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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

[incendiarize]

Hey, Jun.

[Not much, just intensifying his shounen spirit.]

[icanhearscreams]

... Are you... uh. Okay?

[He wasn't super friendly with people so this is hard!]

[incendiarize]

....mostly? [Kinda starved, kinda been through hell, you know.] A lot's happened. What about you?

[icanhearscreams]

... Honestly? Even though there's a bunch of floating stuff around us? Bored.

Not all that many books, no TV, no computers... being dead is boring. No wonder there's so many ghost stories - they're probably bored as hell.

[incendiarize]

The teevees are bad anyway. They do brainwash-y things.

That's not what I'd expect, but....Boring's kinda underrated, after all of this. Makes sense about the ghost stories, though.

[icanhearscreams]

Yeah. Other people say some of the things floating around remind them of places that were either in their round of events or from home, but I don't recognize any of it.

[incendiarize]

Huh....so there's nothing from the mansion there? I guess maybe it makes sense? With the time weirdness and all, maybe the mansion got demolished in whichever timeline.

[icanhearscreams]

Not that I could see... but it's strange that it's excluded.

[incendiarize]

Hmmm.... Well Atsushi said Rachel's there. And Rachel directly caused the mansion stuff.... Maybe that has something to do with it?

[icanhearscreams]

... I don't know. You'd have a better idea than me. It's been a while for me, so some of the exact details of the information has kind of... you know.

[He can only remember so much for so long.]

[incendiarize]

I'm just guessing, at this point, all I can do is put information together. [Do you wanna see his notes--]

[icanhearscreams]

Probably. All I can do is be stubborn as hell and annoy the dumb girl who's doing this 'Reaper's Game' thing but not too much.

[incendiarize]

Sounds worthwhile to me! She deserves it!