WEEK 3

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 3



[The week begins as last week began. But there's is a great difference-murder. It has happened. Blood has been drawn; it cannot be undone. The Game has made itself known. The Game is paramount. The Game simply is.

As morning dawns, those who were not present with the DEAD lock will find that the doors that were locked are now gone-and a whole new area has finally opened up to them. They will also find that they remember something they had not been able to recall beforehand. The question is, was it worth it?

And-is it you, or is the ship getting...colder as the hours go by? No, it's not just you. By the end of Sunday, the ship has started to dip into freezing temperatures. It might be difficult for people to bundle up-unless you're Brain, who will find his closet inundated with winter clothing that fit him perfectly.

Yup. This is going to be a long week, as if last week wasn't bad enough.



There are currently 16 strangers in this place.]

Comments

[superstylishsquid]

A small, enclosed world...? Sort of like an offshoot of the human world?

[hatesdeerstalkers]

A Singularity.

[Yeah, that's a Capital Letter you're sure hearing.]

Due to a certain demonic collective attempting to use the entirety of humanity's death by immolation as fuel to forcibly go back in time and re-write history, 'bubbles' of human history where things proceeded in very different ways than normal arose as part of it, as a way to solidify humanity's full extinction.

The Incineration of Humanity was reversed, but the 'aftereffects' still remained - Shinjuku was one such aftereffect, that wasn't connected to the timeline of human history, but still existed for a time. A 'Fictional Shinjuku', one could say.

[superstylishsquid]

[The words 'humanity's full extinction' cause him to tense, and his tail swishes behind him.]

Demons trying to eradicate humanity, huh...guess some themes just like to repeat.

It's not quite so apocalyptic in origin, but the idea of a fictional reality with no direct impact on human reality is a familiar one. My home for the past while has been a fictional world created and defined by movies.

[hatesdeerstalkers]

Well, they were called demon pillars - but they were more akin to magecraft constructs. Goetia - the being that was at the head of their collective - and the 72 Demon Pillars attempted what they did out of their pity towards humanity's suffering. Something about wanting to reverse time so they could 'fix' humanity.

[...How does he know that so intimately? Huh.]

Ah, truly? How interesting! So each movie is a world unto itself, or are they all mashed together?

[superstylishsquid]

Sounds as arrogant as some demons.

[A huff and a shake of the head.]

Each movie is separate, but with sort of...shared borders? It's possible to get between them from inside if you know what you're doing, but they don't directly interact with each other.

[hatesdeerstalkers]

I would hardly be surprised, at that.

[He listens, quietly.]

Yes, that makes sense to me. Almost like countries, in a sense.

[superstylishsquid]

More or less, just with borders you can't cross unless you actively try. Most aren't even aware of each other, it takes a knowledge of the fourth wall to even see what's beyond your setting.