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15strangers2020-01-27 10:38 am
strangerpeople) wrote in 15strangers2020-01-27 10:38 am
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There was no sugarcoating it anymore. This was a critical time. Saving all of the vines is paramount, but what does one do when the blight hits? It keeps encroaching on the grapes, day by day. Entire clusters, entire bunches, dead and rotting, while allowing the blight to spread, and the leading botanists and viticulturists cannot identify the origin or the cause. They can't even successfully isolate the culprit in their labs; it seems to disappear like air no matter the precautions taken.
It is a catastrophe that seems to be beyond science, and it will result in the complete collapse of the entire country's wine industry. Already, embargoes on this year's crop have forced other grape-growers to close shop for the year after they'd sold their previous stock; it is all too possible that no grapes might ever be grown here again if a cure cannot be found. The tourists have stopped coming. The towns have grown silent.
You, meanwhile, are devastated. With the way your business is going, it will be on the brink of bankruptcy within the year. You will soon have no choice but to close shop and let every grapevine die, let the land go fallow. There must be a cure for this, there must be. Yet everything that can go wrong is.
Then, as you watch the news, it happens. Breaking news. The blight has been found in another country.
It is a pandemic-and it is only getting worse.
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Well. This is...what else can can anyone say? You all know the deal. You all know what situation you're in. All that is left is to figure out what you can do about it. If there's anything that can be done.
You still feel that compulsion to distrust. To know you cannot win. To know that only the hosts have your best interests in mind. It would be easy to just do all that. But would it be the right thing to do? You can't be completely sure. Indeed, nothing is certain here, except for that damned ticking sound. If only you could stop it.
But you can't stop it. It is inevitable.
There are 15 strangers in this place.]
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High school?
[Wow Kurama. Your high school is not- never mind your high school produced Kaito which is arguably worse than your average gang teen.]
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[He's just letting this whole fight happen and keeping up the conversation like it's no big deal.]
Although I imagine it's a bit different from what you're used to! St. Pigeonation's. It's an elite academy for the brightest birdies in Japan.
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[Kurama appreciates the lack of a big deal, honestly. And he himself seems to take the bird thing completely in stride.]
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I only woke up in this human body a couple of weeks ago. When I first showed up in the murder house. Still not quite sure how that happened.
[Nanaki, too, is thrilled that someone is just accepting his birdiness. He just... doesn't ever really express emotion past "dazed and dreamy."]
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That's always a difficult adjustment. Particularly when you might have to fight for your life in a body that works differently than you're used to.
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I do miss that spot behind the couch...
[...is that REALLY the concern right now, but okay]
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But you're right. They've already kidnapped us for the second time, who knows what else they can do? I'd rather not find out. I get myself in enough trouble without their help.