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Round 1
- Captain Hook's execution, despite the brief moments of levity. Wasting away in horror as shadows of your victims keep advancing toward you, losing your own thoughts, and then just decaying to dust... he might've deserved it, but still!
- Everything surrounding Astarte and her "other self". Imagine not remembering hours and possible even days at a time in fear of what might have happened in the intervening time, and waking up to find people distrusting you with seemingly no explanation. Now imagine realizing that your other self slowly and brutally killed a man, you were none the wiser as you tried to find said killer, and you're going to die for it. No wonder Astarte was worried something bad would happen when it was originally discovered.
- The Balladeer's growing horror that what everybody's saying about his being their friend and having months' worth of memories wiped is actually true, and that the person who saved him was just using him and acting on the recommendation of someone he never wanted to see again.
Round 2
- The mastermind's Assimilation Plot, particularly when the dead show up revived and "improved"—emotionless, uncaring, and completely unlike their usual selves, to the horror of the rest of the cast.
Round 3
- The first "murder" isn't even a murder; it's a case of accidental death when Elisabeth tried to save Mumbles from hypothermia, who was unused to a human body and didn't even realize the cold could hurt him until it was too late. Despite the entire cast protesting this blatantly unfair setup, Elisabeth is executed anyway to a danse macabre.
- Week 6's murders turned out to revolve around the motive causing hallucinations and sickness, as the culprit didn't realize she was hurting her friends until the deed was done. Once the cast realizes what happened, she and the others are horrified.
- The climax of the round reveals that the previous murdergames not only caused the Wizard to descend into megalomania, they created ruptures in the fabric of the multiverse that would destroy everything if not stopped.
