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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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[ just. ]
Iris doesn't seem to know—it must be difficult for them as well. [ to see their own die for apparently no reason. ] And for you as well.
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[and then they repurposed it into a murder group instead, whoops.]
... There are others you should be focusing on.
[does dimitri get the sense he has had this conversation with hugo before]
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anyway this is every conversation he has ever had with hugo in a nutshell. ]
We have time to care for more than a single thing. Besides, I can only hear you say that so many times before I grow concerned.
[ nice week is over but he's remembered how to be a normal not-hobo person sometimes. ]
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[ :/ ]
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[ :\ ]
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You might be even more stubborn than a man who slept outside for weeks.
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i keep forgetting it's emotionshare week but dimitri is getting first and foremost exasperation.]
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Oh come now, considering the situation, we should rely on one another.
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there's a shift of unease, before it's killed off.]
The four of you have each other. That's what matters.
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...If you say so.
[ stubborn. ]
I have not been here with you long, but I presume you haven't had any luck finding a... cure to this assimilation besides death?
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... I'm sorry.
[that's a no]
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anyway, his sadness is palpable at this, but there's no surprise. ]
...We will find another way as soon as we can. [ he says with blind confidence, because it has to be true. ]
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[ he hates it here! wow. ]
It feels as though we are always on the defensive right now, but if we learn more about this place... hopefully we can strike at the heart.
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