GRAVEYARD

[cluedin]

THE GRAVEYARD

No two deaths are ever quite the same. Some might remember the exact moment their lives were cut short; others might only see a blinding flash of light; the particularly unlucky ones might not recall any details whatsoever.

No matter how it ended up happening, though, all of you here will always have one thing in common: one second you're dead; the next, you wake up to find yourself in a dark room. Before you can even start to try and get your bearings, a shadowy figure appears in the doorway of your room, face lit from the bottom up by a faint, almost ethereal glow. It stands still for a few seconds before murmuring,

"Oooooh... I see dead people."

... The voice is followed by a snicker as a gloved hand flicks the light switch on, revealing the mysterious entity to be Pumpkin, the fox-eared groundskeeper. Lowering the game console that had illuminated her face, she continues, "That one never gets old. Anyway, hey, sup, you're dead, that sucks, the house is probably gonna eat you as soon as this round is over. Wanna see what everyone else is up to on the other side?"

As you take in everything the gardener has told you, you suddenly realize as you look around... though you don't see anything, why does it feel like this place is already crowded?

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[sadiskick]

No. They don't have a cure or antidote yet, do they? [ Peach said she wasn't successful, didn't she? ] Plum said being a monster could be contagious. All those letters called it like rabies.

You hurt him while transformed.

[ During the execution. ]

[shortfornow]

[ Pausing for a moment to consider it. ]

Rabies is usually spread through saliva, so someone else has a higher chance of catching it than he does. [ He bit Chuuya's neck during a fight. ] I don't think it spreads that way.

[sadiskick]

I don't think it is transferred exactly like rabies, if it can be.

[ She has no confirmations, only possible theories, but if the house wants people to kill, why not make it like a virus?

Says Meltryllis, who kills with a virus. ]

It has to be when you're completely transformed. [ It's why she asked that question when he first showed up. ] I don't know what the living's theories are for Asch during his execution, but it's my guess.

[ Since she's attacked people outside of her murder time, and they were fine. ]

[shortfornow]

I had no contact with Hunter or any of the others who were changed.

[ Dazai largely kept to a smaller group ]

My theory is everyone already has it, but it's only active whenever the house needs it to be active. So, the one who can detect it won't catch it unless the house has activated someone.

[sadiskick]

[ She shakes her head. ]

I don't know how they detect that, but if everyone has it, everyone they look for it in should come up positive. Something limits how the house can possess or infect people.

[ What that is, she doesn't know. Something about what's going on between Blue and the house, probably.

Anyway, no one will understand this but those canon familiar, but from everything said about the house by the living, Meltryllis just gets Kiara vibes. ]

It almost seems like it randomly chooses every week who it'll turn into a monster.

[ Is that right? Who knows. ]

[shortfornow]

They brought out a board game the first trial. Maybe it is randomly selected by a spinner or dice?

[ Since it's a game and the rooms matched the game board that week. ]

[sadiskick]

[ She makes a face. ]

That's stupid.

[ But she thinks this entire house is stupid, so that checks out. ]