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

Do you really want to risk it?

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

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

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

"Stop asking questions, deceased ok"?

Seems kinda long. Could shorten to 'No more questions, dead OK'.

[aren't the okays the same? related confusion.]

Sure, works fer me.

I wouldn't say no questions. That's just going to seem like a challenge. Careful questions.

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souheki - 2021-07-11 02:59 (UTC) - Expand

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.

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?

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.]

Edited 2021-07-11 02:07 (UTC)

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'?

That might not be bad to open with if we think they'll listen.

...on the other hand, the world itself might try to do away with her now that it knows what she was trying.

Maybe the 'entertainment value' of it will be too good for the world to consider offing her itself.

[ There's that simmering anger again. ]

[and there's a spike of the usual rage she had all week before the trial - ]

This world and its "entertainment value" should be ripped to shreds.

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That seems pointlessly cruel and unnecessary, so, probably?

[ That bubbling anger again. ]

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

Yes.

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

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

...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?

Hugo told me it didn't matter if they got the information from us, or from someone else, so I would guess it's a pretty strict rule. I don't... After today, I really don't feel like risking anything.

Fuck... alright. You'd know it better. No hints then.

...The dorm heads know?

As far as I know, only Hugo knows, but I haven't really asked him for an update on that for a while. That's how it was when I got here, though.

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