DR5 - Mirrored Embers - Chapter Six - Finale [Surviving Participants + Jane win]

“The End of The Cycle. It’s… a wonderful smell, really. So much so that… I think we can drop the disguises. And well, we also have to.”

Monoluna, Aretena and Monkeuma glow for a second, and transform into figures in identical hoods. You can still see their faces underneath.

Monoluna has a thread twine around her in a delicate spiral, floating implausibly.

Aretena holds a ruler between their hands, and they seem to be carefully measuring the air itself.

And a large, menacing pair of scissors is strewn across Monkeuma’s back. They’re… very much oversized.

The true forms of the Three Fates are before you.

“Your final Hunt is at hand. The true goal of the Ultimate Hunt. In the shadows all this time has been… the Mastermind. If you defeat them… the nightmare ends, and the loops cease. If you do not… you’ll forget any of this ever happened. And then it’ll happen again.”

“Good luck, hunters, and may the will of the Hunt ever be on your side.”

“…jokes on all of you, my box is definitely the best box.”

Okay hi

This is sad

alyx starts humming the pokemon theme song

Hello Geoff. Now we’re here, we might as well try to PoE the MM down.

That makes sense

Can we talk about what’s in our boxes yet?

Only 2 people who are dead can be the MM.
Wilfred and Matilda, though I don’t think their actions before death make me think they’re the MM though.
If that’s the case the MM is definitely alive.

“You may discuss the contents of your boxes if you wish.”

alyx is playing a gameboy, and humming this happily

“When everyone gets it, can you say you have? Maybe we can talk about it.”

I’ve opened my box…

A picture of an old Rube Goldberg I made as a girl, a patent application for one of my inventions (a redesigned zipper that reduces sticking), a blog post about my family, and an image of my search history trying to determine if I was good enough to qualify as an Ultimate. And… I don’t wanna talk about the other thing…

Sophie glances again to the ring on her finger

:eyes:

I could divide the search history in the image into four phases;

trying to figure out if I qualified as an Ultimate
trying to figure out if my talent had a magical component to it
trying to figure out if there was any legal liability to accidents I caused by experimenting with magic in my inventions
trying to find people researching Ultimates

That last one… I don’t recall what, if anything, I found, but it practically drew my eye to itself.

alyx is still looking at their gameboy, oblivious to the surrounding conversation

(And yet, they noticed when I mentioned my search history.)

(katze thought it was funny
alyx didnt notice smh )

“There’s some financial records, A Rolex, some cruise tickets, an editorial that I should actually probably read, and a necklace with a bullet on it.”

he smiled a bit, looking at the items.