Hatoful Holidaystar - Story 1 Part 4

[davidn]

I'm at a point where I'm not even sure whether I should keep on injecting further Hatomadness into the world quite so regularly, given the state of my Friends page after just three chapters - there is a point where you would think that a certain dose was sufficient. Nevertheless, here's another, a manageable bite that's a little shorter than most because the next part is pretty much one very long unbreakable scene. In today's chapter, we finally get to investigate the council room after stopping off to chat to people on the way, and we assess the extent of the damage - including the Christmas Thieves voice really coming into its own now, and a wonderful 100-metre relay of reactions when Shuu finally makes his appeearance!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PPZvtRY_5Y

0:10 To the Council Room
0:50 Do you have a flag?
2:15 New council room
3:05 Beyond the pale
3:30 Perfect
4:45 Is it a bird? Is it a tree?
5:50 The ultimatum
6:30 Not in our note
7:05 How a burglary works
7:35 A dreadful affront
8:45 Not a decision
9:00 Underling rebellion
9:50 Ninja doctor
10:40 No corpse
11:45 Christmas has come early

Comments

[kjorteo]

In case this line was lost in the middle of the panic (I understand we were all a bit too traumatized to speak coherently or to listen to each other over our own reactions) so just to repeat it, I seriously love how, in contrast to the cheers and applause and "oh God I missed you" reaction on Yuuya's first Holiday Star lines, even the voice of Shuu had a D8 reaction to Shuu's triumphant return.

I also like how I apparently happened to have appropriate Hatoful icons for three different character-specific comments in this journal.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

I missed everyone else's screams (probably because, due to lag, by the time I heard them I was too busy screaming myself)...it's nice to know I wasn't the only one who needed a change of shorts afterwards.

Seriously, Moa, what the hell!? D:

[kjorteo]

I just went backed and listened again, and if I'm picking apart whose scream is whose correctly, we had DavidN's "OH JESUS!", then Raven's "AAAAAA!", then my "OH GOD!" and Kaye's "AAAAAA!" were simultaneous, and finally your "AAAAAA!" So, a fairly unanimous reaction, then, lag-induced timing differences aside!

[davidn]

It was very satisfying when I realized that just due to happenstance, you could hear each of our individual reactions very clearly, and that none of the detail was swallowed by any of the others at all! It couldn't have been scripted better.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Indeed! That even turned out better than the Labor 9-induced, "Okay everybirdie, follow my lead" scream back in BBL.