First Horror: Please god be a dream

[promfromhell]

[She wakes up. And for one wonderful moment she thinks it was a dream. It was only a dream. She hadn't gone to the prom yet. She hadn't been laughed at, she hadn't been made a fool of, she hadn't killed them... momma hadn't stabbed her...
Momma!
She looks around the room and....and....she's in a strange place in a white nightgown....]

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[weiss_tank]

You know, if you stare at thing any harder it's going to explode. [Hey! Surprise! Someone's leaning over the back of the bench to look at the pine cone]

[weiss_tank]

No, we aren't dead. Well, most of us. I think some of us are dead when we get brought here but I'm sure as hell alive.

[promfromhell]

.......can you tell if you're dead?

[weiss_tank]

I don't know. All I can tell you is if you think you are alive, then you are. At least, that's what I believe.

[promfromhell]

.....what if I'm not sure....

[weiss_tank]

You and half the town I think. [He smiles sympathetically at her] I guess all you can do is know that you're alive here.

[promfromhell]

Oh....

....What are we supposed to do here?

[weiss_tank]

Play this town's games near as I can tell. They want us to believe that this is paradise on Earth, it's like they need us to believe it more like. Every month it tries to kill us somehow though.

[promfromhell]

....they try to kill us?

[weiss_tank]

Yeah...[He's sorry to be the one to break it to her and it shows, but it has to be done. The surprise is worse.] Or break our minds or shit like that.

[promfromhell]

Why?

[weiss_tank]

We don't really know, I think it's 'cause this place wants willing servants.

[promfromhell]

Servants.

[weiss_tank]

Or power sources. Who the fuck knows with this place.

[promfromhell]

....None of this makes sense.

[weiss_tank]

Yeah, tell me about it. This place is like outta a horror novel.