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(ROLE) CULT 6.0
cult.
On Monday at 10 PM, Luxanna, Dimitri, Manwol, and Ichiro 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.
As of Week 5, the fog machine has been turned off.
As of Week 6, all of the junk has been shoved to a corner so that Manwol can put whatever she wants in the room. This is just Manwol's free room now, apparently.
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.
As of Week 5, the fog machine has been turned off.
As of Week 6, all of the junk has been shoved to a corner so that Manwol can put whatever she wants in the room. This is just Manwol's free room now, apparently.
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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nu is this the voice thing or]
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Anything you've heard of?
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You mentioned that the world itself could be readying itself to attack us before we can graduate. Is this something along those lines?
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The original story, about a school setting, was cancelled. The world, story, whatever you want to call it—it didn't want to leave itself unfinished, so it brought everyone here. Then, it started the assimilation process. Likely to make it easier to control people and weave a new plot, whether it already had one in mind or it intended to improvise.
When Kaoruko killed Hiyori, the story didn't look into her motivations. Instead, it went along with her surface actions because murder made the plot more "interesting". If it wasn't already planning on murderous elements, then it probably started thinking of the compelled kills around that time.
[should kaoruko and i have done things differently? ... it's too late for that now, either way.]
... But when people suspected what was going on, and then the real motivations behind the non-compelled deaths came to light, the story realized that this wasn't headed in the direction it wanted—that there was, in fact, no antagonist. That's why it's doubling down on creating one now, as it feels that it won't have a satisfying resolution without one.
And if it can't have that, then it'll do what it can to keep us here and assimilate us, so that it can at least have a neverending story.
[those are his theories, in any case.]
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That does make sense with all that you've posited to us before. Our killings came first, and it did not know our motivations, so it mimicked our actions somewhat blindly for 'drama.'
[ The way the story lashed out at them when Otome gave a sliver of truth out, because they had been discovered. The way it is lashing out now. It seems right. ]
So it's possible that, in order to reach graduation and escape, we will need to satisfy its craving for resolution... If we can complete the story, then this world would have no logical reason to keep us here, correct?
But I do not think the people here are willing to make enemies of each other. Even when we have been unable to confirm our motivations, people have started showing reluctance and guilt in sentencing us.
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[...]
If you're not willing to, then it sounds like it's planning on forcing it.
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[ we are worried about you. ]
Do you think the clues we've been receiving are pointing towards a way we can defeat it? I know there has been talk of this 'plot hole,' but I have heard various interpretations. That the world itself is the plot hole, that the plot hole is the lack of villains, or perhaps the lack of resolution itself.
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... I think it's a little bit of everything. The fact that the story went unfinished and didn't have a proper plot probably created the plot hole—a sentient will of the story.
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everyone in this room has. but that won't drive them off. ]
So that is what we're facing...
[ can't they just get this show cancelled, damn ]
I want to believe that we can make an enemy of this story itself. That it doesn't have to mean making villains or heroes of one another. [ even if he's been ready to play the villain, these last few weeks. ] I do not know that even if we were to kill each other in earnest, it would be with enough maliciousness to be labeled villains. But the story itself doesn't have a title, an identity, or a body...? Do you think there is a way we can do that, without losing one of our own?
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...Hm.
And if we do not act, it will likely possess someone to be the villain on its own. [ gauging from the last run-in they had. ] If that happens, can we still... save them?
[ like the people in daycare? ]
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Then do you suppose by its talk of heroes and villains it wants us to die? [ us as in the cat cult. ] It seems to have failed to vilify us so far, so I do not know that attempting to do so now would solve anything.
[ but it's a possibility, so he's open to talking about it. ]
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So, you're right in that trying to create villains out of you wouldn't solve much at this point, especially if the dead manage to fix their transcripts and return.
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I do not want to think about killing the 'heroes' of this story. Or that you and the other dorm heads might be at risk of possession.
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You might not want to think about it, but it could still end up as a possibility. Better to prepare yourself for that, rather than avert your eyes from it.