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๐Ÿป ([personal profile] dormheads) wrote2021-06-28 11:26 am
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(ROLE) CULT 3.0

cult.


On Monday at 10 PM, Otome, Byleth, and Luxanna 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:
ยป 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.

ยป 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.

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

ยป 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.

ยป 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.

As of this week, more notes have been added.
A summary of what the others were told previously:

ยป This world is forced to act according to an internal logic. It isn't always aware of everything going on, and it can't break whatever rules it wishes. This would presumably be why you all arrived here with your minds intact, rather than already assimilated; it's possible that this defence mechanism has manifested in other ways as well, to try and correct things to how they should be.
inaccordant: (5. dawn)

CHAD

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-06-28 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's here if you have any questions. The bandaid is still on his head; that wound isn't getting any better, apparently. It's fine.]
Edited 2021-06-28 15:47 (UTC)
illuminance: (pic#14839908)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-06-28 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ hello chad ]

What an ominous room.
momming: (Well he's not racist)

[personal profile] momming 2021-06-28 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
... This list is...

[ wow she sure looks uncomfortable ]
momming: (Our president is an idiot and a liar)

[personal profile] momming 2021-06-28 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Rupert mentioned you had some sort of... ah, mental distress when you spoke with him. Are you all right?
illuminance: (pic#14839899)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-06-28 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
... I'm sure all the lists have been unpleasant.
inaccordant: (10. exasperated)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-06-28 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[he sighs.]

Not my choice. This was apparently an actual cult about... cats, in previous years, and it didn't seem worth it to throw everything out.
inaccordant: (8. hydrangea)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-06-28 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm fine. I don't actually have any recollection of what he means.
illuminance: (pic#14839893)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-06-28 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
A... Cat cult?

I've only ever heard of spider cults. Spider cults make much more sense.
inaccordant: (1.)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-06-28 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Rest assured that I have no idea what they were thinking either.
momming: (Principals always look like lesbians)

[personal profile] momming 2021-06-28 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
... Does the name "Hugo" sound familiar to you at all?
momming: (Principals always look like lesbians)

[personal profile] momming 2021-06-28 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
They have. Is there anyone you're incredibly opposed to, Luxanna?
illuminance: (pic#14839961)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-06-28 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It would be nice to think that there is some kind of meaning behind it. A nine-lives implication, maybe. Given all that's happening around here.
inaccordant: (22. art. neutral)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-06-28 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I can guess as to where you saw the name, but no, it doesn't mean anything to me.
illuminance: (pic#14839858)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-06-28 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
... Denji... Often says things that upset people, but I can tell he always means well. [ and his life just seems really sad, somehow?? ]

I don't know. It feels strange to make this kind of decision.
momming: (Why don't you just draw a target on me)

[personal profile] momming 2021-06-28 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she nods, apparently fine with dropping the subject for now. ]

About Sieghart... do you know anything about what happened there? I didn't think he'd be targeted, and you would have known if he was being assimilated, right?
inaccordant: (8. hydrangea)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-06-28 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe. As far as I know, the previous members were probably just obsessed with cats and made a club around them, but it's not as if I can say you're incorrect either.
inaccordant: (24. art. pained)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-06-28 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[he nods.]

... In the interest of being cautious, I don't know if it's absolutely impossible for a potential assimilated to escape our attention, but it's not likely. So, I have no idea who killed him or why.
illuminance: (pic#14839863)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-06-28 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
With what I know of this place...

I think it is more likely to be meaningless...
inaccordant: (10. exasperated)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-06-28 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly? Probably.
divineimpulse: (32.)

[personal profile] divineimpulse 2021-06-28 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[...]

Crow would be my choice.
momming: (Our president is an idiot and a liar)

[personal profile] momming 2021-06-28 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
... Because the other two are younger? It's true that he would probably be more understanding...

[ she always hates this part ]

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