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๐Ÿป ([personal profile] dormheads) wrote2021-07-05 02:32 pm
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(ROLE) CULT 4.0

cult.


On Monday at 10 PM, Otome, Byleth, Luxanna, and Dimitri 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.

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:
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 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.

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 Week 3, 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: (4. light ahead)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-07-05 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[...]

There's magic I learned, but in terms of more innate powers...

[he holds out a hand, as glowing light forms before it, as if he's casting a spell without actually finishing it. i don't know how to describe this but in terms of elements, it's dark-type. wow opposite of lux]
illuminance: (pic#14839903)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-07-05 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she just looks enthralled! neat!!!!! lux loves magic ]

Oh! Opposites!
inaccordant: (8. hydrangea)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-07-05 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[i'm going to be honest cola they don't know it but hugo and lux have similar lore]

... Ah, yes, I suppose.

[he's just ??? but if it makes lux happy, then,]
illuminance: (pic#14839974)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-07-05 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ amazing

anyway lux will waste her magic for the day by summoning her own little ball of light. ]


Do you get more back when people give you vouchers?
inaccordant: (7. hope2)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-07-05 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
As far as I've noticed, vouchers haven't been affecting that. But I have some back, at least, so I can't complain much.
illuminance: (pic#14839863)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-07-05 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, alright. Then I'll save mine for Riku, after all.
inaccordant: (1.)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-07-05 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
He'd probably be offended if you gave your vouchers to anyone else, in any case.
illuminance: (pic#14839919)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-07-05 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Offended? No, I don't think so.
inaccordant: (10. exasperated)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-07-05 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you sure?
illuminance: (pic#14839864)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-07-05 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
He always seems so kind that I can't imagine him getting offended over my desire to help someone.
inaccordant: (1.)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-07-05 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
He is rather competitive, though. But you would know him best.
illuminance: (pic#14839863)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-07-05 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Competitive - really?

I don't think I know him that well.
inaccordant: (8. hydrangea)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-07-05 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I've really only spoken to "Luke", not who he actually is.

But if they're anything alike in that regard, he's not fond of what he perceives as losing in a competition.
illuminance: (pic#14839864)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-07-05 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Nobody likes losing. But you're probably right.