[Story thread] Five DH tokens and a 3k (hatch) even though everyone saw my lit totem

This is actually incredible and I didn't expect it to go my way at all as soon as I saw the totem spawn. My perks were DH, NOED, MYC, and PGTW. I was playing Oni.

It was in the Wretched Shop. The DH totem spawned next to the garage, next to a couple of thin trees (meaning it was blatantly exposed from one side and mostly exposed from the other). I thought "Yet another trial where DH serves to give survivors extra BP and I have to play with two perks the entire trial".

I found the first survivor after a somewhat prolonged search, and although downing him was easier than the search, he ran straight past the DH totem and the only hook I could reach was, you guessed it, right there. By that point I'd already given up hope of using my DH, so I wasn't even trying.

A little while later someone unhooks, I get a DH token and MYC activates. I go back to chase the unhooker and find a David already working on the totem. After I "convince" him to leave it alone and introduce him to the concept of meat hooks, I find a Claudette and down her fairly quickly. I hook her near the totem as well while David gets unhooked.

At this point I figure they'll destroy the totem before going for the unhook nearby. It's what I would've done, since one takes 2 seconds and the other takes 14. Much to my surprise, they go with their initial plan: unhook first, totem later (or never). Again, I find someone working on my totem, chase them off, but this time I can't find the unhooker, so I go for the unhooked. She DCs.

I find a Meg, down, and hook her. I was chasing a David at the time Meg got unhooked and got him at a pallet. I hook him nearby and immediately go back to my totem. Nobody's there. Seems they gave up on trying to destroy it.

One more hook, this time it's a kill (I'm actually not sure how, maybe she gave up or something). I spot Claudette off in the distance going to unhook David. This will be token #5, but there's no way in hell she's going to unhook him when she knows I have DH, right? Wrong (or this thread probably wouldn't be posted).

I go after David, down him near a pallet, but I decide to move him to an open area so I can properly appreciate the Mori. Claudette is long gone anyway and I don't feel like slugging. After ramming my fist down his throat and smacking him in the face with my big Kanabo, I run back to my totem (it's a reflex at this point). Nobody there. I stay on one side of the map to give Claudette the hatch and GG.

David called me an English slang for homosexual (he'd played against me before wherein I sent him a friend request to politely ask him not to wiggle since everyone else was dead and I didn't want to have to slug him - he took offense to my sending him a friend request to ask him that, said I had "issues"). I took great offense to this because I'm bisexual.

Disclaimer: Some story elements may be switched around because I forgot the exact hooking and unhooking sequence, but the overall theme is correct: everyone saw my totem, nobody thought to cleanse it before going to unhook, I got 5 tokens.

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