FINAL ROUND

[islandiastaff]

[M.C explains the situation during the commerical break - Islandia's ratings are tanking, so they've been asked to wrap it up with a final episode so that they can replace it with something else. Time to skip ahead to the final battle.

All the while, the Loser's Lounge is drawing closer - by the time he's ready to continue, the Lounge airship is right overhead (emblazoned with the words YOU TRIED in comic sans), with the eliminated players visible on the balcony. Welcome back!]

All right, folks: Alice! Axel! Greg! Hans! Hibiki! Hisoka! Iori! Ivlis! Kanade! Meryl! Robin! Wirt! You twelve are the remaining contestants for our ULTIMATE FINAL CHALLENGE!

Here's how this is gonna work. STEP 1! Each of the remaining contestants step forward and declare your Wish! You have 25 words or less to express it, so be sure you count carefully!

STEP 2! Everyone, remaining or eliminated, votes for which wish they want to win! Remember, you have to vote, but you can't vote for yourself!

STEP 3! All the remaining contestants write down two names as their guesses for the two remaining Spies! Villagers - for each spy you correctly guess, you gain one bonus vote for your wish! Spies - if three or fewer people guess you as a spy, then you can get a number of bonus votes - one if three or two people guess you, two if one person guesses you, or even THREE if nobody guesses you at all!

STEP 4! We tally up all the votes, and find out who our lucky winner is! Let's get this show on the road!

[Remaining contestants - not Losers - state your Wish, in 25 words or less, for your contestants to hear. You cannot change your wish after this. Remember the wish restrictions.

Free conversation between players and the defeated is not yet allowed - there's still the final spy guesses to sort out before that. However, you can discuss the wishes and the spy situation among yourselves.

Vote here!]

Comments

[exfired]

[W E L L ... THAT'S ... NEW.... and. damn. stray puppies lost kids, axel's one weakness]

No, kids usually shouldn't be off fighting big bad monsters all on their own. Trust me, that mostly ends in tragedy. So... you guys were lost before they brought you here?

[poetryandclarinet]

Y-yeah, we were. We were heading home from a party.. thing on Halloween, but we wound up in a weird place called The Unknown. We- we've been wandering for weeks -- months, actually, I-I think, and it's because of me that Greg tried to do something to get us home himself... he-- he almost froze to death, because of me.

1/2

[exfired]

[at that story, axel looks serious and concerned for about 1.4 seconds]

[exfired]

[but then he grins, leaning down to Wirt's level] Hey. Don't beat yourself up about it too much. He's fine now, ain't he? That's the important part. That an' getting you guys home. No use wallowing about the past.

[poetryandclarinet]

...y-yeah, okay. [He averts his gaze from Axel, if only because having someone close and grinning at him like this was a bit awkward, and reaches up to fiddle with his hat's position a bit.]

..only one of us can have a wish, right?

[exfired]

[he leans back] Hmmm. Yep! That's how it is. It's a vote thing. An' you can't vote for your own wish.

[poetryandclarinet]

That's not really fair, is it? I-I mean, plenty of us have genuine wishes and we all made it to the end...

[exfired]

Was anything in this game really fair? That's just how it is. 'Sides... I don't know if I even believe in this wish thing even now. Personally, my thing's-- well. Anything I wish for is prolly something that's not doable by any genie. Yours, though... You just wanna go home with your brother, right?

[poetryandclarinet]

[He silently nods.]

[exfired]

...So...What're you gonna do if your wish doesn't pan out?