WEEK 1

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 1

[Well, this is...happening. This is a thing. This is your life now. The Commander is expecting you to just up and kill one another, and then try to get away with it. No big deal, right? You guys can handle this. You won't fall for what she has. She's clearly an idiot. A loud idiot, but still an idiot. She's not going to get one over you.

...Right?

In any case, the Commander's quarters are now open for anyone who decides they can actually stand to be in the same room as her, but beware - any favor you might ask of her is going to come at a price, and who knows what she'll ask you to do if you decide to gain a boon from her. Unless you're a suck-up like Baku - then she'll apparently be flattered. Maybe that's a good tactic to use?


Whatever you do, try not to murder the bread again. The Bread Did Nothing Wrong.


There are fifteen strangers in this place.]



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[backuphero]

[Hey, he can try to explain the 1897 incident, with his grandfather and the Harkers and Lord Godalming and that whole group, she just needs to ask!

But oh, that's a maybe even heavier question she just did ask.]

Well, it's a little better but a little worse than that. We made it in all right, started investigating like we were supposed to, and it turned out Dracula wasn't running things. Apparently the anguish of the people this war's killed was enough to call the Castle into being on its own. Some crazy vampire "artist" named Brauner had moved in, and brought his daughters with him. The last thing I remember is looking at this locket one of them dropped after we fought, her sister stepped in and they escaped, but... the photograph in it didn't make any sense.

[earietale]

Well, I guess that’s better, but...it’s still not too good.

[That poor friend is having so many problems probably.]

What was wrong with the photo?

[backuphero]

[All things considered, it's more likely everything around her is having problems... she's hero material, he's just a fool with a whip.]

We met a man - well, a ghost, but he kept his mind after he died. That, uh... that doesn't usually happen, if you don't have ghosts either. Anyway, he trapped himself in the Castle, hoping someone would come along he could help to finish what he'd started. He'd been a hunter, but he failed, and... he was the one in the picture with those two.

I feel like I'm just talking at you, almost. I mean, this all sounds pretty crazy, right?

[earietale]

Well...yes.

[Yeah, she can’t really deny that.]

But, to be honest, the entire situation we’re in sounds crazy. I mean, we’ve traveled through time, you from 1944 and me from 1960, purely so that we have to be in this dome place that might be in space, where a lady with the world’s most annoying voice is telling us to kill each other if we want to go home. Not to mention the people from all sorts of different worlds, including a guy that I’m still afraid might be a demon.

So, in comparison, it’s still kind of believable.

[backuphero]

Guess you know something's really crazy when the guy who fights vampires agrees it is, huh?

[There's a wry sadness in his voice, even though the smile on his face is genuine.]

[earietale]

[She lets out a sad laugh.]

Yeah, pretty much.

At least most of the people here are nice. We could be stuck with a bunch of jerks.

[backuphero]

Yeah, it could definitely be worse...

[His voice trails off, but after a short silence - ]

If it's not something you'd rather forget about... what'd you do before here? Just school, or... what?

[earietale]

Just...the usual stuff you’d expect for a teenager, I guess. School, worked at a diner, kept my brothers from doing anything too stupid, you know.

But...when I was younger, there was one thing that was more interesting.

[She’s not really sure if he wants to hear her...complain? Reminisce? Talk about her past and be sad, really.]

[backuphero]

[She just let him talk about his family for like half an hour, he's genuinely interested to hear about her life!]

It sounds... really nice, honestly. Calm, if you can be when you've got brothers... not that I do, but stories travel....

What was that other thing, though?

[earietale]

Well, when I was about six, I was actually the star of a movie called “My Friend Bigfoot”. It was about a little girl that met Bigfoot and, though she was scared at first, eventually became friends with him.

Then the rest of the town found out about him and, well...you know that saying about judging a book by it’s cover? They did it hard.

So the town goes into a mob to kill Bigfoot, and he just tries to defend himself, while the little girl just tries to make things better. Bigfoot ends up killing a couple villagers, sadly, before the rest of them manage to kill him. Then the little girl yells at them, shaming them for making it get physical, before going home with her parents to leave the rest of the town to think about what they’ve done.

[She blinks a second after finishing, seeming to realize what just happened.]

Oh, sorry. I kind of...ramble a little bit when I talk about that.

[backuphero]

Hey, no, it's fine! Not every day you get to meet someone who's been in pictures, you know?

[He's not teasing with that.]

So that's why you asked about whether or not we know about a real one, then?

[earietale]

[Well, that definitely gets a bigger smile from her!]

Exactly. The idea of meeting a real Bigfoot instead of another guy in a costume is just, well, cool.

[backuphero]

From the stories I've heard, they seem like they're just kind of shy around humans, too, so who knows?

[Yeti, on the other hand, are a different animal entirely.]

[earietale]

Yeah, but still. You can't blame a girl for dreaming, right?

[backuphero]

You definitely can't. And shy monsters that're as smart as humans are better to deal with than the kind that notice you, trust me....