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There's No Place Like Traumabonding for the Holidays

HOLIDAY MURDERGAME WHERE ARE THEY NOW MEME

It's the hap-happiest season of all, and what better way to celebrate than by remembering that one (or more) horribly traumatic experience that permanently changed the face of not only your relationships but possibly your outlook on life itself?

Any character (including NPCs!) who's ever been in any murdergame is invited! Feel free to share with your friends!

Regardless of how you choose to use this meme, there's two blanket rules:
1) Make sure the header of your comment has your character's name, home canon, and murdergame listed. If you used the same account for several murdergames, you can use the same toplevel for all of them.
2) No blank comments! First and foremost this is a chance to catch up with old murdergame buddies, and maybe make new ones if you choose! Thus, your comment should go into whatever degree of detail you like describing what life has been like since the murdergame ended. Did life go back to normal? Did they get married? Have a kid? Move to another universe entirely and start over with their found family? Have they kept in touch? Go into as much detail as you want, just put something!

You can use this meme to set up any kind of "canon" or canon-compliant holiday threads with your castmates, big holiday party or no.

OR... you can pretend that there's an interdimensional all-murdergame nondescript winter holiday party that you've been invited to attend! Maybe the Curtains narrators made sure the Denny's was conveniently empty (don't mind the weird old guy in the woods out back), or maybe there was some other convenient arrangement. Either way, you received an invite, and you're here now! So spike the eggnog and check for mistletoe, because the night is probably going to get wild.

(If you're not down for one option or the other, just note that somewhere in your top-level.)

Have fun, and Happy Holidays!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Most people here are not aware of the Balladeer's whole Deal. Which is fine by him! But that definitely probably makes it weird when he enters the party, snaps his fingers, and cheery instrumental music starts piping in from somewhere with zero explanation. It's cool!

Afterwards, he's pretty hardcore into the mingling. Meeting new people always still sort of feels like a treat!]

So, what's your story?

[If that's rude to ask, he doesn't seem totally conscious of it. Narrators gonna narrate.

Eventually, having some unusual party sensibilities, the man very obviously produces an entire piano out of what seems to be a small closet, does not explain this to anyone, starts to play.]

Any requests? I'll probably still be able to play it if it's from your world. [He grins.] I get around.

[at this point, Salieri would've been MORE shocked if the Balladeer hadn't pulled a piano out of nowhere. But he'll lean on the top of said piano from the back, peering at him]

What about Piano Concerto in C, by Antonio Salieri?

[there's a teasing smile curling the corner of his mouth]

I don't need magic for that.

[Was he trying to show off for the randos here? Eh, maybe a tad. But he's happy to play for Salieri!]

Did you get here okay? No universe hiccups?

《Bird song!》

[Who's this rando, what's with the English, and wait, is she trying to say Free Bird?]

How'd you get a piano in here, anyway?

Really more of a guitar thing.

[He starts playing it nonetheless!]

It should've been here to begin with. What kind of party doesn't have a piano?

[Haruka bursts out laughing and applauds.]

I guess that makes sense. I mean, Aniki's band is here, and I saw some people doing karaoke, but pianos are a classic! I think. They usually show up, unless I'm just making that up off the top of my head.

Which ones are they?

[He doesn't remember seeing her at one of these before. No idea what group she was in!]

[She points over her shoulder at DCMC.] Those guys! They've been playing for, like, ever. Or ten years. Or maybe it's just been seven? I kind of lose track of time and forget things.

Time's all pretty relative when it comes to things like this, anyway.

[Which like, everybody knows! Timeline weirdness abounds!]

Was there a lot of singing, in your game? [was it also a musical, he means? probably not, but?]

Uhh, we had a karaoke machine? It got haunted a couple times. I spent a bunch of time there, but someone hid the CDs for all the inappropriate songs and I had to go find them again.

That's a fun haunting! Man, we should've done that. Tried it, anyway.

I don't even think they could tell if the haunting was working or not when they did it. I dunno, that's just what I heard from them, and that was forever, forever ago.

The first time around, I think the dead people saw everything they were doing. I didn't see any of it, but everyone else did.

[Because they were hiding it from him, because he was complicit, you know what let's not get into it!]

This last time, we couldn't see the living at all. The only haunting we really managed was actually via ~robot~.

Wait, robot? Like you guys possessed a robot or something? That sounds super cool, why didn't our friends get to do that? It wasn't even like we didn't have robots around. We had tons of those.

Not exactly. I wasn't around for any of this, but the people in the previous round, they ended up...possessed by robots controlled by the showrunner. Then, one of them was in the third round with me, plus a different version of the robot, so when he tried to reach out to the previous robot on their robot network, he sort of activated Angus too.

[Maybe he's not best given to handing out explanations of technological nonsense!]

We didn't know that at the time. Scared everyone, though.

That... sounds really, really complicated and I only sort of get it. Being possessed by a robot sounds creepy, though. Like, possessing a robot, that makes sense, 'cause it's a thing you can upload stuff into, right? Though I guess if the AI in the robot is alive and haunting you, then it's the same thing. Okay, now I follow. I think.

Yeah, uh, the one who ran the last game is still around. Not sure if he's here todaaaaay - [he peers around for a second] - but now he's a rock person that looks like Keanu Reeves.

[He grins.]

I really wasn't involved in that one, I have no idea what happened.

Too bad, too bad. Maybe someone'll know! I mean, there's, like, a million people here, right? It's like a whole prefecture's worth of party! Or at least a quarter of a city. Which is different, but still a lot.

Murdergames are popular. That's what actually started our whole run off - the audience appeal.

Wait, like literal audience? They were filming more of those or something? I mean, some of the guys we have to stop are like that...

Not exactly. Don't worry about it. I have heard about the TV show one, though!

The Balladeer | Curtains r1/r3

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