Mall of Despair

Here’s mostly crediting the people who drew different pieces of artwork, and some writing for the game itself! And a thank you to them as well!

Moony

CH 3 Execution artwork

Hari Sprites

Ch3 execution concept

Hope

Ch 4 Surprise artwork

Jam

CH 1 Execution art work

Ch 4 execution artwork

ch 4 execution concept

Mai

 Ch 3 surprise artwork

pretty much everything involved in the endgame except for the final execution piece.

Emi

Final Execution artwork

Chell

Pretty much every piece of artwork in the game that has not been said

maps

artwork for the blogs

Sweets

Execution 2 concept

Kayla (Not sure what to link here so I'll link oneiroiawaken since they run that. )

I feel bad that someone had to die first, but what little time you and Xun spent in this game is definitely a memorable one. Thank you so much for your short time in the group

I really wish Xun hadn't died so early :c he was sooo great, and it would be hilarious to see him prank Shizuka, oh dear. I don't know you too well as a mun, but you're sooooo great!!! from the times we talked in the murder chat!!! I hope to see you again soon!

Zora

Someone had to be the first killer, and Lucrezia was wonderful in what little time she spent in the game. Thank you dearly for taking part my friend! Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did

I loved Lucrezia from the moment I saw her!! Beautiful design, I'm absolutely in love with the colour of her dress, ngl. I wish Shizuka and her had more chances to talk to her, she was positively adorable! thanks for being a part of this game despite being the fist murderer! you were great!!

Perry

Moderu was by and far a character with a powerful personality, thank you tremendously for taking part in the game with all of us.

Perry Perry Perry!!! Moderu!! was sooo great! I loved her relationship with some of the other characters and just.... ah,,,,, drawing her dead hurt me,,, I hope to talk to you again sometime in the future! thanks for being in this game!!!

Sweets

You’re our friend, and ‘Ai’ ([Masque gets thwapped for the pun] wouldn’t have chosen anyone else to be honest to take your place. Thank you dearly.

Sweets. Sweets, Sweets, Sweets. >////> honestly just.... I know you and I will remain friends for a long long time. you're honestly so great as a roleplayer, and even greater as simply, a friend. I really do love you. Thank you so so sooo much for being a part of this. I'll definitely see you soon in the near future ^_^

Josh

Darius was a wonderful guy, and you were as well. It was wonderful watching his reactions, and you were so enjoyable as a person. Thank you dearly for letting us be your first game.

Joooossshhhh your headcanons with sweets???? bye!!!!!!!! seriously, I love love love Darius, and,,, hm how can I say this,,, um... it was an honour to share the spotlight of being the victim of chapter 3?? uh?? oh man, but seriously, you seem like a really cool dude!! I hope to rp with you in the future!! Thanks so much for being a part of this!!

Moony

I’ll stick here since you’re Chell’s good good friend. You were wonderful and extremely funny in and out of character, and created one of the best murders, executions, and trials I’ve seen. I am so glad you chose us to be your first game.

...Well, I gotta say. Being stuck with you for four periods every single school day really taught me something... being a mod in the game you're playing in is so so sweet. I'm so happy you created Suzuka, and damn I can't wait to be part of another game with you in the near future. Love ya

Ana 

Thank you for your time! You were a wonderful part of the game, and Akito was a wonderful character, and you were definitely an awesome person.

I don't talk with you often, however you're a really sweet person!! Drawing Akito broke my heart, I love him so much. thank you for being a part of this!

Jam

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. Megan and Jade were two extremely well written and well thought out characters. Thank you SO much for letting us be the group you shared them in.

J a M B)))) jam is my main meme I love jam you know I love you jam,,, from all those talks we have over skype,,, damn jam,, you're the best.. you know how much i love your muses, and even if i don't gush over megan/jade as much as i do tsubaki, please know that I love love love love jade/megan,  and I think you play them wonderfully! Absolutely wonderfully! Keep on roleplaying, because you're so amazing at it!!

Mai 

Our wonderful memestermind. Honestly I couldn’t imagine this game with anyone else as a mastermind. Through skype troubles, many nights of me passing out on you while planing the game, you still happily continued, and you made the endgame what it was. Thank you dearly.

I love love loved Yukika as the mastermind. From hinting it in chapter 1, to just,,, watching how she reacted to everything around her, it was genuine and simply flawless. You're an amazing roleplayer and a wonderful artist. Thank you so much to you and masque for planning so many details into this game, honestly, thank you so so much. I hope to see you in the near future!

Cas

It was REALLY interesting to watch as Kagome grew along throughout the entier game, changing from the character he was at the start, and I am so glad that we were one of your last games before you slid to other characters. Thank you for Kagome, yourself, and for every moment

C-Cas-san... >//w///> you know how I feel about you and your muses. you're a wonderful friend and a superb roleplayer, not to mention an awesome artist. Your skype threads with Genric always brightened my day. Thank you for being you. I know we'll meet again in the near future. Thank you so much for being a part of this.

Genric 

Thank you for making this one of the last games with this iteration of Travis. I hope you found this a wonderful send off for your character’s first iteration and we can’t wait to see where he goes from here!

Genric,,,, you,,,, disappointment  who am i kidding, I love ya, man. You're a great guy with an even greater great guy muse. My #1 office meme, i'll never get tired of skype chats between you and cas, your tragome headcanons, your slipped in office references, honestly, you're really fantastic. Thank you so much for being a part of this. [ raises cup of coffee] Never forget, two creams, no sugar. [sips coffee]

Hope

Hooooope. So glad that this was the first game that you endgamed and one of the games that completed. I hope you enjoyed it as well, and by and far am honored that because of our game you’ve essentially changed your muse. I can’t wait to see where he goes from here!

Hope. You... ohhh hope youuuuuu always just looking for ways to murder everyone's hearts, eh? Well. you certainly have achieved that. Thank you so much for being a part of this. I wonder if Hiroki will,,,, ever recover from his long list of injuries, damn. thank you so much! i'll see you again soon, definitely! 

Shane

Araiguma my have been a character that was a little bit difficult, but it was wonderful to watch her and you as you played. And thank you for joining us on this wild ride… Even though I only learned how to spell her name right about endgame.

that guma B) love that guma. Man, Shane. You're cool. We hadn't talked much during the course o this game, but I love love love your art, and araiguma!! yeah!! love that gumA!!!!! Thanks for being awesome, I hope to see you again in the near future!!

Eri

I’m so sorry that the end of the game coincided with your business and illness, but Theo and you were both EXTREMELY wonderful to have while you could take part. I’m thankful.

Eri!!!!!!!! I loved Theo,,, oh man I loved Theo so so sooo much!! you're an amazing roleplayer and ahhh your art!!! I love your art!!! I really hope you'll be back in good health soon, you're a really amazing person who deserves to feel wonderful! Thank you so so much for being a part of this!!

In general, thank you EVERYONE for everything that you have done for us to make this game what it was!

I want to write my own little thank you to masque. It seems like just yesterday when I made the decision to mod a game for the first time. I had no clue what to do, but I knew that I was ready to take on anything that came my way. I just really wanted to help Masque. Ever since CD2, and the fact that our muses so perfectly fit together, I felt that the connected between Masque and I was very much the same. Just two writing memes who were huge dorks and loved their friend for who they were. One of the reasons I decided to app as a mod was because I knew Masque, and because he was my friend. I knew that I would have a fantastic time being a part of this team. And oh boy, did I. Honestly Masque, I love you, you’re one of the closest friends I’ve made here, you’re awesome, super kind and just generally fantastic. You’ve already heard all my apologies for being so dependent on you as a main mod, but honestly, I just didn’t want to let you down. You’re the last person who’d deserve something like that. Thank you for this amazing game, I can’t wait to be a part of your team in the future, whether it’s as players in a game, modding another game together, or just simply memeing it up in skype. From the bottom of my heart, Masque, thank you. I couldn’t have asked for a better way to spend the past 3 months here on tumblr. <3

Where can I start. From caring about my well-being and taking over as much as they can, to making sure that I was all right with whatever their decisions were, to deciding to extend things.

From making sure that everything made sense, to every single portion of the blog itself from the roster to the trial room to the blog’s background, pretty much Chell was the reason why the game went as smoothly behind the scenes as it did. Chell is a wonderful friend and I wouldn’t have had any other person have been my fellow mod to be honest.

Sure I know a lot of people who would’ve been WONDERFUL… But Chell was pretty much perfect. Thank you <3

Yukika spoke automatically before vaulting over her podium and making her way to the centre. The floor suddenly opened beneath her feet, sending her plummeting down into the darkness below. Darkness was all she perceived, darkness and the vague sensation of her body being moved. As the beacon’s eyes adjusted to the dimness, she became aware of a sole shaft of light filtering in, revealing a scene straight out of the Dark Ages. Yukika was standing on a stage, bound to a pole rising up from the centre, with straw surrounding her on all sides. The beacon made no effort to struggle as a Monobear came up on stage, holding a torch. The bear smiled wickedly, dipping the torch to touch the straw, which immediately caught on fire.

The inferno spread quickly, and Yukika felt herself grow uncomfortably hot. Sweat dripped down her face as her eyes flicked nervously from side-to-side. The fire did not stop, and soon enough, it enfulged the pyre. The beacon remained calm despite her obvious discomfort, and she simply waited as the blaze leaped up towards her. But it was doing more than just making uncomfortable; the fire was eating through the mastermind’s binds. In one swift motion, the beacon ripped her binds apart and leaped over the flames, landing on the edge of the platform and barreling through the crowds. In the distance, she noticed a fine crack in the wall of the chamber, and Monobears scattered as she ran towards it. But something was off, and as the beacon approached, she realized that the crack was gradually closing. Fear lent speed to her feet, and she practically leapt the next few feet. Yukika lunged towards the crack and barely managed to force it upwards, struggling to make a big enough hole for her to  exit through. But the surface was crumbling, and she held the wall with one hand as she cast aside material. The new brightness that illuminated the wall and surrounding area brought a realization to the beacon. Curved white surface, thin walls, slightly bumpy texture…

She was inside a giant egg. How ironically fitting, but the beacon didn’t have time for poetics. Yukika clawed at the surface of the egg, and summoning energy from deep within her, the determination and desperation caused her to force the wall of the egg upwards, creating just enough space for her to slip out before it came crashing down behind her. The beacon’s chest shuddered and she closed her eyes for a second before a roar caused her focus to turn upwards, and she noticed a path leading to a… An eight-headed dragon, coiled around a stone platform.

Yamata-no-Orochi. The beacon ducked behind a nearby rock just as another cacophony resounded, and for the first time, she noticed she was dressed in nothing more than rags. Familiar rags, but around her waist was fastened a sash with a sword in it. Drawing her weapon, the beacon stood and emerged from behind the rock, creeping down the stone path. Her eyes darted around the area, and surrounding the serpent was a red gate, inside which were drains leading to a gutter around Orochi. Yukika ducked behind one of the gates before she was spotted, and the beacon observed the serpent from between the slats of the gate, sword in hand. Her gaze drifted up to the top of the hill around which Orochi was coiled, and there, she saw both a post with something tied to it and a bottle. A bottle… Aha! Yukika recalled that in the myth, the serpent was sedated with sake before Susano-o could kill it. The beacon emerged from behind the gate, ran up to Orochi, and took a flying leap. She landed on the hill and barely managed to deflect the surprised serpent’s strike. The beacon ran, and the serpent’s eight heads snapped and hissed at her. However, she soon reached the top of the hill, and she focused her attentions on the sake exclusively. Taking the bottle in one hand and her sword in the other, she flew down the hill and off the serpent, racing back to her earlier hiding spot. The mythologist took the bottle and poured it into the first gutter before running around the circle, filling each of the hollows in turn. She paused behind the last fence and waited. In the absence of Yukika, Orochi’s eight heads turned and pondered the sake. One took a cautious lick, and the others slowly joined in before they were all drinking the liquid. The beacon came out from where she was hiding again, slowly making her way towards the serpent. It was too drunk to even keep focus on her, but it still knew pain. Yukika and each of the heads fought, the serpent proving to be a dangerous enemy solely because of unpredictability. But slowly, the beacon slayed each head in turn, and she was at last left triumphant, panting and bleeding from various scrapes and bruises. The beacon remembered the post, and she slowly made her way up the hill, eyes widening at what was tied to it. It was a life-size scarecrow-esque doll of Darius, and it was wearing her clothes. She quickly cut it free and switched outfits; her actual clothes were quite nice to be in again. There was a sudden rumbling, and Yukika gripped the post, looking around wildly. Water was flooding from the ground underneath Orochi, swirling around the hill. The beacon swallowed, but something caught her eye. A paddleboat was slowly rising with the water, and Yukika didn’t waste any more time before jumping in once the water level had risen sufficiently.

The beacon exhaled sharply, taking hold of the paddle and swinging it to the side. But something was odd… Yukika cried in disgust and nearly threw it overboard, as, still wrapped in fabric and stained with blood, she was holding the missing leg of Hiroki Tachibana. She looked around for something else, anything else, before she realized that the boat was moving on its own. The beacon’s gaze traveled to where the current was heading, and in the water some distance away was a gigantic mouth. Jagged rocks rose out of the water on all sides, and distantly, Yukika remembered a certain myth. Scylla and Charybdis.And she was headed straight for ‘Charybdis’. The only opening was to the side of the monster, where there was a solitary break in the rock. “Paddle” in hand, the beacon made long, confident strokes towards the gap, trying her hardest to fight against the current. However, she was gradually getting pulled towards the mouth of the monster, and despite her best efforts, she was soon paddling vertically instead of horizontally. Yukika desperately tried throwing herself against the helm of the boat, but it was to no avail, as with one great sucking motion, Charybdis caught hold of her boat, and in another inhale, boat, beacon, and paddle disappeared inside. The beacon felt herself falling and falling, but everything suddenly stopped as she came into contact with something soft. She forced her eyes open and rolled over, the sight of straw meeting her gaze. In the distance resounded a blast, and she pushed herself upright, taking in the sight of a massive battleground. Monobears and Monomis were locked in combat, there were buildings in the distance, and beyond that, mountains, and in the centre of the fighting was a gigantic metal Monobear. A shout rang through the battleground, and when Yukika looked, she saw a figure dressed in armour standing on a rocky platform. A familiar figure. And as Yukika drew closer to the edge of the melee, she experienced yet another shock when she realized that the other was her. A robot version of her, as her skin was metallic and her eyes illuminated. This must be yet another myth, but what… Castor and Pollux. This was the battle of Troy - or a replication of it, at least. Yukika instinctively drew her sword, which she had the foresight to keep, and she pointed it at her copy.

“CHARGE.”

As if her words gave them strength, the Monobears let out a collective cry and surged forward. The effect was instantaneous, and the Monomis, despite their valiant efforts, were quickly being overwhelmed. Yukika herself strode forward, and though she was still in pain and quite tired, that was forgotten as she made her way to her copy, who had drawn a sword of her own. The beacon lunged, and her copy parried. Lunge, parry, strike. Lunge, parry, strike. This cycle continues, and Yukika is growing increasingly tired and disheveled. Her copy grinned, and smacked her hand with the flat of the blade. The real one yelped and let go of her own sword, and the copy brought her blade up, plunging it downwards. The beacon instinctively dodged aside and caught hold of the copy’s arm, twisting it. If a robot could feel surprise, that’s what the fake Yukika would’ve, and in one motion, Yukika brought the blade across her opponent’s throat.