had at least three people screaming on friday morning, two of them covered in blood, and denji ate an entire basket of pastries in five minutes weird's a word for it lol
which one's denji? and did he leave any pastries? i'm still figuring out names and there, like, half a dorm i haven't even met yet we let the lady living in our suite take the whole bedroom but the bunkbed has a slide!
denji's the blonde guy. shorter than me, kind of loud. you've just got one girl? or is yours split off? there's a guy who lives on the girl's side, but they seem cool with it. i'm sleeping on the couch for now. figured i'd give up the bed to someone who really needed it.
jealous of the slide, though. i'd probably crack my head trying to get on it lol [ tall, ]
oh...i'm pretty sure he's the guy who sent me a bunch of poop emojis yesterday i haven't met everybody in the other suite, but in ours it's one girl sakyou took the couch even though i offered really? i would've thought you'd think it was stupid
it's a little weird getting used to all of these names, so that's good to know try telling him that though, he'll just go "stop being stupid!" and change the subject
Anyway, he's human too, right? Sure he's probably made the same mistake, just might not cop to it! It's not like our names are far apart, either. Accepting our mistakes is important. Lol.
yeah something like that haha we'll see if he ever messes up too, i think the only name close to mine might be otome-san's have you talked to him much?
after all of the clusterfuck that was last weekend and everything else going on, it's kind of nice to do something easy, so. out on the athletic field, ichiro's got a soccer ball at his feet and he passes it easy back to taichi, providing the kickback for some footwork. he doesn't play himself, but jiro does, so he's used to getting the practice in. ]
Man, I can't believe everything here's still expecting us to act like it's normal after everything. [ as he passes the ball. ]
[it helps to have someone to pass back and forth. he's not interested in fancy tricks at the moment, more content just to have something to do. it's a bonus that it's ichiro since the guy's pretty easy to get along with.]
I can and can't believe it, if you can believe that. [haha.] After what the bear said about this place having a legacy I'm not even surprised they don't take this seriously.
Yeah. [ he nods in understanding, passing the ball back to him. ] I guess my expectations were pretty low after we had a bear tell us we had to convict someone, but still.
[ ugh!!! ugh. ] I can't get the image of Sunday out of my head, dude. Every time I think about like - any of it, it just pisses me off.
[ he receives it without any trouble, thankfully, stopping it with the bottom of his foot and passing it between his own feet before sending it back over, also harder. ]
It's not just you. The dorm heads all mysteriously "falling ill" the night someone gets murdered, and then they can't remember anything? Sounds like bullshit.
Yeah. It was, what. [ he pauses briefly, remembering, rolling the ball before passing it again. ] Summer with the most, then winter, fall, and spring, last? Viola said it was tied to use of vouchers, and some other stuff.
[ frowning... ] I bought the first aid kid, so 8 of ours must've come from that. What're you thinking?
I'm trying to think of how summer pulled so far ahead. A lot of people might've traded with Sally, but it's possible that it was just a bunch of summer dorm doing the tasks. That seemed to be what Viola was implying when I talked to her about points last week.
Yeah. Makes sense. But like - I did a bunch of 'em with people in my dorm, too, and we still only ended up with 9 points.
[ hmmmm. ] And yeah. This time, especially - last time wasn't that bad. But besides the names, "tell a lie"? "Tell someone a bad habit they have?" Big difference from last week.
Maybe it's if you do them with people outside of your dorm? It wouldn't make sense to rack up points in your own group if this is supposed to be a competition.
[shrug!] It makes you wonder if we're supposed to be getting along or actually trying to piss each other off.
[ he snorts, a little derisive, and kicks the ball back to him. ] I don't know. I guess - you wanna do one? We're in different dorms, might as well try and knock one out.
ugh. whatever. he catches the ball easy, receiving it against his thigh and letting it drop - though 'sleeping with his clone' makes him snort a laugh, half hysterical. ] Augh, dude. No, definitely not that. It was, what. Tell a lie, tell a bad habit, show off something you're good at and have dinner with somebody...?
[ there's a pause, before ichiro kicks the ball back, expression going from "ugh" to a more normal, encouraging grin. ] Here. Show me your sickest tricks.
[there's a grateful kind of grin because HE DOES NOT WANT TO ACTUALLY THINK OF THAT EITHER? so he nods in agreement because yeah, those are the four of them. but then there's a ball and the grin widens.]
Yeah, okay. [he says, like he's not happy to show off and play. with the ball in front of him, he kicks it up and begins a series of tricks. it doesn't take a ton of concentration from him, and he's just going through motions with ease even as he continues talking.]
[ oh this is sick. he ends up grinning back, because taichi is just immediately reminding him of jiro, and nothing in this world makes ichiro happier. he stops, leaning back with his arms crossed, looking overall impressed as he watches the ball go from point to point. ]
That's right, yeah. I'm not in a band like Yamato, really - I rap. You're hella good at this, dude.
I'd hope so. I've been playing since elementary school. [that's sort of like "thank you" from someone who doesn't always take compliments. the ball goes point to point without stopping.] Maybe we'll get a music building sometime soon. Unless you can rap without it?
[he will mock yamato for his emo band name for forever but he does seem interested in ichiro being a rapper.]
What, freestyle? One of my best skills, actually. I produce my own stuff, but there's nothing like spittin cyphers on a street corner with your friends.
[ ichiro also brightens noticeably at this topic change, much like taichi had before. this is his favorite pastime, after all, one deeply tied into the things in life he loves - his family, and his division. ]
I can beatbox, too. Don't need a beat to get going, but I can sure as hell make my own.
Think you could show me? I've never met anybody who can actually freestyle. [the tricks with the ball slow down, but he seems to be actually setting a beat? yeah. the ball bounces in a steady kind of rhythm that may or may not be subconscious.]
Doesn't have to be today if you don't want to, but it's cool to see what other people can do. [i will not make you write a rap today if you want to be free.]
ichiro's grin widens a little, and he reaches up to tap his own palm against his chest, offsetting the rhythmic bounce of the ball and bobbing his head as he starts to think, putting the words together in his head. it doesn't take long - maybe ten seconds of beat making before he gets started. should stop around 0:39-0:40. ]
Hey, hey, ayy, ayy. Ichiban, ichiro, number one big bro, got the flow that'll show one ups like Nintendo, ayy Fast is my style, fresh outta Ikebukuro, you already know, smashin records wit no studio, Got a - college ed-u-cation with weird classes, Bees, movies 'bout weird cats who show their asses, but - I'm makin the most, for my bros, so I'm gonna ace em, Get home, make that paper, so I can really raise em,
Hangin out with Taichi, his football skills rule, Makin beats with a ball while we're stuck in this freaky school, Cause the friends we be makin on the way make it bearable, No matter if we gotta listen to that bear principal!
[ and then thumps his chest hard to stop the beat!!
[i'm in tears. taichi's keeping up with the rhythm to help, but he's very clearly delighted by all of this. the beat stops and he lets the ball fall in time, stopping it with his foot before he claps.]
Dude, that was awesome. [like. wow???] Talk about being good at something. How do you even think of rhymes that fast?
I'm pretty sure that's harder than this though. [he's not even undermining himself, this is just fact.] Sports are all instincts anyway. Yours is way more of a skill.
Soccer club since I was a kid, and I'm the captain of my high school team. Maybe there was a little practice involved. [the ball is juggled between his feet again.] I haven't decided if I want to keep playing in university or not though.
[it's actually the last thing on his mind, but it feels appropriate to say.]
Think the best advice for that is just - follow your heart, yeah? It'll take you where you need to be.
[ he smiles, though. what a protagonist thing to say... ] Man, you'd love my little bro. He's your age. Plays soccer, too. Could definitely give you a run for your money!
nope it keeps following me around but so does its mom which is a little terrifying i'm waiting for it to bite me but so far so good why do you have a goose?
seriously. yeah, she's fine just like what happened with dimitri and sieghart last week, i think. no clue if there's a connection or if its random or what library was fine tho
lan wangji was summer, catra was winter not sure either, but it's something to think about i don't get it but he was a nerd so maybe he started in the library and then left with whoever was awake with him?
hmmmm last week what dorm was hiyori in, again? kaoruko was winter. and then sieghart and dimitri - dimitri is winter, too. that's a good thing to think about.
still, wish it hadn't been her she was already hurt, yk? :/ how the hell does that even happen
but yea that makes sense to me. i guess there were three sets of footprints in the cafeteria too
summer sieghart's with us in spring. so it was every dorm but fall i haven't found the connection yet that's my question too she was pretty bad off yesterday so for somebody to move her that's pretty unfair ...huh. the prints were going to the field, but then they came back toward the gym but then what, they started at the library, went to get a snack, ran out to the field to play and then hit the gym? this sequence of events is kind of out of order somehow
weird. then all those people who went missing this week, too. two winter, three spring, one summer, two fall. what the fuck, man.
maybe it didn't start out like violent, i guess. were there three sets of prints at the gym and the field, too? the biggest set were probably his - they were about the size of my shoes and he and i were about the same height. and we still don't know what happens with the people that just show up outside, too. are they walking around or what? this shit's confusing.
i still haven't even begun to figure out what the hell was up with that. why those people? why ANY of these people? they can't seem to figure it out either there were three sets of prints, yeah we'll have to compare them to him and everybody his size, probably from what i heard about last week, both hanayagi and tomoe were in their dorms and just magically woke up outside that night. they were the only two awake even though they saw dimitri and sieghart but it sounded like something moved them instead of them walking out on their own
yeah shinonome had this theory about people being controlled kinda like we saw on sunday. he was talking about it like it was data of some kind. i'm not good with that kinda stuff but it makes sense, ig especially after sunday so like someone or something just picked them up and moved them like it was a video game crazy.
since they saw dimitri and sieghart asleep though that means the two of them ig they were probably not involved??? idk but it means there were at least two ppl + lan wangji did he get jumped? ugh. fuck this, man
yamato and i were thinking about that too it's too weird it would explain why all of us got moved against our will last night too those are all really good questions we should ask tomorrow we need to get all of our evidence together and start looking at places way sooner than last time no more screwing around
[out on the farm today, taichi's busy exploring when he hears the sound of someone familiar? give him a moment to round the corner and suddenly there...is ichiro...with dogs.
[ this dog is so cute and energetic and right as ichiro looks up and spots taichi, starting to say, it immediately slurps a big lick right up the side of his face. ]
Haha - uh, yeah, looks like it. I do a lot of dog walking at home.
[ ichiro yamada friend to all creatures but especially dogs ] Sup, man?
Taking a look around. Kind of weird we've got a farm when it's getting this cold, but who knows? Maybe the school's behind on its harvest. [he will crouch down to try to pet this dog though.]
Maybe. Everything in this place's whack, though, so I'm tryin not to think of it as normal.
[ what is real weather. this is not the real world. ]
It's kind of a cool spot, though. And the dogs are super friendly. [ the dog seems totally amiable to being pet and just. rolls over. belly rub hours!! it makes ichiro grin. ] I don't think I've ever seen a farm before today, yanno?
No kidding. Especially since it was Halloween like last week and now we're heading straight into Christmas. [this dog is the goodest dog so lots of belly rubs!!]
Can't say I've ever been to a farm either. I've lived in the city my whole life, so things like this are pretty new to me. It's nice that way. Think we're allowed to pick the fruit and flowers and stuff?
man what are the chances that i pick this week to move and both of our victims are from my old dorm and my new one? oh. not to mention we have TWO? we couldn't even find the killers for one person last week, how the hell are we supposed to find TWO?
i know, man i'm sorry - it sucks ASS. i wasn't really close with either one of them but they're both good dudes and then having two killers, too i guess? maybe its a serial killer. thats even worse i doubt it tho
if it makes you feel any better i heard somebody found a chainsaw so either denji's did it and is straight trying to get caught or someone's trying to frame him which is shitty so you can throw winter in there too
Edited (im playing ichiro not gu yun ) 2021-06-26 01:47 (UTC)
YEAH IT DOES ...sieghart was one of the people i liked most over in spring. didn't know bradley that well, but that doesn't make it better either we had two killers, probably, for one body last week what if there's more than two killers this time? but yeah uh. that was me. we found the chainsaw in the cafeteria. catra ichinose-san and i checked there and the health office door to the health office was pretty busted up by the way same with the hot food bar. the inside of the cafeteria was a mess too so a fight went down i thought it meant maybe denji was dead (and i'm glad he's not) but i don't think he'd be that stupid to try and get caught
yeah. he seemed like a nice guy i liked bradley. he was teachin me origami this week. this is so shitty.
... if there's more than two - i wanna say we'll have a better chance at catching them, i guess but i dont know after last week. did you notice we didn't have any weird people asleep in random places this week? what the fuck's up with that.
and yeah. i agree with you. i'm pretty sure someone's gonna try and get him caught for something he didnt do im gonna talk to him soon but it would've... had to be someone that knew he had a chainsaw, i guess or at least where he kept it.
it's gonna keep being shitty too until we figure out how to stop it i heard about that too do you think it's because we had multiple victims this week? that's the only thing that's changed i was going to try to talk to him myself but i have a lot of spring to catch up with this is hard on a lot of them you're right though, but there's one problem it's on his id anybody could've gotten that information so we need to narrow it down i don't even know if it IS his i haven't ever seen the one he has
maybe. it's escalating. shinonome thought maybe we'd be here for 8 weeks, right? two weeks per season. i just really don't want to think that next week we're gonna see 3. i wanna focus on this and try and figure out what the hell happened. maybe at least finally get SOME answers. and.. yeah. that's true. idk where he was keeping it though that'd be a little harder i guess if we're all knocked out it wouldnt rly matter though you could dig through our shit forever i've seen it though. most of us in the dorm have - we can confirm if its his or not tmrw.
that sounds about right even if their perception of time is totally off then we're just getting started there were 42 of us to begin with. we're down to...whatever minus 6 is. 36? how many of us have to be taken out to get some answers? we really need to catch at least one culprit so we can ask the questions we didn't get to ask last week i asked catra if she recognized it but she couldn't say. probably because she's still new to your dorm it'll be better to check tomorrow when we can ask denji questions anyway with how messed up the door and the bar were somebody went after somebody else with it. that's not a question ...is somebody WAS trying to frame denji...why? why do you think they'd pick him?
[ there's a typing... notif for a bit here, because he's considering that question. ]
bc... because he pisses people off easily. i don't think he does it on purpose. he's - dude's got rocks for brains, yeah, but he's got a good heart. so maybe somebody thought it was easy. he has a weapon. why not fuck around with it. just thinking about it pisses me off. maybe that's a point in his favor, though. dude knows his way around a chainsaw. he probably wouldnt damage that much shit. i guess. i don't know shit about murder, dude. this is way over my usual pay grade.
we can't fuck up again, thats for sure i'm not letting denji take the fall for something he didn't do.
denji's an idiot but like. a nice one he tries pretty hard so you're right. he would be an easy person to frame now that i think about it i didn't get a close enough look but it really looked more like whoever was wielding the chainsaw was attacking somebody who ran. we found some blood in the cafeteria, too i'm not a good detective so most of what i think is all guessing anyway but we're not letting ANYONE take the fall for something they didn't do not just denji not again.
hah. you and me are always on the same page, man. agreed. we gotta get this right. i dont want any other option.
we found blood in the field when we went around, too. lots of dents and a fucked up net. i think we gotta figure out which evidence goes with which body. that's first up. so we dont get our wires crossed, yk? check for injuries. somebody handling a big ass weapon like that might have bruises if they werent used to it, too.
not to be morbid but how much blood? we only found a little i think you're right though for all we know things overlapped and it'll make our job harder we should check for injuries early. even if we find anything right away, we still have two cases to deal with makes you wonder what it means if somehow there's two culprits that never saw each other though
dude someone's gonna have to check a dead body tomorrow i think your ok to be a little morbid it wasn't that much - droplets. leading from the dugout back to the gym area.
i agree tho yeah. we should knock that shit out quick and i think thats probably likely i mean we all get knocked out at night. there's gotta be something that could keep them from ever crossing paths. plus the locations werent all super near each other, right? so maybe. idk. would be easier if they did tho.
speaking of, kinda weird q did you have anything super weird happen to you this week?
two dead bodies but yeah, i get it we found only a little in the cafeteria too i was hoping to figure out a path but you're right, it might be too far spread out we won't really know until we start looking again tomorrow something new always shows up ...what kind of weird? nothing really stands out
well like yesterday catra was barking? before curfew. and ig claude's group found that three headed dog or w/e. plus she was acting weird the first week too cause of the school spirit or w/e which - i'm not saying she did anything, i think its the opposite
we were wondering if maybe people who transferred dorms were getting these weird effects. beau and i think maybe they've got something to do with what happens on thursday nights.
....barking??? uh. no. okay. i was definitely not barking. or meowing. pretty sure that dog's the same one bradley had in the dorm last night said he got it with a coupon or a voucher or something the school spirit curse picked somebody else this week they're probably fine now, i'm going to check in catra actually asked me on monday if i'd been hit with anything because i switched so far the answer's still no though
ok that's good to know - just lmk if you do ig there were two other people i know this week that were acting really weird in ways that probably werent related to extra credit or whatever but i'm wondering if that was supposed to be some kinda hint. and if there are any other kinds of hints around that we're missing. we kinda need all the hints we can get. esp ones that arent about geese
sure if it's something like the school spirit thing i might not know catra didn't know until it was over. sagihara wasn't aware either when i talked to him monday i would love a hint that isn't geese we should consider buying an item tomorrow instead of a hint though that feels more concrete
yeah. agreed. i put up most of my vouchers for the auction thing, but i might still have one to give.
and the barking thing - she definitely knew it was happening so i think its different. she couldn't tell why she was doing it but she could tell it was weird. if that makes sense. so i think it might be something different. its just not sitting right. i know somebody whos been cursed this week too - well, a couple people one of em was definitely aware of it. i think it wouldve been hard not to be the other one... i dont think they know, so.
i've got a few to spare too we'll figure it out the barking thing sounds like it was meant to distract us from something bigger ...it's not anything dangerous to them is it? are they still cursed?
and risk having her kick MY ass? no way but you're right. i thought it was weird she greeted me with a compliment at formal and was pretty cordial but i thought she'd just calmed down that's not too bad though maybe someone thought she needed to be nicer
Yeah. better than some of the other weird shit i've heard about this week someone cursed rita-chan not to talk for a whole day, she was pisseeed i didn't check to see if kainé knew she was cursed or not or anything - ig i probably should've... she's still herself, she just keeps starting every conversation with a compliment
wait what happened to rita? are you serious? who DOES that... wait the compliment thing is still going? i haven't talked to her since wednesday ...good to know some of these things having a longer lifespan than others
week 3 monday! cartwheels in with a memshare for you
[ sometimes you just end up dumping your lore spaghetti all over the place. ichiro just happens to be passing by taichi on his way back from class, it looks like. he gives him a sup nod and a wave --
[sup bro. the thing about ichiro is that they're friends (he thinks, he hopes) and he always takes his time to actually say hello whenever they pass each other around campus.
this is way more than saying hello? this is something that blindsides him and he jerks his head back as the memory fades away. there's a moment's pause as he stares at him, trying to interpret whatever the fuck he just saw.]
...you know. It's been a while since I've been to Ikebukuro, but...that's a little different than what I remember.
anyway!!! yeah, you know, sometimes your memories just get thrown on the ground so you're stuck with it. he also takes a little bit of a step back, and then huffs a noise. not quite a laugh, humorless. that was years ago, and it still feels like it was yesterday. ]
...yeah. Yamato said the same thing. We're all just divisions, now.
[ yeah. he just drops his head back over the top of the couch he's sitting on now and closes his eyes. ]
...yeah. I think we got it. Byleth was a little weird, but... she probably...
[ ... he lolls his head over and looks at taichi. is he serious about this probably not but also after that incredibly difficult nine hours: ] Dude, please tell me it wasn't you. Please. My heart can't take any more stress or I'm gonna die. No cap.
it does seem like he did mean it though, and he reaches over and thwaps his hand gently against whatever uninjured body part is the nearest to him. ] Dude, I feel like I grew a new gray hair. Everyone else on the list for her partner is bad. What does that even mean?
[he has a shoulder that isn't too burned so taichi grins faintly and swats back.]
My stress levels haven't been this high for at least a couple of weeks. [joking.] ...it means that if they really do have to keep killing until they're caught then we're looking at a bunch of people from my dorm. Luxanna, Ichinose-san, and Caleb.
[ mood ] I mean, we did almost die this week. And sat through that. Makes me miss killer rap battles, a little bit.
[ yamato is missing from this list he absolutely notices that you gay ass but also it's not surprising so he just lets it be, grinning back a little and then rolling his head back over to stare at the ceiling. ]
... I guess I don't know Ichinose-san that well. The other three... any of those would suck.
I kinda wish I'd actually bought some powers from Luke on Wednesday when I was talking to him. I was still trying to decide.
[god. kingdom hearts nightmare...but he hums a little.]
...it would suck no matter what because it just means they're doing it against their will. But I can't imagine what they'd have against Crow to pick him in the first place, you know?
Yeah, well...usually Agumon's the one using all the power he has. I'm just helping him by being there. [powers were definitely the last thing on his mind. it's fine.]
...maybe. Maybe it doesn't have to be two kills in a row? Because that would mean Byleth skipped last week, or she's responsible for Sieghart but I don't think we ever figured out a connection for his case.
[ pokemon (no). thinking about agumon does remind him of that memory from this week, though, and he rubs at his chest, absently. ] Yeah. I guess I'm used to yelling about mine, not touching something on a phone.
[ sometimes you rap.
but anyway. ] I still kinda think Caiman killed Sieghart, man. I'm not gonna lie. The similarities were too much. I dunno if he had any help, but... it would make sense if he had weird memory loss if he didn't turn in his extra credit. I found out that it was "frame someone else".
[ and. gestures at denji. ] But you might be onto something.
[haha. yeah. ichiro is free to ask but otherwise taichi's not saying anything about it. he's vaguely aware of things in ichiro's world based on things people have told him, but that's a wild concept still, too.]
I do, too, if I'm honest. But saying that around my dorm seems kind of like a really bad idea right now. Would he even need the help? That's the thing.
[he frowns though because. he does like denji even if the dude's a little wild.]
So either Byleth's going to kill again because we haven't voted for her and she has to, we're going to have a brand new set of killers probably from summer or spring, or someone's going to kill Byleth because she confessed.
[ they're stupid teenage boys why would either of them actually talk about their feelings. ]
...yeah. I bet it's gotta be rough in there right now, huh. [ taichi your falls, ]
I think you're right, though. I guess that'll make the suspect pool easier to narrow down. [ it sucks to just talk about these things casually, but, what can you do. he lifts his hands up for a second, and then drops them in his lap, a sort of collapsing moment. ]
...This shit can't keep going on forever, though. We gotta figure out how to make it stop. I don't wanna just ride it out.
I doubt Caleb's coming back tonight. Futaba-chan keeps crying. Everybody else is slowly losing their minds. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do for them.
[it's...difficult.]
Supposedly we'll get to leave in another four weeks, but I don't know how bad it's gonna get before then. Or if that's even true. It doesn't feel like we're closer but we have to be somehow. [a beat.] If it's been like any other week, the dorm heads might have more documents delivered to them we can buy.
[ mmm... his brows pinch, sympathetic. ] ...That was us, last week. Just - I did my best to be there for everybody. We sat around together like a big pile after we were done talking to Rupert and Kon and I cooked. Half of us didn't say anything to each other, but we just hung out. It helped. I can't give that good of advice, but they'll be glad to have you around.
[ for the second part, though! ] I can help with the new info, though, cause I know the answer. There will be. Vi told me - I got to talk to Iris for a little bit, the other day. Every new week, we can get another piece, but it has to be requested by a different person in the dorm, each time.
That's what we did Thursday night when we got back. Everybody slept down in the common room. Luke, too. I don't know if the mood's the same for tonight but I'll just have to try to as many of them as I can.
[he perks up slightly.] That's how? I wasn't sure how it all worked. I bought the first documents from Chad right before I switched, and Yamato had bought them from Luke before I could even tell him I knew they existed. I'll have to talk to Fall to see who's buying this week.
[...hm.] Did you get anything else out of Iris when you spoke to her?
Always gotta try, yeah? Sometimes that's all you can do.
[ is try your best. he has a feeling taichi'll get that. protagonists be like.
but, yeah. the info bit has him nodding. ] Yeah. We gotta collaborate, in case the info we get is different. She told me to make sure we're verifying everything we can, and... most importantly, that our enemy here isn't each other. It's whatever bigger powers are in play. I'm tryin to keep that in mind, even when I get pissed and I find out the dude I play baseball with murdered someone who really fucking matters to a lot of people.
[ .... ugh. he's close to beau, close to caleb; molly's loss hurt. ichiro shakes his head. ]
I didn't use a mind control spell or anything to talk to her - it just happened when I traded some vouchers, and I got lucky. It was only for maybe half a minute. Have you gotten to talk to any of the others?
...that sounds a lot like what our culprits have been trying to tell us without really being able to say. [so yes. sometimes all you can do is try and then run in circles screaming.] It's hard to verify things when we don't have people who can verify the truth. What happened to Caiman though just kind of confirms that we really are having our hands forced here.
[there's a slow nod.]
Lalli told us that Luke--Riku--was able to regain control of himself a little bit, but on Wednesday our dorm used a mind control thing and also a potion I think to keep him around longer. We weren't able to learn much, but just having him back was nice.
[a pause.] I'm pretty sure the place we went on Thursday was directly related to him though. I recognized those weird white monsters, plus that was the same boy we saw in another memory. And our swords are similar to the one he has in his room.
GOOD OKAY SO THIS DAYCARE IS REAL? THE DORM HEADS ARE FREE?
[he seems to realize his capslocks is on and sends the next few messages normally.]
heard some other stuff too...i said i wouldn't share yet but someone gave me a heads up about something but it's related to what happened with caiman let's just say things aren't as straightforward as we think
yeah it was weird being in riku's head, basically, and then having to come out and call him luke iris came down like a bat out of hell and we got right to it.
and i think i know what you mean. he's like something made him do it. right? couldn't control it. not just his... whatever that was, either i bet that's why kon's power didn't work.
dude how do you think i felt i haven't even told most of my dorm what happened because riku decided to sleep downstairs with us thursday night weird as hell how lucid they are now but i'll take it "chad" and "sally" are fine now too but yeah exactly we were chasing the right lead but the wrong way so...that was a fun and bad thing to learn it's possible it'll happen again keep it to yourself though, apparently someone's gonna share with all of us later
dude. does he not do that normally? stay with you guys
huh. good to know. i can't really say where i got it from, so its probably better its public knowledge. i think we gotta have some kind of information meeting here soon, just to make sure everybody's on the same page. we can talk about stuff having to do with the place itself as a group.
probably...not our theories about people like byleth-san though. probably good to keep that on the low, for now.
it's iffy. we also don't usually all stay in one big group together like that i don't want to say either because i don't want to break that person's trust supposedly whoever they heard it from will share soon i agree though there are too many moving parts now and still too many of us that we need to loop in ...have you talked to byleth at all since the end of the trial?
huh. kinda the opposite of us, we usually pile in in the common room - since the first week. all of us just passed out there the first time because we were all freaking out but now its tradition lol
i can't say i minded it that much we used to camp out together in the digital world i talked to her last night she said she only helped rupert with bradley, not lan wangji
for bradley she says she was on the ground and bradley shot her while rupert ran him down with a horse we missed a bullet graze among all of her other wounds she wouldn't admit to an accomplice for crow's kill but that's as good as a confirmation for me dunno about lan wangji's case though
what the fuck well we gotta figure THAT shit out if there even was one i guess there's patterns to that, too well see whatever info comes out this week
while i'm fine with patterns i'm actually bad at seeing them half the time can you believe we have to do this shit during the week and STILL go to class annoying as hell ...but at least the stuff you and dimitri had really helped us out yesterday it put us on the right path
yeah. i'm really glad i had it and im glad im not the only one who was thinking about getting something like that either obviously i knew about beau's and kon's powers, but i didn't know about dimitri's till the day of
beau's i knew about kon's was new how much did viola charge you for your upgrade? do we know about dimitri? i'm just wondering about a baseline for anything we can use in the future
idk if it would be the same with riku or any of the others but iris basically told me "the only limit is our creativity" when it comes to these things. so i sat with her for a little bit and i was the one who came up with the item. well - that's not true, beau helped with these ones but
i came up with two others too iris told me i can only really have one at a time/can't stock them but she said she could create basically anything i came up with. so that was how i got it. i said i wanted something to help us find the most relevant piece of evidence and then i had to decide what that would look like. so a pair of goggles that let you see stuff. make sense?
...what the hell i mean maybe it works that way with riku but half the time when i talk to him it ends up going in a whole other direction i asked him about my own goggles before i even knew about yours they work differently at home and he just said it wasn't worth wasting vouchers to fix them but we never came up with anything else. i wasn't even sure that was an option but maybe i'll go back and brainstorm with him ...i'm really not great at this kind of stuff most of the problems we have to solve are monster-based and i let koushiro do most of the technical stuff
yeah. might not be a bad idea. you could always ask iris, too. she's really invested in solving problems like more than almost anyone i've ever known so she might be willing to help you
and yeah, man, i feel that i could not tell you shit about how my mic works. we don't do monsters but my lil bro is the computer guy i just do odd jobs and kick ass with a microphone and here i've gotta be a fuckin cop detective
yeah i know she is i always leave conversations with iris feeling like i'm not smart enough to solve my own problems not that that's her fault but maybe i'll hit her up later your mic is really confusing but if it works it works you know? no point questioning it koushiro made my goggles and usually does all the analysis for our team i really wish he was here right about now even if we've never done detective work in our life we're usually good at solving problems as a team
by which i mean ichiro's just kind of walking the campus, unable to sleep after all of that shit. he's at least like marginally less angry than he was a few hours ago, which means he's functional enough to talk to people, so spotting taichi being reclaimed by the earth...
... yeah.
he doesn't approach right away, but leaves. about ten minutes later, ichiro returns with a water bottle in his hands, and then comes and just drops to sit next to taichi. his emotions are just - exhausted, residually angry. grieving. ]
[that sure is a mood. taichi's probably somewhere very far from where most people would be, but he's definitely laying on the ground and staring aimlessly into the void. when ichiro approaches, eventually, he'll get taichi's own emotions he's not fast enough to hide.
namely, guilt. grief. anger. pain. exhaustion. it's not a great mix.]
...how is it that we can keep being right and still feel like we're doing everything wrong?
[ i'd write you a long explanation, but his emotions pretty much just match taichi's. the grief is especially heavy, and the anger, too. ]
Because this place is wrong, man. Every fucking part of it.
... We were right. About them having a reason they were doing it. [ this sounds so bitter. it's just at the world, not at taichi. he fucking hates being right about this, too. ]
I don't want to be right anymore. [it's probably the most quiet that ichiro's ever heard from him.] This wasn't what I wanted at all when I wanted to find a way to help them.
I know. [ agreeing, there - there's a fierceness that flares up in his emotions in response to taichi's quiet, somewhere between protective and angry at this entire fucking place. ]
It's -- what the fuck are we supposed to do. Nothing.
[ the last word gets spit out, almost. ichiro stops himself, after that, and shakes his head, scrubbing his hand over his face. ]
It kind of is. [just...there's a vague sense of horror in his emotions.] Byleth kind of warned me about this. I just...she said to keep my questions close, and now I think I understand why. I didn't mean to...Otome-san and I have talked about this, about why the killers are doing this and how they had to have a reason. She knew I was looking into it to try and find a way to help, that's why she asked me.
[panic, just as vaguely, like he's not sure what to do with it.]
...we couldn't save Adora even if we tried, could we?
he's quiet for a second, and then just. scrubs his face. his emotions go from anger - though at the place as a whole, and not taichi - to just an ocean of grief. ]
...no. I don't think there was a damn thing we could've done.
[ and that's the worst, too. ] She said it was saving people - and that answer was enough to get her in trouble.
...it's like we've been thinking. This place wants us to integrate, but we still don't know why. If Otome-san and the others were trying to save us from this world, that must mean that full integration is more dangerous than we've realized. Like what happened to the dorm heads before they broke out of their spell.
The very first time...I wasn't there for either of them. But the last time, when they fully came back to themselves, Riku had his Keyblade and everything when he came to us. Like he'd been preparing for a fight.
[ he nods. i'm glad we get to know what keyblades are. ]
...Iris was hurt. Both times. [ he reaches for his own hand and touches his thumb against his palm. ] There was a lot of noise, and stuff clattering around, and then she came back bleeding. In the same spot, too.
I didn't ask. When she popped out to talk to me, though, it was just like she got a really bad headache - I had to catch her because I thought she was gonna wipe out.
[ a beat, and then, a low snort, kind of humorless. ] Maybe violence is the answer.
That's a little disconcerting. [absolutely awful.] If the solution to getting answers is really just beating the hell out of each other, maybe it's better if we're totally ignorant.
For the dorm heads? I dunno, either. I think... I'm sure there's plenty of shit they can't say, and the last thing we want is to make them regress back.
[ there's a clear pang of deep unhappiness, with that. worry, too. after, though, he's thoughtful for a second, falling quiet. ]
...if we can find the people who are a part of the other thing... I wonder if questioning them, or - trying to talk to them about it in private might help, instead of in a big public setting like that. Maybe on a day early in the week, nowhere near a trial or - a killing, or anything.
When I talked to Rupert, there were even a lot of us around. That could've been part of why he kept quiet, too. To keep the rest of us safe.
...I don't know. I'm worried that even if they're alone, just one on one with us, someone will still get hurt. I don't want to hurt anybody just in the pursuit of information. Not if there's still another way we can find it somehow.
It's how I feel about the dorm heads, too. We can keep buying information from them and keep talking to them and updating them, but I don't want to push them to a breaking point either.
The problem is the flow of information isn't going far enough or fast enough. We have to wait every week for documents from the school to be given to the dorm heads for us to buy. Plus the mystery notes that show up in people's lockers or whatever.
...and we still don't know about the possession thing, do we. Like Sieghart's case.
[ugggggh.]
Dude, I'm still not any better at this than I was five weeks ago.
his emotions flicker a little bit - a quiet protectiveness, overlapping everything. a little pain, too. ]
....I do - I know a little. About the possession thing. [ ... ] I know who killed Sieghart, but I can't tell you who.
It's only a little, though. I know the person who got it woke up on Thursday night feeling like they had to kill Sieghart to fix the entire place, and that didn't go away until after the trial on Saturday.
...can you at least tell me if they're okay now? [that's the primary concern judging by the worry that ripples through him immediately.]
That's somehow even weirder though. If they didn't have any feelings or inclinations before Thursday, then...what the hell could be causing it? [...] And if it was meant to fix this place, doesn't that kind of sound like it's the opposite of what Otome-san was saying?
Like...the people who are assigned to kill are trying to save us from this world. But the people possessed are trying to save this world from us instead.
They're...okay. They're handling it the best they can. I think that person is going to want to tell, when the time's right.
[ his emotions match taichi's again - concern, worry, that faint hint of protectiveness, too. ]
It's frustrating, cause - if it happens when they wake up, then there's no way for us to try and cut it off at the pass, either. [ he pauses, chewing over the opposite theory. ] ... I can try and find out a little more. I think... if I ask them about it, I might be able to get a little more information - I just didn't wanna push.
[ sometimes someone gets compelled into murder 8( ] Maybe you're onto something. I hope so.
I really hope people aren't assholes about it, considering the circumstances. [he WILL throw hands if he has to.]
The worst part is even if we could cut it off, if they're being controlled no amount of reasoning is gonna help us get through to them. [...there's a sigh.]
If you can without pushing them, I agree. We need to look at both sides and figure out what we're really up against. It's...[a hand scrubs at his face.] This all kind of feels familiar in a way I'm really, really not happy with.
Yeah. Before we got here, we had to do something that neither of us really wanted to do even though it was the right thing in order to save the world. But...there was this entity that told us their actions were meant to maintain harmony and balance in the Digital World no matter the cost. At the same time, there was another entity whose goal was to revive all of the Digimon who'd been lost so they could destroy Earth.
We had to make a few choices back then, and they all kind of felt like losing ones for a while. We still don't exactly know what's going to happen when we get home because our last battle finished and we were brought here.
so. a little later, probably, when things have settled down a bit, taichi will make his way over to the infirmary and poke his head in the door to see if ichiro's there, and also, like, alive.]
well he's alive! he's out of that bloody costume jacket and shirt, at least... it looks like hope's magic has done a pretty good job of helping him out. most of the minor injuries are healed, though he's still really bloodied. his arm is not in danger of being lost anymore, and even wrapped in bandages and placed in a sling.
he looks... super not great, and still just covered in dried blood, gaze a little far away. realizing he's got a visitor, h e glances over, though, and gives taichi a little sup nod in greeting. ]
[i wrote it, thought about deleting it, and left it. anyway so yeah, glad that ichiro's not dead even if he's a Mess, so taichi doesn't quite enter the room just yet.]
Want me to come back later? I don't want to bug you if you're resting but I wanted to make sure we weren't losing you just yet.
...nah, 's okay. [ he will try and push himself up onto his elbow, though. ] I think Hope healed me up....? I don't really remember what happened after we came back. Think I passed out.
Yeah. [ there's a little quiet pride on his face, agreeing. hope is smart. he's really proud. ]
...Think I probably should've lost my arm? I was bleeding a lot. He probably saved my life. [ haha. so. ] I'm doin' okay. Just really shit luck that I had to do it twice.
Don't even get me started on how pissed off I am that a bunch of you went through this shit twice. It hasn't even been that long since our first run, and somehow this one seemed worse.
...yeah. This one was definitely worse. Fucked me up bad. Then again, I... [ ichiro pauses, for a moment, and his mouth sets into a thin line. ] ... I was trying to protect Mabel, this time.
[ which he failed at.
you ever just wake up after losing consciousness to a bunch of people screaming about who could possibly let a child get hurt when you've spent your entire life protecting children and spent your entire cyoa trying your goddamned hardest to protect a child?
haha! ] ... need you to watch out for her in your dorm for me tonight, man. Maybe you'll be better at it.
[oh my god. noooooo he actually looks really sad about that because he Knows how ichiro feels about that kind of thing. they're both older siblings, after all.]
...I'll do my best. I can't promise anything, but there's a whole dorm of us who'll try. I'm sure you did your best though...you weren't exactly in hot shape when you came back either.
he shifts a little bit where he's sitting, looking away. the guilt on his face is pretty much blatant. ]
... yeah. [ he will be doing that anyway! ] Thanks, though, man. We buried Miku and Hector, together, at least, but I haven't seen her or the others since then.
[ sometimes you are just suffering a lot of inside blood loss and are confined to the infirmary by your worried adult figures. ]
[ is he okay? here's what he should probably say: that he feels like he's the worst piece of garbage on the planet. that he's failed at protecting people since he got here. that there's not a single positive quality to him. or maybe that he's just overly emotional, and it just freaks people out.
...
he doesn't say any of that, though, because he has to keep all of it in, to keep people from worrying even worse. ]
...'m okay. [ his stomach twists a little bit with it, but. ] All my memories are fine, at least. Nothing like that, this time around.
Good. I'm glad. [except he got a little hint at who ichiro is, and he feels like they've vibed a little more over the last few weeks. it's the only reason he thinks to ask the next question.]
And everything else? [how do you feel about everything else, bro?]
It's not, but I figured if I outright asked how you actually were you'd just say you were fine because we're kind of the same that way. [just...pointing that out.]
...I'm not going to say you have to talk about it, but...if you want. Whenever. I guess.
[ THIS CALLOUT. this callout actually works better than literally anything else that anyone else has tried so far because taichi is right, they are really, really similar.
he like. huffs, a little, scrubs his face again. there's a pause. ]
.... I dunno. I think - do you think anything's different? I feel like... we came back so fucked up from the last trip, something maybe... [ ... ] I feel like I fucking hate myself, man. Like - I can't do anything good. Haven't been able to do anything good. And like... that I get too emotional, and it fucks other people up.
...I've been kind of feeling like that even before we left the first time. We keep solving cases, but at what cost, you know? Everything's so fucked up and it's like we were talking about last week. We keep running into a wall and we can't get our way around it. It's...it's not just you. This place is starting to drain on all of us, but I don't think you're fucking other people up by caring about things and people.
We're doing the best we can, but it definitely feels like we should be doing better. I'm right there with you.
idk still in the middle of the meeting rn everyone is asking questions he says she's fighting it and trying to snap out of it she usually comes to our meetings but not now trying to keep all this on the DL just in case
yeah we had ours earlier minus riku i'm not sure he knows we're talking about him i mean probably but yamato said that he got riku to snap out of it too he doesn't seem to remember anything after the execution up until yamato went to talk to him
ive got a communication item im thinkin based on what iris told me the first go around we might be able to talk to that voice with it not now obviously
i was thinking the same thing i'm holding on to mine for as long as i can but if we can talk to the voice we can figure out...maybe i don't know, maybe we can change what it's doing or edit shit ourselves
yeah yeah, legit. ok, thats at least two we need to see how many more there are out there and try and come up with a plan and keep it on the dl just in case
...okay well yamato knows but i tell him everything and he'll be cool about it there's at least one or two more i bet so we should try to find them as soon as possible
well the dorm heads kind of listen when they feel like it so they might listen to the meeting? we need to have another one anyway maybe tuesday again see if we get more notes in our lockers or anything
[he will amble over and have a seat next to him then.]
...I'm not gonna ask if you're okay because that's pretty fucking obvious to me. [bro.] ...but if you wanna talk about it or...anything. [...awkward shrug.]
I can't say I blame you for that. [he would've made the same choice.] ...did you already know about them before they approached you? Like who they were.
I suspected Otome-san since Lan Wangji's trial. I've known about Lux since Crow's. This place has always been designed to make us pick between friends and it's shitty.
No, it's fine. I don't...[...] I've known about the honor society since Yamato's had the job. I've been trying to help as best as possible, but I've been trying to help the assigned killers, too. It's not like I can really judge anybody for what's been happening. We're all being played here.
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weekend 0, saturday
dude, this guy keeps adding a bunch of leaves to the top bunk
are your roommates this weird?
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weird's a word for it lol
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i'm still figuring out names and there, like, half a dorm i haven't even met yet
we let the lady living in our suite take the whole bedroom
but the bunkbed has a slide!
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you've just got one girl? or is yours split off? there's a guy who lives on the girl's side, but they seem cool with it. i'm sleeping on the couch for now. figured i'd give up the bed to someone who really needed it.
jealous of the slide, though. i'd probably crack my head trying to get on it lol [ tall, ]
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i haven't met everybody in the other suite, but in ours it's one girl
sakyou took the couch even though i offered
really? i would've thought you'd think it was stupid
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i'm kinda big for a slide, i guess, so maybe it's a little kiddish but
sounds kinda fun?
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usually?????
1/3
[...wait.
give him a second to look at what he's doing.]
2/3
jflskda
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.... ohhhh.
I see what you did. yamato's ishida, right?
yamada ichiro.
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sorry about...all of that
but also you're right, the slide's actually kind of awesome
[luckily even though he is embarrassed he can easily recover. as long as yamato never finds out.]
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I won't tell. I feel like you're not gonna be the last person to do it www
yamato should learn to appreciate slides, ig
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try telling him that though, he'll just go "stop being stupid!" and change the subject
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Anyway, he's human too, right? Sure he's probably made the same mistake, just might not cop to it!
It's not like our names are far apart, either. Accepting our mistakes is important. Lol.
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we'll see if he ever messes up too, i think the only name close to mine might be otome-san's
have you talked to him much?
[since ichiro knew him already]
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We're both musicians, and from Tokyo, so we were vibing.
Seems like a good dude. You guys know each other?
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[he doesn't elaborate on that before there's a second text.]
we've been friends since elementary school, so yeah, i guess we kinda know each other
week 1, tuesday! sparkles
after all of the clusterfuck that was last weekend and everything else going on, it's kind of nice to do something easy, so. out on the athletic field, ichiro's got a soccer ball at his feet and he passes it easy back to taichi, providing the kickback for some footwork. he doesn't play himself, but jiro does, so he's used to getting the practice in. ]
Man, I can't believe everything here's still expecting us to act like it's normal after everything. [ as he passes the ball. ]
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I can and can't believe it, if you can believe that. [haha.] After what the bear said about this place having a legacy I'm not even surprised they don't take this seriously.
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[ ugh!!! ugh. ] I can't get the image of Sunday out of my head, dude. Every time I think about like - any of it, it just pisses me off.
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[the ball gets kicked a widdle harder.] Is it me, or does it really feel like somebody's playing with us?
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It's not just you. The dorm heads all mysteriously "falling ill" the night someone gets murdered, and then they can't remember anything? Sounds like bullshit.
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Sounds like they got taken out of the picture just to make sure they couldn't interfere. Sort of makes you wonder why.
[but hm.] You saw the rankings, yeah?
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[ frowning... ] I bought the first aid kid, so 8 of ours must've come from that. What're you thinking?
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Not that the tasks are great to start with.
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[ hmmmm. ] And yeah. This time, especially - last time wasn't that bad. But besides the names, "tell a lie"? "Tell someone a bad habit they have?" Big difference from last week.
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[shrug!] It makes you wonder if we're supposed to be getting along or actually trying to piss each other off.
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[ he snorts, a little derisive, and kicks the ball back to him. ] I don't know. I guess - you wanna do one? We're in different dorms, might as well try and knock one out.
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Since we're out here? Sure. [the ball's kicked back.] So. Do you want to answer if you'd sleep with your clone? Or just do what task seems easiest?
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ugh. whatever. he catches the ball easy, receiving it against his thigh and letting it drop - though 'sleeping with his clone' makes him snort a laugh, half hysterical. ] Augh, dude. No, definitely not that. It was, what. Tell a lie, tell a bad habit, show off something you're good at and have dinner with somebody...?
[ there's a pause, before ichiro kicks the ball back, expression going from "ugh" to a more normal, encouraging grin. ] Here. Show me your sickest tricks.
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Yeah, okay. [he says, like he's not happy to show off and play. with the ball in front of him, he kicks it up and begins a series of tricks. it doesn't take a ton of concentration from him, and he's just going through motions with ease even as he continues talking.]
Your thing's music, right?
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That's right, yeah. I'm not in a band like Yamato, really - I rap. You're hella good at this, dude.
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[he will mock yamato for his emo band name for forever but he does seem interested in ichiro being a rapper.]
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[ ichiro also brightens noticeably at this topic change, much like taichi had before. this is his favorite pastime, after all, one deeply tied into the things in life he loves - his family, and his division. ]
I can beatbox, too. Don't need a beat to get going, but I can sure as hell make my own.
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Doesn't have to be today if you don't want to, but it's cool to see what other people can do. [i will not make you write a rap today if you want to be free.]
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ichiro's grin widens a little, and he reaches up to tap his own palm against his chest, offsetting the rhythmic bounce of the ball and bobbing his head as he starts to think, putting the words together in his head. it doesn't take long - maybe ten seconds of beat making before he gets started. should stop around 0:39-0:40. ]
Hey, hey, ayy, ayy.
Ichiban, ichiro, number one big bro, got the flow that'll show one ups like Nintendo, ayy
Fast is my style, fresh outta Ikebukuro, you already know, smashin records wit no studio,
Got a - college ed-u-cation with weird classes,
Bees, movies 'bout weird cats who show their asses, but -
I'm makin the most, for my bros, so I'm gonna ace em,
Get home, make that paper, so I can really raise em,
Hangin out with Taichi, his football skills rule,
Makin beats with a ball while we're stuck in this freaky school,
Cause the friends we be makin on the way make it bearable,
No matter if we gotta listen to that bear principal!
[ and then thumps his chest hard to stop the beat!!
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Dude, that was awesome. [like. wow???] Talk about being good at something. How do you even think of rhymes that fast?
[by being good, taichi, keep up.]
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Same way you got good at doing that. [ ichiro nods towards the ball. ] Lots of practice. Lots of hard work. Thanks, dude.
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[talent, he means.]
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[ he's exaggerating a little bit, very playful, but also!! gas yourself up taichi you deserve it!!!!! ]
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Soccer club since I was a kid, and I'm the captain of my high school team. Maybe there was a little practice involved. [the ball is juggled between his feet again.] I haven't decided if I want to keep playing in university or not though.
[it's actually the last thing on his mind, but it feels appropriate to say.]
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[ he smiles, though. what a protagonist thing to say... ] Man, you'd love my little bro. He's your age. Plays soccer, too. Could definitely give you a run for your money!
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You think so? [he at least seems more inclined to talk about that than his future.] You have a couple of brothers, right?
[tell him about your fambly, ichiro.]
w1 friday
actually at first it's just a picture, a selfie angled kinda downwards. there is a goose in ichiro's lap. ]
dude
went out looking for stuff today
now this
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[taichi sends a picture back! the baby is resting on his sneaker. the mama looms ominously in the background but seems chill.]
are we new parents?
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yours is a baby? did it attack you?
maybe you can teach it to be nice
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it keeps following me around
but so does its mom which is a little terrifying
i'm waiting for it to bite me but so far so good
why do you have a goose?
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some feathers, too.
and catra. alive, thankfully
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what was catra doing there? is she okay?
and the rest of the library too
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yeah, she's fine
just like what happened with dimitri and sieghart last week, i think.
no clue if there's a connection or if its random or what
library was fine tho
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not sure either, but it's something to think about
i don't get it
but he was a nerd so
maybe he started in the library and then left with whoever was awake with him?
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last week
what dorm was hiyori in, again?
kaoruko was winter.
and then sieghart and dimitri - dimitri is winter, too.
that's a good thing to think about.
still, wish it hadn't been her
she was already hurt, yk? :/ how the hell does that even happen
but yea
that makes sense to me. i guess
there were three sets of footprints in the cafeteria too
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sieghart's with us in spring. so it was every dorm but fall
i haven't found the connection yet
that's my question too
she was pretty bad off yesterday so for somebody to move her
that's pretty unfair
...huh. the prints were going to the field, but then they came back toward the gym
but then what, they started at the library, went to get a snack, ran out to the field to play and then hit the gym?
this sequence of events is kind of out of order somehow
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then all those people who went missing this week, too.
two winter, three spring, one summer, two fall.
what the fuck, man.
maybe it didn't start out like
violent, i guess.
were there three sets of prints at the gym and the field, too?
the biggest set were probably his - they were about the size of my shoes and he and i were about the same height.
and we still don't know what happens with the people that just show up outside, too. are they walking around or what?
this shit's confusing.
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they can't seem to figure it out either
there were three sets of prints, yeah
we'll have to compare them to him and everybody his size, probably
from what i heard about last week, both hanayagi and tomoe were in their dorms and just magically woke up outside that night. they were the only two awake even though they saw dimitri and sieghart
but it sounded like something moved them instead of them walking out on their own
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shinonome had this theory about people being controlled
kinda like we saw on sunday. he was talking about it like it was data of some kind.
i'm not good with that kinda stuff but it makes sense, ig
especially after sunday
so like someone or something just picked them up and moved them like it was a video game
crazy.
since they saw dimitri and sieghart asleep though that means the two of them
ig they were probably not involved??? idk
but it means there were at least two ppl + lan wangji
did he get jumped?
ugh. fuck this, man
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it's too weird
it would explain why all of us got moved against our will last night too
those are all really good questions we should ask tomorrow
we need to get all of our evidence together and start looking at places way sooner than last time
no more screwing around
w2 monday
his eyes light up immediately.]
Making new friends?
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Haha - uh, yeah, looks like it. I do a lot of dog walking at home.
[ ichiro yamada friend to all creatures but especially dogs ] Sup, man?
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Taking a look around. Kind of weird we've got a farm when it's getting this cold, but who knows? Maybe the school's behind on its harvest. [he will crouch down to try to pet this dog though.]
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[ what is real weather. this is not the real world. ]
It's kind of a cool spot, though. And the dogs are super friendly. [ the dog seems totally amiable to being pet and just. rolls over. belly rub hours!! it makes ichiro grin. ] I don't think I've ever seen a farm before today, yanno?
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Can't say I've ever been to a farm either. I've lived in the city my whole life, so things like this are pretty new to me. It's nice that way. Think we're allowed to pick the fruit and flowers and stuff?
w2 post inves!
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what are the chances that i pick this week to move
and both of our victims are from my old dorm and my new one?
oh. not to mention we have TWO?
we couldn't even find the killers for one person last week, how the hell are we supposed to find TWO?
[a few seconds later:]
i think i'm fine but this sucks.
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i know, man
i'm sorry - it sucks ASS.
i wasn't really close with either one of them but they're both good dudes
and then having two killers, too
i guess? maybe its a serial killer. thats even worse
i doubt it tho
if it makes you feel any better
i heard somebody found a chainsaw
so either denji's did it and is straight trying to get caught or someone's trying to frame him
which is shitty
so you can throw winter in there too
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IT DOES
...sieghart was one of the people i liked most over in spring. didn't know bradley that well, but that doesn't make it better either
we had two killers, probably, for one body last week
what if there's more than two killers this time?
but yeah uh. that was me. we found the chainsaw in the cafeteria. catra ichinose-san and i checked there and the health office
door to the health office was pretty busted up by the way
same with the hot food bar. the inside of the cafeteria was a mess too
so a fight went down
i thought it meant maybe denji was dead (and i'm glad he's not)
but i don't think he'd be that stupid to try and get caught
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i liked bradley. he was teachin me origami this week.
this is so shitty.
... if there's more than two - i wanna say we'll have a better chance at catching them, i guess
but
i dont know after last week.
did you notice we didn't have any weird people asleep in random places this week?
what the fuck's up with that.
and yeah. i agree with you. i'm pretty sure someone's gonna try and get him caught for something he didnt do
im gonna talk to him soon but
it would've... had to be someone that knew he had a chainsaw, i guess
or at least where he kept it.
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i heard about that too
do you think it's because we had multiple victims this week?
that's the only thing that's changed
i was going to try to talk to him myself but i have a lot of spring to catch up with
this is hard on a lot of them
you're right though, but there's one problem
it's on his id
anybody could've gotten that information
so we need to narrow it down
i don't even know if it IS his
i haven't ever seen the one he has
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it's escalating.
shinonome thought maybe we'd be here for 8 weeks, right? two weeks per season.
i just
really don't want to think that next week we're gonna see 3.
i wanna focus on this and try and figure out what the hell happened. maybe at least finally get SOME answers.
and.. yeah.
that's true. idk where he was keeping it though
that'd be a little harder
i guess if we're all knocked out it wouldnt rly matter though you could dig through our shit forever
i've seen it though. most of us in the dorm have - we can confirm if its his or not tmrw.
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then we're just getting started
there were 42 of us to begin with. we're down to...whatever minus 6 is. 36?
how many of us have to be taken out to get some answers?
we really need to catch at least one culprit so we can ask the questions we didn't get to ask last week
i asked catra if she recognized it but she couldn't say. probably because she's still new to your dorm
it'll be better to check tomorrow when we can ask denji questions anyway
with how messed up the door and the bar were somebody went after somebody else with it. that's not a question
...is somebody WAS trying to frame denji...why?
why do you think they'd pick him?
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bc...
because he pisses people off easily. i don't think he does it on purpose.
he's - dude's got rocks for brains, yeah, but he's got a good heart.
so maybe somebody thought it was easy. he has a weapon. why not fuck around with it.
just thinking about it pisses me off.
maybe that's a point in his favor, though.
dude knows his way around a chainsaw. he probably wouldnt damage that much shit.
i guess. i don't know shit about murder, dude. this is way over my usual pay grade.
we can't fuck up again, thats for sure
i'm not letting denji take the fall for something he didn't do.
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he tries pretty hard
so you're right. he would be an easy person to frame now that i think about it
i didn't get a close enough look but it really looked more like whoever was wielding the chainsaw was attacking somebody who ran. we found some blood in the cafeteria, too
i'm not a good detective so most of what i think is all guessing anyway
but we're not letting ANYONE take the fall for something they didn't do
not just denji
not again.
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agreed. we gotta get this right.
i dont want any other option.
we found blood in the field when we went around, too. lots of dents and a fucked up net.
i think we gotta figure out which evidence goes with which body. that's first up. so we dont get our wires crossed, yk?
check for injuries. somebody handling a big ass weapon like that might have bruises if they werent used to it, too.
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we only found a little
i think you're right though
for all we know things overlapped and it'll make our job harder
we should check for injuries early. even if we find anything right away, we still have two cases to deal with
makes you wonder what it means if somehow there's two culprits that never saw each other though
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it wasn't that much - droplets.
leading from the dugout back to the gym area.
i agree tho yeah. we should knock that shit out quick
and i think thats probably likely i mean
we all get knocked out at night. there's gotta be something that could keep them from ever crossing paths. plus the locations werent all super near each other, right? so maybe. idk. would be easier if they did tho.
speaking of, kinda
weird q
did you have anything super weird happen to you this week?
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but yeah, i get it
we found only a little in the cafeteria too
i was hoping to figure out a path but you're right, it might be too far spread out
we won't really know until we start looking again tomorrow
something new always shows up
...what kind of weird?
nothing really stands out
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yesterday catra was
barking? before curfew.
and ig claude's group found that three headed dog or w/e.
plus she was acting weird the first week too cause of the school spirit or w/e
which - i'm not saying she did anything, i think its the opposite
we were wondering if maybe people who transferred dorms were getting these weird effects. beau and i think maybe they've got something to do with what happens on thursday nights.
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uh. no. okay. i was definitely not barking.
or meowing.
pretty sure that dog's the same one bradley had in the dorm last night
said he got it with a coupon or a voucher or something
the school spirit curse picked somebody else this week
they're probably fine now, i'm going to check in
catra actually asked me on monday if i'd been hit with anything because i switched
so far the answer's still no though
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that's good to know - just lmk if you do ig
there were two other people i know this week that were acting really weird in ways that probably werent related to extra credit or whatever but
i'm wondering if that was supposed to be some kinda hint.
and if there are any other kinds of hints around that we're missing.
we
kinda need all the hints we can get.
esp ones that arent about geese
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if it's something like the school spirit thing i might not know
catra didn't know until it was over. sagihara wasn't aware either when i talked to him monday
i would love a hint that isn't geese
we should consider buying an item tomorrow instead of a hint though
that feels more concrete
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and
the barking thing - she definitely knew it was happening
so i think its different. she couldn't tell why she was doing it but she could tell it was weird. if that makes sense.
so i think it might be something different. its just not sitting right.
i know somebody whos been cursed this week too - well, a couple people
one of em was definitely aware of it. i think it wouldve been hard not to be
the other one... i dont think they know, so.
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we'll figure it out
the barking thing sounds like it was meant to distract us from something bigger
...it's not anything dangerous to them is it? are they still cursed?
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we had enough shit going on in the dorm since dimitri and rupert came back hurt.
idk man
and nah
they're both ok. one only lasted a day.
the second's
...it's kinda cute, actually? haha
it took me until today to pick up on it bc i thought they were just being nice
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...wonder how pissed kaine was when she realized what happened
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she’ll kick my ass
it’s true though
[ we stan kainé in this house ]
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but you're right. i thought it was weird she greeted me with a compliment at formal and was pretty cordial but i thought she'd just calmed down
that's not too bad though
maybe someone thought she needed to be nicer
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someone cursed rita-chan not to talk for a whole day, she was pisseeed
i didn't check to see if kainé knew she was cursed or not or anything - ig i probably should've...
she's still herself, she just keeps starting every conversation with a compliment
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are you serious?
who DOES that...
wait the compliment thing is still going?
i haven't talked to her since wednesday
...good to know some of these things having a longer lifespan than others
week 3 monday! cartwheels in with a memshare for you
and there's suddenly a beeping noise, like a broadcast starting.
the memory closes out with the woman's voice saying, "From here on out, the Party of Words will be the leaders of this country." and then fades away.
ichiro blinks as if coming back to reality when he surfaces; slowly, his expression tightens, mouth pulling into a frown. ]
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this is way more than saying hello? this is something that blindsides him and he jerks his head back as the memory fades away. there's a moment's pause as he stares at him, trying to interpret whatever the fuck he just saw.]
...you know. It's been a while since I've been to Ikebukuro, but...that's a little different than what I remember.
[the hell was that?]
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anyway!!! yeah, you know, sometimes your memories just get thrown on the ground so you're stuck with it. he also takes a little bit of a step back, and then huffs a noise. not quite a laugh, humorless. that was years ago, and it still feels like it was yesterday. ]
...yeah. Yamato said the same thing. We're all just divisions, now.
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How long has it been like this?
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...two years? Almost three. I was seventeen when the initial takeover went down. [ ... ] Feels a lot longer than that, though.
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[he asks these questions, but ichiro might not have time to answer before he's hit with some sort of memory.]
week 3 post trial
i don't know where he is but does it matter? no. ichiro's just dropping sort of boneless, even if it hurts, onto the nearest soft-ish surface.]
...dude.
[ just
dude ]
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I know.
[there's just so much internal screaming? but...] ...the pattern still fit. Kinda crazy, right?
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...yeah. I think we got it. Byleth was a little weird, but... she probably...
[ ... he lolls his head over and looks at taichi. is he serious about this probably not but also after that incredibly difficult nine hours: ] Dude, please tell me it wasn't you. Please. My heart can't take any more stress or I'm gonna die. No cap.
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You of all people should know how much I can't actually fight. I wouldn't have have been able to hold my own against either of them.
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[ wheeze
it does seem like he did mean it though, and he reaches over and thwaps his hand gently against whatever uninjured body part is the nearest to him. ] Dude, I feel like I grew a new gray hair. Everyone else on the list for her partner is bad. What does that even mean?
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My stress levels haven't been this high for at least a couple of weeks. [joking.] ...it means that if they really do have to keep killing until they're caught then we're looking at a bunch of people from my dorm. Luxanna, Ichinose-san, and Caleb.
[aren't you forgetting someone, taichi?]
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[ yamato is missing from this list he absolutely notices that you gay ass but also it's not surprising so he just lets it be, grinning back a little and then rolling his head back over to stare at the ceiling. ]
... I guess I don't know Ichinose-san that well. The other three... any of those would suck.
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[god. kingdom hearts nightmare...but he hums a little.]
...it would suck no matter what because it just means they're doing it against their will. But I can't imagine what they'd have against Crow to pick him in the first place, you know?
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[ sometimes... you are just two morons cut from the same cloth...
but, yeah. he sighs. ]
I dunno either, dude. Crow was a nice guy. So was Lan Wangji. I wonder if they've gotta do one with a partner, and one on their own, or something....
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...maybe. Maybe it doesn't have to be two kills in a row? Because that would mean Byleth skipped last week, or she's responsible for Sieghart but I don't think we ever figured out a connection for his case.
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[ sometimes you rap.
but anyway. ] I still kinda think Caiman killed Sieghart, man. I'm not gonna lie. The similarities were too much. I dunno if he had any help, but... it would make sense if he had weird memory loss if he didn't turn in his extra credit. I found out that it was "frame someone else".
[ and. gestures at denji. ] But you might be onto something.
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I do, too, if I'm honest. But saying that around my dorm seems kind of like a really bad idea right now. Would he even need the help? That's the thing.
[he frowns though because. he does like denji even if the dude's a little wild.]
So either Byleth's going to kill again because we haven't voted for her and she has to, we're going to have a brand new set of killers probably from summer or spring, or someone's going to kill Byleth because she confessed.
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...yeah. I bet it's gotta be rough in there right now, huh. [ taichi your falls, ]
I think you're right, though. I guess that'll make the suspect pool easier to narrow down. [ it sucks to just talk about these things casually, but, what can you do. he lifts his hands up for a second, and then drops them in his lap, a sort of collapsing moment. ]
...This shit can't keep going on forever, though. We gotta figure out how to make it stop. I don't wanna just ride it out.
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[it's...difficult.]
Supposedly we'll get to leave in another four weeks, but I don't know how bad it's gonna get before then. Or if that's even true. It doesn't feel like we're closer but we have to be somehow. [a beat.] If it's been like any other week, the dorm heads might have more documents delivered to them we can buy.
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[ for the second part, though! ] I can help with the new info, though, cause I know the answer. There will be. Vi told me - I got to talk to Iris for a little bit, the other day. Every new week, we can get another piece, but it has to be requested by a different person in the dorm, each time.
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That's what we did Thursday night when we got back. Everybody slept down in the common room. Luke, too. I don't know if the mood's the same for tonight but I'll just have to try to as many of them as I can.
[he perks up slightly.] That's how? I wasn't sure how it all worked. I bought the first documents from Chad right before I switched, and Yamato had bought them from Luke before I could even tell him I knew they existed. I'll have to talk to Fall to see who's buying this week.
[...hm.] Did you get anything else out of Iris when you spoke to her?
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[ is try your best. he has a feeling taichi'll get that. protagonists be like.
but, yeah. the info bit has him nodding. ] Yeah. We gotta collaborate, in case the info we get is different. She told me to make sure we're verifying everything we can, and... most importantly, that our enemy here isn't each other. It's whatever bigger powers are in play. I'm tryin to keep that in mind, even when I get pissed and I find out the dude I play baseball with murdered someone who really fucking matters to a lot of people.
[ .... ugh. he's close to beau, close to caleb; molly's loss hurt. ichiro shakes his head. ]
I didn't use a mind control spell or anything to talk to her - it just happened when I traded some vouchers, and I got lucky. It was only for maybe half a minute. Have you gotten to talk to any of the others?
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[there's a slow nod.]
Lalli told us that Luke--Riku--was able to regain control of himself a little bit, but on Wednesday our dorm used a mind control thing and also a potion I think to keep him around longer. We weren't able to learn much, but just having him back was nice.
[a pause.] I'm pretty sure the place we went on Thursday was directly related to him though. I recognized those weird white monsters, plus that was the same boy we saw in another memory. And our swords are similar to the one he has in his room.
w3 sunday
dude
ok first of all did you guys get the new documents from viola yet
second of all is she iris right now?
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OKAY
SO THIS DAYCARE IS REAL?
THE DORM HEADS ARE FREE?
[he seems to realize his capslocks is on and sends the next few messages normally.]
heard some other stuff too...i said i wouldn't share yet but someone gave me a heads up about something
but it's related to what happened with caiman
let's just say things aren't as straightforward as we think
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yeah
it was weird being in riku's head, basically, and then having to come out and call him luke
iris came down like a bat out of hell and we got right to it.
and
i think i know what you mean.
he's like
something made him do it. right? couldn't control it. not just his... whatever that was, either
i bet that's why kon's power didn't work.
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i haven't even told most of my dorm what happened because riku decided to sleep downstairs with us thursday night
weird as hell how lucid they are now but i'll take it
"chad" and "sally" are fine now too
but yeah exactly
we were chasing the right lead but the wrong way
so...that was a fun and bad thing to learn
it's possible it'll happen again
keep it to yourself though, apparently someone's gonna share with all of us later
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huh. good to know.
i can't really say where i got it from, so its probably better its public knowledge.
i think we gotta have some kind of information meeting here soon, just to make sure everybody's on the same page. we can talk about stuff having to do with the place itself as a group.
probably...not our theories about people like byleth-san though. probably good to keep that on the low, for now.
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i don't want to say either because i don't want to break that person's trust
supposedly whoever they heard it from will share soon
i agree though
there are too many moving parts now and still too many of us that we need to loop in
...have you talked to byleth at all since the end of the trial?
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kinda the opposite of us, we usually pile in in the common room - since the first week. all of us just passed out there the first time because we were all freaking out but now its tradition lol
nah. i was helping out beau
have you?
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we used to camp out together in the digital world
i talked to her last night
she said she only helped rupert with bradley, not lan wangji
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besides lan wangji's i mean
then who...? she said he was her partner, right???
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she says she was on the ground and bradley shot her while rupert ran him down with a horse
we missed a bullet graze among all of her other wounds
she wouldn't admit to an accomplice for crow's kill but that's as good as a confirmation for me
dunno about lan wangji's case though
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well we gotta figure THAT shit out
if there even was one
i guess there's patterns to that, too
well see whatever info comes out this week
bruh this is so above my pay grade
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i'm actually bad at seeing them half the time
can you believe we have to do this shit during the week and STILL go to class
annoying as hell
...but at least the stuff you and dimitri had really helped us out yesterday
it put us on the right path
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and im glad im not the only one who was thinking about getting something like that either
obviously i knew about beau's and kon's powers, but i didn't know about dimitri's till the day of
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kon's was new
how much did viola charge you for your upgrade? do we know about dimitri?
i'm just wondering about a baseline for anything we can use in the future
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that's not rly how it worked?
idk if it would be the same with riku or any of the others
but iris basically told me "the only limit is our creativity" when it comes to these things.
so i sat with her for a little bit and i was the one who came up with the item.
well - that's not true, beau helped with these ones but
i came up with two others too
iris told me i can only really have one at a time/can't stock them
but she said she could create basically anything i came up with.
so that was how i got it. i said i wanted something to help us find the most relevant piece of evidence and then i had to decide what that would look like.
so a pair of goggles that let you see stuff. make sense?
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i mean maybe it works that way with riku
but half the time when i talk to him it ends up going in a whole other direction
i asked him about my own goggles before i even knew about yours
they work differently at home and he just said it wasn't worth wasting vouchers to fix them
but we never came up with anything else. i wasn't even sure that was an option but maybe i'll go back and brainstorm with him
...i'm really not great at this kind of stuff
most of the problems we have to solve are monster-based and i let koushiro do most of the technical stuff
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you could always ask iris, too. she's really invested in solving problems
like more than almost anyone i've ever known
so she might be willing to help you
and yeah, man, i feel that
i could not tell you shit about how my mic works.
we don't do monsters but my lil bro is the computer guy i just do odd jobs and kick ass with a microphone
and here i've gotta be a fuckin cop detective
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i always leave conversations with iris feeling like i'm not smart enough to solve my own problems
not that that's her fault
but maybe i'll hit her up later
your mic is really confusing but if it works it works you know? no point questioning it
koushiro made my goggles and usually does all the analysis for our team
i really wish he was here right about now
even if we've never done detective work in our life we're usually good at solving problems as a team
w4 post trial
by which i mean ichiro's just kind of walking the campus, unable to sleep after all of that shit. he's at least like marginally less angry than he was a few hours ago, which means he's functional enough to talk to people, so spotting taichi being reclaimed by the earth...
... yeah.
he doesn't approach right away, but leaves. about ten minutes later, ichiro returns with a water bottle in his hands, and then comes and just drops to sit next to taichi. his emotions are just - exhausted, residually angry. grieving. ]
Fuck.
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namely, guilt. grief. anger. pain. exhaustion. it's not a great mix.]
...how is it that we can keep being right and still feel like we're doing everything wrong?
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Because this place is wrong, man. Every fucking part of it.
... We were right. About them having a reason they were doing it. [ this sounds so bitter. it's just at the world, not at taichi. he fucking hates being right about this, too. ]
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It's -- what the fuck are we supposed to do. Nothing.
[ the last word gets spit out, almost. ichiro stops himself, after that, and shakes his head, scrubbing his hand over his face. ]
...It's not your fault, man.
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[panic, just as vaguely, like he's not sure what to do with it.]
...we couldn't save Adora even if we tried, could we?
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he's quiet for a second, and then just. scrubs his face. his emotions go from anger - though at the place as a whole, and not taichi - to just an ocean of grief. ]
...no. I don't think there was a damn thing we could've done.
[ and that's the worst, too. ] She said it was saving people - and that answer was enough to get her in trouble.
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he listens for a second, thinking - focusing on that, instead. ]
....When Riku - or Hugo - came to you guys for the first time, was he hurt?
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...Iris was hurt. Both times. [ he reaches for his own hand and touches his thumb against his palm. ] There was a lot of noise, and stuff clattering around, and then she came back bleeding. In the same spot, too.
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I didn't ask. When she popped out to talk to me, though, it was just like she got a really bad headache - I had to catch her because I thought she was gonna wipe out.
[ a beat, and then, a low snort, kind of humorless. ] Maybe violence is the answer.
[ awful ]
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[he doesn't entirely believe that, but yikes.]
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[ ugh. his emotions just radiate deeply unhappy. hate that. ]
...Fuck, man. [ nothing really sums it up better than that. ]
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I don't even know what to ask of them anymore. Items, information, any of it. I don't know what will be helpful and what'll hurt.
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[ there's a clear pang of deep unhappiness, with that. worry, too. after, though, he's thoughtful for a second, falling quiet. ]
...if we can find the people who are a part of the other thing... I wonder if questioning them, or - trying to talk to them about it in private might help, instead of in a big public setting like that. Maybe on a day early in the week, nowhere near a trial or - a killing, or anything.
When I talked to Rupert, there were even a lot of us around. That could've been part of why he kept quiet, too. To keep the rest of us safe.
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It's how I feel about the dorm heads, too. We can keep buying information from them and keep talking to them and updating them, but I don't want to push them to a breaking point either.
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scrubs a hand over his face. ]
...It feels like we hit a brick wall, huh.
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So...we just have to find another way over the wall, right? We regroup with what we know and start over.
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Or bust through it. Yeah. 's all we can do.
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...and we still don't know about the possession thing, do we. Like Sieghart's case.
[ugggggh.]
Dude, I'm still not any better at this than I was five weeks ago.
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his emotions flicker a little bit - a quiet protectiveness, overlapping everything. a little pain, too. ]
....I do - I know a little. About the possession thing. [ ... ] I know who killed Sieghart, but I can't tell you who.
It's only a little, though. I know the person who got it woke up on Thursday night feeling like they had to kill Sieghart to fix the entire place, and that didn't go away until after the trial on Saturday.
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That's somehow even weirder though. If they didn't have any feelings or inclinations before Thursday, then...what the hell could be causing it? [...] And if it was meant to fix this place, doesn't that kind of sound like it's the opposite of what Otome-san was saying?
Like...the people who are assigned to kill are trying to save us from this world. But the people possessed are trying to save this world from us instead.
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They're...okay. They're handling it the best they can. I think that person is going to want to tell, when the time's right.
[ his emotions match taichi's again - concern, worry, that faint hint of protectiveness, too. ]
It's frustrating, cause - if it happens when they wake up, then there's no way for us to try and cut it off at the pass, either. [ he pauses, chewing over the opposite theory. ] ... I can try and find out a little more. I think... if I ask them about it, I might be able to get a little more information - I just didn't wanna push.
[ sometimes someone gets compelled into murder 8( ] Maybe you're onto something. I hope so.
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The worst part is even if we could cut it off, if they're being controlled no amount of reasoning is gonna help us get through to them. [...there's a sigh.]
If you can without pushing them, I agree. We need to look at both sides and figure out what we're really up against. It's...[a hand scrubs at his face.] This all kind of feels familiar in a way I'm really, really not happy with.
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You too?
[ this place is too fucking similar to chuuoku, sometimes. it makes ichiro hate it even more. ]
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Do you know much about what Yamato and I do back home?
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We had to make a few choices back then, and they all kind of felt like losing ones for a while. We still don't exactly know what's going to happen when we get home because our last battle finished and we were brought here.
w5 thursday
so. a little later, probably, when things have settled down a bit, taichi will make his way over to the infirmary and poke his head in the door to see if ichiro's there, and also, like, alive.]
...you up?
[bro?]
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well he's alive! he's out of that bloody costume jacket and shirt, at least... it looks like hope's magic has done a pretty good job of helping him out. most of the minor injuries are healed, though he's still really bloodied. his arm is not in danger of being lost anymore, and even wrapped in bandages and placed in a sling.
he looks... super not great, and still just covered in dried blood, gaze a little far away. realizing he's got a visitor, h e glances over, though, and gives taichi a little sup nod in greeting. ]
...hey, man.
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Want me to come back later? I don't want to bug you if you're resting but I wanted to make sure we weren't losing you just yet.
[he's kinda freaked, it's fine.]
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...nah, 's okay. [ he will try and push himself up onto his elbow, though. ] I think Hope healed me up....? I don't really remember what happened after we came back. Think I passed out.
[ yeah. yea you did. ]
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[he'll enter the room then and have a seat on the nearest surface.]
...glad to see you're okay though.
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...Think I probably should've lost my arm? I was bleeding a lot. He probably saved my life. [ haha. so. ] I'm doin' okay. Just really shit luck that I had to do it twice.
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Don't even get me started on how pissed off I am that a bunch of you went through this shit twice. It hasn't even been that long since our first run, and somehow this one seemed worse.
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...yeah. This one was definitely worse. Fucked me up bad. Then again, I... [ ichiro pauses, for a moment, and his mouth sets into a thin line. ] ... I was trying to protect Mabel, this time.
[ which he failed at.
you ever just wake up after losing consciousness to a bunch of people screaming about who could possibly let a child get hurt when you've spent your entire life protecting children and spent your entire cyoa trying your goddamned hardest to protect a child?
haha! ] ... need you to watch out for her in your dorm for me tonight, man. Maybe you'll be better at it.
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...I'll do my best. I can't promise anything, but there's a whole dorm of us who'll try. I'm sure you did your best though...you weren't exactly in hot shape when you came back either.
[like. obviously.]
You can't blame yourself.
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he shifts a little bit where he's sitting, looking away. the guilt on his face is pretty much blatant. ]
... yeah. [ he will be doing that anyway! ] Thanks, though, man. We buried Miku and Hector, together, at least, but I haven't seen her or the others since then.
[ sometimes you are just suffering a lot of inside blood loss and are confined to the infirmary by your worried adult figures. ]
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I think everybody's taking care of all of you guys. People were trying to fix Mabel's teeth last I heard. But...who're Miku and Hector? What happened?
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What happened to her teeth....? [ those were? fine? he thinks? when they left? honestly it's all really fuzzy.
ichiro shakes his head after a second, though. ] ....'s a long story. Started at a pet shop. Hector's the bat... Miku was our dog. Mabel had him.
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...a pet shop. [BAT.] Are you okay? Like..[he kind of gestures to his head. any weird side effects this round?]
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...
he doesn't say any of that, though, because he has to keep all of it in, to keep people from worrying even worse. ]
...'m okay. [ his stomach twists a little bit with it, but. ] All my memories are fine, at least. Nothing like that, this time around.
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Good. I'm glad. [except he got a little hint at who ichiro is, and he feels like they've vibed a little more over the last few weeks. it's the only reason he thinks to ask the next question.]
And everything else? [how do you feel about everything else, bro?]
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he's quiet for a little longer, after the second question, and then just - exhales. messy, loud, then scrubs his hand over his face. ]
Everything sucks, dude. That's not that weird.
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...I'm not going to say you have to talk about it, but...if you want. Whenever. I guess.
[an attempt was made!!!]
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he like. huffs, a little, scrubs his face again. there's a pause. ]
.... I dunno. I think - do you think anything's different? I feel like... we came back so fucked up from the last trip, something maybe... [ ... ] I feel like I fucking hate myself, man. Like - I can't do anything good. Haven't been able to do anything good. And like... that I get too emotional, and it fucks other people up.
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...I've been kind of feeling like that even before we left the first time. We keep solving cases, but at what cost, you know? Everything's so fucked up and it's like we were talking about last week. We keep running into a wall and we can't get our way around it. It's...it's not just you. This place is starting to drain on all of us, but I don't think you're fucking other people up by caring about things and people.
We're doing the best we can, but it definitely feels like we should be doing better. I'm right there with you.
w5 sunday
[ ha ha ]
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what the fuck man???
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kon was the one who got it
he had to talk to viola
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what happened? did kon say?
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still in the middle of the meeting rn everyone is asking questions
he says she's fighting it and trying to snap out of it
she usually comes to our meetings but not now trying to keep all this on the DL just in case
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minus riku
i'm not sure he knows we're talking about him
i mean probably
but yamato said that he got riku to snap out of it too
he doesn't seem to remember anything after the execution up until yamato went to talk to him
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ok. fuck i hate this
ive got a communication item
im thinkin based on what iris told me the first go around
we might be able to talk to that voice with it
not now obviously
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i'm holding on to mine for as long as i can
but if we can talk to the voice we can figure out...maybe i don't know, maybe we can change what it's doing or edit shit ourselves
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yeah, legit. ok, thats at least two
we need to see how many more there are out there and try and come up with a plan
and keep it on the dl just in case
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but i tell him everything and he'll be cool about it
there's at least one or two more i bet
so we should try to find them as soon as possible
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from 'viola' and 'luke'
just in case.
we should have another meeting ASAP
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so they might listen to the meeting?
we need to have another one anyway
maybe tuesday again
see if we get more notes in our lockers or anything
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...hey dude. [just...gauging the temperature here.]
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when taichi comes by, he looks over, briefly, and then back out into space. ]
Hey. [ phew ]
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...I'm not gonna ask if you're okay because that's pretty fucking obvious to me. [bro.] ...but if you wanna talk about it or...anything. [...awkward shrug.]
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[ quiet, for a second. ]
You probably have questions.
[ he's just gonna track away from that, instead, entirely! whew ]
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...were you given an option to turn down recruitment?
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[ a quiet huff. it's a little wet. ]
I just didn't want them to have to keep suffering through it alone.
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[ they weren't really trying to hide. ]
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I suspected Otome-san since Lan Wangji's trial. I've known about Lux since Crow's. This place has always been designed to make us pick between friends and it's shitty.
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...sorry. If I could've told you, I would have. It's not like I was in it that long, but still.
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