>>5518464 >>5519271BGM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_-XCUqCHWUYou stand there and watch the body continue to burn down. Burning flesh drips from bone and the scent of burnt meat wafts through the air. If you closed your eyes, then maybe you'd just think that your dad burnt dinner again.
Viewed objectively, this is the most disturbing thing you have, and hopefully will, see. But you aren't really horrified or anything. At least not now. Maybe it's just how many shocks you've taken to the system tonight, but right now you can only view this as a release for... whatever this cursed thing is. Or perhaps that's just you projecting.
Over time the fire begins to dim slightly, the fat used as fuel running out. You salute what's left of the conflagration. As you do so, you feel something vibrate in your pocket. There's no cell reception right no so, that would be... the device. You pull it out.
<span class="mu-r">0 minutes, 0 seconds remaining.</span>
A happy chime comes from somewhere on the device, and the text changes. <span class="mu-g">Congratulations on your survival! Rewards will finish processing, and passage back to your world will be secured within 24 hours.</span>
<span class="mu-r">Due to your splendid performance, the second half of your initiation has been waived. It was truly entertaining. You may join The Game of Games immediately! Once again, congratulations!</span>
Before you can finish processing everything, the text changes one final time.
<span class="mu-r">As part of your reward, you may ask a single question of me.</span>
A single question of... who exactly? And what is The Game of Games? Hell, what has been going on at all tonight- what was that thing, and where are you?
The device awaits input.
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