15strangers | WEEK 2

WEEK 2

[As one week changes to the next, the Titled will find themselves having vivid dreams. Very vivid. Perhaps too real to only be dreams. Lost memories? Could it be, then, that those who brought you here did something to your minds along with your bodies?

Whatever the case, everyone, no matter how deep their sleep, are awoken to the sound of creaking, groaning metal coming from the first floor. When they do go to investigate, they will find something surprising.

The set of the doors on the right have opened.

Even the Intercessor seems stunned. It has been an odd weekend for everyone. After all, in between finding items seemingly popping out of mid air, and a bloodied statue that belongs to seemingly no one, its all very...strange.

Somehow, one gets the feeling that those strange items won't be the last they see. Indeed, after the doors open, there's the worrying, foreboding feeling coming back once more. And if those feelings are connected to the strange occurrence on Saturday...it can only mean one thing.

There's really only one way to find out if that's the case. The powers that brought you here certainly aren't going to give anyone a straight answer.

So, Titled: welcome to Week 2.

There are fifteen strangers in this place.]

((OoC: Welcome to Week 2! Remember to do your memory regains and your activity check!))

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...SO, LIKE A PUZZLE BUT WITH OUR BRAINS!

Kind of, I guess. Except we don't have all the pieces, or even know how many there are, so it's just confusing.

WHICH DEFEATS THE POINT OF A PUZZLE! THESE PEOPLE NEED TO BE TAUGHT HOW TO MAKE A PROPER PUZZLE AFTER WE GET THE REST OF OUR BRAINS OR WHATEVER BACK.

I think confusing us might be part of the point. If we forget stuff and then spend our time trying to figure out what's missing, that's less time we can spend trying to escape. Or less attention on making it hard for someone to kill us.

OH, W-WELL!

I STILL THINK THAT, UM, LATTER PART DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A THING, RIGHT? JUST A LITTLE, AT LEAST!

I CHOOSE BEING LESS LIKELY TO ESCAPE AS MY BEING CONFUSED THING. HOW ABOUT YOU?

I think trying to kill someone to get out of here is a dumb idea, but it's obviously what they want. So it's probably for both.

W-WELL I...

...

YOU, UM.

HUMAN? CAN I ASK A QUESTION?

Sure. But I'm not a human, I'm a URTV.

VERY WELL, HUMAN-SHAPED URTV...

...

...

WELL, SINCE YOU AREN'T HUMAN, YOU'RE NOT JUST GOING TO KILL ME BECAUSE I'M A MONSTER, RIGHT?

Of course not. I only kill people that are on the enemy side. We're kind of like allies right now.

OH GOOD! THAT'S GOOD TO HEAR!! AND I'M SURE EVERYONE ELSE THINKS THE SAME WAY!

I don't think anyone here thinks of anyone else as an enemy. We all want the same thing.

OH, GOOD! I JUST WORRY WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF...YOU KNOW.

I'M A MONSTER, AFTER ALL! NYEH-HEH-HEH...

Why are you worried? I thought monsters were supposed to be tough.

[Welp.]

I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, AM CERTAINLY TOUGH! NYEH-HEH-HEH!

NYEH-HEH....JUST...YOU KNOW. MONSTERS ARE......

NOTASTOUGHASHUMANS...

[Curse his inability to be a properly, um, awesome? liar...]

Edited 2017-05-23 02:52 (UTC)

Really? But humans aren't that tough at all, not unless they're using nanotechnology. That's why they need Combat Realians and bioweapons.

OH BUT THAT'S...THAT'S DEFINITELY NOT TRUE!! NORMAL HUMANS ARE VERY STRONG!! THEY...THEY HAVE THINGS THAT MONSTERS DON'T HAVE.

LIKE BODIES NOT MADE MOSTLY OF MAGIC, FOR EXAMPLE!

Magic?

[His first impulse is to say that magic doesn't exist, but...different worlds.]

I don't know how that works. All my world has is psychic powers. But bodies made of magic are fragile?

S-SOME MORE THAN OTHERS...BUT...

...

YES.

[He almost seems ashamed that he, the Great Papyrus, must admit this.]

...HUMAN-SHAPED URTV.

IN OUR WORLD, EVERY BEING HAS A SOUL. A HUMAN CAN HAVE MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOULS, WHICH CAN SURVIVE EVEN AFTER DEATH. IT COMES IN MANY DIFFERENT COLORS ❤. THEY CAN HARNESS POWERS MONSTERS CAN ONLY DREAM OF HAVING! THIS MAKES THEM VERY POWERFUL! VERY STRONG!

...AND...NYEH-HEH...SUPER SCARY IF THEY WANT TO HURT YOU. ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE A MONSTER. A MONSTER ONLY HAS ONE TYPE. ONE COLOR. A SOUL THAT POWERS OUR BODIES, BUT CAN'T SURVIVE OUTSIDE OF THE BODY. AND OUR BODY IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE CONDITION OF OUR SOUL. IF YOU HURT ONE, YOU HURT THE OTHER.

EVEN I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, AM NOT IMMUNE TO THIS WEAKNESS!

Edited 2017-05-23 22:27 (UTC)

[He knows absolutely nothing about souls or the harming thereof, what are you talking about?]

So it's not necessarily your body that's fragile, it's just that it's really easy to hurt your soul? I guess that makes sense, anyone would die easy if someone attacked their consciousness directly.

OH NO, OUR BODIES ARE FRAGILE, THEY JUST ARE CONNECTED TO OUR SOULS TOO...

So why not just wear armor?

I DO! SEE? I'M WEARING MY BATTLE BODY RIGHT NOW!

But it barely covers your arms. Is it supposed to generate some sort of force field?

WELL, I...

...

(OH MY, IT DOESN'T, DOES IT?)

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