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?]

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SUNDAY (SK. 26)

[strangerpeople]

So early Sunday it's still practically the afterparty

[pegasinister]

[well, he can't hide in Kira's room forever. So eventually he just... walks out, wheezing a bit, and standing in the doorway of the dining area.

What to even say? How to explain when even HE doesn't know what happened?]

[godspiousjasper]

[ While he wasn't really allowed to move around a lot, due to that his head was still spinning a bit from that hit that sent him off the stage? The second he spots Hubert??

A second passes. Then another.

Any injuries be damned, Roland just pushes himself to his feet and rushes over, eyes wide. Was he imagining this? He'd... He'd... ]

Hubert?? Is that... really you? I... I thought I'd..

[pegasinister]

You did. There is an orb of some sort that Kira had. I don't... I don't know how it happened.

[godspiousjasper]

[ There's a second where that surprise lingers, then he just moves in to carefully hug Hubert. VERY much aware of the wounds he sustained from his last interaction with Zack. ]

Thank the heavens. I had felt awful that I could only do that much for you... to make it quick so you wouldn't suffer.

[ Yet Hubert being here meant he couldn't be with Aoi and that was also a painful thing to think about. That said? ]

I'm glad you're here. It's a miracle.

1/2

[somuchshipping]

[Hermes casually walks by, arms covered in red circuity lines.]

Hi, Hubert!

2/2

[somuchshipping]

[...]

[STOPS]

[BACKS UP.]

...

[...Pokes...? Dis real?]

[pegasinister]

[he grunts in pain at the poke]

Hello, Hermes.

[At least he's talking to him now]

[exequte]

[Akane freezes when she sees him, her eyes going huge.]











Hubert????

[pegasinister]

Hello... Akane.

[exequte]

[And just like that she flies towards him, only barely remembering not to hug him too hard... just in case.]

Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh! How are you here?! Is everybody else?? Did all the others...?

[And she's pulled away from him, just a little, not stepping too far away but looking around so frantically she's likely to make herself dizzy.

If he was here, did that mean the dead had found their way back??]

[superstylishsquid]

[!!!]

Hubert...? This isn't some sort of sick joke, is it?

[pegasinister]

If it is it's on me. Specifically.

[superstylishsquid]

Yeah, that's you.

[Are you sick of hugs yet? Yes? TOO BAD! At least he's refraining from bear hugging?]

[voidseeing]

[Honestly, Gai would be a lot more bothered by this if he hadn't already survived one murdergame and is currently living in a state where he can basically just be transferred to a new body when he dies.

So here's one person greeting Hubert with something other than shock and/or horror.]

Welcome back.

[pegasinister]

[That makes him smile.]

Thank you, Gai.

[yesorwoof]

[Makima is walking in this direction very purposefully, almost as if she was literally on her way to see Kira!

Makima's version of "seen a ghost" is very mild considering that she's lost a lot of blood already and also she's Makima. But she does at least totally stop walking.]

Did someone disguise themselves?

[pegasinister]

No. It's me. For good or ill. Thank Kira's yellow orb.

[strangerpeople]

[The Gimme being out and about can only mean one thing... he will approach Akane, Alastor, or Hermes.]

[somuchshipping]

[?]

Whatcha need?

[strangerpeople]

Hhhhhrrrrhhhggghhh.

[First of all - keeping his, uh, "word". He returns the pages Hermes entrusted to him before.

Secondly, there is a letter.]

[superstylishsquid]

[Alastor waves.]

Aoi writes fast, huh?

[strangerpeople]

Hhhhhhhhhh.

[He sure does. Come get a look at the letter!]

[exequte]

...?

Charon? Do you need me for something?

[strangerpeople]

Hhhhhhhhrrrrnnn.

[She is the final addressee, so he hands off the letter instead of holding onto it.]