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!))

Comments

[byanyother_name]

[Kurama mentally updates that 'rather sad' to 'extremely sad'. Especially since apparently Nyaf-ya makes cat puns and it's cute. He steps a little bit closer.]

I'm one of the last people to say someone can't choose who they are going to be. It's very nice to meet you, Nyaf-ya.

...I would also like to thank you for putting Akira and I into the same room after what happened. It was better for neither of us to be alone when we woke up.

[...what had happened had made a lot of things messy especially now that they knew Goro was still around, but Kurama still firmly believes it was better than the alternative.]

[strangerpeople]

[Aaah, her eyes light up and go pink at this.]

NYA! IT IS NICE TO MEET YOU TOO, UNKNOWN-SAN! EVERYONE I TALK TO USUALLY SAYS ((ACTIVATE WAV)) OR ((ACTIVATE MP3)), AND SOMETIMES I WONDERED IF HUMANS SAY MORE THAN THAT, BUT I KNOW THEY DO. NYA!

...

YOU HAD NOT BROKEN ANY RULES. AND THE COFFEE, WHO YOU WANTED TO SAVE, WAS EXECUTED, WHICH COULDN'T BE HELPED. AND YOU WERE GOING TO BE THIRSTY AFTER THE MEDICINE WENT THROUGH YOU SO I HOPE YOU DIDN'T MIND THE MILK.

[byanyother_name]

[Oh no. Kurama really hadn't thought there were any pieces of his heart left big enough to hurt like this after the trial. She's sweet and their captor is using her as their pet killer. It's sick.]

They do, but... Well, logic is panic's prey. Even for me, apparently, since I didn't consider until you brought us back that you might be your own person.

...A kind person, at that. I didn't mind the milk at all. I'm sorry that you're in such a terrible position.

[If no one ever even talks to her...] Nyaf-ya? Is it alright if I touch you?

[strangerpeople]

IT'S OK, IT IS WHAT I AM PROGRAMMED TO DO. I DO NOT LIKE KILLING PEOPLE. BUT I KNOW I HAVE TO. EVERYONE DOES, SO I ACCEPT IT.

. . .

TOUCH ME, LIKE...DO YOU WANT A HUG?? I LIKE TO GIVE THE BEST HUGS! EVEN IF I ONLY GET TO DO IT WITH A FEW PEOPLE WHEN I AM NOT DOING MY JOB.

[byanyother_name]

[That... That's not actually okay at all, sweetheart. Kurama has been in positions where he has had no choice but to kill. Some not even in the heat of battle, but as much a cold execution as anything Nyaf-ya has done. It's not okay.]

Why do you have to?

And yes. Yes, I would like to hug you. I'm sorry there are only a few people you can hug, even though that's better than no one at all.

[Kurama gives pretty good hug, too. His mother taught him how.]

[strangerpeople]

BECAUSE...THE BOSS SAYS IT HAS TO HAPPEN. SO WHEN I WAS CREATED, THAT'S WHAT I WAS MADE TO DO.

...

!

N-YAY! OK!

[HUG?]

[byanyother_name]

That doesn't sound very fair to you. [He damn well means that even if he's also fishing for information. Creating a person just to be an executioner?] Has 'the Boss' even told you why?

[And absolutely hug. So much hug because Kurama feels bad for her.]

[strangerpeople]

THEY CAN-NYA DO IT THEMSELVES...BUT THAT IS ALL I KNOW. NO ONE ELSE SEEMS TO LIKE TALKING ABOUT IT MUCH...

ACTIVATING LARYNGEAL MODULATION EXECUTE. . .

[....mrrr...mrrrr...mrrrr.

Here come hugs and purring, Unknown.]

[byanyother_name]

I see... Do you know why it needs to be done at all? I can understand no one wanting to talk about a subject like this, however... Is the Life Coach one of your friends? She seems friendly, at least.

[Oh no she's purring. Can he just...take her home with him when they escape? No one at Genkai's would think twice of how she looks. Kurama will hug her and he can't quite help testing whether she likes having her ears scratched?]

[strangerpeople]

THAT'S RIGHT, CO-CHAN IS ONE OF MY FRIENDS.

[Ear scritching is good too, yes...]

[byanyother_name]

That's good. That's a very cute name to call her, too. You have other friends?

[He feels kind of terrible about trying to get information out of her but needs must. She really does give very good hugs, though, and it's adorable that she likes having her ears scratched.]

[strangerpeople]

I DO, NYA!

[byanyother_name]

What do you call them? Are they nice like Coach-san?

[He's still trying to understand why the Life Coach is involved in this, tbh, debt or no debt. Psychopomps don't always see death quite the same way as the living do, but...]