WEEK 5 CYOA - CROW, AIKAWA, RUPERT, BRADLEY

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[wtfox]

[bonjour, everyone!

no, literally. bonjour. not that anyone will recognize the city they've suddenly found themselves in, although the school they find themselves at the bottom of the steps of might look familiar depending on which memories you got from lila during memshare week (don't make me go check, please).

the streets are almost eerily empty because this show doesn't have the budget to populate them. huh! but, hey, at least you guys are outside, and not trapped in a daycare center!

where to first?]

[battling]

[He does remember that school, the steps of them, at the very least.

At this point he's really sick of school though, so he turns away from it and starts... walking off to explore... bye!]

[chevaliered]

[ bye bradley. crow isn't going to stop him. instead he's just looking up at the building in front of him and... well. around at the nearby area. ]

This doesn't look like the Daycare. You don't, uh... think whatever makes people vanish back on campus works where we are too...?

[heartlands]

—Stop!

[that's said immediately to bradley because he's worried about the same thing crow is.]

If that is what's going on, then we really need to stay together. Everyone got really messed up when I went on mine and we got split up, so... Let's decide where we want to go together, okay?

[headsplitter]

[ Oh. Aikawa's out here, turning his head to and fro, humming. ]

New location opening up early? But I don't remember an announcement or anything.

Oi Bradley, don't go fucking off on your own to explore.

[wtfox]

[the school building stands there. the streets stay empty.

but hey, you've got a whole city to explore! where do you wanna go? you'll get a "mod"tag again once you guys commit to going somewhere.]

[battling]

Gettin' split in mine didn't hurt anybody.

[But fine, he will wait at the edge of the sidewalk.]

I'm sick of dealin' with schools. If we're in Little Miss's memories, I want to go somewhere there ain't a school.

[chevaliered]

We can figure out what works as we go along. We might not get much choice, depending on what happens.

[ hmmmm. ] I hate to say that I think the fact we ended up right here outside the school itself suggests we should look around, but we can always file that and check back later.

If not the school, then what about that huge tower just over there?

[heartlands]

That's cool! But literally everyone in mine came back bleeding or very, very bruised when we all reunited, so we should be careful. We don't have vouchers here, so we can't help ourselves if... [........] Oh, wow, we can't heal ourselves if anything goes wrong. That's... a problem! I feel like that's going to be a problem. Wow.

[it is not emotion share week anymore but you don't need that to detect his Stress. anyways.]

I'm - fine with anywhere, as long as we don't split up.

[headsplitter]

Wow! [ Just parrots Rupe about this. But he points at the tower. ]

Alright, thataway it is! [ He has no complaints about this apparently, since he very idly (AND WITH SOME MORE PROPER SNACKS THANKS CAFE AND KITCHEN) wanders off that way. ]

[wtfox]

[onward to the eiffel tower!

realistically, it should take them a long time to get there. but this is miraculous ladybug paris, where everything is within easy reach, and also a weird cyoa dimension, so they're able to walk there. it's fine. everything is fine.

(everything is not fine. as they get closer and closer to the tower, each one of them will start to feel an overwhelming negative feeling. it starts off slowly at first - perhaps as an uneasy feeling in the pit of their stomachs, or a brief flash of irritation, or the like - but the closer they get to the tower, the stronger that feeling becomes.)]

[battling]

[Easy walking distance: Yay

Bad vibes: Nay

As they start approaching it, he'll stop and turn back to the others.]

Are ya feelin' that?

[chevaliered]

I still have a healing power from when I was on campus. I think. If I can still use it.

[ ... ] I only had enough time to upgrade it a little though, so try not to lose an arm or anything.

[ wow they be real tourists now. look at them go. shame he doesn't feel so excited about it! ]

... Mm. Not great, huh?

[heartlands]

Nobody is losing an arm!

[but he pauses in step, blinking, before he nods to bradley. given what he's feeling...]

Is this - maybe it's some kind of sign we're doing the wrong thing? Maybe we should go back to the school after all.

[headsplitter]

...

[ Jesus. He's not liking that already, stuttering to a brref pause and holding his hand close to his chest.

Mm. ]

What about the opposite way. Maybe stuff with bad vibes means answers.

[wtfox]

[wow! who knows what the bad vibes could mean!

if they're pausing, the vibes just stay as they are for now. will they continue on toward the tower or head back to the school?]

[battling]

[He'll stay exactly where he is for a moment.]

Mask's right. If we keep goin' this way, we'll figure somethin' out.

Could back off t' see if the feelin' goes away.

Which one?

[chevaliered]

I mean, I hope not. I can only heal one person, if it's still working.

[ ... ]

Easiest thing would be to move just a street away and see if it changes. But either way, we have to keep going in some direction.

[ ... hmm. well. he's going to keep walking forward for the moment, just a little to see if the feeling continues to intensify. also, is there anything changing in the scenery around them? or does everything just look normal? ]

[heartlands]

You know that figuring something out in these things is usually incredibly unpleasant, right...

[SIGH. but he's hesitating for a second, before:]

Don't - go too far, okay? I'll be back in a second.

[because he's going to take a few steps back towards the school to see if the feeling dissipates at all. he'll be back in one second unless britt kills me immediately.]

[headsplitter]

Nope. Never been here before or on any of these wack adventures so we're all bowing to your wisdom, Rupert.

Also, Mask? Super derivative. I told you masks are normal where I come from.

[ He will actually take a step back with Rupert, though. He actually doesn't want to be feeling these things. ]

[wtfox]

[a car drives by and smacks right into rupert, sending him flying into the side of the eiffel tower.






no, i'm kidding. as crow steps closer to the tower, the vibes intensify. as rupert and aikawa step away, they lessen. nothing changes for bradley, who is standing still.]

[battling]

[RIPert part 2]

Bein' totally blind to whatever the fuck is happening goes even worse.

[Addressed to Rupert, who is not dead yet.]

Listen, if ya pull the mask off, maybe you'll get a better nickname.

[he will not.]

So? How're ya doin'?

[chevaliered]

[ byepert. byeeeeeeeeeeepert. ]

...

[ crow just inhales sharply through his nose. there's something very cold, and dark and dead in his eyes when he glances over at the group. ]

Bad, actually.

[heartlands]

...It got better when I started walking away.

[a beat, and a sigh.]

Look, I cannot think of a bigger warning sign than bad feelings suddenly starting when we go in a specific direction, can we please go back to the school?

[that said, he'll agree if the others want to go towards the tower.]

[headsplitter]

Same here. To both of these things.

[ He appears to have completely ignored Bradley. ]

Hey, if there's nothing important at the school, we can try again, right...