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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: (1.)

CHAD (?)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-07-05 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's here if you have any questions.]
momming: (Our president is an idiot and a liar)

[personal profile] momming 2021-07-05 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She goes straight to him because-- ]

Hugo?
inaccordant: (5. dawn)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-07-05 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Thankfully, yes. That's who I am.
momming: (Meet me at the scary isolated phone)

[personal profile] momming 2021-07-05 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Did this also happen yesterday? It's a pleasure to meet you properly.
illuminance: (pic#14839868)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-07-05 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ hmm. after overhearing otome's question! ]

A pleasure to meet you, I think?

Do you know if the information in our lockers is true? That "A random person can be compelled to murder on Thursday night without any warning whatsoever."
inaccordant: (8. hydrangea)

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

I'd had momentary breakthroughs before, but this is the longest it's lasted.
inaccordant: (22. art. neutral)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-07-05 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
... I don't know anything concrete about that. But based off things I've heard from people, it's a likely theory for what happened to Sieghart.
momming: (Is it the Manischewitz again?)

[personal profile] momming 2021-07-05 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I would... really like to avoid someone from Summer unless that's absolutely necessary. And definitely not Alphinaud.
momming: (I'm still poor and flat-chested)

[personal profile] momming 2021-07-05 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
That's promising, I think...

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?
illuminance: (pic#14839904)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-07-05 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ lux doesn't say anything, but gives a tense nod. she doesn't want to volunteer anyone from her dorm, but understands the situation too well to argue against it.

the other two are younger than ichinose. and fall dorm hasn't lost many. ]
illuminance: (pic#14839877)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-07-05 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I see. Thank you, that's... Good to know.

Though it doesn't change anything, for us.
inaccordant: (22. art. neutral)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-07-05 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
If finding the principal's keys is what will allow them to return, I wouldn't be surprised if the keys are on their side, leaving it up to them.

[...]

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.
inaccordant: (7. hope2)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-07-05 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
... Unfortunately, no. And Byleth isn't in a good position now, either.
illuminance: (pic#14839923)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-07-05 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
... I don't want her to become a back-up vote if we catch no one else, and I don't want her targeted herself. We'll just do what we can.

It doesn't mean she isn't in danger, but she is well liked. That works to our favor.
inaccordant: (22. art. neutral)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-07-05 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. We'll see how this week goes, I suppose.
momming: (Our president is an idiot and a liar)

[personal profile] momming 2021-07-05 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
... And there's still that risk of harm coming to others if we tell anyone else beyond our recruitment choice, I have to assume.

[ She just sounds tired. ]

I was hoping there was another way but if not, I'll see things through properly.
inaccordant: (7. hope2)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-07-05 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry.

[aka yeah, same rules apply for now.]

... It might be a risk we can take later, but right now, things are precarious.
momming: (This is some trippy shit homes)

[personal profile] momming 2021-07-05 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I understand. I don't want to put anyone else in harm's way, if there's even the slightest chance.
illuminance: (pic#14839920)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-07-05 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
We have no option but to keep lighting the way.
inaccordant: (7. hope2)

[personal profile] inaccordant 2021-07-05 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Light in the darkness, huh?
illuminance: (pic#14839974)

[personal profile] illuminance 2021-07-05 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Always!

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