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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

[unwittingking]

Sure you don't. Just like how you're not trying to make us hate Link and Hiyori by possessing them and making them look like jerks. That's not what's happening at all.

And how, exactly, does this interfere with your schedule? This shouldn't interfere with what you have planned at all, unless what you have planned is making us even more miserable.

[champion_link]

... I am Link, though?

[He tilts his head slightly.]

We are supposed to make sure nothing bad happens here where possible, outside of things related to motives and trials. If you see these people, you'll only be sad when they have to leave. They are dead, and should not be here.

[unwittingking]

We like getting to see our friends again. We'll be sad seeing them go if they can't stay, but we can live with it if it means we get to see them again.

Also, important question then; How's Hyrule? Still peaceful? Or did Ganon take over in your absence? Oh, and I'm sure Zelda is proud of this. Not annoyed or angry at all that one of Hyrule's only hopes is here, hosting a version of the game that killed her.

So how's all of that going?

[He's lost all fucks to give. If it helps get to the real Link, awesome. Hopefully it doesn't hurt the real Link, but...he'll have to see what happens.]

[champion_link]

Hyrule is safe. Calamity Ganon was defeated. It's unfortunate that the Zelda that appeared in that round of things met that fate, but I am sure she would be glad to knwo that I am helping make people happy.

[unwittingking]

[...is this a Pokemon game? Because it wasn’t very effective...]

I highly doubt that, but go off I guess.