FOURTH TRIAL

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[To what I'm sure is everyone's joy after a sad investigation like that, after everyone reaches the Stretching Room, Oogie's voice can be heard.]

Is this haunted room actually stretching? Or is it just your imagination?

[Well at least he's honoring Ghostave's memory, except he starts laughing, almost tauntingly, after he says that.

In the very least the graveyard seems identical, with three new epitaphs for our dearly departed.

Here lies Lea
Slaying bugs he made a name
And got sent to the deadliest game

Here lies WALL-E
They were our dearest friend
But that didn’t help them in the end

Here lies Tarzan?
????
?????


... Ok then.

Oogie speaks before everyone can get to their tombstones.]

Don't keep me waiting!

Comments

[arpeggiositar]

There's not really context for any of them, it's just my life. Can't get simpler than that.

[He looks away]

[amadeusrockette]

. . . I've been playing piano since I was four. There's always a context: my goldfish died once, and my father told me I had to practice. I didn't even get a break, I just had to keep playing and playing and playing.

[arpeggiositar]

[Context, alright. Demyx puts his face on his hand, leaning on his grave]

Context? Okay, fine. Uh, first there was me playing the sitar because...I don't really remember why. Then there was me sitting around in the castle's and bantering with a few of my coworkers, because I hate having to work. Then...there was me fighting some Heartless because that's what we do.

None of that is anything I'd like to change, seriously. I like to underperform, but I'm not killing a bunch of people just because I don't want to work.

[amadeusrockette]

You don't remember why you were playing? [She has some serious doubts about that.] I don't believe that. I don't believe your clips would be so inconsequential either.

[arpeggiositar]

No, I'm serious, I literally can't remember. I just know I know how to play that. And the rest -- really, it's just me hanging around with some people I know. There's...no big mystery here.

[It doesn't seem like he's lying about that, at least?]

[amadeusrockette]

No. That doesn't add up. [She doesn't remember exactly, but there was something . . .] It showed us all something terrible. Something we'd want to change.