CAR WASH

[fillerups]

CAR WASH

AT THE CAR WASH, WOAH

The door leading into the car wash is locked. You all know that, of course. You've likely tried it yourself, or watched someone make a fool out of themselves trying to break in. (Man, this is going to age poorly if you've all decided to surprise us and just leave the locked door alone.)

But today... well, call it a feeling. A gut instinct, maybe, that leads you to the doorway. This time, you put your hand on the doorknob - and it turns fully, the door swinging open so that you can enter. As you draw your hand back, you'll spot a bloody handprint on the knob - but then you blink, and it's gone.

The inside of the car wash is rather industrial looking, albeit mostly powered down. The lights are dim to begin with, and flicker ominously from time to time; occasionally, they even go out entirely, and it may be several minutes or several hours before they come back on. None of the machinery seems to be working, though there's a faint electronic hum coming from a shelf built into the wall, upon which a radio sits. Strangely, no matter how tall you are or how you conspire to stack things up and climb up to get it, it always seems to be just out of reach - there won't be any changing the channel for you.

It's hard to tell what you're meant to do here, now that you've gotten in. But since you couldn't get in until now, there must be some reason... right?

...only time will tell.

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Comments

[vitalitied]

... Are you supposed to write on it?

[youcanreplytothiscomment]

Huh? No - it's a list.

[It's not blank to her?]

It says 'thank you for doing the (not you) right thing' and it has pictures of us. It has me, Jester, Sora, Riku, Owen, Shamspeare, and Hythie. And then the 'not you' is a picture of Leo.

Everybody but Leo is in here. [. . .] Hey, since when are you able to get in here?

[tresleches]

[Does that mean murder is what they're supposed to be doing?

Gross, he doesn't want to do the right thing.]

[vitalitied]

[ she just ignores the question... rude... ]

Leo isn't doing the right thing...?

[youcanreplytothiscomment]

Yeah. [Hmm.] Most of us are murderers, but Sora and Shamspeare got in here even though, as far as I know, they didn't kill anybody.

[vitalitied]

If he's doing something wrong, should we kill him?

[youcanreplytothiscomment]

No.

[Don't hurt Leo.]

We just have to teach him the right thing.

[coinoperation]

[ ... ]

Perhaps coming back from the dead counts somehow...?

[youcanreplytothiscomment]

How exactly are you guys doing that?

[fionafancypants]

Wait, why are you in here now?

[humblepie]

Why Leo specifically…? Is it just an example?

Are we meant to get everyone in here?

[youcanreplytothiscomment]

I think so. But I don't know how - I thought it was just murdering, but some of you came back to life.

[humblepie]

[Hmms.]

Maybe a certain number of us should be here…? I’m not sure.

Does anyone know what the missing word is? “Do you want” something? I thought it was “answers,” but… then what you said about the squirrel…

[youcanreplytothiscomment]

Yeah, the fucking squirrel! I can't explain to everyone, but. Maybe there's a way to stop it?

[Hmm.]

If the people who die can only get in here if they kill someone, then. . . [She hates this, but.] The other ones who are left over might need to kill the ones of us who can get in here already.

[fionafancypants]

Huh. So we're all doing something right, but ... What is it that Leo is doing that's wrong?

He kept trying to sacrifice himself on our weird little trip. I wonder if it's something to do with that?

[youcanreplytothiscomment]

I think it's meant to be like. . . the people who made it in here are the ones who are doing something right.

[fionafancypants]

I mean, yeah, I got that bit, I just want to know what the wrong thing is. Since he's the only example ...

[youcanreplytothiscomment]

I'm not sure it's meant to be specific to Leo, though.

[reconnective]

[...counts the people who are here.]

If we're all here because...of that--[murder, of which he still is blank on]--then what about Kama? Why isn't she on the list?

[she technically murdered shi wudu?]

[youcanreplytothiscomment]

I'm not sure it's meant to be everybody, just - telling us who is doing the right thing and who isn't.

[reconnective]

And the right thing is a certain way of murdering people?

Do we know what all of us have in common in terms of how people died?

[youcanreplytothiscomment]

Not all of us even killed people at all. But everybody who did the right thing is someone who made it in here.

[fionafancypants]

That's true, it also doesn't distinguish, um, manslaughter from murder or anything ...

[reconnective]

Right. Because you killed Shamspeare on accident, right? But some people killed other people on purpose.

[fionafancypants]

Right! And Riku hit you with that car!

[Is that even what fucking happened. Who knows.]

Maybe it has to be not forced like Kama was ... I wasn't exactly forced, I just didn't mean to.