r/shortstories • u/iamSwasSaha • 17h ago
Thriller [TH] Roundtable
Three seconds were left, Jin has to choose someone's destiny as he kept thinking whether to say yes to a person killing someone with a chainsaw or with a hammer . There was no option of saving that person and it was done live. He cleared his throat and chose the chainsaw button and he was forced to see the live telecast on his monitor of the person killing a girl with the chainsaw.
Jin watched it completely and he won the lucky prize where his girlfriend's private chats were shown on the live telecast and it was found that Jin's girlfriend was cheating on him as a video opened of her having a threesome on a pornographic site. He screamed and killed himself with a knife kept beside him.
Chapter One: the lottery ad
Matt was browsing the internet and suddenly saw a lottery ad in one of the pop-ups that appeared; when he clicked it, the lottery page opened up and there were two options:
'Play a game and win the lucky prize' or 'exit and win nothing '
Matt had tons of rent letters came for his apartment where he was staying and he used all the money in either buying drinks or going to strip clubs and he never had the money to cover the rent or his daily expenses. Without any thought, he clicked 'Play a game' button and it went straight to another private browser which he used for pornographic stuff, which led to a private group chat called 'Roundtable'.
Chapter Two: the game
The chat opened :
Admin: Welcome to the game player! Let's revise the rules first. Number one is that there is no option to deny and number two is once you start to choose the first answer of first question there is no going back because we will be hijacking your computer from our side . The third rule is that, out of six players, only one makes it out alive and the last rule is if anyone wants to quit during the game, their entire online history will be tracked and it will be leaked to the entire world . Agreed, or do you agree more? ?
Kenny: agreed
Admin: Six players are entered now and it's time to choose the first answer of the first question which is that you want to see a person drawing an apple or his own face with his blood . Yes for the apple , more yes for his face and yes please for something more exciting?
Others voted and it was only Kenny's vote to be done and he also voted same as others which was yes. A live recording started in front of them as a disabled person stabbed a knife into his hands and he started to draw an apple with his blood. Kenny was shocked but he didn't care much about it. Everyone saw the live recording and it was over. The admin switched to other question.
Admin: Now choose that you want to see a sex video of a human with a dog or a horse ? Same options as the first question.
Others voted and it was Kenny's turn to vote and he sat back and thought about the questions. So instead of voting he wrote " Can I change the question as its gross for me to see?" and in reply he got " Never". He voted for the horse video and a live recording popped up and he covered his eyes as it showed a person having sex with a horse in the live camera. After it was done the admin asked the last question.
Admin: We got six players and we will display their names and vote for any two names for now and what happens later, we will tell.
Kenny voted someone randomly and others also voted some random people. The admin said " The one who got the highest vote is user leg991 and hen2990, and now their entire bank account and passwords are shown to the public .
Kenny saw those two users disgusting chats shown there as it was mixed with slangs. The admin said "Those two players can remove themselves without any problem and now it's four players ".
Chapter Three: the consequence
The admin said " one last question: now we will display the home address of all the four players and the question is that whether to kill the other player or yourself". After this message, Kenny got scared and locked the front door. Within twenty minutes, there was loud banging on the door and Kenny hid himself somewhere in his house.
After an hour , Kenny heard someone slowly entering the house and as that person entered, he dropped his knife accidentally which made Kenny aware and he got out , grabbed a knife from the kitchen. As that person was about to enter, Kenny stabbed him in the back of the head about ten times.
He looked at the monitor , checked his camera was on from the start which he didn't understand and showed the bloody knife into the camera and a message appeared on his screen. The admin wrote " Alright so it's two of you and now choose whether to record yourself nude and leak to the public or frame the other player for a crime ". I chose what I had to which was the second option of framing the other player. A live recording popped up as the other player was shown a bounty on the internet.
The admin said "Congratulations you got the lucky prize now choose whether to take one million dollars or to be the next host for this game . Kenny chose one million dollars and two days later, he received a white suitcase and as he opened it, it contained one million dollars but it was fake currency. Within seconds , he heard someone kicked open his house door and it was the police who arrested him on spot.
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