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🐻 ([personal profile] dormheads) wrote2021-06-21 12:07 pm
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(ROLE) CULT 2.0

cult.


On Monday at 10 PM, Rupert, Otome, and Byleth receive an encrypted e-mail.

d4rkness@Wiwaldi.edu
Come to classroom 1304; see attached map.

No one is in the halls as they creep to the abandoned classroom circled on the map. The normally locked door opens, revealing the room inside.

There are no windows and the lights are off, leaving the room cast in near darkness. Only a handful of candles, in what's probably a fire hazard, keep it illuminated; the fog being emitted from a personal fog machine doesn't help with visibility. What was once the teacher's desk has been pushed to the center of the room, with chairs seated around it. For some reason, there are cat decorations everywhere, mixed in with various (garish) occult items and patterns.

There is a cat-shaped bulletin board hanging on the wall, which reads:
» This world is trying to assimilate all of you, who started this year, into its setting. If it succeeds, you'll remain trapped in this school, your souls drained until you cease to exist.

» Each week, this place will make active efforts on a few select students. Once the weekend hits, they'll all be beyond saving. However, if any one of them is killed before then, they'll all be freed from the link, at least for the remainder of the week.

» Death isn't necessarily permanent. Those who died can potentially be saved. However, no such option exists for the fully assimilated.

» At the start of the week you'll be informed if you may recruit one person to join the cult. Provide a list of 3-4 people you want to recruit and you'll be told which one of them is approved. If you extend an invitation and they accept, they will join the cult the following week.

» Preventing the assimilation aside, even the original cult was meant to be a secret, so it's important that word doesn't spread. If anyone else learns about your involvement in the cult or your task, whether from your mouth or another's, this world may enact consequences. No guarantee on who they might affect, so it's up to you to decide if risking harm upon another is worth it.
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[personal profile] heartlands 2021-06-22 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
I mean... Obviously I don't want to, but none of us really want to do this. I'm not going to stop either of you if you'd rather handle it, or if you want to help.

[and i am oocly down with anything as you both know!! but - he nods.]

Even if it's like last time, I'd want to try to talk to him.
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[personal profile] divineimpulse 2021-06-22 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[she nods.]

Then it's decided.

We'll all speak with him, then. Rupert will be our sleeper agent—Bradley will be least likely to expect you after him, to your benefit.
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[personal profile] heartlands 2021-06-22 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Right. Just - keep in mind if you want to talk to him, it'll need to be on Thursday night, after everyone else is already asleep. If we want to avoid the consequences, he can only know right before he dies, basically.
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[personal profile] divineimpulse 2021-06-22 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Understood.

[in the end, no matter what, he will die.]

...I hope he understands.
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[personal profile] heartlands 2021-06-22 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[...]

Do you want to be there with me, maybe? We could both explain, and then - do what we had to. You're probably a lot smarter than me with this kind of thing. I mean, making sure we don't leave footprints and stuff like that.

[glancing towards otome—]

What do you think?
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[personal profile] divineimpulse 2021-06-22 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[she looks fondly at rupert, and, because it's touch week, brushes some of his hair out of his eyes.] I'd be glad to.

How about this? Otome and I will speak with him, and you can lay in wait if anything happens.
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[personal profile] heartlands 2021-06-22 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[oh... after a moment, he reaches up to touch her hand, giving her a smile that's both small and melancholy.]

If Otome's okay with it.
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[personal profile] momming 2021-06-22 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ Otome watches the both of them with a faintly tired smile. ]

I'm fine with it. I may not be the best at this, but I can still support to the best of my ability.
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[personal profile] heartlands 2021-06-22 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. So... All of us will go, again. But - Byleth, it sounded like you had a plan?