Betrayal at House on the Hill

[angelcage]

[ You sleep, the ground cold beneath your cheek. The ground is hard as stone, cold marble beneath a fine layer of dust that doesn't come anywhere near acting as a cushion. The dust stirs with your breathing.


>> Wake up ]

Comments

[dendarii]

The moment is for you to talk, Simon. And convince us that we want to let you out.

[withintreason]

What, you seriously plan on giving him a moment? He attacked us. That's enough to damn him for me.

[dendarii]

... You're more dangerous to me than he is.

[court_chesster]

A murderous psychopath is dangerous to everyone! Me, I haven't done anything!

[dendarii]

Then what are the rats for?

[court_chesster]

They're rats. They live here.

[dendarii]

Yes, but they seem to be listening to you.

[court_chesster]

It's not like I'm ordering them around. They asked for my help.

[dendarii]

... They asked? For your help? In doing what?

[court_chesster]

I dunno, some kind of ritual here in the basement.

They were just cute little rats. I don't see why you had to go and kill all of them.

[dendarii]

They were trying to kill us. Quite forcefully, I might add.

[withintreason]

You attacked me. Or did you forget?

[court_chesster]

I didn't try to kill you.

[withintreason]

Is that so? You took out a gun, and you fired it, too. You know that's basically forfeiting your life, right? You made your intent infinitely clear with that.

[court_chesster]

I told you to stay down and you attacked me, which caused me to accidentally misfire. If I wanted to kill you, I'd have shot you right off the bat.

[withintreason]

As if intention can't change within a battle—and you attacked an injured person in the first place, no less. Regardless, you initiated this fight, so your head is mine!

[court_chesster]

Or I knock you down with my ring and plant a bullet between your eyes? Sounds like a pretty clear case of justifiable self-defense from where I'm sitting.

[withintreason]

I'd like to see you try!

[withintreason]

Well, obviously, but I haven't cut you down yet.

[dendarii]

Yet. It's the yet that concerns me.

[withintreason]

Don't get in my way and you'll continue to keep your head.

[dendarii]

My head? You'd only need to chop off my arm. No need to be murderous.

[withintreason]

If you're annoying enough, I'll take your head too. So long as you aren't, though—I'll let you keep your arm.

[dendarii]

Generous of you.

[withintreason]

I'm a generous person.