WEEK 3

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 3

[As Marie said: so much for trust and resolve. Two people are dead, and there is very little anyone can do about it now, no matter how much they would have wanted to sacrifice themselves.

In particular, with Marie's words during the trial, it's clear that time is limited. Or is it? Marie is also capable of omitting the truth when it serves her needs, especially when it comes towards the Strangers and their still-missing memories. In any case, one can only hope they don't fall for her tricks again, even though getting away with murder would - apparently - save at least one life.

There is something else, as well. When everyone wakes up the morning, they will find that information on their wristwatches has been updated to reflect their new number - and something new about their powers. Not only that, but a new floor has opened up above Floor 1 for everyone to explore. Maybe more can be found on just what, exactly, is going on.

Is Marie telling the truth? Is the universe really ending? Or is it just another means of getting what she wants? Whatever is happening, people will need to be more careful around her - and one another. Who knows what Marie will offer next - or what your roommate or new friend is now capable of as a result. Especially since it's now known, thanks to Marie's actions during the trial, that everyone has definitely lost some memories. And unfortunately, no one seems to have regained any of them so far - or if anyone has, they haven't said a word.

If trust and resolve was ever needed, it feels like now is the time to try and find all that.

There are thirteen people in this place.]


SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

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SUNDAY

[strangerpeople]

[theserpentsmiles]

[Nagisa is up early, or maybe he just didn't get to sleep.....either way he's done his exploring and can first be found in the kitchen (and then the mess hall) preparing breakfast for everyone here with some of the fresh food from upstairs. With his behavior....you'd think nothing had happened. And yes, he's cooking for everyone.]

Good morning!

[Later, he can be found in the probably-still-glittery theater. He's left a note at weapons storage saying he's borrowed a knife, and indeed he has; he's swinging it rhythmically and repetitively. Knife drills. Anyone who'd recognize them would be able to note his movements are professional and well-rehearsed. He's done this before.

Finally, he can later be seen working at the laser room...though for now he's just watching them closely. Studying them. Got to be something useful back there and....he bets he could do it.]

QUICK TIME GAME I GUESS WE COULD CALL IT THAT LET'S ADD SOME MUSIC

[strangerpeople]

[ARE YOU READY!!

FIRST LINE OF LASERS, GO!!!]

[crouching_sin]

[Well he'd been exploring and hadn't gotten to look at the theater since the murder.]

[Instead of an empty room, what he finds is Nagisa, swinging around a knife. He lingers near the door, not wanting to get in his way. Once he's done with what looks like a set, Naoya speaks up.]

Full of surprises, aren't you?

[losergod]

[ Finally the God of fanfiction emerges from the art room and it's probably only because he realized he was hungry.

He's actually very happy to see real food in here. ]

Mister Shiota... so you were the one cooking. What is it you've made?

kitchen

[toushiro]

[ nagisa certainly looks like he's doing better. hitsugaya's never spoken to him, but after the trial and seeing him at the after "party"...it's surprising he looks so much better already.

hitsugaya nods to him in greeting. ]

Do you need any help with preparations?

[vividsins]

[ New rooms means new inventory. So he's going to take stock of every room throughout the day. So basically if you wanna find him, he's somewhere on the new floor. Ana is not typing out him taking inventory of every room, okay?

The only time he takes a break is at the onsen where he bathes and the laser room. Because he's going to cheat the fuck out of said laser room with his power. ]

[stealsyourduelist]

[Rosenkreuz tentatively likes this floor more than the first, although there's still a bunch of nonsense.

Like the Garden. He gets the hydroponic wheels - they were detailed in the pages of one of the Book Killer's victims, but the bread plants are just. What. THIS WASN'T IN THERE, HE'S PRETTY SURE. He stares up at them, slowly unsheathing his sword. He really wonders if this is some kind of illusion. Should he cut one off...?

The Lab is another point of interest, and one that he's quite interested in. He'll bring in some medical/science textbooks from the library in here to try and cross reference the things he sees, and maybe even do a bit of dabbling. He has a feeling this is where he'll wind up hanging out most of the time, but given the contents of all the library notes, he's also going to be looking around in here to see if there are any more traces of the Book Killer.

Not much else interests him overtly, although he makes a mental note that the onsen will be a good place to start taking care of hygiene. Once he's done scoping out that place, he'll go down to the Weapons Room to practice with his sword. Though, it turns into him training dexterity with his extra arms too... trying to grow them as fast as possible, pass small objects (like sheathed knives) between them quickly, and so on. Which means... there's gonna be a big pile of body parts on the ground by the time he's done. That's kinda gross... Maybe he should have put a warning sign on the door or something.]

[losergod]

[ C is going to head into the onsen first things first because he wants bath and this is as close to one as he's going to get. Let's hope nobody else ruins it for him.

After that, he's going to the art room where he can... actually probably be found pretty much for a large duration of the day, taking stock of what they've got and marveling over art supplies. He can eventually be found here, you guessed it, drawing. Of course he's drawing. This time, though, he draws a couple things. One of them is probably familiar. The other, probably not so much to most people. In fact, there's a lot of drawings of those two. ]

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[backuphero]

[Jonathan was doing great up until he decided to try out the new floor, really. Something in the arcade caught his eye. If you're wondering why a tinny Classical concerto and some... really annoying sound effects seem to be coming from the same direction as a certain blond loudly complaining, well, he found something involving storming a castle and killing monsters. He's possibly even worse at that game than he is at the ones that earned him other people's property and the Evil Corn Of Doom, but he'll be spending some time trying to get through it, at least. It's obnoxious and distracting, and right now, he can appreciate that.

Mostly.]

Aw, come on, seriously? What is this, a plague of infinite rats?!

[Somehow, it's so much more annoying to fight monsters when you can't just... stab them.]

[earietale]

[So, a new week, a new floor, and even improved powers!

All at the cost of two of their friends.

That's fine, this is all fine, everything is perfectly f i n e .

Barbara is going to look around the new floor for most of the day, but a good amount of that time will be spent in the den and the connected bar. And before you think anything suspicious is going on, she's actually just searching around. When she looked around the theater the first week, and that yielded some interesting things, so the next logical step is another lounge like place.

Later, after another round of games on the weird computers, she's in the mess hall with some new stuff. She's actually wearing the waitress outfit, and letting the crutch lie across her lap. She's mainly just staring at it instead of her other things. She says something, barely above a whisper.]

Rick, what happened that night?

[crouching_sin]

[It... takes Naoya a bit to get going. He's easily found in the arcade for a while, flitting from game to game and beating high scores as he goes. It's not hard for him, so after a while he moves onto some more serious matters.]

[He's determined to check the lab, to take inventory of the chemicals there and anything else that might be useful and/or dangerous. Literally taking inventory. He's got paper and everything.]

[After that, he can be found in the art room for a while, working on a simple set of clothes for himself. The stitching he's doing is actually pretty impressive, and he's working with a speed that might surprise someone. He clearly knows what he's doing.]

[Finally, later in the day, he can be found in the den, looking more and more angry at a bottle of some kind of extremely potent-smelling alcohol until he finally just pulls his legs up and glares at it.]

MONDAY

[strangerpeople]

PUNISHMENT: And I Will Stand The Hazard Of The Die

[strangerpeople]

[Sometime in the mid-morning, Strangers will become aware of shouting on Floor 1.]

WHY YOU!! HOW DARE YOU CUT ME!!

[Yup, that's Marie all right. But who is she shouting at?]

OH, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? NO, DON'T YOU DA--

[Anyone who manages to get up to Floor 1 - and specifically in front of the entrance to the Commander's room - will find Richard and his doppelganger, surrounded by five camerabots, while Marie is holding her face with an angry, horrifed - and perhaps scared? - look. They will be just in time to see one of the Richards, as they begin to fight, plunge a sword, hard, into one of the camerabots. It runs right through, causing it to short and explode.

At this, the other four camerabots surrounding light up.]

SUBJECT: RICHARD. THE DOUBLE. WARNING LEVEL 3 - RULE BROKEN.

ACTIVATE PUNISHMENT FOR RULE-BREAK.

[Instantly, the remaining camerabots each unleash a devastating laser attack, straight through the Double's chest. There's no time to react to even try and save him, and as Richard crumples, his eyes becoming blank and his chest smoking, the doppelganger turns to mist.

Nearby, Marie's face goes from angry to mocking, and she laughs at the sight.]

AHAHA! STUPID FOOL...THINKING HE COULD CHANGE HIS FATE IF HE ATTACKED LIKE THAT! OH WELL!

[The camerabots depart, leaving the body where it is. Richard's body convulses for a moment before it stills, and it's pretty clear that there's no chance of saving him.

Richard, The Double, is dead.

There are twelve people in this place.]

Investigation

[vividsins]

[ Today, Baku is back to his usual. He'll be hanging out in the onsen and then he'll be exploring the garden especially. Listen, spaghetti trees are something he'd never heard of, there's got to be something to that.

He'll also be making his own food with stuff from said garden later in the day, so you can find him in the kitchen.

Finally, at the end of the day, he'll be in the arcade to explore and see if any of these games has some kind of secret to them or not. ]

investigation

[toushiro]

[ hitsugaya isn't impressed with richard's death. it was unnecessary and a poor move on his part, so hitsugaya does his best to shove it in the back of his mind and carry on with his day. one thing to note is he's wearing his sword again, for obvious reasons.

he enters the onsen, looking to relax and find something that feels like home. he was obviously not expecting to be faced with a giant bucket of ice-cold water to be dumped on him. he's pretty tolerant of the cold, so it doesn't bother him as much as it should, but he still looks pretty disgruntled. he huffs before entering the onsen, closing his eyes.

afterwards, hitsugaya heads to the garden. he's, well. certainly not expecting any of this, but at least they have fresh food now? in any case, he's going to look around and see if there's anything suspicious in here. ]

[mementodagger]

[Yurick caught the tail end of what happened to Richard, enough to see why messing with the cameras is a really bad idea. He feels a twinge of something, but the man was a fool for breaking one of the rules clearly laid out for them. At least his death was somewhat quick.

Afterwards, he spends some time in the art room, musing specifically over the beads he finds. Cheap metal, wood, glass, and a lot of that strange "plastic" stuff. He picks up a few that catch his eye, rolling them in his fingers as he contemplates them. He'd just gotten his beads back from Akira, and now the other boy is gone. It unsettles something inside him, no matter how much he tries to fight it. But he's used to never feeling quite right, so when fighting the sensation fails him, he simply ignores it.

Later, he enters the onsen, cursing sharply at the ice-cold dousing he gets. At least sinking into the bath shortly afterward eases much of the lingering chill from him. For someone as private as the mage, he doesn't seem the least bit bothered if anyone else joins him, oddly at ease with Japanese-style bathing for someone definitely not Japanese. Even if anyone stares at him, he doesn't bat an eyelash.]

TUESDAY

[strangerpeople]

MOTIVE: The Power Is Yours

[commandurr]

[Sometime in the morning, everyone's wristwatch beeps, and the hologram feature pops up. It's not the best quality, but one can see what is happening, nevertheless. On the other hand, f you're in the theater or in the onsen, you can see what is happening very clearly. And - not surprisingly - it's Marie who's sending all of this, looking smug as ever.

What is surprising about her appearance, however, is that the nasty gash Richard gave her is gone, with nary a scar, as she speaks in her room.]

HEY LOSERS! SO YOU ALL KNOW I'M TOTALLY CAPABLE OF BRINGING PEOPLE BACK TO LIFE, OR KEEPING THEM DEAD!! BUT DID YOU KNOW I'M CAPABLE OF MAKING YOU TOTALLY INVINCIBLE??

LOOK AT THIS!!

[Four camerabots surround her as the view pulls out.]

ACTIVATE PUNISHMENT FOR RULE-BREAK.

[It's like deja-vu all over again, as massive laser fire suddenly hits Marie in the chest. However, this time, though Marie's clothing smokes, and there's a giant hold where she was hit, she is clearly completely uninjured.

There is a faint silvery sheen that seems to wriggle on her skin, as the camera pulls back up close to her and her reaction.]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

SEE I'M TOTALLY FINE!! THAT'S WHY I'M IN CHARGE HERE!! IMAGINE IF YOU COULD DO THAT BACK HOME! IMAGINE WHAT ELSE YOU CAN DO WITH IT, HMM?

DON'T WORRY! I'LL TEACH MY METHOD...TO WHOEVER GETS AWAY WITH MURDER! BUT REMEMBER, LIKE LAST TIME, THIS IS A LIMITED-TIME OFFER! IF NO ONE GOES THROUGH WITH IT BY THE END OF THE WEEK, YOU GET NOTHING!

YOU CAN BE INVINCIBLE...OR YOU CAN BE A WIMP LIKE THAT OTHER GUY FROM YESTERDAY!!

YOUR CHOICE!!

AHAHAHA HMMHMMHMM!!

[And with that, the feed ends.]

Meeting Time

[crouching_sin]

[Everyone will find a note on their door this morning. It's a drawing of Akira giving a thumbs up, with a note saying 'You can do it!'. Underneath, there's some more writing.]

Meeting in the mess hall at 2 PM. Snacks will be provided.

[And snacks are, indeed, provided. No alcohol - if you want that, you'll have to grab that yourselves. But there's ice cream, salads, toasted bread, and spaghetti.]

[... Look, he did what he could.]

[There's also a table with a note set up on it that says Is this yours? Please take it if it is., with a number of items on it.]

[Naoya himself is sitting at a table, drinking some soda.]

WEDNESDAY

[strangerpeople]

[Starting today, Strangers will notice a random and sudden increase in the computers activating it's anti-hack software. Terrible recorder playing and 8-bit music fills the air at random intervals.

Hmm.]

MINIGAME: EGG BABIES

[strangerpeople]

THURSDAY

[strangerpeople]

[theserpentsmiles]

[Nagisa is sticking with his plan of making breakfast for everyone every morning. This morning it's a bit different from normal, because there's a large blue bird harassing him as he tries to put a meal together in the kitchen.]

Ah- ow! Ow! [Beaks and talons are sharp!

Once he's successfully made breakfast, he'll be found in the mess hall, with several items laid out on the table - although the whip and sword have been stashed away, for the sake of keeping track of them, so they're not here. However...

Even later on, he can be found in the theater once again, apparently he's claimed this as a training room. He's put a note on the door to warn everyone this time, at least! "Training with weapons in progress, please don't come in unannounced". He's willing to train others, too, but this is where you'll find him trying out the whip and sword. He's not doing so well with the sword - it's big and awkward for his size and balance is an issue....especially for someone used to wielding knives. The whip, on the other hand....give him a couple of minutes to figure it out and he's a natural.]

[backuphero]

[Jonathan can be found in the Art Room, paper and pastels in front of him. He doesn't want to do this, damn it, but... that memorial Vita set up is still there, and he'd trashed the picture he was given. And if Marie wasn't kidding about their universes being in danger, not just this one... she'd been confusing about it, but... he's had too much time and cause to think about morbid things, this week, especially with the unexpected death on Monday.

He's no artist, that much is obvious from the trashed attempts sitting around him where he's crumpled and shoved them aside. He's working on small pieces of paper, and it looks like he's trying to draw a blonde woman facing a man with long brown hair, both in profile, both from the neck up in a sort of cameo style. The woman seems to be turning out better, so far, this time....]