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(ROLE) CULT 4.0
cult.
On Monday at 10 PM, Otome, Byleth, Luxanna, and Dimitri receive an encrypted e-mail.
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.
As of Week 3, a lamp has been added to the room to give it some light.
There is a cat-shaped bulletin board hanging on the wall, which reads:
As of Week 3, more notes have been added.
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.
As of Week 3, a lamp has been added to the room to give it some light.
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 4-8 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.
As of Week 3, more notes have been added.
A summary of what the others were told previously:
» 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.
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I'd also heard that we ourselves can't do much when it comes to bringing the dead back. Do you know if that's true, and if we really still need to be killing to prevent assimilation?
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[...]
Unfortunately, none of this is necessarily an indication that there's any other way. What happened to me and the other Dorm Heads seems similar, but I wouldn't consider it to be the same thing being done to the rest of you. So as much as I'd like to take this incident as a sign... it's likely that it's separate from the assimilation.
[i.e. the dorm heads breaking free, whether permanently or just for now, doesn't mean the non-dorm heads could do the same.]
I don't know what would happen if someone became fully assimilated and then died afterwards, either.
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[ She just sounds tired. ]
I was hoping there was another way but if not, I'll see things through properly.
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[aka yeah, same rules apply for now.]
... It might be a risk we can take later, but right now, things are precarious.
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... And confessing seems to be fine if we're directly asked about it? Or just when the evidence points most strongly to us? I know if we speak up any sooner, that's suspicious.
But basically, Byleth isn't viewed as someone suspicious by the world right now, right?
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[ she sure is radiating sadness and concern and fondness ]
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... You don't need to thank me for that.
[if he could just do all this himself instead of dragging other people into it, he would!! unfortunately then we would not have a murder game]
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But for as painful as it is, I would have rather known than not. I'm glad I can at least do something.
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