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Within days dozens are confirmed infected, and you and your unexpected new scientist friend find yourselves trying to work on a cure. If not a cure, a stopgap of some kind. Anything to prevent this thing from destroying everything. It's hard work. It's not going very well. Really, it feels like with every step forward, you're taking ten steps back. Discouraging is an understatement, to say the least.
A week passes, and the death toll rises. It's really starting to look bleak. You constantly second-guess yourself, and even get into a fistfight with your new ally one night. It's getting to the point where you are working on fumes.
Then, unexpectedly, you get a phone call. It's been a long night, and the sun is beginning to rise above the mountains, when it happens.
You and the scientist are not the only ones looking for a cure. In fact, there are at least a dozen others-and they think they may be close to a breakthrough.
But-and you can't believe you're hearing this, after all of the failure you'd experienced throughout this blight-they need your help.]
[To say that the end of last week sucked would be an understatement. To say that no one knows what this week will bring is not even in question. Yet even as you wake, you feel a cloud lift from your mind, as one of the truths you've been living with since the beginning has suddenly changed.]
[But is it possible to abide by this new truth? The Hosts, and IT beyond, seem intent on making that impossible. And the rat...well. Obviously the rat's not an ally. Let's not kid ourselves.
There's only one way to find out if more deaths can truly be prevented-and that's to keep going, and hoping that the new floor that has opened up will offer something in the way of an opportunity.
In the meantime.
There are 11 strangers left in this place.]
SUNDAY
INVESTIGATION
Arcade
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She's going to check the teacher's desk and whiteboard/blackboard/whatever you use to display things to the students first. ]
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Oh... more electronics. But these are way different from Inaba’s laptop...
[She’ll press a few buttons. The noises startle her a bit. She has No Idea what she’s doing. Once she figures out what she can do with them though, expect competition because she’s going to go all out on these things.]
[Next stop is the swimming pool. Now this is something she can appreciate.]
Woah!! Nice! I could go for a swim right about now. I wonder if anyone would race me...?
[Boundless energy as always. Either way, she’s ready to do some swimming.]
swimming pool;
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Arcade
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MONDAY
INVESTIGATION
Winery
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MEATBALL... BUFFET.............
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ARCADE
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Yeah. Right...
When not in the library or disgracing the classroom, she's fiddling about in the dressing room during much of the afternoon, assembling outfits of varying levels of gothiness and/or sexiness with an empty, sort of frustrated look on her face.
Around nighttime, she's also in the theater, with a bottle of sand-tasting brandy and...a vampire movie? What? ]
Dressing Room!
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[It might be good to snap him out of it.]
[However, late in the evening when people have probably eaten and returned home, Caleb can be found in the swimming pool. It took a bit to figure out how the swimsuit was supposed to go, but he got it in the end.]
[He's taken the bandages off his arm, though his scars are hard to see from far away. For now, he's just floating on his back and staring at the ceiling.]
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theater;
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First he'll be in the dining room, some new-ish stuff, though the vials were left in his room. Lisa sits in his lap as he eats the fried...something. Look, it was the main thing that might not kill him if he eats it, so why not? Everyone is free to grab anything of theirs.
Later, he'll be found in the toy store, messing around with a deck of cards. Not Cards Against Humanity this time-actual playing cards. There's a lot more cards than the usual card pack-apparently he got two out and decided to play a matching game. Lisa's napping next to him as he tries to find a match, only to find the two don't match.
Finally, closer to night time (or what he assumes is night time), he's at the pool. Lisa isn't there with him this time-with how cats usually are with water. And he's...not doing much this time. Just sitting on the edge of the pool with his feet and part of his legs in the water.
He's taking it easy today, and no one's going to stop him.]
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dining room;
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TUESDAY
MOTIVE: The Infinite Possibilities
You're probably expecting another show, another scream, another feat of puppetry by the Hosts to entice you all to murder. Well, there is some bad news. That's not what you're getting. No, instead...
there is a Kyuubey sitting on your dresser, head cocked expectantly.]
Ah, there you are. You must excuse my intrusion.
[Wherever the living reside, there is one, and it speaks directly to your mind.]
The Hosts have been preparing a very elaborate show to motivate you into committing a crime, but I decided that maybe I should step in and let you know directly beforehand what is being planned. It's much better to be direct like this, don't you think?
[It scratches its ear.]
Anyways, I'll get to the point. The loss of Lala Hagoromo was most unfortunate, since her potential as a magical girl was pretty obvious. And the universes out there that can be saved certainly won't just save themselves while we stand around! So here's the deal. We're scouting for new contracts. Not just among your lot, even though we know some of you will never agree to contract no matter how we try to explain to you that it is for a greater good.
But there are certainly more than enough candidates for the job back in your home universes as well. Nor are we limiting ourselves to females-anyone we find with potential will be looked at and given the chance to make a wish in return for fighting Witches! It can be any wish they-or you-want as well, as long as its within the bounds of karmic energy. There are such a thing as miracles, after all!
Now, personally, I think that offering one's emotions and soul to save reality would be a very attractive proposal for anyone to take up, and it shouldn't be off the table for anyone. However, the Hosts insisted I actually make it worth IT's while, so I've-rather reluctantly, I might add!-agreed not to interfere or contract with the universe of any individual who murders someone and gets away with it by the end of the week. If you can succeed, then we won't create any magical girls in that universe. Ever.
[Their eyes gleam.]
Likewise, if someone here contracts with us willingly. I don't think I have to explain what happens should the opposite occur, do I? If no one kills, or the culprit fails to frame an innocent, or people continue to try and kill us? I thought not.
In any case, for your problems this motive, which I'm sure some of you will have, I've also brought you cookies so you might take out your aggression on something other than me.
You're welcome. And have a pleasant afternoon~!
[So, if there's nothing else (or if you don't punt them to oblivion), Kyuubey is just going to be on their way!]
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MEETING?
Trust not the smiling devil. Meet in the classroom.
[ Anything that was on the board previously has been wiped away, and Ambro's also gotten some pills and cups of water for everyone. Not bothering with food, though, because what's the point when everything tastes like sand?
There is a sticky note outside the door that simply reads NO KYUUBEYS ALLOWED!]
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SHOW AND TELL
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KEYWORDS... also freaky tube things.
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THE BOY
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WEDNESDAY
INVESTIGATION
TUBES!!!
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But where the Strangers live, there's a peculiar sound coming from the street...]
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Another sword?
[That makes two now that she's gotten from her adventures here.]
This one is way cooler than the last one though--
[Dark!! Angsty. She knows a thing or two about using blades so... why not give it a few swings? Maybe it's owner will recognize it while she's trying to get a feel for it.
There's also a strange vial amidst her gifts. It reminds her a bit of whatever Arthur had used to zap them. It's dark blue with glowing star-bubbles.
Lastly--]
Oooh! Chocolate-covered Poms!
[Listen. She knows it will probably be disappointing, but. It's still nice to see something familiar.]
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After everything that happened earlier and what happened, Vita definitely is feeling up to some maliciousness towards the hosts. First, she's going to head off to the hosts' room at some point when they are gone. She'll be spreading the blue glitter all over the room, but especially on Hiyori's bed. If she runs out, she has her fan to produce more. The room will definitely be quite sparkly afterwards!
After that, she's going to be in the arcade. At first she'll be working on a badly drawn picture of Hiyori hugging a Kyuubey plush. She'll then make a picture of a middle finger sticking up on the light bright and leave it on the floor near a 3D dart board. She'll hang the picture up on the dart board and throw some darts at it. Her aim is decent, but not amazing. She hits them enough times, but also completely misses from time to time.
With frustrations dealt with, she'll take a nice walk in the Conservatex and she seems to be looking at the various herbs. She seems most interested in the ones to aid sleep, not a huge surprise when both her and her husband can have sleeping troubles that have not been helped by all the stress.]
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[Following that he'll be in the classroom, grabbing paper and writing something or other on it, and grabbing chalk and scribbling something furiously on the board in runes that probably make sense only to Ambrosine. It's a bit of a chaotic mess, but it looks like he's caught up in the idea of... something.]
[It's only finally, in the evening, where he retreats to his front lawn again, with a variety of objects. The only ones missing are the spellbook and the pocket bacon.]
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THURSDAY
INVESTIGATION
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[Bright and early in the morning Hiyori is playing with #7, the white cat in the cafe. Methodically rolling the black ball parallel to some lines forming the floor. They're scouring the floor as if to cycle through the designated play spots of the original ten cat line up. Then he's in the library for a bit. Gotta love those books that aren't The Little Mermaid.
Hiyori can be found in his quarters again by 6 PM, cleaning them meticulously (for anything. he so totally always does this and it is not just because of the insane amounts of glitter) and enjoying dinner while the TV is on.
So where is he in between those times? Spending six uninterrupted hours next to the pool. He's laid back in a lounge chair, in this full suit and tie, with earbuds that are connected to some MP3 player in his jacket pocket. Fifteen minutes at a time snapping his finger in the air to The Ticking, then fifteen minutes at a time drumming his fingertips against the armrest of the chair to The Ticking. A glance of "what the heck are you doing" is most likely to get:]
I was just thinking about how much I l̶̛͚͖͂̂̂̏̇̽̄̀̓̋̂̍ȯ̷̱͇̭͗̾̿̆̏̈́͠v̷̨̛̲̻̥͕̥̘͚̻̳̉̇͗̓̄͐̌̒̾̈͝͝e̵̢͔̼̫͙̘͑̇̀̈́̃̓̿͝ my job.
pool - 4:00ish?
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The first is the classroom. He’s got his face in his paws and refusing to look up from them. Why? Well, there are these things on the desks around him.]
Why do they keep giving that stuff to me...
[He’s starting to hate the vending machine.
The other place? The laboratory, where instead of messing with ingredients, he’s got...a brown, white, and black lump thing. Also rather than messing with it, he’s just sort of staring at it, unsure of what to do with it.
Lisa meows, and he gives her some head scratches, but he’s lost in thought.
Someone may want to talk to him.]
LET'S MAKE A MODERN ART INSTALLATION - I MEAN, COMPARE NOTES
Arthur's house is probably never going to be quite the same, but, as he'd told Jonathan, he hadn't been staying in it anyway.]
Right. So. We're partly here because I'm a dumbass who hasn't been doing what he was trained to and keeping detailed notes at meetings. I know I don't know everything everyone else has brought up, and I don't think I'm the only one...
But especially after yesterday, we need to put all our information together. There's pens, there's paper, and the walls in here are metal so you can just hang stuff right up with a magnet. [He tosses one at the wall, where it hits and sticks after slipping down a little.] It'll be easier to group stuff by subject if we can see it, right?
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AGGRESSIVELY STRINGING UP A TIMELINE
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