Final Trial

[bringmecontracts]

[After everyone is done investigating the rooms, they will hear a faint creeek from the mansion’s entrance. Once they heads towards the noise they will discover a set of stairs leading to the basement that definitely weren’t there earlier.

Once they head downstairs, they will find themselves in a long hallway that seems to stretch out forever. It doesn’t, luckily, but eventually the hallway ends at a large empty room, with just a throne in the center.

The living guests will immediately realize they're not alone because King Dice is here already laying across the throne and smoking a cigar. He grins at the survivors and stand up.]

Well congrats, kids! I must say I’m impressed that that you managed to get down here alive, considering who was leading ya.

Now, I’m sure y’all have a lot of questions about what’s going on but I gotta settle something first:

[He looks directly at Michael.]

Mikey, I believe we have to finish our arrangement now.

Comments

[in4apounding]

That's not really something we would- ....Okay, Mister Wonka probably would. But I'm pretty sure no one else here is that cruel? Besides you and Mister Smoke.

[Penny please.]

And- I know what it's like to fail to protect the people you care about. ...A lot. ...Specifically because of my time here, watching everyone die.

[bringmecontracts]

For someone who wants ta understand me, you sure ain't cuttin' back on the insults.

[...]

's probably for the best anyway. He called me "good for nothin'" before dying.

[udderly]

She'd probably be nicer if you hadn't killed, like. All? Our friends?

[Just saying.]

[bringmecontracts]

Swackhammer did most of th' killin' remember?

[in4apounding]

You helped him, though? Or at least just stood back and watched, and you always seemed like you were really enjoying it?

[You are not innocent by any stretch of the imagination here bro.]

And that's- really awful for a friend to say. Like really, really awful?

[Your friend was a dick, is what she's saying.]

But- you still obviously cared about him, even if he was being a jerk? And losing one fight doesn't make you good for NOTHING.

[Even if you are a HUGE DICE-SHAPED WA-A-A-A-AD, but at least she's not saying that out loud this time.]

[bringmecontracts]

Well now ya know why I take the weed. Ya happy now?

[in4apounding]

Because your friend turned out to be a jerk but you still feel bad about not being able to protect him anyway?

[Just. Clarifying that they're actually on the same page.]

And no, not really? That's actually super sad even if it happened to someone like you. But I am pretty sure that working for a demonic smokeman and doing drugs isn't actually going to help in the longrun, because Mister Smoke is obviously going to do the same thing your other friend did sooner or later?

[bringmecontracts]

[...]

But he makes me feel good.

[He looks off into the distance as he says this.]

[candymancan]

What a juvenile response. I would've expected better out of you.

[in4apounding]

Okay, you keep saying that, and I've got to be honest, the more you do the less I believe that you actually believe it.

[Who you trying to convince, Dice Man.]

And- you know what'd probably make you feel even better? Finding a way to get stronger and going to beat up the wad that killed your friend.

[Penny no.]

That's what I'd do if something ever happened to Ruby or- or Cleo, or Beth, or Gandhi, or Mister Dinobot or Otis.

[Penny please.]

[bringmecontracts]

Ya know, the idea of revenge ain't a half bad idea.

[I can't believe it's gonna be all Penny's fault that King Dice murders a couple of children.]

[in4apounding]

[Surely nothing bad will come of this.]

And then you could- find a job at a non-murder casino? Games don't actually have to involve killing people.

[Does she still want to kill him? Yes, but THIS is the conversation that's happening NOW. She is vengeful but also easily distracted.]

[bringmecontracts]

Ya make it sound like I only do gamblin' with lives.

But I'll admit, I do miss runnin' a casino where I didn't haveta dumb down my abilities.

[in4apounding]

Well- based on what we've actually been through here, yeah, that does seem like at least something you do on a regular basis.

[Was Yugioh ever broadcast on Disney XD? Cause he'd actually fit in remarkably well in some versions of that canon.]

Right? You could play things besides blackjack with people who don't think you're a murdering w- ....whiiiiiiite cube-headed. Person.

[oh_worm]

I mean so does sassy num-nums, but you can definitely do sassy num-nums with someone who doesn't actually care about you.

[ she is 100% fucking earnest, straight-faced, and serious about this sentence. ]

[standsforrevenge]

[are we talking about vore again]

[in4apounding]

....what's a sassy num-num.

[bringmecontracts]

. . .

I'm sorry kid, I dunno what "sassy num-nums" are but I don't feel comfortable having a kid tell me about 'em.

[oh_worm]

... making out, it's just making out.

[bringmecontracts]

Ah! Well that makes sense!

... But no offense, but I'm not sure there could be anyone like that for me now, what with my history.

[oh_worm]

I mean... I'm not just talking about how you are in the ship zone, man. Just 'cause someone seems glossy and good doesn't mean they care about you. My own dang peepaw decided he wants me to have his worm god's babies when I was little, and I wasted fifteen years of my life thinking he was the best and that he freaking cared about me!

[ clears her throat. ]

Or, brief trip back to the ship zone, my last boy-squeeze? He was totally cheating on me! I'm the smart one in the Bravest Warriors, I should have been able to tell! And I couldn't even tell until now, with some distance! Rose is one bummer color for your glasses to be, KD.

[in4apounding]

[Oh noooooo, that's so sad.]

[Does. Does Beth need a hug. Penny scootches closer in case she needs a hug.]

[bringmecontracts]

... Dang.

That's messed up, kid.

[The parent wanting you to give birth to worm gods, not the teenage drama stuff.]

[udderly]

[butter lettuce pal, what in the fresh hell is a sassy num-num]

[codeofhero]

...Now is hardly the time to lose your mind, Beth.