WEEK 3

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 3

[Once everyone has gotten out of the elevator, those who go to look for Akira and Kurama will find that they have been put into one of their rooms, together, safely tucked into bed with a glass of milk for each of them. And - aside from the bruises of being suctioned into a death cylinder and tranquilized with some very strong drugs - they are alive and unharmed.

Naturally, this means that Akira and Kurama are the first to experience the dreams, but everyone will experience them, once they finally fall asleep, for good and ill.

Despite everything, too, the survivors will find many other new things facing them as they wake up. A new evolution for their powers, a new wing...and a new rule, updated after the execution. The profiles have also been updated, to reflect the Titled's ever-dwindling numbers.

This is going to be a long week, that's for sure.


There are ten strangers left in this place.

((OOC: Don't forget to do Activity Check along with memory regains, everyone!))

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[strangerpeople]

[Akira, at some point during his staredown with the wall, see something moving out of the corner of his eye.]

trust: 0%

[beguiledcard]

[ He won't hesitate to turn his head to look in that direction. ]

[strangerpeople]

[A suspiciously cat-shaped creature is heading towards Cafe MYJL.]

[beguiledcard]

[ There's a frown at the cat(???)... then at the sign of the place it just went into...

Granted, this is happening within the time it takes for him to follow it. ]

[strangerpeople]

[As Akira gets close enough, and as he gets into the cafe, he will find two things:

First, the cat shape has hopped onto the food counter, mewling cutely and purring. Indeed, it looks happier than Akira has probably ever seen it.

Secondly, where has Akira seen it? Well.

It's the black cat Ursula gained in the vending machine.]

[beguiledcard]

[ He can't recall ever seeing this cat alone... or this happy.

There's a pause before he reaches out a hand, fingers curled gently, to... try petting it? And assuming he doesn't get an arm sliced off after it turns out to be a human-murdering psychopath...

He's leaning forward to study the cat in search of anything physically different...

Then he's asking the question that's on the mind of every audience member, old and young: ]

Where's Ursula?

[strangerpeople]

Mew?

[The cat lets out another unbearably cute meow as it looks up, startled, at Akira. Wh--you're not the one she was seeing! How dare you.

In any case, there seems to be a small string collar around her neck now - and nestled where the scruff of her neck is, is something white.]

[beguiledcard]

Just gonna keep up the innocent act, huh? [ Heh. ] Be glad you're cute enough to get away with it...

[ While very gently petting her behind an ear, he takes a look at that unfamiliar collar, before he notices the said white something.

A something that he's going to be looking more closely at. ]

[strangerpeople]

[....eeeeh, you're good at petting, she'll let you slide, Akira. But don't think she can't smell those other cats on you.

It looks like a folded piece of paper.]

[beguiledcard]

[ Well, just going to be slowly removing the paper, and then carefully unfolding it with that same hand.

His other hand isn't stopping the gentle scratches behind the ear. Don't worry, Catllistis-chan; he wasn't just using you, he swears...

In any case, let's check out this probably-insignificant-thing. ]

Letter

[strangerpeople]

[omg that is not her name--]

The Boss has noticed that I’ve been frequenting MYJL a lot since we started this round. She confronted me this morning, that’s what the yelling was about. I guess she thought I was giving away secrets of the Game, or using coffee to code something out. But the cameras showed I was just serving, like any of the baristas would. She then told me if I was so bored in between all the “fun”, I could think up of ways to get our charges to hurt one another - just because she was the Boss, didn’t mean she should be doing all the work, how I was just the worst underling she’s had since she started this whole thing, and how she just couldn’t trust the likes of someone with my true name.

Basically saying the usual about me, which I try not to let get to me.

But--I’ll let you in on a secret, friend. I AM doing shifts at MYJL - at all the places in the food court, really - for a reason. It’s a silly reason, I know, but--every time one of our people orders something, like a coffee, or a sandwich, or anything, even the ones we do for when they go on the roof, I make it for them personally. I want to do something that makes them feel even just a little bit better about the situation. Even if they can’t see me, maybe they’ll still feel my intent, even over what the Boss has done.

I guess you can say, it’s my way of saying, “I’m sorry about all of this.” You know?