WEEK 5

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 5


[Morning breaks. Memories return. And those who ventured to the DEAD have opened the doors. New areas have opened-and as Sunday comes, the survivors will find that their rules have also changed.

Someone is displeased. Now, there is no preventing the bodies from being subsumed by the ship without the offender being punished with death. No more mercy will be given. There will not be a third time the ship is deprived.

What is to happen now? There's still one more floor that seems to be locked. There is still no escape aside from the X-Door. Will more have to die for the X-Door to be opened? It seems like it, sadly. It's clearly just a question of when.

And-what are those skittering and scratching noises? They are behind the walls, on the ceilings, under the floors. They persist all day and all night. And it's not just the skittering-a foghorn sound at midnight and sounds for the whole hours. Beams snap and creak, the ship as a whole shutters and groans, the noises echoing throughout.

For everyone but Hubert, their sleep will not come easy. Only Hubert will find a pair of earplugs for him to use, after all. Of course, this isn't fair, but-isn't that what Zero always says?


There are currently 11 strangers on this ship.]

Comments

GOOSE IS LOOSE (mingle)

[onychomance]

[A dauntless goose wanders the decks, honking as it drags Kira's pillow across the floor, eventually ignoring as the pillow slides out somewhere random while it is carrying only the pillowcase, only to discard that later to STEAL. YOUR. SHIT.

(It may also leave random distressing things before you, like Disney's Hercules or Off Brand Kidz Bop or an only half melted package of cow-tongue ice cream cone.)

Kira is also wandering, in search of the pillow and looking generally irate again as foghorn o'clock approaches. He hates the no sleep submotive, he hates the Zeroes and he hates that accursed goose! Unfortunately, it is the goose's city now. Honk.]

REC ROOM

[superstylishsquid]

[Didn't he JUST complain to Hermese about this travesty of a film? He's picking it up, eye twitching slightly...and not noticing as the goose snags his diary and runs off with it.

Yet, anyway. Once he does, he may instead be caught chasing the feathered fiend through the halls to try to retrieve his stolen property, before it ends up deposited somewhere inconvenient.]

[onychomance]

[Kira is coming in to search this room just as the goose runs out with the diary...]

Was that yours?

[superstylishsquid]

[He's noticed the missing diary by this point, and is looking around for it.]

If you're talking about a leather bound notebook, yes.

[onychomance]

Personally, I'm looking for my pillow. That horrible goose is a bigger thief than even Hermes.

[yes, complaining about this is more important than jumping to help Alastor get his shit back.]

It ran out with the notebook just a second ago.

[superstylishsquid]

I haven't seen a pillow, but the thing did drop Disney's mockery of ancient Greece off in here.

[And now he's heading out the door, to chase a goose around the ship...he's not sure if this is better or worse than the demon badger.]

Hallways

[somuchshipping]

[Welp.]

[This is a thing that's happening.]

[This is definitely a thing that is happening.]

[Hermes is laying on his side, slowly bring dragged bit by bit by the goose.]

[What is his life anymore.]

[jinglebros]

Do you, uh.

Need help there, Hermes?

[somuchshipping]

[Not even looking at Aoi-]

Yes, please.

[jinglebros]

HEY, GOOSE.

[ Aoi runs towards it with flailing arms and shouting at the top of his lungs! ]

RUN. GO AWAY. BYE. GO AWAY. LEAVE, GOOSE. BYE.

[somuchshipping]

[The goose honks angrily as it runs away. Hermes "breathes" a sigh of relief as he picks himself up off of the floor.]

I don't even fucking know with this ship anymore. It just came up to me and started dragging me somewhere.

[Hermes scratches his front leg as the goose comes back, only to steak something Aoi was holding.]

[jinglebros]

...hey! I was going to eat that!

[ It stole his ice cream! What an offense. ]

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes isn't even going after the goose. He just watches it run away.]

...So how did you do on the little repairing the doll game?

[jinglebros]

I put in enough effort to not get punished.

I'm tired of getting punished.

[somuchshipping]

Makima wasn't around, so I got her doll. It seems kind of unfair all I could do was destroy stuff seeing as I'm an AI, doesn't it?

[exequte]

H-Hermes??

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes is still slowly being dragged, inch by inch.]

Hi, Akane.

[It seems like Hermes has basically just given up fighting against the ship's weirdness.]

[exequte]

... um.....

[UM]

You don't... look hurt, so, um, do you just... want to... get um....

What... are you doing, actually?

[somuchshipping]

The white bird's dragging me somewhere. I don't know where, though.

...

Please help.

[exequte]

Um....?

E-excuse me... Mr. Goose...?