Part One of ?
Its was the late evening in the night of summer, the night was calm and the air was very dry. Jeremiah, a 19 year old, was coming back to his parents house from a long day of work. After graduating high school, Jeremiah wished to pursue his education to become an educational instructor; however, he was unable to pay for the schooling he needs for himself. Eventually, Jeremiah decided to take a year off after graduating and got a series of part time jobs. Now the year was over and on his way to pay for school for himself, to be a part of society.
As Jeremiah was in a uber on his was to his home, he was staring out the window, questioning whether the decision he made was the his parents wanted to support. Then he heard a sound and saw a lights flashing in the sky, it was fireworks. Then Jeremiah version went white, and then turn into blackness.
When Jeremiah woken up, he was cover in what he could seem a thick layer of dust. His whole body felt dry. He tried to stand up and was wobbling around. As he was blinking to clear his eyes, he was in the streets of a place he was unfamiliar of. The streets were crumbling and the plants were grown past the average city limits. There were even some sprouting into and from buildings. The sun was rising and he could not see any sign of life.
"Hello!" Shouted Jeremiah.
Jeremiah heard no response. He made his way to what seemed to be a convenience store. The store was just like outside, as if the city was untouched for hundreds, or maybe, thousands, of years. Jeremiah gathered what seem to be water, juice, and some dry provisions and began to search the city. The sun was setting and Jeremiah spent the whole day searching and yet found no one. His supplies were running low, but he could resupply at anywhere he needed. Just as Jeremiah thought he found a place to set up for the night, he took a whiff of what seem to be meat.
Jeremiah, with the best of his ability, ran towards the smell, leaving behind his bag. He follow the smell to what seem to be an octo-shape building with a garden in the center. Unlike all the other buildings, the light in the octo-building was on. As he was walking into the building he notice a note on the stand in front of the buildings gates.
"Limit: 8 Players - Do not bring any firearms or weapons."
Not questioning the sign, Jeremiah carefully walked into the building not knowing what to suspects. He open the entrance of the building and was blind by yellow light in the building. The layout of the room was pretty casual, there were no windows, there were two sets of doors in the room. The first being the doors he walked through the second being a glass door that cannot be seen through. In the front left corner of the room (Jeremiah perspective) was an open bar. No one was serving drinks but a very strong man, who can be in his late twenties, wearing camouflage pants was helping himself. Next to him was a high school boy wearing a uniform and a black beanie trying to talk to the Camo Man but he was laughing.
To the left wall of the room was a buffet of food. In the left back corner of the room were three people. One of them was a guy in a suit, eating his food in silence. The other two were womans; the first was a jogger who appear to be confused and scared and panicking to the other girl. The second was a woman wearing a long dress, had black hair,a dn a bright blue bandanna.
The the center right was a T.V. attach to the wall. Around the T.V. in a semi circle were three arm chairs. In the far left was a man in the late thirties with a mustache and sunglasses (reflections were not appearing). In the chair of the far right, was an Asian man wearing jeans, a tank top, and tennis shoes. Both were eating food as waiting as if they were expecting something.
Jeremiah could ignore the people in the room for his eyes were aiming the food in the left side of the room. Before Jeremiah could reach the food, the woman wearing the bandana intercepted him.
"From that look of hunger, I can tell this is your first game." (Bandana)
"What? What game?" (Jeremiah)
"So that makes three so far." (Bandana)
Jeremiah thought, "Three, three what?"
"I am going to tell you what I told the other two. Do not lose the game or else you will die."
Before Jeremiah could spoke another word, all the lights were shut off. And the T.V. in the room turn on. Everyone, even the half-drunk Camo Pants guy looked. On the screen, it was display a playing card: The Five of Hearts. Everyone was confused, the entrance door closed automatically and the sound of clicks came from both sets of doors. Jogger rush to the door in shock and attempts to open it. The door would not open no matter how hard she tried to pull. The the sound of speakers were turned on and can be heard.
"It's time to play the game, may you please take a seat at the table in the middle of the garden." (Speakers)
Right then, the glass doors open to the empty center of the octo-building. The space was filled with a beautiful garden. It was mostly empty space filled with grass and trees against the walls. The sides were dimly lighted, but the center was bright. In the center was a gazebo, with a stone trial from it to the glass doors. Everyone made their way to the gazebo, with Camo Pants, Jogger, and Jeremiah trailing everyone.
Underneath the gazebo, was an octo-shape table, with eight chairs on the octagon sides. The chair were not the common garden chairs but chairs find in a dining room set. Connected to the top of the chairs were metal poles with a display monitor. There were also a collar and chain on each chair, the chain was leading off the gazebo into the dark sides. On the edges of the tables were rectangular opening ever so thin. Above the table was box that display 4 monitors each facing a different direction. The monitors were displaying the same image as the on the T.V.: The Five of Hearts.
Everyone sat down to proceed with the game. The orders were as follow (Clockwise):
Jeremiah - Bandana - Beanie - Camo Pants - Jogger - Sunglasses - Asian - Suit - Jeremiah
Some look calm, while others look anxious and confused. At that moment the monitors above everyone's chair turn and the table onto a white screen and said the following: "To continue the game, put on the collars."
Everyone, including Jeremy, put the collars on and when the camo pant guy (who was last) put his collar on, a mechanized sound echoed from everyone's collar. At that moment, some of the people try to tugged at their collars and realize they have been locked.
After giving up, everyone waited and were looking at one another. Then the middle screens change again, displaying "Game Mode: 5 of ."
"A "5", this could be easy." (Suit)
"But it's a ." (Sunglasses)
The monitor blinked once more revealing the name of the game: "Bullshit."
"Bullshit? Is this the game we will be plating? Why?" (Jeremiah)
Then a sheet of paper was printed from the side of the table into each player's lap.
Bullshit Rules:
Cards are divided equally among all the players. The remaining card/s are thrown out, but the dealer has the choice to reveal the remaining cards to everyone or show no one (including himself) There will be no jokers in the deck, just regular cards.
(Example: 8 People = 6 Cards for Everyone and 4 Extras)
The player who dealt the cards will begin the game and then follow in a clockwise fashion.
Every player must place down at least one card face down on their turn (All cards must be face down).
The first person has to put down at least an Ace, second player must play at least one 2, etc. After the 10s, then it goes Jack, Queen, then Kings. Then the cycle repeats itself.
If the player whose turn it is does not have the card they say they have on their turn or wish to play a different card, they can lie and secretly put down any card.
At this stage, anyone can call Bullshit by saying "Bullshit." If no one calls bullshit, it is the next player turns. If someone does declare Bullshit then the cards are flipped and reveal to the other players and one of two things can happen:
If the cards the player played match the number or letter of the player's turn, then the caller gets the punishment.
If the cards the player played does not match the number or letter of the player's turn, then the liar gets the punishment.
After the punishment is given, a new game begins with a new set of cards.
New rules will be introduce after the first punishment.
One person is required to get punishment by the end of the game or else everyone gets the punishment.
Only one person is required to get a punishment so everyone can be let go.
Punishment can also be acted upon people who: Attempts to Remove Collars, Flee from the Table, Cause Harm to Other Players, Peak at Other Player Cards, or Reveal Your Own Cards During One Round Of the Game.
"So we can play this game and leave right." (Jeremiah)
"Yeah, so lets play just play." (Sunglasses)
A piece of table fell went into the table and reappear with a deck of red card. The man with the sunglasses grabbed the cards and started distributing them. Everyone received six cards leaving behind four leftovers. Jeremiah received an Ace, two 4's, a 7, a Jack, and a King.
"What are we doing? Why are we playing a game?" (Jogger)
"Welcome to boarderlands, just play the game and I will explain the rest to you later." (Beanie)
The Jogger shrunk herself into her chair. And the man in the sunglasses, without asking everyone, decided to show everyone the remaining four cards. It was a 5, a 7, and two Queens. Before the start of the game, everyone was organizing their cards and were trying to think of a strategy. Jeremiah though the best strategy was to avoid playing 3 or 4 cards at a time and play honesty when can.
The sunglasses man has to start off the game, since he grabbed the cards.
"One Ace." (Sunglasses)
"Two 2's." (Asian)
"One 3." (Suit)
With two fours Jeremiah immediately played them down.
"Two 4's" (Jeremiah)
At this moment, Jeremiah was thinking this was a boring game and everyone was overreacting.
"One 5." (Bandana)
"One 6." (Beanie)
"Two 7's." (Camo Pants)
"Bullshit …" (?)
To everyone surprise, someone sprouted the world bullshit. Looking around, the Camo Pants looked across the table across and notice that Suit had said it. The Camo Pants man stood up with a drunk smile on his face and flip the cards. He played down a 7 and an 8, he was lying.
"So what now? What's my so called punishment? (In a sarcastic tone.)" (Camo Pants).
A look of confusion was on Jogger and Jeremiah face. While everyone else, excluding the drunk man, had sign of guilt and depression expression. A switch was hear in the echo, and a light appear on the wall directly behind the Camo Pants man. The very dark shaded area was now lit up. The wall had a rectangle hole in the wall 5 feet above the ground, the chain that was on the Camo Pants collar extended into wall.
Then their was a crinkling sound, the chain started to move back into the wall. It came to the point where the chain was no longer on the ground. The man in the Camo pants was jerk off the chair, then off the gazebo, and onto the ground by his neck. The fall must have snapped him out of his drunken state, cause now he began screaming and trying to pull the collar off. He probably just realize his fate.