WEEK 6

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 6



[Fifteen X-Passes. You've finally done it. You can now go free. However, the price has been steep. Too steep.




True, you can leave. Anyone can, now. But simply leaving may be a bad idea. After all, who knows what else Zero has up its sleeve? Who knows what's outside of the HMHS Gigantic? How will they survive? How will they eat? And those are the easy questions that need to be answered. After all, the mystery of Zero, the mystery of Zack, the mystery of who is the cause of all of this and why-those things are also seemingly impossible to answer without some preparation. There's also the new area that's opened up that may yet yield more for the survivors to mull over.


Rushing is surely a bad idea. It's time to prepare. Take the time to get ready for whatever is outside. Stock up on supplies. Write what needs to be written. Say what needs to be said. Get ready for the possibility that whatever is out there, whatever the answers are-they will not be easy, and they will not be quick.


More than that, but-where are all these cuts coming from on your body? Hm. Maybe you keep bumping into things or scratching too hard. Did everyone save Roland get super clumsy or something all of a sudden?


Well. Maybe the answers to all that are just around the corner. So. Let's get ready. The end is near.


There are 8 9 strangers currently on this ship.



Wait. Nine?]

Comments

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes bobs up and down.]

I'm so sick and tired being on this boring ship. But I also don't want to leave people behind. That's my opinion on this.

[15unknowns]

...I'd figure out something. Somehow. And they're not stuck on the ship like I seem to be, anyways.

[exequte]

Me too. I hate it here, and I hate the game that Zero has made us play here. But I'll stay for longer, if us leaving might trap our friends who died here when we leave.

[exequte]

... yet.

We're trapped here, though. And supposedly its... forever, if the door is opened then closed.

I don't know how much I believe that, but given how many other strange things have happened here maybe its reasonable...?

[autonomousthought]

[This is to establish that Ritsu arrived a bit late and kind of frosty. She has gotten the cat car out of her room, as well as the gaudy chariot, and packed them up with provisions and medical supplies, and as many pets as seemed inclined to obey. She isn't keen on leaving anyone behind.

Anyway so yeah she's late but present and brought the animals, snacks, and a car.]

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes turns to Nero.]

Sooooooo... which is it? Do we or do we not need to use all the X-Passes to save all the people stuck in the Underworld?

[superstylishsquid]

..."Film" might work for me.

[15unknowns]

Like I said, the old asshole that's not Charon is able to leave the ship whenever the hell he wants. If you can figure out how he does it, you might be able to get back into the ship. I've never been able to catch him in the act myself, but still.

[superstylishsquid]

Gonna have to beat me to it.

[somuchshipping]

Too late. I already called dibs, and that overrides any sort of demon blood ritual you perform.

[Hermes playfully sticks his tongue out.]

[onychomance]

Hmm...

[Is "hand" a little too obvious?]

For mine, try "Queen."

[exequte]

I don't think he knows, Hermes. And I think that's the real problem.

[exequte]

That seems kind of a risky promise, when we're worried about the lives and freedom of our friends, though....

[somuchshipping]

[Hmm...]

There was this time Delta wasn't there to announce that a murder happened and he was late for the trial. Think that might have something to do with it?

[exequte]

I... don't know.

Do you have any ideas?

[superstylishsquid]

[Following Nero's promise about the dead, Alastor has rounded up his own pets...aside from a very cantankerous cat that Ritsu would have found trying to eat the entire pantry. As of today, this apparently includes a 12'+ tall robot dragon? Which looks very uncomfortable, hunched over to fit. It is, however, fitted with 'saddlebags' and crude seatbelts fashioned from bedsheets, the former holding a fair amount of both containers of water and packed herbs.]

[15unknowns]

[His head goes down at this.]

I know. This whole thing is messed up. If I'd been stronger....if...maybe if I'd been faster.

Maybe none of this shit would have happened at all.

[superstylishsquid]

I'm not just about magic, you know. Not much overrides getting there first.

[exequte]

Is there a chance that....

You're a ghost. Might you be able to go somewhere we can't, or maybe even talk to Charon, the ferryman of the dead, to get information about all that we don't have?

We need something definite if we are going to make definite choices.

[15unknowns]

I...I can try.

Give me a few moments. Uh.

And someone catch Roland. I should probably possess someone else when I come back.

[And--out he goes!]

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes catches Roland before Alastor can.]

[onychomance]

[Kira blinks quietly as he takes the certificate. He usually shies away from collecting the most ostentatious awards but....]

So you are giving me your vote of confidence. I suppose this is fine if everyone else is getting one.

Oddly, I do hear that vampires exist somewhere out in the world I came from.... but what sort of crystal is nummite?

[godspiousjasper]

[ Just suddenly not being possessed out of the blue still never became something one could adjust to, even if he'd kinda been present for the conversation as it is.

He blinked a couple times, looking up at Hermes with a smile. ]

Thanks, Hermes. I appreciate the assistance.

[voidseeing]

[He nods.]

I heard that same voice in the trial the other day, which makes that the most logical assumption.

But as for your van... if that's true, it might not hurt to try to look for it while we're at it.

[15unknowns]

Yeah, and if I don't bring it back in one piece, Nico'll kill me. Again.