BAD END=DEAD END's dorm contains a roomm that consists entirely of a seemingly empty and endless industrial park stacked with shipping containers and exactly one building: a old, run down warehouse that seems completely normal from the outside.
Entering it, however, reveals the truth of the place: that it is first of all suspended in an endless fuming chaos constructed entirely of pure passion and emotion, which is kind of weird, but also more importantly there is a front desk that isn't actually visible from the outside despite being right in the doorway.
There is nobody attending the front desk, but there IS a ledger with a pen attached to it via string so that guests do not "forget" to put it back down when you're done signing in. Within the ledger is a well organized and orderly list of every single grudge that the person reading the book has experienced, heard about, or carries themself. All participants in these grudges are listed, as well as a short description of the grudge, its causes, and all actions taken to further it or bring it to a conclusion that have been taken if these are known to the viewer. "Participants" of grudges are not limited to just individuals, but can be groups, systems, or even objects or concepts. At the bottom of each grudge's entry is a line for each side so that the guest can choose become a participant in whichever side of the grudge they want, signing the line with that which best represents them.
Once this is done, the warehouse's true purpose is fully revealed; the guest is given a number and may enter and sit to watch the spectacle in front of them: every grudge listed in the ledger playing out in front of them in the form of bloody (albeit sometimes only theoretically or existentially bloody) combat between the participants, all at once, for as long as the guest wishes to watch or until they have come to the understanding that their number has been called, whichever comes first. Once they approach the field of combat to engage in the match they signed up for, they must fight the individual, group, system, object, or concept they have signed up to fight, and the fight cannot end until vengeance has been attained to a satisfactory degree. The field and surroundings will change to accommodate this battle if it is something other than a regular duel - if the battle is a group of rebels fighting against a ruler, the combatant will become the rebellion in all its forms in the place and at the time the rebellion took place, and if the battle is two families in a blood feud that constantly work to undermine each other at all times before escalating to violence, the combatant will become every member of the family they have chosen from the very beginning of said feud. Any observers who have not yet placed a sign in the ledger will be able to witness such non-standard combat even if they cannot see any of the others, and to them it will seem to be nothing more than a bloody and violent fight like any other.
Regardless of the amount of time that each fight takes from the perspective of the combatants, each battle only lasts ten minutes in Tokyo-F time. Signing the ledger and not approaching the field of battle results in a new entry appearing in the book, visible to all future guests:
LEX TALIONIS VS. GUEST [ SIGNATURE ]
PARTICIPANTS: VENGEANCE ROOMM GUEST [ SIGNATURE ]
CAUSE(S): REFUSAL TO CLAIM VENGEANCE TO ANY DEGREE DESPITE STATED INTENTIONS. NOT INFORMING THE OFFICE OF A CANCELLATION AT LEAST ONE DAY IN ADVANCE.
REMEDIES: GUEST [ SIGNATURE ] PLACED IN BOOK OF RETRIBUTIONS. FASCIMILE ENGAGED IN COMBAT BY OTHER VENGEANCE ROOMM GUESTS IN #$(( LAYERS #!@@ TIMES. #%)! DISHONOURABLE DEFEATS TO WEIGH DOWN THE SOUL AT TIME OF MATERIAL EGRESS.
DESCRIPTION
Entering it, however, reveals the truth of the place: that it is first of all suspended in an endless fuming chaos constructed entirely of pure passion and emotion, which is kind of weird, but also more importantly there is a front desk that isn't actually visible from the outside despite being right in the doorway.
There is nobody attending the front desk, but there IS a ledger with a pen attached to it via string so that guests do not "forget" to put it back down when you're done signing in. Within the ledger is a well organized and orderly list of every single grudge that the person reading the book has experienced, heard about, or carries themself. All participants in these grudges are listed, as well as a short description of the grudge, its causes, and all actions taken to further it or bring it to a conclusion that have been taken if these are known to the viewer. "Participants" of grudges are not limited to just individuals, but can be groups, systems, or even objects or concepts. At the bottom of each grudge's entry is a line for each side so that the guest can choose become a participant in whichever side of the grudge they want, signing the line with that which best represents them.
Once this is done, the warehouse's true purpose is fully revealed; the guest is given a number and may enter and sit to watch the spectacle in front of them: every grudge listed in the ledger playing out in front of them in the form of bloody (albeit sometimes only theoretically or existentially bloody) combat between the participants, all at once, for as long as the guest wishes to watch or until they have come to the understanding that their number has been called, whichever comes first. Once they approach the field of combat to engage in the match they signed up for, they must fight the individual, group, system, object, or concept they have signed up to fight, and the fight cannot end until vengeance has been attained to a satisfactory degree. The field and surroundings will change to accommodate this battle if it is something other than a regular duel - if the battle is a group of rebels fighting against a ruler, the combatant will become the rebellion in all its forms in the place and at the time the rebellion took place, and if the battle is two families in a blood feud that constantly work to undermine each other at all times before escalating to violence, the combatant will become every member of the family they have chosen from the very beginning of said feud. Any observers who have not yet placed a sign in the ledger will be able to witness such non-standard combat even if they cannot see any of the others, and to them it will seem to be nothing more than a bloody and violent fight like any other.
Regardless of the amount of time that each fight takes from the perspective of the combatants, each battle only lasts ten minutes in Tokyo-F time. Signing the ledger and not approaching the field of battle results in a new entry appearing in the book, visible to all future guests:
PARTICIPANTS:
VENGEANCE ROOMM
GUEST [ SIGNATURE ]
CAUSE(S):
REFUSAL TO CLAIM VENGEANCE TO ANY DEGREE DESPITE STATED INTENTIONS.
NOT INFORMING THE OFFICE OF A CANCELLATION AT LEAST ONE DAY IN ADVANCE.
REMEDIES:
GUEST [ SIGNATURE ] PLACED IN BOOK OF RETRIBUTIONS.
FASCIMILE ENGAGED IN COMBAT BY OTHER VENGEANCE ROOMM GUESTS IN #$(( LAYERS #!@@ TIMES.
#%)! DISHONOURABLE DEFEATS TO WEIGH DOWN THE SOUL AT TIME OF MATERIAL EGRESS.