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[strangerpeople]

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[Good morning, Strangers.

How do you all feel today? Sad? Confused? Worried? Well, that's not the Hosts' problem. You guys are the ones being stubborn and obstinate, after all. In any case, it's time for all of you to get up and start moving.

It's Friday. Maybe you'll luck out and everyone's alive. But there's only one way to find out.]

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[strangerpeople]

[It’s not a box, Estelle!






It’s a body! No return address on them, though. Ruuuuude.]

[carryabigstick]

Uhhhhhh...

[AIDIOS DAMMIT!!!!]

O-okay, get it together... please be okay?

[She's going to check on them. Maybe they aren't dead. Who is it?]

[strangerpeople]

[Well, he isn’t moving. He is cold, he is stiff. We can assure you, Estelle...




Akira Kurusu, The Nagging, is dead.]

[carryabigstick]

[Heck heck heck heck heck!]

Guys... we have a problem...!!

[Time to yell and alert the masses while being thoroughly UPSET.



Including banging on McBurn's door get up you lazy ass she wants to yell at you.]

HEY, WOULD YOU GET OUT HERE!!!

[Okay the sound of her yelling probably won't come in, but the sound of her trying to bust down your door might reach you.]

[unwittingking]

[He came here because of the smell, and the yelling from Estelle helped too, but when he sees the body on the lawn...

King grits his teeth and forces himself to look away.]

I'm ripping off their arm before the execution. At the very least I'm biting them.

[Dislikes: Kids Dying]

[carryabigstick]

You take the left and I'll take the right.

[She's with you 100%.]

[unwittingking]

Deal.

[Culprit's deserve no arms.]

[otherworldlyking]

[ There went his nap.

...Oh someone's dead. ]

...what a pain in the ass.

[carryabigstick]

You're about to have a lot more pain if you can't explain what the hell a dead body is doing outside your door!

[Did you want a yelling angry girl this morning? No? Too bad.]

[otherworldlyking]

Not really sure. Someone probably just put it there.

[ He sighed...like wow this is a huge pain in the ass?? He was hoping he could go back to sleep but now he might have to do things. ]

[carryabigstick]

[..........how can this guy even be like this? She's so tired. Is this why he's tired all the time? Being around himself??]

If these are the kinds of gifts your friends leave you, you might need some new friends.

[otherworldlyking]

[ He'll yawn...what a thing to wake up to. This trial was going to be an extra pain in the ass? ]

...Whatever.

[comesaround]

Hey... I found another body over by House 14, but who's--

[ He'd come over soon as the others started to come check out that poor guy, but the first sign something was wrong was seeing Kurama like that as soon as he gets closer and that gut feeling just gets worse until he sees it.

Akira is there. Unmoving.

His eyes go wide before he - like Kurama - loses strength in his legs and sinks down to his knees. Staring in front of him as he does something that he never does in front of strangers, and that is cry. ]

DAMN IT!!

[ Don't mind him slamming his fist down onto the ground violently, his whole body shaking. ]

[byanyother_name]

[It takes Kurama a little time to get himself together enough to say anything to Karma.

Even when he does, it's brief and... afraid.]

Karma, the Noise...

[comesaround]

[ Thankfully the time it takes for Kurama to compose himself and come over to him, has given Karma enough time to do the same. He'd just finished wiping away any evidence of tears when he heard what the other said, and his eyes widened. ]

...They're here too? How bad is it?

[ He really is afraid of what might come next. Sure he'd seen Noise in the old Crab place but... out here, too? ]

[byanyother_name]

Bad. Just as bad as inside the building.

[Kurama does not want to be saying this to Karma right now but it's the truth.]

[comesaround]

...Shit. Does that mean that... Akira and Nanaki could still be in danger?

[ Considering what noise can do, this just fills him with an all new inexplicable dread and quiet rage at just the sheer possibility. ]

[byanyother_name]

[Kurama was leaving his house to go check on Akira when he hears Estelle shouting. That's never a good sign on a Friday. So he runs towards it, because he needs to know-

Except he doesn't. He doesn't need to know this. He doesn't want to know this. He doesn't want this to be real.]

Akira...

[Kurama sinks to his knees by the box. He's just staring at the body, tears running down his face. Anger will come, oh god will it, but right now there's just pain and loss.

In almost eerie silence, because the tears don't come with any sobs. Probably because Kurama isn't breathing.]

[unwittingking]

[Right, the dead kid had a boyfriend-

King hesitates for a second, but he goes to comfort Kurama. He won't hug him or anything, but he'll be putting a paw on his shoulder.]

We'll get them. I promise.

[He should only be loud enough for Kurama to hear him.]

[byanyother_name]

[It takes longer than it really should for Kurama to start breathing again. When he does, King might be the only one close enough to hear the soft, oddly canine whine that escapes him.

Before he speaks, voice a rough, deadly snarl.]

They should hope, dearly, that the executioner reaches them before I do.

[unwittingking]

[It's kind of odd, to hear a whine like that from a human, but in a moment of grief like this? He's not questioning it right now.]

Estelle and I plan on ripping their arms off. If you want, you can take the arm I was going for and I'll bite their leg.

[So long as they don't kill the murderer before the execution, they should be okay, right?]

[byanyother_name]

They won't receive such kindness from me, King. There are so many much more painful fates.

[He, um, sounds entirely serious about this. It doesn't sound like teen drama but the voice of experience.]

[incendiarize]

[When Arthur shows up, he's with Caleb. Already distressed, already he knows. Seeing a gathering of people only confirms it to him.

His breathing is unsteady before he's even running, he knows he knows he knows he's about to die again, it's all happening all over again--

Akira. It's Akira.

He processes that halfway from Caleb's side to the body's.]

No, no no no no... You were supposed to make it to nineteen, you idiot--

[relieable]

[he's coming out of house 4 about this time. seeing the... uh... package. what the hell. maybe Estelle needs some assistance.

where is the package located? in front of which house?]

[strangerpeople]

[House 6, so behind him.]