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

[15unknowns]

…I won’t let them be trapped here if that’s the case. No way.





And—yeah. The asshole’s my dad.

[superstylishsquid]

...I don't know Vergil well enough to say if that applies to him as well as it does to Dante, sorry.

But if you're confident you can get them out if we kill the tree, I'll hold you to it. And if we do get our powers back, I'll be sure to come back and study that spell on your body. Not leaving anyone behind, right?

[15unknowns]

Right then the asshole in blue. Honestly, this shit’s all his fault, whoever’s growing the Qilphoth right now.





And you better. Or I will find a way to kick your asses.

[somuchshipping]

Do you know who the Zeros are?

[15unknowns]

……I think I know of two of them. Old asshole who saw me die and…whoever’s controlling the tree. Or whatever. Who knows.

[somuchshipping]

Do you know who Zack is? Or what the deal with him is?

[15unknowns]

[shrug]

Guess is as good as mine. But-he’s been in all three “games” here. And last two times everyone thought he was the killer, so they all died.

[superstylishsquid]

He's not human, I know that much...and he still has supernatural powers here. Including needing to be killed twice before it stuck.

Why would people suspect him as a killer, though? I'm not sure he could swat a fly without immediately apologizing for it.

[15unknowns]

Because of...a lot of reasons. People thinking it's all an act and stuff. Plus, some of his memories made no sense.

He claimed the year was 2020 back where he was, but...I don't know if you caught it? But last I checked, unless some weird shit happened where he comes from, the Soviet Union isn't a thing anymore.

[somuchshipping]

His name showed up 12 times in the bio lab scanner logs.

[superstylishsquid]

Yeah, we ended up thinking he probably has false memories, instead of just losing some like the rest of us. He only seems to know the broad strokes of things.

Wondering if he might actually be a weakened god. You know he's supposedly from a suburb named Greece?

[superstylishsquid]

All of it? Is that why whoever was staying in the captain's quarters had documents from Devil May Cry?

[15unknowns]

Yeah, probably? I mean, after what happened in Red Grave City I’m surprised the Canadians haven’t just declared war on Dante.


Hell, maybe they have and this is their way of doing it.

[snrk]

[superstylishsquid]

So what, we should just blame Canada?

...Jokes aside, I saw checks written by Dante, Morrison, and some M. Arkham person for things that included funeral expenses, rebuild expenses, and 'suriiver' support. Think that's for whatever happened in Red Grave City?

[15unknowns]

.............He. I mean. Apparently that's where the two were born, so.


...and that other stuff...could've been. Hell, most of Dante's jobs involve damage you try to avoid, and lives you try to save, but. Red Grave City...it was a whole city. They're still counting the death toll...in the millions. The entire metropolitan area is a wasteland because of the Qilphoth.

[somuchshipping]

How resistant is the tree to fire?

[15unknowns]

I mean. It's a demon tree from Hell. It does have some resistance to fire.

[exequte]

I... um....

Don't take this the wrong way, but....

Aren't you trapped here too? So how are you sure that you'd be able to get them out?

[15unknowns]

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

[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...?

[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.

[exequte]

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

[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.

[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!]