DEAD 02

[thecomputer]

[Greetings, terminatees!]

[You regain consciousness in a waiting room of some sort. Something is clearly odd - your entire body is slightly transparent, and everything you were carrying with you aside from your clothes is gone. On the plus side, you seem to be impervious to all harm.]

[There is an end table with two stacks of papers. One is a large area to write in (there is a small assortment of pens next to this), and the other all bear the same message:]

Congratulations! You have died.

Please wait in this area until such time as the exercise is terminated. At that time, you will be transferred to your appropriate afterlife. If you were assigned a Communist role, rest easy knowing that any ultimatum given as part of your motivation was false.

If you have any questions, please shout them into the air, and a representative will get back to you within 5-100,000 business days. If you have any final messages for the living, please write them on form B and submit it into the slot in the south wall. Delivery is not guaranteed.

[Sure enough, there’s a slot. In addition, a hallway connects this room with a much larger room, not unlike a movie theatre. A large screen on the far wall shows various events back in the facility as they unfold in real time. A side alcove provides slightly transparent popcorn and a water cooler, although hunger, thirst and exhaustion don’t seem to exist here.]

Comments

[absolutejustice]

The communists sacrificed their right to sympathy when they killed me and Greed! Orders or no, they are complicit in acts of evil, and will pay the price!

[dictator_ko]

The citizen team killed me. No one's innocent.

[absolutejustice]

You murdered Anthy before any of this started. Your death wasn't murder, it was retribution.

[dictator_ko]

Is retribution justice? ♪ And will it be justice if they kill another citizen again? Because they will, if not today then tomorrow or the day after. In short, the only one who'll be happy'll be me. Because this's fun to watch. ♪

[absolutejustice]

I believe in them! They've already identified most of the villains, so it's only a matter of time before justice triumphs! If a few more people have to die along the way, so be it!

[dictator_ko]

If we weren't dead, I'd make you my toy. You'd be a pretty fun one.

[ossifragant]

To be fair, they were after that worthless sack of shit, Clay.

It just happened that friend computer paired me up with that worm of a man for this game.

[absolutejustice]

You or Clay, it doesn't matter. They acted in the service of evil, and now they will die.

[ossifragant]

What would you have done had you been chosen as a communist? Vote for yourself?

[He gestures broadly with his hands.]

This, all of this is a farce. There's no point in vengeance when you're a ghost. I'd say sit back and enjoy watching all of them kill each other, but I think you're already doing that.

[absolutejustice]

If the Citizens were not complicit in evil, I wouldn't participate. Let the damn Computer kill me if it wants.

[ossifragant]

Hate the Communists if you want, I really don't care, but personally I would turn my wrath towards the person who created that computer.

This game was never designed with the intention of letting the Citizens win. It was designed to slaughter us.

[absolutejustice]

That's right. If I knew how to reach that person, I'd kill them in a heartbeat.

[ossifragant]

So would I.

I don't even know if I'm really dead right now or if this is yet another aspect of the game. Maybe we'll get our chance, maybe we won't. I'd kill him and I'd take my time doing it.

But I have a feeling those most likely to die tonight aren't going to be one of the Communists.