Diana was tired of playing Blackjack and losing her "money." She didn't have time for it, not when they had such a small amount of time to buy themselves. Everyone around her wore a collar and was being ushered through to different parts of the casino. She wondered if anyone she knew was around, or if anyone had already gotten themselves free. She knew Boss had, she knew Monica was trying to, but other than that she didn't have any clue what everyone else was up to. She hadn't heard anyone trying to escape either, but then again who would want to? They would kill them the moment they tried to without even a second thought about it. They had done it to that boy, they would do it to them. She didn't like the thought of everyone dying if they didn't get enough coins. They weren't just cattle or property. No one had seemed to listen to their radio warnings and now they were all stuck here. They had fought against each other to try to be the winning district, and they were still fighting to do things against each other.
"I don't want this at all. I don't want to fight against anyone or lose anyone because they can't buy themselves. This is all just madness."
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 1:17 pm
"You can say that again," Sylvi agreed wearily, stance huddled in on herself and eyes tired. The constant gambling was taking a toll; she was pretty sure she'd never, ever fall into a gambling addiction after this. Assuming there was an 'after this' at all.
Something the announcer had said had niggled at her mind for a bit, though. Something she'd overlooked in the immediate situation but which was now presenting itself to her in its full horror.
"They said this was the tenth annual time, too." She paused, looking for words, "does that mean they've done this nine times before? Before the undying and everything else?"
Desperation was one thing - a horrendous, terrible thing but still something understandable. But if they'd been doing this for years before everything went to hell in a handbasket... Sylvi shuddered, wrapping her arms tighter around herself.
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 1:38 pm
"I...hadn't even thought of that." If they had been doing it before day zero wouldn't they have been arrested by the authorities though? It was definitely illegal to do what they were doing to all of them. Unless they meant..."Do you think they did this sort of thing to other day zero survivors? Maybe they promised safety and nice things when really they were just herding them into here like they had done us. At least it could be a possibility or something," she muttered, turning to glance at the person she was speaking to. She'd seen her around a couple of times, but this was really the first time she'd spoken to her. They'd sort of formed their own little small cliques and kept to them, but now wasn't really the time to do that. They needed to watch out for their faction and save them all. If not things much worse could happen to them all. They could even lose the prison if they weren't careful.
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 1:48 pm
Sylvi hummed, considering the idea. "I guess so, but this is the first time I've seen any fireworks displays since Day Zero. They could have grabbed survivors and kept them here, though - 'annual' seems to insinuate that it has a set date, I think."
"Wait, actually," her brow furrowed as she remembered, "you might be right. They - they took me to this small room with two bound people in it and said they were people from last time who didn't manage to buy themselves out. That must have been recent, right? You can't just... keep people around for a year without anyone noticing," she hesitated, "can you?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 1:54 pm
"Well if it had been before day zero wouldn't there have been missing person reports? Or authorities being called about it at least? There were losers, so there had to be winners too. They would've said something to the authorities wouldn't they? If there were a lot of losers to, that's a lot of people to go missing. I think the city would've been a bit more...well up in arms about something like that if it had happened before. And if it happened after...well we're all trying to survive and were in our own factions. How are we to know if people were out there getting kidnapped or not?" This was all getting stranger and stranger. The undying seemed like such a small problem now compared to all this conspiracy stuff, but even then she couldn't really say that either. It was all a threat to them, and the threats just kept adding up.
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Total: 218+168+154= 540
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 2:04 pm
"Maybe they kept to people who wouldn't be missed?" It was just a guess, but it was possible. People with no connections, who wouldn't have someone to report them missing - the last cycles might have been more organized, researched than the current one. It was the zombie uprising after all, no-one was going to be able to step in and stop something like this. But before, there'd have people and organizations you wouldn't want to tip off about something like this. The current situation would have allowed them freer reign.
As for the winners... "It's not a pleasant thought," not that any of this was, really, "but they might not be telling the truth about letting us go." Sylvi shrugged, tired. "Anyone who would do something like this isn't someone I'd trust to tell the truth about, well, anything, least of all their nefarious plans."
On the plus side, she'd always wanted to use nefarious in an actual conversation. So there was that.
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Character's name: Sylvi Ravnholt Character's faction: Prison Character's journal link:Link Character's survival stats: Stats BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Toned and athletic without being super buff, 177cm tall, wider than average hips, small to medium boobs. More bottom heavy than top heavy. reference Casino coins: 96 Value: 135
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Well whatever had happened to the others didn't matter now as much as she hated to think it. They were either dead or free so they weren't affecting them in any way. The only thing that mattered right now was them getting themselves out. Thinking about the overall terrors happening wouldn't give them coins.
"I hate saying this, but we can't worry about it now. We have to focus on rescuing the people that we know are here now and stop ourselves from continuing to be their cattle. If there's a bigger picture to all of this we will figure it out later once we're free, yeah?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 2:26 pm
"Right," Sylvi agreed one hundred percent. "Now isn't the time for investigating; not on such a short time frame, at least. Later." And then they could stop this travesty once and for all, hopefully.
Determination renewed, she nodded to the other woman, "we should get back to earning coins so we can get the hell out of dodge, yeah?"
((Wordcount reached! +10 coins : DD))
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Character's name: Sylvi Ravnholt Character's faction: Prison Character's journal link:Link Character's survival stats: Stats BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Toned and athletic without being super buff, 177cm tall, wider than average hips, small to medium boobs. More bottom heavy than top heavy. reference Casino coins: 106 Value: 135
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