GY ENDGAME POST

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GRAVEYARD - END GAME

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Friday

It's been a long stay.

Seven weeks have elapsed since the gates to Aira Niluc were opened to guests of various worlds, and for seven weeks a game of trust and betrayal have whittled the living's numbers down until only a mere third remained on that side. And in exchange, the population of the dead grew as they continued their story on this side.

But the story is coming to a close, almost as if the world itself demands it.

Because sometime Friday morning, oddities start to become apparent within the fabric of this space: buildings starting to deteriorate as their colors start to fade, foods beginning to molder and rot, trees and mountains far in the background flickering briefly show sketch-like outlines before reverting back to normal. While most of the main locations remain fairly intact, there is no area on this side that lays untouched by the sense that this place is starting to unravel, bit-by-bit.

Still, the walls that separate you all from the living hold fast even now, not allowing any of the dead to cross through into the other side.

Perhaps that's not the point here, though. After all, you all still have your own ending to write, here and now.

[Welcome to the Graveyard's Endgame post! The previous posts for Weeks 2-5 and Weeks 6-7 have been linked above.]

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ONE LAST CATHERD FOR THE ROAD, MAYBE

[mathodical]

[ right. okay. now that there's been some information flying around, william has started to put together the skeleton of a plan. ideally he would write it down, but that's a little bit difficult to do at the moment where they're gathered so. a brief run down:

objective: eliminate ferry, prevent ferry from obtaining final crystal

plan of attack:
1. c-ta and rika to lead a team to the cellar of the general store to stock up on weapons and any other materials that would be useful
2. a team of scouts on horseback to keep an eye on the store, try and sus out ferry's location, ideally without her knowing
3. on the off chance that ferry discovers where we are, to get her away from the store so that the raid team has enough time to regroup/redistribute weapons. lead ferry to ice maze area due to discomfort with cold/water, use terrain to advantage with snowballs/ice magic if necessary, long range weapon users to help to attack from afar. Possible use of the pumpkin carriage etc. for further distractions
4. final confrontation at the rift in the geletaria? "then seek comfort in pitch dark" - rift does not respond to physical attacks but magic? ]

... It's a plan that is extremely rough around the edges, but at the very least we have some idea of what to do if we can't attack directly.

Jack and I are probably the fastest on horseback, so if there are any changes in the plan, we will disseminate information accordingly. If anyone has any suggestions to refine this, voice them now and we can incorporate them into the plan of action.

Let Yuuta and Rika know what you need from the cellar so that they can keep a look out, they're the most familiar with it.

[laytorest]

I can help run interference to prevent her from reaching the raid group.

[mearry]

Koutarou's coming with me too. If anything, he's probably more used to doing physical labor than Rika or I.

[ he nods. ]

If we can take bags from the general store, we'll probably be able to stock up quicker.

[gemuinemanagement]

[Nod nod. He'll carry so much stuff, you guys.]

[foxetious]

Junko-chan and I will form a group to keep watch over the holder, in case the monster attempts ta reclaim it. If part of the plan is to lead it around ta another location, we might be able to help there as well, assuming the monster can sense where the crystal is hidden.

Unless ya'd rather we station ourselves near any noncombatants, ta protect them too?

[heroicact]

I believe our priorities are stocking up on weapons, but especially magic and long-range weaponry -- I will need a gun and ammunition if it is available, and Raven is in need of more arrows. In addition, we should see how many intact potions and elixirs we can find; in the absence of information about our opponent, those may be one of our biggest priorities as we scout her abilities.

... Admittedly, I know very little about the rift, so I will have to leave that part of the plan to others.

And it will be best to focus our plan going forward on both attack and defense -- above all, we do not want her to get that last crystal.

[laytorest]

If she left my needle blade there, please try to pick it up too.

[mearry]

[ thumbs up ]

[laytorest]

Thank you! If everything goes well, I might even get another chance to drive it into her slimy, disgusting skull ♥

[mearry]

Elixirs...magic...which ones should we go for? If she's making ash, then shouldn't we assume that maybe she has some sort of fire magic thing going on?

[ he's just writing things down in suga's memo. sorry bf. ]

Yor-san went with us, Raven-san and Morgan-san did too, but they took a different direction where the paths diverged.

[gemuinemanagement]

[go for it tbh]

[heroicact]

At this point, given the state of the shop, we should try to get our hands on anything we can find. Even if Ferry is immune to fire magic, the things around her are not; the more explosive firepower we have, the better we may be able to manipulate that.

[Basically: the ability to blow shit up is still useful no matter what you use it on, but because Jack is Jack he has to turn it into a 20-minute spiel forgive me.]

The advantage of the rift is that it may give us darkness, yes? But take care that it doesn't become a trap.

[mearry]

It'll definitely become a trap. But if she really does hate B as much as she said she did, then maybe we can trap her with us. It might give us the opening we need to run away.

[amortristis]

[ materializes ]

There's another portal out a ways out from where things diverged. The closer we got to it, our forms started losing their corporeality and a sense of not being able to return from it, so we didn't press any further.

[goldencave]

... Now that I think of it, the pumpkin carriage might break down if it gets too far from the clock tower. Anyone know if we have something more stable around here?

[heroicact]

Speaking of stables, I do recall seeing a cart of some sort there, and we will potentially need more horses in order to carry out our plan. That should be a stop on our supplying journey as well.

[goldencave]

That'll work.

items get

[gemuinemanagement]

[Hi, they're back and they have so much stuff. So much stuff.]

Will this do

Re: items get

[goldencave]

[ Norton's found a horse-drawn cart at the ranch and parked it outside. It's on the smaller side, meant to transport hay and the like, but maybe... ]

... Better than nothing.

[heroicact]

[I will say that Jack probably went with to help lead a few more horses over, so we also have HORSES OUT THE WAZOO. Even if they're sketch-ass horses. ☆]

I believe that with this our supplying step is complete. Next...

[Well, next comes the murder?]

Scouting party back!!

[mathodical]

[ once the raid is over: ]

She's in the palace. Deep inside, I think - Yor and I saw the sparkles outside and leading into the building but I don't think we saw her at all.

[ a pause, and: ] I suspect the palace is one of her strongholds, so we might have to lure her out into the open with the prospects of getting the last crystal, even if we have no intention of handing it over to her.

[laytorest]

As long as we can keep Lucifer on the move, that would be a good lure, wouldn't it? Would we be able to have someone bring him on horseback to the rift?

[heroicact]

If she could sense the location of the crystal, I feel she would have gone directly after its holder. There is little reason not to, after all -- though she may have other plans in the palace that we will need to go in to understand.

Therefore, letting her know the location of the crystal in any way should, I feel, be one of our last resorts as well.

[heroicact]

I see... It may be a challenge to lure her out, so our options could be more limited than we realized. Still, we have some things on our side -- I would advise saving the crystal as a last resort.

Thus, we may need to prepare to fight her at the palace as needed; if we could lure her out in the process, that would be ideal; but perhaps our first priority should be testing some of her weaknesses.

Should we enter the palace with that in mind?

[foxetious]

Ya mentioned immunity ta fire, but perhaps settin' fire ta the palace could lure it out? No beast likes its den bein' threatened.