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Atua
Hahahahahahahhaaaaaa! So, here we are. Nine of you alive, when a true Killing Game ends with one. It falls upon Me, then, to ensure the Killing Game ends as it should.

For when the Third Ritual is finally completed, no longer will I need to possess a mortal body with its weaknesses to manifest. Jabberwock Castle, the OCGA Central Facility, and Silver Junction... Together, they will create My fully divine body, and allow Me an eternal dominion upon the earth!

But, I admit the odds are against Me. I could push my luck, and challenge you to nine against one. But why bother risking Myself, when I have an army bound to Me, one I shall summon here!

Glowing with sheer liturgic energy, Atua slams his hands into the ground. The energy washes over Silver Junction, the Cemetery glowing brightly as the light from the Mine shines far enough to be visible from outside the Orange Building. The bodies of those who died in Silver Junction begin to awaken... not merely those who perished during this game, but the dead of the past as well. Those sacrificed to Atua's name in the previous game.

And beyond that... ghosts. Hundreds of ghosts. Thousands, tens of thousands. Fragile spirits, shacked to his will.

Atua
Behold, everyone who has ever been sacrificed in My name! From the ancient ritual sacrifices held to please Me, to the two Killing Games held by Yonaga. But I see that sheer numbers will not be enough. Allow me to correct that with three decisions.

For the first...

Looking at Kroos, Atua raises his hand. Her body is surrounded by Liturgic energy, and Kroos climbs to her feet, glowing with golden skin and red eyes of her own... not that you can see the eyes. Take our word for it.

Atua
The rage of being the one who was struck down just before the end is immense. Allow me to offer a method of revenge.

As Kroos looks around, her thoughts unknowable, one more figure strolls up. It looks at first like one of the ghosts, but then you notice the sheer amount of Liturgy pouring off the ghost in question.

And when you look at who it is, you realize it's a very, very bad thing.

Ol' Pete's got a new lease on life!
I told you the big man was here for a big break
Now the film's got a REAL star, one all about justice

Atua
And his bond to Me... though he is unorthodox, I have been granted a new High Priest. Let him lead the way for My future glories.

And for the third... Roland. My cultist who I empowered to aid Me in my quest for glory. I shall take your invicibility back, and you will die like the rest.

Now, I believe all the preparations are in order...

Momoyo Himemushi
Just one last thing! If we're all getting up and going, well, I don't think I need to sit up here and observe anymore, huh?

I think for this... I'll come down off the mountain.

As Momoyo begins to shift position, slowly moving down the mountain, Atua just laughs. Whether she's with him or against him, not even he knows. But the one thing he does know... is that this will be a gauntlet to remember, should those left in the game try to escape!

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Endgame has arrived! You have two choices:
-You may kill each other off, aiming to stand solely and alone as the survivor of the Wild West Killing Game, ushering in Atua's new dominion.
-You may choose to band together against Atua, uniting to destroy him. Should you stand against him, you can use the Locomotive to escape after bringing the parts to the engine and repairing it.

The legions of the dead have been summoned! Atua has brought back all those who have ever died in His name, a massive horde spanning millennia. There are tens of thousands of ghosts, fragile summons that easily fall en masse but have numbers on their side, and tens of zombies, the resurrected dead of Silver Junction with greater strength and durability.

Additionally, the dead of Wild West KG have been summoned back as wraiths, the recency of their death allowing full autonomy in the face of Atua's attempt at control. Wraiths may not kill players, but can help or harm them as they desire. People who used multiple dupes during the game can only submit full action sets for one wraith, but are allowed to request a cameo for others.

@Kroos the Keen Glint has been resurrected as the Liturgic Herald. She has enhanced strength, speed, and skill, and shines with holy light. Lita may choose her path forward, whether to side with Atua or against him.

@Pete n VB has been resurrected as the High Priest of Atua. He is played by the host, and fully devoted to his new role, which has given him massive stat increases and an endless supply of bullets - though only six in a gun at a time. Pete must be killed for good to have any hope of escaping Silver Junction.

@Momoyo Himemushi remains in her centipede form, but is no longer bound as an observer. Her allegiance and desire are unknown.

Tonight's weather is Divine. The golden glow from Atua's ruptured horns has seeped into the land, the air, and you. You feel like you can accomplish feats you would have never been able to do otherwise. To put it simply, you can be incredibly anime.

THE MAP (Credit to Yap for the centipede graphic!)

First Floor: Show

Purple Building
Desert Sage Dorm: One of the three large dorm rooms. This one is decorated with a bunch of desert flowers.
Sheriff's Office: The office of the one lawman in the town. Contains an officer's desk, several guns, and the Jail Cell.
Jail Cell: A jail cell, to, unsurprisingly, jail people. A hole has been punched in the side of the wall, rendering it useless to jail people. You can just walk in and out now.
General Store: A store stocked with all sorts of dry goods. The destination for all items you could want in the Wild West that aren't stocked elsewhere! There's a locked trapdoor in the floor.
Army Post: A well-equipped military depot, with everything from rations to weapons that a handful of soldiers might need.
Lift: A large freight elevator that goes down to the Construction Garage. The controls are destroyed, and the lift is jammed at the bottom level.

Blue Building
Lobby: This building is fully modern, unlike the old-timey other five buildings. The glass-walled lobby full of plush chairs to sit in is a great example.
Theater: An old fashioned movie theater with modern projection equipment. Perfect for screening Wild West films after making them!
Archives: A large number of filing cabinets sit in this room, full of information on past Wild West film shoots that took place in Silver Junction. The door is locked.
Executive Office: A fancy, plush office with a large chair and larger desk, for whoever's in charge of the current movie productions.

Green Building
Prickly Pear Dorm: One of the three large dorm rooms. This one is decorated with a bunch of cacti.
Chapel: A non-denominational chapel to pray to whatever you may choose to pray to. We don't judge.
Newspaper: A room to run off the day's paper, complete with a printing press and a few desks for the newshounds.
Bank: A fancy, well-equipped bank, complete with a manager's office and plenty of tellers - as well as some money lying around. The back has a large vault door.
Vault: A locked vault behind a large vault door in the bank. It looks very complex to open, and it's marked High Security.

Yellow Building
Saloon: The big bar of Silver Junction. Lots of booze behind a bar, a piano with curtains on the side, plenty of tables, and of course every door is the swinging saloon doors.
Gun Store: A store selling all kinds of guns, from pistols to shotguns to rifles. Free to take and use to all customers!
Farrier: A small shop containing everything one could need to take care of a horse properly.
Stable: A stable currently inhabited by four horses. Whoever stocked them was cheeky enough to pick a red horse, a black horse, a white horse, and a pale gray horse.

Orange Building
Century Agave Dorm: One of the three large dorm rooms. This one is decorated with a bunch of low-growing desert plants.
Blacksmith: With a furnace at full blast, this blacksmith's shop is fantastic for making metal tools.
Carpenter: This room is full of woodworking tools and wood to work with for those tools.
Ruined Mine: The collapsed remains of a mineshaft, creating a deep hole in the middle of the building. Plenty of rocks to poke at if you want.
Mineral Storage: A place to store whatever minerals were dredged up from the mine when it was active. It's full of pyrite.
Mining Equipment: A large room, full of shovels, pickaxes, and any other non-explosive mining equipment your heart could possibly desire.
Explosives Storage: A room with plenty of dynamite, blasting caps, and whatever else you'd need for a big boom. The door is locked, but a hole has been blasted open in the south wall.

Red Building
Train Platform: An open-air platform for people to wait for the train. Contains a few clocks and a few benches.
Passenger Lounge: A comfortable waiting area and ticket counter for people to relax while waiting for the train.
Post Office: A small station to store, sort, and receive letters, of which there are currently a blizzard's worth.
Telegraph Office: An office to send and receive telegrams up and down the line. The door is locked.
Locomotive: A full-sized steam locomotive with a tender, three passenger cars, and a caboose attached. Several necessary parts of the engine have been removed, so it's not going anywhere.

Exterior Locations
Cemetery: A graveyard. It's currently devoid of graves beyond a few old headstones, but that could very well change here.
Livestock Corral: A small pen, holding several cattle. There's also a few chickens, for some reason.
Water Tower Field: A debris field created by the collapse of the Water Tower. Rather annoying to pick your way through.
Plot: A roped off and well-tilled plot of land. Community garden in progress.
Outhouses: A pair of new outhouses constructed by Reginald Fikwerther in a more useful location.
Outhouse Crater: There was a bathroom here. It's gone now.
Canal: A small stream of water running along a pre-dug ditch, starting from a spring in the rocks.

Second Floor: Show

Purple Building
Officer's Club: A fancy bar meant for army officers. With the lack of those in the vicinity, it's become open to all.
Schoolhouse: A small, one-room school. Well equipped for general lessons, less well equipped for specialized.
Mayor's Office: The office of the Mayor of Silver Junction, holding all kinds of documents and records relating to the old town.
Courthouse: The judicial location of the county, back in the day. Contains a judge's bench, witness stand, desks for attorneys, and a jury box.
Hallway: An ordinary hallway to connect the 2F rooms in the purple building. There's some paintings on the walls, at least.

Blue Building
Soundstage: A big soundstage, perfectly designed for filming. There's a few different backdrops available to choose from, all fitting the Wild West theme.
Film Equipment: A storage room for the movie set building, holding the camera equipment and plenty of props for any Western you care to film.
Recording: A soundproof room for recording voice. Full of recording equipment, ranging from the gramophone to the modern systems.
Breakroom: A comfortable room to relax in during all the filming. Has several couches and tables, a coffee machine, and a fridge.

Green Building
Tailor: Plenty of clothing lies around in this store, all of it befitting the Wild West aesthetic on display.
Laundry: A hand-wash laundry, with everything you need to wash 'em and dry 'em both.
Barbershop: A fancy barbershop, equipped well for both haircuts and dentistry as necessary.
Law Office: The office of the town's only lawyer. Contains difficult-looking legal books in a row, a nice desk, and far too many papers.
Tobacconist: A tobacco shop, full of plenty of cigars, cigarettes, and chewing tobacco to imitate whatever noir or western trope you desire.

Yellow Building
Restaurant: A nice restaurant, complete with a small kitchen. Unimpressive compared to the OCGA Central Facility.
Gambling Parlor: A smoke-filled room set up for all sorts of games of chance and luck.
Brewery: A room set up for the easy production of moonshine. Saloon's gotta stay supplied, right?
Hotel: A small hotel with a few beds set up for sleeping. Perfect for quick layovers.

Orange Building
Doctor's Office: A basic doctor's office, for taking care of injuries in the West. Contains various doctor's tools, a cot, and a locked medicine cabinet.
Funeral Home: An undertaker's room, to work on laying to rest the deceased. When there's not a constant supply of them you can't keep up with, that is.
Pharmacy: With plenty of cheap drugs, nothing here is as good as the medicine in the Doctor's Office, but it can still come in handy.
Target Range: A shooting gallery set up to practice your gunplay. If you didn't bring your own, it's got plenty of guns and ammo ready to go.
Trading Post: A small trading post that caters specifically to selling to the miners, rather than the open nature of the general store.

Red Building
Railworker Quarters: A small sleeping area for employees of the railroad. It's got beds and not much else.
Station Storage: A storage room located in the train station. Contains various parts for the track and gear for employees.

Basement Floor: Show

Purple Building
Storeroom: The storeroom underneath the General Store. Everything in the General Store? There's even more of it here. Contains a locked tunnel to the Rectory and a passcode door to the rest of the Purple Building's basement.
Construction Garage: A large underground garage, with an excavator, bulldozer, and drill tank. It also has a large shutter in the west wall.
Liturgic Silver Processing: A room designed to drain Liturgic Esotera out of the silver in Silver Junction, after it was saturated with the stuff by whatever happened in the past.
Crimson Eye Storage Facility: A storage facility for the Crimson Eye. Contains body armor, modern guns, and other normal high-end equipment necessary for suiting up.
Lift: A large freight elevator that goes up to by the Sheriff's Office. The controls are destroyed, and the lift is jammed at the bottom level.

Blue Building
Sacristy: The room to prepare for services in the church. Notably, despite the church starting as Protestant Christianity, the materials available in the church reflect a completely different religion, that of Atuaism.
Rectory: The room and board provided with the church, and thus the room where Spencer Edwards lived during the early 1870s.
Church Records: A room holding archives of church documents from Silver Junction's original time.
Crypt: An old, moldy crypt. Contains a few skeletons. Spooky.
Shrine to Atua: A small shrine specifically dedicated to Atua, the God of Killing Games.

Green Building
Crimson Eye Liturgic Research Laboratory: A complex lab designed to study the nature of Liturgic Esotera, the magic of faith. Set up by the paranormal crime gang, the Crimson Eye. The staircase heads up to the Vault.
Liturgic Study Records: Years' worth of records on the Crimson Eye's experiments in Silver Junction.
Liturgic Equipment Room: A room full of the high-tech experimental equipment developed based on the Liturgic experiments. Contains a locked tunnel to the Rectory.
Liturgic Testing Range: A room with a sealed chamber and an observation area, designed to test equipment in relative safety.

Yellow Building
Generator Room: A room with a couple large generators, supplying all the power to Silver Junction.
Server Hall: Racks upon racks of computer servers stand here, with unexamined data in abundance.
Cold Storage: A deep-frozen room with plenty of preserved food and preserved chemicals. And the preserved bodies of the Crimson Eye operatives Deathborn killed.
Maintenance Office: A standard office for maintenance staff.

Orange Building
Paranormal Division Headquarters: The headquarters of the Union Army Paranormal Division, roughly carved from the rock. Contains a whole lot of information about their mission and the Silver Junction 1873 Incident, though the last part of that incident was sealed by the President's order.
Union Army Barracks: A sleeping place for the Paranormal Division soldiers during 1873. You can use it, though it's a little unmaintained.
Army Supply Depot: An old supply depot. Full of rotten food and old materials, though the latter still works.
Occultic Weaponry Storage: The Union Army's storage of Occultic-empowered weaponry.
Mineshaft: The mineshaft that connects the Ruined Mine room to the underground Mine itself. Contains a hidden door to the Paranormal Division HQ.

Red Building
Monitoring Station: A room designed to record and study the levels of Esotera in Silver Junction at all times.
Liturgic Gate: This room previously held a gate that allowed only those with innate Liturgic energy to pass through. Has been disabled
Storage Closet: A slightly musty janitorial closet at the far end of the Basement. Contains the missing parts of the Locomotive's engine.

LIVING PLAYERS
Desert Sage Dorm
-@North Star
-@Madame Zalsarona

Prickly Pear Dorm
-@Akira Kogami
-@Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
-@Agent Evangeline (NPC)

Century Agave Dorm
-@Ranger
-@Roland
-@McJango
-@Jessica

???
-@Atua (NPC)
-@Momoyo Himemushi (NPC)
-@Kroos the Keen Glint (Liturgic Herald)
-@Pete n VB (High Priest of Atua)

Submissions are due in 120 hours, at 10 PM EDT on June 8th.

This post was last modified: Jun 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM by Marisa Kirisame.

Oh hey, I'm back! I guess if the mastermind is bringing me back, I can take this opportunity to run from the shinigami and not pass on!



Momoyo, lemme join whatever you're planning! Bet that will be best for me too, and I'm sure I can help you!

Ol' Pete's got a new lease on life!
I told you the big man was here for a big break
Now the film's got a REAL star, one all about justice

Excuse me?

EXCUSE ME?

Listen, there's only room for one has-been film star rebound come back special around here, and that's ME! THE NOISE.

You can keep waiting for Hollywood or Pride Wood or whatever to call you, but when that phone rings, there's only gonna be ONE guy calling.

. . . . . . . . . . . . .


A... tua... A...tua... A...tua...
Curse... you...

...

I can't see anymore. All around is blackness...

Lynne... Roland... Bud...
I am sorry...

I have failed... the task I was given...

I was not... I was... not...

...

I don't know anymore, where I am.
This is nowhere. I am not dead.

No, I am not dead. This is not that.
This is worse.

I will be here forever, in this darkness. I...

I...

My, aren't you a sight for sore eyes.

......?



Who is there?
I cannot see. I cannot...

What a surprise. Roni, I didn't think you'd be this dull in old age.

S... Skje?
Skje, is that you?




Ha ha, finally! That's the girl who shot me through the heart!
Roni, what happened? You shrank so much since I last saw you!

Forgot to eat your carrots again, haven't you? Ha ha, typical.

Skje, Skje I am sorry...
I was involved in another killing game, and I made a huge mistake...

I got attached again... Even though I swore I wouldn't... And in my grief...
I threw away the life you've given me.

.....



I... I don't know what to do with these people.

I give them food, they throw it on the ground.
I give them water, they try to poison it.
I... I give them a savior... and... they drown him in the river.

I don't know how to help them. I don't...

Shhhh... Roni. It's all right.
You have tried your best, I can see that.

You tried to step up and be a leader for these folks. That is impressive.
But you forgot one thing!

You are a SHEEP, Roni.
Sheep do not LEAD. They are meant to FOLLOW.




...?

You... are not Skje.
This is not something the Skje I knew would say.

Who are you? And why are you wearing my old friend's face?

Oh, me? I'm the one who answered your call.
You forsook your soul to summon me, don't you remember?



I am THE BLACK SHEEP. An entity christened by your desire for revenge.
You may think of me as an emissary of the abyss... or perhaps a door-to-door salesman.

I have come to you with an offer.

Let me have the body you threw away so carelessly...
and in exchange, you will have the head of the false god you despise so much.



And... what becomes of me?

You will be able to rest in peace, knowing that the golden godling walks no more.

Your suffering has come to an end.
Go to sleep now, Roni. Everything is going to be all right.



Everything is going to be all right.



Everything... is all right.

Goodbye. Zalsarona, daughter of Zaffria.
You have played your part well.

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SILVER JUNCTION -- FINAL NIGHT

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Everyone. I must thank you.

Your noble sacrifice of ONE WITHERED OLD CRONE has been received.

Yes, from the bottom of my vessel's heart. ROLAND and ACE VENTURA and RANGER and JESSICA and
AKIRA KOGAMI and NORTH STAR and MCJANGO and EVANGELINE.