YOU MAY BE A LOVER BUT YOU AIN'T NO DANCER

[strangerpeople]

HELTER SKELTER

[Well, Champions, it certainly does look like you're trapped here.

There's limited food and limited supplies... and while there's a limited number of you, there's certainly too many of you for what you've got on hand. Never mind the whole deal that you've been kidnapped and shoved into someone else's house. Like, who even does that?

And all to "send a message," besides. Whatever that even means.

Regardless, things aren't going to change by just sitting and moping around. You're here until your captor decides he's done with you, so while there's no guarantee that acting won't just make things worse, it's got to be at least a little better than this.

Right?]

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Comments

[starswink]

[Yoosung speaks up, trying on a gentle and firm tone. It doesn't really work for him, he looks really keyed up.]

Amami and I have been through a ... a 'murder game' too. [Though this term sure leaves a bad taste in his mouth??] They had a school theme and they called them exams, but this seems identical otherwise. Even the mind control... I can't discount it. So I just want everyone to know that if this really is the same, and you kill someone, you will be caught and executed in a trial. That's the reality of an exam. You'll be dying for this. So think about whether or not you want to make your loved ones sad for a bluff that might not be real. Even at Fayflower the motives they gave us were never this over-the-top.

[Now that he's spoken his peace, he's got stuff to bear.]

I found a photo of the 16th stranger with his girlfriend. Also an external drive, but it's damaged until I can find the parts I need. I'd like to see that computer when I get the chance.

[dereban]

I had a motive like this once that was similar, but nanites is definitely. . . new, at least, for a 'oh hey, the people you love are probably in danger' thing. We had trials in the ones I experienced as well.

But in terms of 'caught and executed'-- there was the potential for someone to get scapegoated. Someone that isn't the real culprit.

[ This information, though... ]

An external drive, huh? That's definitely going to be hard to fix if we don't have the materials for it. Guess we'll have to do another run-through of the house for stuff. Can I see the photo, though?

[ Might as well check for details! ]

[starswink]

Yeah, we had that potential too. It's just a fake hope they give you. Everyone always caught the killer... no matter how undeserved their execution was. [RIP Yuuki and Mike Yagoobian!! And anyway, he's trying to deter people here.

Anyway, Yoosung is handing over the photo.]

Here. They look... happy, whoever they are.

[dereban]

The first one I was in was a little different since it was more based off of 'mafia', so catching the killer was a bit. . . difficult.

Although we never scapegoated in the second game I was in. Well, there was a game between my first and second that happened that I could only watch where someone got scapegoated, but everyone turned out alright in the end.

[ But that sure is a photo, which she'll go on ahead and investigate real quick... ]

[starswink]

What do you mean they turned out alright? This is really serious... Vyce is probably taking notes from our experiences.

[dereban]

Everyone came back to life.

The people back in the world I was in -- you could just put their souls in another body, since the bodies they had in that world weren't their original ones to begin with.

[touchsensors]

Why do people keep doing this everywhere-lun?

[whatsmytalentagain]

[Hi, notebook boy has a notebook message.]

IDK but it needs to stop.

[touchsensors]

[She squints for a moment.]

What's IDK-lun?

[whatsmytalentagain]

[Huh. Guess he shouldn't just assume everyone knows texting shorthand.

Hang on, let him spell it out with an arrow pointing to the "IDK."]

I don't know

[touchsensors]

[Thanks to the arrow we are spared a hilarious misunderstanding.]

Well, we need to find out so we can stop it-lun.

[starswink]

At Fayflower, they said we were all heroes, and the motives were for testing our heroicness so we'd cut out everyone who took the bait.

It's all a bunch of ... [he catches himself. don't say dirty words in front of a kid!!] lies. They proved that as soon as the entrance exam.

[touchsensors]

Entrance exam-lun.

[Yep, that sounds like code for something bad.]

[whatsmytalentagain]

[Rantaro taps Yoosung on the shoulder after he's done writing this speech down. He wants ya to read it to the class, please.]

Amami here. Last killing game I was in before I met Yoosung and the others was also at a school, but the people running it weren't as kind. The trials were actually called trials, and if the culprit got away with it they'd just kill everyone else instead. Can't remember the details of the first one, but I know it must have been similar.

[starswink]

[He does read this, though please know that there are pauses for when he glances back at Amami with a mix of disturbance and sympathy. Their Internet connection died the first time he tried to tell him about this stuff so yikes]

[whatsmytalentagain]

[Yoosung gets to see this face whenever he glances over. No, it's not good news at all.]

[starswink]

This means we can't discount Vyce resorting to mass execution either.... He said he was researching other people's trials. That probably means you, me and Inaba.

[stopfen]

Does anyone know what to do about him? Before he starves to death...

[Just nonchalantly bringing that up. ]

[starswink]

I guess we could try to feed him liquids.

[stopfen]

Would that work? There's things other than food that we'd need to do.

[starswink]

[he gets what she means but.]

Can't exactly help that though...

What we really need to do is figure out how to get him out of stasis.

[nolongerasleep]

Do you think he's the Jaeris person that was mentioned in that message?

[starswink]

It'd make sense. The stasis he's in would explain why he doesn't wake up.

[nolongerasleep]

Very much so. A person in that state isn't going to wake up through normal means. We'd have to figure out what caused it and then find a means to reverse that.

[starswink]

... I hope it's not nanites.