Meeting

[incrediblystressedout]

[Yes, she expects all nine of you to squeeze your butts into her bedroom with her. It'll be standing room only, but thankfully this sample bedroom isn't as cluttered with random kid-detritus as he one at home, mostly because she hasn't been to the toy store yet. She's wearing an unfortunate combination of a black t-shirt (still with a starburst on it, or something close enough Joey can pretend it is one), a leather skirt, leggings, and ballerina slippers, and has a notepad and some kind of frog mask in her lap.]

Okay. Just to put this on the table. This is a meeting for how we're going to get out of here. I am done with this bull and I think so are all of you.

There's no such thing as an inescapable prison, especially not if it's made out of a shopping mall of all things! I'm no expert in criminal activities, but I think we're supposed to have a couple here, right? All I know is the first step is to have meetings in the bedrooms: no cameras, and they're soundproof.

After that, what I am an expert in is solving puzzles. That means making a list of our assets, and a list of the problems to be solved to get out of here. I've got mad dancing skills and an unused ability to animate some object like I'm a wizard or something. What's everyone else got?

Finally...we need to keep alive. No one goes anywhere without a buddy, okay? Not even the bathroom. This is basic stuff. Ideally, groups of three, but we've got ten people, so...

[She looks over the group.]

Anywhere, we're all here, and we're all sick of this, right? What's everyone else got?

Comments

[eyesofdespair]

There's nothing left for me to return to, that's all. Everything I care about is gone already and that's why a dislike for most of humanity is listed on my profile.

[incrediblystressedout]

That's terrible. All I've remembered is really confusing stuff and the worst chat room ever.

You still want to get out of here, right? Enough to help?

[eyesofdespair]

I want the rest of you to go home. What happens to me doesn't matter.

[incrediblystressedout]

Hey. I started this meeting with "this is how we're getting out of here", and that includes you. I know you might not have anything to go back to, but you can still make something new. Call it a clean slate, okay? No giving up until we're all done breaking out.

[eyesofdespair]

[If only Joey actually knew, but he's not saying it out loud with Akira here. The kid doesn't need more loss right now and no one here needs to know the end results of him going home.]

You do also realize that it means I have nothing to lose if there is a need to break a rule to get out, right? It just also means there's nothing they can say to motivate me to kill anyone besides the boss the Life Coach spoke of.

[incrediblystressedout]

Well, I appreciate that, just...don't get too reckless, okay? Akira and Shuu--er, Kurama? The pretty redhead already gave me a double heart attack.

[eyesofdespair]

[If he's going to be reckless he'll also do his utmost to not involve anyone else in it.]

I know my limits, but I certainly am not going to pass up a chance to kill the boss.