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[strangerpeople]

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[The blight is all-consuming.

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.]


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[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.]

Comments

Pool

[comesaround]

[ Someone had to do it, so of course he figures this was a good way to get him out and about to keep his mind busy. He's here and going to try and keep an eye out for anything that might look out of the ordinary, since there was no way there was absolutely nothing here, after all. ]

Re: Pool

[strangerpeople]

[He will find something sticking out from beneath the towels.]

[comesaround]

[ Curiosity wins out and he does note there's something there, so he walked over to go and take out whatever was sticking out beneath the towels. What is it? ]

[strangerpeople]

[A pair of swimming pants.]

[comesaround]

[ Blinking a bit, he turned them over in his hands. One could only assume they may belong to Hiyori, but it was hard to say. Do they seem used at all or dry and like they haven't been touched since it was put here? ]

[strangerpeople]

[They are dry and unused.

Maybe there's something else in this area to find as well?]

[comesaround]

[ Huh. Folding them over his arm to take with him, he straightened up so he could look around for anything else that might stand out. ]

[strangerpeople]

[There seems to be something else hidden within the towels. Something staticky.]

[comesaround]

[ ...O h. That seems important.

He's just.. going to try and touch it, if he can. Carefully, mind you. Hoping that the contact will actually do something. ]

[strangerpeople]

[Touching it does cause the static to start to flicker.]

[comesaround]

[ That's a good sign. So he's going to definitely try and grab it a little more firmly, in the hopes that it actually continues to have an effect on the static. ]

[strangerpeople]

[It does, until finally, the static disappears, leaving...whatever the heck is being hidden in the towels. Yay?]

[comesaround]

[ Great! So. With that said, just what exactly is he going to be picking up, then? ]

[strangerpeople]

[It's a very nice set of swimsuit gear. Mmm.]