15strangers | WEEK 3

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*round 7,
*week 3

WEEK 3

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.]

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A diversion... but then, no reason why dolls couldn't chat as they walked, is there?

[He'll be setting up shop with his snack tray later, but the upper stage is on C too, so hey.]

Oh. Right, of course.

[Do you not want to grab your stuff from the mess hall before you go? Well, maybe the pantry would be more appropriate. She sets to walking with the doll taken out of her pocket and loosely held up in her fist. It's facing in a random direction for now. Maybe she's just going through the motions.]

You can count on me! I'm Chainsaw Man! It's nice to meet you, ma'am!

Greetings. My name is Shinobu. I am a housewife who has never encountered any supernatural phenomena. How do I know I can trust you?

[As you can probably tell, his voice for Shinobu sounds exactly the same as his usual one. However, he is using feminine syntax. Every so often, a miniscule lilt enters his tone.... indicating that he might actually be trying to put on a voice and just. Not. Achieving it at all. Yoshikage Kira is boring.]

Hmmm. An interesting challenge, since they need to get close to one another somehow.

[Makima poses the doll's arms to clutch at its head in frustration, then starts walking a little faster to make up for pausing.]

Do I look like a monster to you? Dang it! I'm the protector of humanity! I just gotta hide my secret identity! Did you see that they didn't even build my doll like this at the start? I just had to put on this stupid hat thing!

True. But I wonder if Shinobu would get along with a person like this? I've never really seen her talk to anyone other than myself and Hayato. Hm.

[He considers this ... then decides she isn't that hard to win over]

Oh, so it's a hat! What a relief. In that case, everything is fine.

Yeah! Exactly! You'll see when we take a ba—

[Makima gently smacks her own doll in the head. It unsurprisingly uses masculine speech, but she is cutting corners and not saying some of the worst stuff.]

I suppose this suggests that you... met Shinobu-san before Hayato-kun.

[There's a lot more she could say that she doesn't. She makes her doll do that smug finger under nose pose, though its hands aren't articulate enough.]

I knew you'd trust me in the end. I gotta fight with violence, but Makima-san can see that I do have a heart.

Are the two of you always like that?

[Kira glances between Makima and her doll as a crude joke was almost made, not really masking a reaction of, essentially, what the fuck?]

Well... I don't really remember, but that is normally how it would go, anyway.

[Don't ask him what he recalled instead of more memories of Shinobu. He clears his throat.]

It is a relief to have someone on my side. We need to get out of here! My son is all alone now.

[Makima's mask doesn't exactly crack when Kira questions her remark, but she's teasing him about Shinobu a lot less pointedly all of a sudden.]

Chainsaw Man is a bit of an antihero, so it's hard to strike the right balance when that topic has been brought up as one of the activities.

[Here they are at stairs. Chainsaw Man is stood glumly on the banister.]

My powers don't help me too much with climbing this. But I'll catch you if you fall, Shinobu-san!

He sounds like a hooligan, honestly.

[He is learning so much about Makima's taste in chainsaws and/or men.]

Excuse me, Chainsaw Man... how exactly are you going to do that? You have chainsaw arms.

Let's call him a man of the people.

[Boy is she appreciating "dislikes: being perceived" right now. The quality of disguising her naturally feminine voice is dipping a bit.]

Oh, don't worry, ma'am, I can retract my chainsaws! But I guess here Makima-san will have to pull them out for me.

As you wish.

[...In contrast, he is going to have to up his acting game to get through this next line]

Don't bother. I'll just have my... "sweetie pie" carry me up the stairs...

[goodbye. This is the last thing he remembers her calling him. At least he establishes lack of interest in playing out some kind of cuck thing here!!]

You could probably do that in real life if you wanted.

[She spares a glance to the real Kira for that before focusing on the stairs for a while. Might as well make space so that she's not in his way with her toy bouncing along the banister. Soon enough she speaks up as the antihero again.]

So, Makima-san told me that if we have to camp out here, she's gonna make us a little fort under the table. With a bathtub and a towel and a bunch of tea room crackers split up in little parts. What do you think? Any ideas?

I know. [Said in an obvious tone that suggests this or something similar has in fact already happened. Kira is repressed but it's not like he's Brain.]

He was just going to feed me grapes one by one like a goddess.

[Kira looks back at Makima, the only indicator that he is not speaking as the doll]

I mean, really, why bother doing every task there is when you can just repeat the one quickly and efficiently?

[Makima is quietly enraptured by both the favors performed for Shinobu, which are rather hard to imagine Chainsaw Man doing. She ends up entirely back in Makima mode as she reaches the C Deck door and opens it.]

I might just be a little sentimental, but I don't feel completely confident in feeding one grape a hundred times rather than a hundred grapes one time. I'm going to be alternating between two different outfits and bathing him. Though I do want to throw in a little more "interaction" just to be sure.

The drying process doesn't really seem worth it to me when it comes to bathing and changing them. It would be different if the rules said the tasks needed to alternate.

Hmmmm. The washcloth doesn't seem so bad to me, but if you're correct, then you'll beat me. I suppose I should try to feed him the whole saucer of crackers right at the end.

[Now that they're up in the hallway, Makima walk to the theater door window which Chainsaw Man look through eagerly.]

Yeah! We made it!

[Were the dolls even looking for this. Oh well.]

I suppose inferring what Zero is thinking is simply another part of the challenge.

[Kira sets Shinobu in one of the seats. She sits rather ungracefully, which he conveys in her pose...]

OK Chainsaw man, what do you see from the balcony?

[Makima is the one who was curious about this place, after all. With the doll seated he'll also be free to look around for a moment.]

Hmmmm.

[Because you know they both love thinking whatever Zero and any collaborators thereof are thinking.]

"Hyaaaaaaaaaaa."

[She telekinetically sends the doll to do a big dramatic jump into the empty space of the auditorium, the corners of the walls. This requires a lot of concentration and is also cringe enough that she doesn't emphasize the dramatic scream of the doll. Maybe a few Kyuubey hairs will snag on the chainsaws. Who knows.]

[Chainsaw Man GO!

Actually, there's a lot of hairs on the doll when it comes back.]

[This is more useful than she expected. Makima suddenly remembers the strange conversation with Zack and decides to send the doll to the stage next. Perhaps that weird creature left behind a bandage, for example? She's on alert like she'll need to run at any time.]

"Cool. Guacamole."

[She says lazily as the doll.]

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[The doll seems to bump against a force field as they get to the curtains. Hm.]

[Makima gently lowers the doll to the ground, then lets go of her telekinesis. She summons the sword. She jams the sword through the air against the force field.]

[Nope. No give.]

[So it basically looks like they entered the theater through the doors, but there was some kind of exit on the stage that was blocked to them? Is that right? Interesting? Makima frowns in concentration. She brings the Chainsaw Man doll back into her waiting hand, quite fast - might give Shinobu Doll a startle if she's watching (LOL). Then she drags the sword across the stage, with a terrible grinding noise, to see if it picks anything up (though she won't be able to see properly until she brings that back too). Bandage? Band?? Age???]

[Kira has Shinobu 'get up' to look at Chainsaw Man]

Oh my. What are all those hairs?

[And he is squinting at them to see if they resemble the hair that was on the swords...]

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