GRAVEYARD...... 2!

[dormheads]

graveyard

students in time out: 16

It's a little hard to wake up when the melody that drifts into your ears is so comforting that it'd be so much simpler to stay asleep. Maybe everything that you remember last - the cold seeping into your fingertips, the pain of injury, or the darkness creeping into your vision - will just be parts of a bad dream.

But it's not.

When you wake up, it's probably a little disorienting - you have to push off a blanket and rise from this nice comfortable mat on the floor. Seems like you were all curled up for nap time. Literally. The room that you're in has furniture meant for small humans, children as some might call them, and everything is soft and plush to the touch with rounded corners. Blocks with the alphabet etched onto them, coloring books and crayons, and even a rocking horse dot the room to really give it that childish charm. If you can think of a child-safe toy, it's probably in one of the baskets that line the shelves of the room!

Around the room they'll find baby monitors that broadcast the antics of the living. Hopefully that doesn't feel creepy.

There is a yard outside through the glass doors, but it currently seems to be locked - and the glass won't break no matter how hard you try. There's a large pink door that feels enormous, ten times as tall as you, on one side of the room, but there's no way through that either. At the very top, you might see a directory sign that says: TO ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.

Huh.

Well... for now, get comfortable. It looks like you might be here a while.

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[modissty]

[Who the fuck IS THIS!!! Sakyou briefly considers just pretending to be asleep for a while longer, but there is so much happening all the time and he GUESSES he can repress his feelios long enough to interact with other humans.

So he cracks his eyes open, blinking up...]

...Is it so unusual?

[headsplitter]

Ohhh! He's alive after all! I was starting to think you were gonna be asleep and not wake up until Sunday. Would be weird, but things have been all sorts of out of wack these days.

Morning. Sakyou, isn't it?

[ 'Sucks...' ]

[modissty]

Ah... Well. No, I am awake.

[Unfortunately. God where is his REST. HELLO. He gives this masked lad a scrutinizing stare for a second, but then:]

Yes - that's me. You must be Aikawa-san, then, was it?

[headsplitter]

Oho! [ Pleasant surprise! ] Bingo, glad you got it in one. Saves me the trouble of self-introduction.

Alright, time to get up. Up with you.

[modissty]

[He'll slowly ease himself upright, but he doesn't look enthused about it...]

Why? Are we doing something...?

[headsplitter]

Not particularly, though anything can happen at any time. Field trips, maybe monster geese, maybe something will finally go boom, 'cause it looks like we might get out of here soon. Good for you! Enjoy the joys of the daycare while you still can.

[modissty]

...Truly? Soon?

[HEWWO?? Sakyou hadn't been expecting that, because it's not like they're able to keep close tabs on the daycare from where they are. The last he'd heard, they'd found a train that might possibly lead to home, but...]

Is it that train?

[headsplitter]

Yeah, the train. But also, just before you guys came around, we finally got another key.

Right into the Student Records. Edit them and we might just have our ticket back to the school.

[modissty]

[THE BEAR KEYS...]

Ah - so it really is there... [Look sometimes you just doubt a lot of things because this whole place is built on mindfuckery.] --Then, we should be able to do something about it shortly?

[headsplitter]

Yep. Or we hope so, you know? That's why we're waiting a bit to think it over instead of jumping into it right on, or that's what I think is going on, anyway. Just in case!

[modissty]

[Just in case... Yeah, fair, he's nodding. The last thing they need is rushing into a decision they all regret.]

Yes, that would likely be wise... What is the idea so far? To alter the grades as the clue said...?

[headsplitter]

Alter grades for guys that died and got an F, like you. Still think that's a pretty crude joke, if you ask me. Though, you also have an A, so I guess we're figuring out what to do about that one.

As for the Expelled kids, probably change it back to Enrolled, or whatever the default state for people who are attending school's like.

[modissty]

I have an A? [He didn't see his report card, of course, so he just sounds baffled by that. WHY DOES HE HAVE AN F AND AN A... But he's definitely in agreement with it being a crude joke, if his expression is anything to go by.]

That would make sense, though. And after, with luck, it shall allow us to return...

[headsplitter]

If it makes you feel any better, Mollymauk had the same shit. So, maybe it's just a joke. A real shitty one, but I don't need to be telling you that, do I?

Too bad, you won't be able to enjoy the pleasures of our commodities here, like the mud pit or kiddie pools. Well, not for long.

[modissty]

This entire place is nothing more than a joke.

[A shitty one! But he's hit his Sakyou Says Fuck allowance of the game, so he'll leave that part unsaid. That said, with a bit of a wry air of almost-kinda-humor:]

I will say that I had hoped to find at least a moment of rest, but I suppose I will have to leave the true enjoyment of these kiddie pools and mud pits to you.

[headsplitter]

Yeah, we had our fun. [ Actually it's past tense Sakyou we already partied. ] But as fun as it is, would be better to get out of here and go back to the world at large. You're obviously on board, right?

[modissty]

[Damn can't believe he missed out on all the weed and booze.

Anyway, there's absolutely a fierce look at that, because he wants very little more than to give this story a form so he can torture it to death! Yeehaw.]

I am, yes. It would seem that there is still ample work to be done... As others have said, I won't rest until a way home for all is secured.

[headsplitter]

[ You say this but you gave meth to a NPC last game so this might be for the better.

Aikawa just shrugs -- even if his thoughts aren't so carefree. Though, granted, it's kind of hard to read his thoughts anyway. He just finger-guns with one hand, at least. ]

Now there's an attitude I can get on board with. Faaantastic, I was gonna be worried if you woke up sad instead. I'm not so good at dealing with those.

[modissty]

[STOP BEACH METH LIVES ON.

Anyway, Sakyou is sad, but Sakyou's just sad all the time so it's fine. The two things he has more of than Sad are Rage and Hate! And he shares those much easier than he shares any sort of depressos.]

I'm certain it's a difficult thing, having to receive those who have died... [The wake-up call isn't entirely the worst, but also, it is still Bad.] --But yes. I would rather put my energy toward finding a way to get our hands on this story and return every ounce of suffering that it wrought.

[headsplitter]

[ STOP BEING SAD. ]

Well. It's always gonna be sad that anyone dies, but I don't think it's that hard to 'receive' you guys here. It means you're alive still in some way. It would be way sadder if you didn't show up at all.

[modissty]

[Oh yeah wow, that's true, huh.]

...That hasn't happened, yes?

[headsplitter]

...

[ A withering thought, like static. It makes no sense. ]

Nah.

[modissty]

[There's a little bit of a frown. This is a funky thought! But it does remind him of something else...]

...May I ask you a question?

[headsplitter]

Yeah? What's it, go for it.

[modissty]

[He doesn't, like, think this is the case but...]

...You are not the person Caiman was afraid of, are you?

[The one inside of himself that he'd spoken of, in those last moments they had to talk to one another.]