WEEK 5 CYOA - CROW, AIKAWA, RUPERT, BRADLEY

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[wtfox]

[bradley pulls crow away from the butterfly! it flutters harmlessly in the air for a moment before turning and flying toward him again. it's in hot pursuit!

...

but as they all move away from the tower and to the school, the bad vibes lessen, and then vanish entirely as they get in front of the school building again. once the bad vibes vanish, the butterfly gets bored of the chase and flutters away.

they are now on the street in front of the school. steps lead up to the closed doors. what now, my dudes.]

[battling]

[Sighs. It's time for school again, my dudes.

If they're already here... Bradley will let go of Crow and start heading up the stairs.]

Might as well explore before we head back.

[chevaliered]

[ no keep holding his hand we've been too het this game we have to sort the balance.

anyway. ]

...

[ well crow looks a little less like he has murdereyes right now, so that's good? that's good. ]

Sure. We can figure out a way to avoid the shit out of those butterflies too, if we're going back there.

[heartlands]

[nodding! and then he'll follow bradley up the steps and through the door, unless it's locked. i trust nothing.]

Yeah. If we do have to go back, maybe we can at least find something we can use here.

[headsplitter]

[ Yeah guys hold hands it'll be good for you. ]

Those butterflies ring a bell for you?

[ And yeah, Aikawa is gonna give the doors a push here too. Maybe even a knock! ]

[wtfox]

[the doors are not locked! they swing open almost eagerly to welcome these students(?) into the school's courtyard.



also they'll immediately notice, as they step through the doorway, that the bad vibes are back. they're mild at first, but the further into the courtyard they go, the stronger they become. uh-oh.]

[battling]

Ain't good news.

[He steps into the courtyard.

HE CLOSES HIS EYES SO HARD.]

Aight. It's all shit.

[chevaliered]

Kinda makes you think it's a sign of there being something worth looking at in each location, or something like that.

[ hm. ]

What do the butterflies actually do then, if there's a chance we're going to be running into them no matter what?

[heartlands]

[as soon as he realizes the feelings are back, he just. stops in the middle of this courtyard and groans. it's fine.]

Fine. Fine! We can't have good things, I get it.

[headsplitter]

[ ...He wheezes a little, and sighs heavily. Reaching up to adjust the cap on his head. ]

Well, shit. We can't just dick around out there until day falls... if we're gonna have to be stuck here, we might as well get something out of it, right?

[ Fuck. Alright, he's walking in first. How's the hallway looking, and how are we feeling? ]

[wtfox]

[you're feeling pretty damn bad, actually! which is to say: as aikawa progresses into the hallway, where he can catch glimpses of some students dutifully at work in their classroom through the windows, his bad feelings get more and more intense.

that'll be the case for the others if they try to catch up to him, too, but if they just stay where they are in the courtyard they don't get any better or worse.




well, they'll also see a blackish-purplish sheened butterfly flutter past them in pursuit of aikawa.]

[battling]

It's... Somethin' about a Hawkmoth. Prays on your negative emotions and amplifies them. Makes ya feel like the only way you get what ya want is through listenin' to it.

[This is the summary he remembers from twoish weeks ago.]

[chevaliered]

... [ hm! bad! ]

So, this Hawkmoth thing is, what. Everywhere? We saw one over by the tower and now here too?

[ -- oh, right. ]

Careful Aikawa, it seems pretty fond of you.

[heartlands]

[once he hears that name—]

Wait - are we in Lila's world...?

[he saw her memories, but nothing with this school or the tower in it. either way, he's looking alarmed at the butterfly! and the intensifying feelings.]

Are we sure this isn't... I mean, are we sure we're doing the right thing?

[headsplitter]

[ Jesus. ]

Alright, so don't listen to them, right...? That's the moral here?

...Dunno what else we're supposed to do here, Rupert. Not a whole lot of options for us.

[ He already sounds audibly unwilling and exhausted by the idea of it, and also these emotions, but.

...

If a butterfly comes too close to him, he'll attempt to snatch it out of the air. ]

[wtfox]

[that


that sure is a choice, aikawa.

anyway. when he snatches the butterfly out of the air, it seems to be absorbed into his glove. (is he wearing a glove? his icon looks like he's wearing a glove but i can't tell. if he's not wearing a glove it's absorbed into his knife or whatever.) there's a glowing purple light that takes the form of the outline of a butterfly that forms over his face - almost like a mask - and then he'll hear a voice in his head...]

You, there... I am Hawkmoth. You don't want to be trapped in that atrocious daycare forever, do you...? I can give you the power to escape from it, and to bring everyone out of there with you. I'll just need you to do one thing for me in return... bring me the Miraculouses.

[also there's the faint sound of butterfly wings flapping in the distance... hmmm... any of you who are experiencing stronger bad vibes because you got closer better watch out...]

[battling]

[He has not moved forward because now he's just watching whatever the fuck is going to happen to Aikawa.]

[chevaliered]

[ ohhhhh my god ]

Why did he grab the butterfly? Seriously—

[heartlands]

Ohhh, don’t like this!

[to aikawa:]

You good...?

[headsplitter]

[ Hey. Don't look at him. Sometimes the easiest way to crush an annoying gnat is to... well, crush it. Obviously wasn't so hot of an idea, though.

He holds his head. Oh no, not this bullshit again. ]

Ugh -- what the hell... get out of my head...! [ And he's ABOUT to get angrier, except, well. No, there are more pressing questions. ]

If you -- if you touch a butterfly, you're gonna get weird voices in your head. So if it wasn't obvious enough to probably not touch one, you know!

[ But he breathes. Okay. What next? ]

...Who are you? The hell is the Miraculouses?

[ Said as if it's a singular thing because Miraculouses is just too much of a word. ]

[wtfox]

[back in his lair, hawkmoth's eye twitches. also, he does not get out of aikawa's head. in fact, the mask-shaped light around his face just glows a little brighter.]

Oh, I'm not going anywhere... I'm here to help you, after all. We can help each other. With the Miraculouses, we can achieve anything. I'll get what I want, and I can give you whatever you want.

[a pause, and then - ]

I can even make it so that once this is over, the only voice you'll ever hear in your head again is your own. Wouldn't it be nice to be completely your own person...?

[flap flap, go the sound of butterfly wings in the distance... quick question, of the remaining three, which of them is closest to aikawa?]

[battling]

Uh... Are ya good?

[Aikawa clearly is not.

Bradley's still in the courtyard.]

[chevaliered]

[ well, aikawa seems to be having a crisis but it's also his own ding dang fault, so crow's gonna peer in a few classrooms while he tell whatever mysterious asshole is controlling the butterflies where to get off. ]

As long as he keeps telling the voice to take a hike, he should be fine.

[heartlands]

[well. unfortunately, rupert is way too nice, so when he sees aikawa holding his head he's going to step towards him, concerned.]

Hey - maybe if you don't talk to it, it'll go away? Does it hurt at all...?

[to crow:]

Don't wander off too far—

[headsplitter]

[ Wow he's not having a crisis YET. Thanks guys. Real bro team that he's got here. He's scrunching his nose under his mask, just so you know. That being said, he quiets and stills when McDramatic Silverface moves onto the next thing. For a moment, he's silent.

Fuck... it's a thought that makes him pause, but shake his head slightly. That's way too good to be true for some weird butterfly hallucination to give him.

'...Can you hear this? I don't gotta ask everything out loud, do I?' A quiet thought to himself. He immediately feels a little bit dumb for trying this but the alternative is talking to himself like a madman. Inb4 Britt tells me no he has to argue with him out loud. ]

...Yeah. I'm fine... keep scoping the place, I guess. Think I'll keep looking around the hallways...

[ Rupert you're so nice. Hawkmoth be nice to our twinkboss please. ]