jello? jello anyone?

[negaverse]

[And so, later after that absolutely lovely end to the trial, the guests of the Murder Manor (tm) will find themselves with an invitation slipped under their doors. The handwriting is godawful but still legible, hopefully. They're not signed by anyone though. 

 

PARTY FOR THE DEAD GUY IN THE DINING ROOM

FOOD AND DRINK PROVIDED BY YOURS TRULY

Though, when you actually get there the food is.... definitely not anything you'd ever want to eat. There's chicken in jello, vegetables in jello, cake in jello. Like, nothing is free of jello.

Oh, and the drinks? Among them is a bowl labeled vodka, but it's definitely not vodka. It's actually straight up vinegar, but no one has to know that right? 

Last but not least is an absolutely lovely banner made out of a bed sheet hanging over the door that leads into the area that just says "FUCK YOU" in big letters.

Anyway, go wild. Have a awful great time.]

 

Comments

[holdthetrumpet]

It was still awful. I don't know how it went so wrong.

[pinkflip]

Maybe it was the wand? Where- do you know whose it is?

[holdthetrumpet]

Uh, it's... it's a long story. It belongs to my wife's fairy godmother?

[Which wouldn't have sounded stupid two weeks ago but, now... he's not so sure.]

[pinkflip]

Oh. Wow, sounds handy. Sooo, not the kind of person who...would try to magic-up that kind of stuff. Gotcha. Maybe it's this place?

[holdthetrumpet]

That's what I thought. At first I thought maybe it was trying to undo magic with magic that was making it go wrong, but I think it just might be that this place is evil enough to make the magic evil too.

But I'm not an expert, I don't know.

[pinkflip]

...A really strong evil can influence anything, I've found. It can break, and...suck the energy out of anything, no matter how nice the intent.

If this place is anything at all? I think it's that kind of evil.

[holdthetrumpet]

[fucking yikes]

So it's good I hid it. I wouldn't want anyone else to try to help and...

[He waves a hand, and then clasps them both in front of him. Mmmm. Summon more dead bodies, he doesn't say.]

[pinkflip]

[ YOU KNOW. FOR KIDS! ]

Definitely good. Even if it's someone who knows magic, I- ...I wouldn't trust any of us trying to use it.

[holdthetrumpet]

[This is a Disney game]

Maybe I should snap it.

[pinkflip]

[ She chew on her lower lip. ]

Maybe? But...if it's that important... A fairy godmother's wand sounds like a big deal.

[holdthetrumpet]

[He runs a hand back through his hair.]

That's why I didn't do it right then. I don't know if that wouldn't just make it worse. Maybe it would have exploded, there's no way to know, and then what if she couldn't get a new one?

[Because the magic comes from the wand, that much is obvious.]

[pinkflip]

Yeah... I think just, keep an eye on it? I know everyone was scared back there, but I bet with some thought- ...I bet they won't want anything to do with magic in this place.

[holdthetrumpet]

That's the one saving grace, I guess. No one who saw that should want to go anywhere near it.

[But they thought no one would kill and yet here they are, with two of their number dead.]

[pinkflip]

Exactly.

[ Why you gotta ruin the mood action text ]

...At least those stupid curses are gone.

[holdthetrumpet]

[Action text in murder games is always like this]

Thank goodness. I've never been more happy just to see my own face in a mirror.

[pinkflip]

I missed talking. [ no one would know kimberly. no one would know. ] But so many of the others had worse ones, I'm glad we don't- you know, that it's actually cleared.

[ The how they got cleared is something we are not going to talk about, no sir. ]

[holdthetrumpet]

I can't even imagine if we had just... stayed like that. Going forward.

[Mmmmm.]

I guess the one good takeaway is, uh. Deals get upheld, here.

[Gross as that feels to say. It's hard to phrase right.]

I mean, we can trust the rules to stay what they are.

[pinkflip]

[ The finger she pricked earlier stings, just a bit. ]

Yeah- yeah, hopefully. This... Did you see- there's a new guy, the one who the doctor called the Phantom. He was wandering around earlier. Said he was going to...be the new host.

I hope with that guy, things don't get...well, more weird.

[holdthetrumpet]

[He nods.]

I did. But he was always sort of in charge, right? So things shouldn't change too much. There's just no middle-man now.

[He kind of prefers that. It's easier to negotiate directly, if negotiating is in the cards.]

[pinkflip]

He was. ...It's funny, I didn't picture a guy like that as the face behind the Phantom.

[ More bone, more spook. ]

[holdthetrumpet]

A lot of things here are... odd. It stands to reason he'd be odd too, I think.

[Honestly if it was just a straight forward haunt-em-up he'd be a lot more surprised, at this point. He made a skinned lion fall from the ceiling. Anything's on the table now.]

[pinkflip]

I guess...I was just hoping for some kind of theme.

[ i mean she's the girl who fights monsters like the pudgy pig and eye guy, she's very used to them being straightforward ]

[holdthetrumpet]

You mean more rattling chains and visible bones? Maybe a scythe?

[He's kind of glad that's not the case honestly. Yikes.]

[pinkflip]

Yeah, exactly actually, how'd you guess?

[ like honestly after lord zedd's gross exposed muscles your imagine kind of goes wild ]