forty-two.

[fanassaults]

[ Angry passengers busting into the cockpit, huge fits of turbulence, snakes infesting the cabin, and a landing which can only be described as harrowing...it's been quite a flight, that's for sure. Yukiko definitely sounds tired as she speaks over the intercom for what will be the final time.

Bing! ] ...we've landed. Thank you for flying with

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DISEMBARKING

[fanassaults]

[ The plane is messy, smelly, and bags have been pulled out of the compartments and piled haphazardly on the first-class stairs to make a barrier against the snakes. But you're free now! You can leave!

As you're getting off the plane, you may notice that...we're kind of surrounded by trees that really shouldn't be there, the spires of the castle visible through gaps in the canopy. Looking back at the plane will show you that...it doesn't appear to be a plane at all.

That's right, guys. What you had been riding in for the last four days was a plane simulator, tucked away into the forest and mostly hidden beneath a camouflage tarp. The sunny view outside the windows will be shown, on closer inspection, to be very long-running videos.

What better place is there to hide a plane, after all, than on the ground? ]

[onlyanapple]

...I'm going to walk away now, and if any of you talk to me within the next twenty fours hours, I'm afraid I'm going to have to hurt you.

[nishimono]

Oh my.

[onlyanapple]

[Oh shit, keep walking, keep walking, pretend you don't see her >>]

FREEDOM! (this one is open to non-loss people)

[fanassaults]

[ So screw that plane, right? Screw it to hell. It's only five minutes' walk back to the castle from where the simulator had been tucked away, so everyone is free to meet their friends once again on the way back in!

Or collapse crying into their arms, or devour everything in the kitchen and bars. Whatever floats your boat, really.

Incidentally, everyone who was a passenger or crew? They will find a box on their bed back in their rooms, with a dirt-stained bunny inside.

What an incredibly moving scene! ]

[lilblackdevil]

[her bed is lost amidst endless piles of junk, the bunny might not be noticed in ages -- no matter!

FRESH AIR, FRESH AIR. HI EVERYONE, DID YOU MISS HER]

RETURN...? (this one is fully open too!)

[fanassaults]

[ For the brave or the stupid, the simulator will stay right where it is, if you really want to go in and examine it for clues. Everything will be just where you left it, snake corpses littering the aisles and trash all about.

Boy. Flights, am I right? ]