GRAVEYARD

[dormheads]

graveyard

students in time out: 10

It's a little hard to wake up when the melody that drifts into your ears is so comforting that it'd be so much simpler to stay asleep. Maybe everything that you remember last - the cold seeping into your fingertips, the pain of injury, or the darkness creeping into your vision - will just be parts of a bad dream.

But it's not.

When you wake up, it's probably a little disorienting - you have to push off a blanket and rise from this nice comfortable mat on the floor. Seems like you were all curled up for nap time. Literally. The room that you're in has furniture meant for small humans, children as some might call them, and everything is soft and plush to the touch with rounded corners. Blocks with the alphabet etched onto them, coloring books and crayons, and even a rocking horse dot the room to really give it that childish charm. If you can think of a child-safe toy, it's probably in one of the baskets that line the shelves of the room!

Around the room they'll find baby monitors that broadcast the antics of the living. Hopefully that doesn't feel creepy.

There is a yard outside through the glass doors, but it currently seems to be locked - and the glass won't break no matter how hard you try. There's a large pink door that feels enormous, ten times as tall as you, on one side of the room, but there's no way through that either. At the very top, you might see a directory sign that says: TO ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.

Huh.

Well... for now, get comfortable. It looks like you might be here a while.

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Comments

[wtfox]

[imagine if they say everyone's okay and adora is just gone]

I think we only get one sentence - so as long as we can combine those two things into one, that sounds good to me. [a beat] Although given the whole assimilation thing, I wonder if...

[should


should more people be dying. her vibes are very unsure.]

[headsplitter]

Do you think they'll suffer the same thing if we're the ones who try to send stuff about why the killings happen?

[battling]

Do you really want to risk it?

[headsplitter]

Nah. Just asking and catching opinions. We can't get in trouble for at least saying we're okay despite dying though, right?

[battling]

Didn't we say we were safe 'n sound last week?

[headsplitter]

Wasn't it something like 'ghosts are trapped with bear'? Doesn't sound like safe and sound exactly.

[wtfox]

Rupert can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the problem isn't that they would know, it's that something about this world would know they're trying to prevent the assimilation.

So if we put it on the marquee, it'll be pretty obvious.

[headsplitter]

Oh. [ Tsk tsk. ] So whatever's trying to keep everyone, it has a rest day on Thursday night for whatever unknown dumb reason. If killing is what sets people free from here though, it also kinda feels counterproductive to kill people for finding out? Is that just me?

[wtfox]

I don't know if it's that it has a rest day, either. I think murder was part of its plan all along. Did you catch that note in everyone's lockers on the monitor? The whole - someone will believe a lie that will make them kill someone thing? So people dying is part of the script.

If Rupert's group confess to why they're killing, this world probably thinks they're just doing it on their own. And it probably lets it happen for the drama.

[...]

After all, that's kinda what happened with...

[uh. caiman.]

[headsplitter]

Right, right... so it's just using the guise of 'it's for the drama' to actually try to save everyone, huh?

So, if the killers who are 'awake' die, baaad news for us. 'Don't kill Otome'?

[headmt]

That seems pointlessly cruel and unnecessary, so, probably?

[headsplitter]

[ That bubbling anger again. ]

Seriously... what's a guy gotta do to kick some corrupt ass...

[heartlands]

Yes.

[headsplitter]

Damn, so we gotta find roundabout ways to tell them huh.

[heartlands]

Finding a roundabout way to tell them is still telling them.

[headsplitter]

...Seriously? They're gonna get that picky? [ Huh... ]

Is it like, if they find out in any way, and make any sign that they know they know, then that effect would kick in anyway? Like, even without us spelling it out for them?

[headmt]

[lowe voice: stop catradora forever

molly just makes a bit of a face at that.]

As it stands, until we know one way or another on that, probably best to err on the side of less murder than absolutely necessary for now. Just my opinion.

[Suddenly he's chatty and has opinions?]

[wtfox]

[she nods]

That's probably for the best - I just, you know, if it's safer here, then... [well. she doesn't know! she shrugs.] There's a lot we don't know, but it looks like they're learning things over there.

So, the more of them who are over there to learn things safely, the better.

[headmt]

When do we ... learn things? Over here?

[wtfox]

...so far it's just been when people who know things turn up.

[she sighs]

The bear said the activities we do each week are helpful, but I haven't seen anything helpful other than like... the keys getting found.

[heartlands]

...You wonder if what?

[wtfox]

...I wonder if it's going to turn into a thing where more people have to die in order for them to be safe, only there won't be enough people from your group to save them.

[heartlands]

[he takes a breath.]

I'm not - going to just assume that. We've only ever had to kill one a week, and I don't think that's changed based on what we saw this trial. Byleth will be here tomorrow, and if the situation has changed at all she can tell us.

[headmt]

[He agrees with this plan forward, really. But.]

Think there's any reason to disbelieve what you've been told about that? Just for sake of playing devil's advocate.

[wtfox]

...but this world knows that Otome, at least, was trying to save people now.

[so.

that's a pretty big change, and a pretty recent development.]

I hope you're right, though. I really do.