall Murder Mania You’ve probably never been passed out in a mall, and even if you did, it’s very unlikely you’d been trapped inside afterwards, told by a young girl to kill to leave. Maybe the fifteen of you can figure out what’s going on in this seemingly abandoned mall. 3. A Fantastic Voyage The technology here is so…odd. The entire place just seems off, no matter when you’re from. Then there’s that loud, obnoxious woman telling everyone to kill each other. With how grating her voice is, maybe you should prepare for someone killing to get away from her. 4. Snakes In Plane Sight Is this a joke? On a plane, headed who knows where, with who knows how many snakes on board, and more dead bodies than you needed to see in your lifetime. And your pilot wants you to add to their number. You might need magic if you want everyone here to survive. 5. Soul-Sapping Situations This mansion is awful. Rooms like caskets, dust and spiders everywhere, the fact that you were brought unwillingly-and the rules about murder didn’t help things. The entire situation is a disaster, and you can only hope that you and the others don’t lose your minds. 6. Off The Rails A chance to explore the deepest recesses of space, the final frontier…and instead, you’re on a train with fourteen others being made to kill each other. No one among the locals cares when you ask for help. Such a hopeless situation, you may as well gaze at the beautiful sun above. 7. Home Sweet Homicide You and fourteen others in a house in space, trapped by an evil A.I. It wants you to kill each other, but when there’s so little room? Seems impossible, if you don’t want to get caught. Let’s hope no one proves that thought wrong… 8. The American Nightmare A town with no people, other than your fellow captives. This isn’t the first time that this has happened to you, and the same goes for everyone else. And yet, you hesitate to trust the others…probably reasonable. You all know how this goes, after all.

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[cuckooed]

Eliza.

[She quietly comes up behind Eliza, to give her shoulder a squeeze.]

Is this really what you want to do?

[telecosmetic]

[Eliza snarls a little as she shoves at the hand before wriggling away from it.] I warned them this would happen, didn't I? I'm not going to let the people who killed my brother just get away with it!

[cuckooed]

[Oh, dear.

Koel knows she is running out of choices here.]

Do you really want to spill otherwise innocent blood, my dear? Because, trust me. Overcompensating because you couldn't convince them enough of your guilt will not end well for you.

In any case, they are not the ultimate ones to blame.

[telecosmetic]

Innocent? Ha! [Eliza laughs bitterly and turns most of her ire on Caleb again.] At the very least, I'm going to correct this mistake made on the Vespertine! This bastard murdered Rika and nearly got Minato killed for it, I'm not going to let that stand!

[cuckooed]

...

Very well.

[She takes a step back.

How focused is Eliza on Caleb?]

[telecosmetic]

[Quite focused. Though she's devoting some energy to yelling at other people as well, her eyes keep drifting back to glaring at Caleb.]

[cuckooed]

[There are multiple possibilities. None of them good. At worst, Eliza kills as many people as she can. There's no doubt the girl will try to at least murder Caleb. It's an utterly foolish thing, in Koel's mind, when the whole point is to try to get as few casualties as possible.

But at best. At best.

She silently becomes a veil, and melds into Eliza's shadow. Thus, Eliza will not see what is coming. In all respects, this was Eliza's fault, for killing to begin with. Had she not committed the crime, her brother would not be condemned. It's a terrible thing to think, knowing what was at stake. But the parts of her that are the kindly grandma knows that what Eliza did was still not right-cruelty answering to cruelty was just going to encourage this Empress to continue threatening them with harm against family and friends.

Now, though, the parts of her that were not that kindly grandma knew what she had to do. She is never unprepared herself.

And Eliza's back is completely open.

What is Eliza doing now?]

[telecosmetic]

[She's more focused on Caleb right now, but other conversations are still holding her attention. Right now, she's arguing with King, although she looks ready to maybe just stab both him and Caleb.]

[cuckooed]

[Well.

Eliza being so gung ho about killing others, she might have forgotten one teeny tiny detail. Yes, she's out of the game, so she can kill whoever she wants without consequences.

But.

It is a two-way street. Just as no one is protected from Eliza, Eliza is also no longer protected by the rules that might have otherwise discouraged anyone before from killing others. She may murder, now-and she also may be murdered.

The moment Eliza moves towards either of them, Koel's own knife will be out from within the shadows around Eliza, and plunging viper-fast towards Eliza's spine.]

[telecosmetic]

[Eliza finally seems to have had enough and lunges towards Caleb's podium, pulling out her knife-and then a sharp pain radiates through her spine and she falls backwards, barely supporting herself.]

Ah-what the-ngh!

[She pushes herself up anyways, still holding her knife, and hurls it at Caleb with all her strength before finally slipping to the floor.]

Damn...damn it...

cw: for intended method of death

[cuckooed]

[She is paralyzed from the waist down. Koel wastes no time.

Flipping her knife, the shadowy hand then plunges downwards, towards Eliza's neck. Not simply to slit it, but to sever the blood vessels It will be quick, if not bloodless.]

CW: Slight Hand Gore

[unwittingking]

FUCK!

[Lucky for everyone (well, almost everyone), the knife does not find it’s intended target. Instead of going into Caleb, it’s now imbedded in King’s palm...thanks to his suddenly much longer arm.

Huh.

But while King is very much in pain, and he is bleeding from the new hole in his paw, his attention is now on the shadow with a knife.]

WAIT-!

[cuckooed]

[The knife instantly stops an inch from Eliza's throat, and the shadow seems to look over at King.

There is a sense of the hell are you doing coming from it.]

[unwittingking]

[He’s kind of astonished he was able to stop her before she got the stab in. But he quickly speaks up again as he retracts his arm, before she changes her mind.]

We-we can’t do this. We could just...tie her up or something. Something that doesn’t end with a third person dead. We just...we can’t kill her. Please.

[He’s pleading. Don’t make another kid die for this, Koel.]

[cuckooed]

[She is quiet before she responds.]

...And do you really think she will give any of you who voted the "wrong way" such a second thought of clemency, even paralyzed?

[She may sound cruel, but it is a legitimate question.]

[unwittingking]

[He hesitates, before responding.]

Maybe not. Maybe she’d stab me in the neck without even thinking about it now. She might just hate me completely now.

But it’s not all about her. She did this for someone. She wanted to keep people safe. And I’d bet money they’re good people that don’t want her to die when she’s given a second chance at living.

I don’t...I don’t want to tear people apart any more than we already have.

[cuckooed]

...Then she should have thought of those things before she committed her crime. Before her brother was made a suspect.

[Her voice is firm.]

When she committed her crime, make no mistake: it was about her, and what she wanted. Not what anyone else wanted. And now, she wants to kill half of our number because she did not get all of what she wanted. Her actions have consequences, King, and she refuses to accept that.

Can you really tell me her friends and family would approve of that, once they learned of this?

[As for her...well. If someone killed her over this, it was just as well. She had always accepted that one day she would be killed, for one reason or another. Not even counting how her current or previous families would react if they learned the truth of what she was.]

[otherworldlyking]

[ Just want y'all to know that McBurn was watching this whole thing go down.

But considering who Eliza's target was, he seemed less than interested in stopping the knifing since old woman was stopping Eliza anyway, unnnntil said person threw the knife.

Oh, and then King got in the way. Okay then, he's back to figuratively popcorning this and giving a yawn.

The sooner this was over, the better. ]

[unwittingking]

Any chance you could help with this after the trial?

[Holding up the paw that still has a knife through it. Look, the one thing he knows about this stuff is that you shouldn't remove the knife immediately, and he'd prefer not being an example of why.]

[otherworldlyking]

[ ...Right, that's a problem, wasn't it.

He could just say no, because it also wasn't his problem. But...whatever. ]

Guess I could. Probably wouldn't take that long to just take it out and wrap it.

[ Beat. ]

Probably should see if someone here's a medic right after, though. They could deal with anything following better.

[unwittingking]

I'm not exactly an expert on medical stuff, so I'll take whatever help I can get.

[Beggars can't be choosers...except when they are anyway, but he's not going to be like that today.]

So long as I don't instantly bleed out from it or let it get infected, I should be fine, right?

[telecosmetic]

[She notices this, and barely manages to raise her head to glare at him.] You-you couldn't even let me have that? I'd have been happy enough if I could drag him wherever the dead go with me!

[unwittingking]

I-I told you. You're not killing anyone else here. We're already losing at least two people here. Don't...don't make this what you're known for.

[This isn't what you want to be remembered for.]

[telecosmetic]

I-I don't care if that's what I become known for! I'd rather be known for doing my best to avenge Zack and Minato than just letting them die for someone else's crime and not caring!

[unwittingking]

Minato is alive!

[He's yelling that, and he doesn't care that there's some anger in his voice; he has every right to be angry right now.]

He is alive, and standing over there! He is alive and forgives Caleb for what he did! He is alive and Caleb still feels guilty about what he did to him! I thought you of all people would try to forgive people more!

But instead...you don't care. You make it seem like you would do something nice like that, and instead just...hold these things against people. You'd rather be remembered as a girl that tried to kill everyone over the girl that just wanted to keep her family safe.

I'll be sure to tell them if I see them.

[It's a cruel thing to say. He knows it. But what she did...it feels worse. Like she earned such a thing.]