The course of action is clear for shadyforce and Fuldu: mathcam must die. A simple precipice forms in front of them, and they slowly but surely push mathcam to the edge. Mathcam walks silently backwards, his eyes never straying from shadyforce or Fuldu. Finally, having pushed their prey to the edge of certain doom, shadyforce address mathcam.
"We've rounded up your brother and sister in crime, cam, and now all that's left is for you to reveal yourself before we end this," he says in a confident voice.
"Reveal myself? Like this?" Mathcam asks, and in a swirl of black and orange, mathcam transforms himself into the gaunt body and disfigured face of Scar, nemesis of
The Lion King
. He takes a pace towards shadyforce. "Why I'm just an old cat." A sudden fire enters his eyes as he crouches down and turns to Fuldu. "And I'm about to learn a new trick."
Before either shadyforce or Fuldu can react, mathcam pounces on Fuldu, crushing Fuldu in his powerful jaws. Shadyforce charges mathcam, hitting him in the shoulder all his stingers out. mathcam roars in pain before slapping shadyforce away.
"That HURT!" mathcam yells, Fuldu still limp like a ragdoll in his mouth. With a flick of his mane, mathcam sends Fuldu flying past the edge. As Fuldu disappears in the depth, the landscape begins to change dramatically. The featureless precipice suddenly turns to a vulcan rock cliff, the red rocky walls suddenly come in, and the floor cracks and crumbles, revealing geothermal vents underneath. The air is filled with the smell of sulfur and the sound of cackling hyenas.
"You can't win this, Scar!" shadyforce yells. "With your wound, you won't be able to kill me tonight, and tomorrow I'll just sting you again! It's a draw and you know it!"
"Yes, that has been troubling me," mathcam replies. "But you see, this is my barren rocky canyon, and if you intend to sting me again, you'll have to catch me in it. Here, you are just... a fish out of water."
Mathcam, still limping from the sting, approaches shadyforce, towering over the squirming form on dry rock. His teeth and eyes glowing in the moonlight, he raises one massive paw over shadyforce.
"I win," mathcam says, tensing his muscles for the kill.
"Reach for the sky!" a voice calls from nearby. Mathcam snarls with rage and turns to see Fuldu, standing at the apex of a rock pile.
"I thought you were dead," mathcam says.
"Afraid not," Fuldu says.
"We'll have to fix that, won't we," mathcam says, rearing his body up. He pounces suddenly and savagely, throwing his full weight at Fuldu. While mathcam is still in mid-air, Fuldu whips his revolver out, emptying it into mathcam. mathcam crashes into Fuldu like a graceless sack of bricks, sending out a loud crunching sound. For a moment, everything seems to stand sill, but then the surroundings dissolve back into the featureless white abyss the day started with. Shadyforce watches mathcam's body for any signs of life. As the body remains still, he begins to calm down. The virus is finally gone from render farms, but at such a great cost, he thinks, before noticing the movement in mathcam's paw. Stingers out again, he hurls himself at the paw.
"Whoa, easy there!" Fuldu yells as he emerges from under mathcam's paw, stopping shadyforce in his tracks.
"I thought you were dead!" shadyforce says, a shocked ripple coursing through his tendrils.
"Yeah, I get that a lot," Fuldu says, dusting himself off.
"So what do we do now?" shadyforce asks. "Not much here anymore, no signs of life except for you and me."
"Not quite," Fuldu says, and points to crack in the abyss. From it, during the last few minutes, a single blade of grass from the old hope-filled fields has emerged.
"I think it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen," shadyforce says, sounding genuinely choked up. "What do we do with the big guy here?" he asks, pointing to mathcam.
"Fertilizer." Fuldu smirks.
"Wow, how very... circle of life."
mathcam, Scar from The Lion King, has been lynched. He was mafia.
Leaving two town survivors:
shadyforce was Squishy from Finding Nemo, and was a role-blocker
Fuldu was Woody from the Toy Story movies, and was a vigilante
Congratulations town, you have won! And good job to the mafia and Flying Dutchman!
Game details to follow.
