THE BOX OFFICE

[tellthestory]

This is where you can meet privately with the Balladeer! The Balladeer is almost always around during the day; just knock.

(Secretly, the door's usually not locked if he's inside. But you wouldn't want to be rude, would you?)

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[tellthestory]

Sure. I thought you could all just...make friends? Whatever normal people do when they're in a group of strangers? Maybe not everyone, some of you are terrible.

[tbf maybe should've used past tense, he's largely thinking of hook]

But I thought you could at least not start killing each other.

[trettende]

That would have been my plan ideally. Murder's more of a last resort for me.

[ Not As Bad As Hook can be his new cast descriptor. ]

This is going to sound a bit strange, but is it possible something could be forcing people to murder? Like is it something in the water?

[tellthestory]

I don't...think so.

[That's sort of an odd idea. It's probably not impossible, though, given everything else.]

I haven't seen anything that would make me think that. I mean, they all had reasons. [Even if they were terrible ones, it's not like any of the culprits just randomly snapped.]

[trettende]

I mean, sure, we all have reasons, I suppose. But Hook's was just stupid. And Cain's barely made any sense.

[ Then again, Hans just figured Cain was delusional so... ]

I know if someone promised me a kingdom now, I don't think t'd be worth it. Every killer's been caught so far, there's no reason to assume I could get away with it.

[tellthestory]

I didn't understand most of what they told me about Astarte, but I think Cain is just like that.

[who knows man]

Right? I thought maybe people would realize that. Keep the peace out of self-preservation, if they can't manage anything else.

[trettende]

Exactly. I might not be the nicest guy here, but I don't have a death wish. Why risk getting murdered by killing someone? And killing everyone else in the process? It's just a mess.

[ Which is why Hans has chosen the route of betrayal and not... murder. But he hasn't betrayed everyone entirely, which has to be worth something, right? ]

I'm not really sure what the Management's endgame is here. Besides screwing with everyone.

[tellthestory]

It's all for the sake of the show. And I guess the audience is enjoying themselves.

[trettende]

Ah, yes. The audience...

[ Looks at camera like he's in the office. Except he doesn't because he doesn't know that icly but, y'know. ]

Are people really watching this? And enjoying seeing everyone suffer?

[tellthestory]

They must be, or it would have petered off. You can't keep going if no one's interested - we would've had to stop, maybe go on to something else.