Meanwhile, on a different channel, a different game show was underway. On screen the viewers could see what looked like a lavish private high school, with what looked like a white rabbit plushy in a blood red business dress playing the host. Her mouth was a grinning row of sharp, pointy teeth, and her eyes were a pair of huge circles with ruby red irises.
“Hope Valley Private Academy,” the bunny plush said, “Once the meeting ground for the best and the brightest of all university studentia, now a battlefield where sixteen college kids will fight for survival against… EACH OTHER! Sixteen talented hopefuls, locked into a struggle to escape their gilded prison, where the only way out is to abandon all Hope, and embrace the final truth in this world! Either Kill… or Be Killed! Welcome to Despair Beyond Hope! The world’s finest murder mystery game show!
“I am your host, as well as our contestants’ school headmaster! Sixteen human students will be locked in this building for as long as possible, up to and including eternity. These sixteen are the best of the best for their age in their respective fields, representing the Hope of the world! These sixteen people have agreed before the cameras have even started rolling to give their lives up to us, knowing full well what they’re getting into. Of course, just to amp up the drama a little bit, we’ve temporarily altered and slash or removed their memories of how and why they got here!
“For those of you who’re tuning in for the first time, allow me to go over the basic rules of the show.
“ONE: The objective of the game is to kill a fellow student and get away with it to escape their confines. The only limit on murder methods is whatever happens to be in the building, and the students’ own sick, twisted imaginations! Oh, and the FCC would like us to remind the viewers that even though the murders might seem very real, and to the students they will be, the victims are all gonna be just fine. They’ll just be reincarnated as brainwashed animal maids, the species of which was selected by the contestants before we changed their memories.
“TWO: In order to get away with murder, the Blackened must successfully survive a Class Trial! Before the trial, all remaining students will have an opportunity to play detective and investigate the crime scene as well as the rest of the building. During the class trial, all remaining contestants will engage in a series of debates using their evidence to determine “whodunnit!” Once the debate is over, everyone will vote for who they think the murder is!
“THREE: If the innocent parties can successfully figure out who they Blackened is, only they will receive an execution style punishment! Of course, if they guess the wrong one… I’ll execute everyone except for the Blackened, who will be set free to go!
“FOUR, and this is something of a rare treat: If only three contestants remain, I’ll activate my Penalty Game! During the Penalty Game, the remaining three must fight each other to the death, until only one remains!
“Now… what’s the prize for winning, besides escape of course? The winner will get to keep the fifteen losers as their personal animal girl maids, as well as receive unimaginable wealth and a luxurious turbo mansion in the city of their choice!
“Now then, my captivated audience! Class is about to begin, and Despair Beyond Hope awaits our aspiring unfortunate victims! All! Will! Fall!!! AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!”