[SEASONALITY] WEEK 5: TOWN HALL ROUND 2

[ambiography]

[the mingle post is so dangerously close to captcha and i have GOT to remember to turn notifs off for this post. anyway.

everyone will get this message early thursday morning, after the little investigation lucretia and kon have gone on!]

Please meet in the same classroom as before. I believe we have more to discuss.

[and in that classroom, they will find a series of notes written up on the board! everyone is free to look these over, take their own notes, so on.

lucretia is sitting on top of the desk in this room. one arm's still in a sling, her voice still sounds terrible. she has purple streaks in her hair now though and it's cute i just needed you to know.]

All right. So-- I spoke with Sieghart yesterday, and we only had a couple of minutes to speak, but... this is what I was able to get. Some of the things we need to know, they weren't fully aware of either, and some of the questions... he needed to dodge, I think. We couldn't get very direct answers on some of this. I worked in as many of the questions I was given as I could, I compiled some notes as you can see here, but if you have further questions... I'll do my best to answer. Let's see if this helps with anything.

Additionally-- Kon, go ahead and tell them what happened this morning. That's going to give us... some idea of where to go too, I think, but it's not going to be great.

[

she pushes a pen holder off the desk, where it clatters to the floor and pens spill out, then just stares down at it like why did i do this. fuck.

anyway, discuss.]

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WHO AM I?

[refate]

[ kon is here to take it away, on that! but he has his phone out and is reading from it, instead of his usual notebook, considering the urgency of it. he's taped taped something up behind him, and per the mods - please note that some parts of the image are transparent, and those transparent spots are empty. ]

Earlier this morning, Lucretia and I were in the southeastern part of campus when there was just - a voice, a little garbled and hard to identify as any one person or gender. Writing materialized while it spoke, like an omnipresent TTS function. Apparently that path we were on is the way Lucretia took for her visit to the daycare? [ looks to lucretia for confirmation; gets it, then continues. ] The voice is likely the same that the dead have encountered.

"WHO AM I?" was the first thing it said. When asked if it was the world or the person behind all this, its answer was "NO PERSON. NO ENEMY WAS WRITTEN. ONE HAS TO BE MADE. THE STORY NEEDS AN ENDING."

"A STORY NEEDS A VILLAIN. A CONCLUSION. A CLIMAX. HATE A LITTLE MORE. OR YOU'LL BE WRITTEN TO STAY HERE FOREVER."

Upon being informed that we sort of hated whatever entity it was... Well. "HATE ME..? THEN... IF I NEED TO BE SOMEONE, TO HAVE A BODY, I WILL TAKE THEM."

Then we found this - [ gestures back at the new hint. ] An unfinished story has a will to end itself. Makes me think we were talking to the story itself.

[ he taps his phone against his chin when he finishes, charm folded between it and his hand so that it's not dangling. ]

So, here's what we're not going to do? We're not going to immediately assign villain to anybody in a panic or kneejerk reaction. [ so help him god he'll veto any attempts to assign villain to killers or people you don't like. ] We're also not going to blindly follow suggestions or approve or suggest volunteers for things - talking first, then decisions.

[ so, discuss away.



... kon does use his foot to push the results of lucretia's cat behavior under the desk, though, so no one steps on anything. ]

[ambiography]

I'd especially like to point out that as far as I gathered from that meeting, we do not need to kill those who have killed here, even those who have already been compelled, so-- don't start anything there. Just don't. What we are also not going to do is kill anyone in a panic this weekend over what this voice said.

[nooo assuming it's the voice's fault immediately, whatever happens.]

[refate]

We're not entertaining any of this right now. At all. We can theorize, but we're not here to fearmonger or start anything.

[ town hall is going to be CIVIL and we are not going to KILL PEOPLE for MORE STUPID REASONS than have already happened. ]

[katzepaw]

Riku suggested to me that if we didn't try to catch them, this place might start to get antagonistic. That may be what prompted, uhm, 'hate a little more.'

[feytality]

[ maya has a face like she's considering volunteering herself but doesnt actually say anything. no yells ]

I mean, this is a story, right? Can't we find some kind of way to make up a villain? Or the villain is the story itself?

[ ok princess tutu ]

[ambiography]

...it feels like we might be a little late for that, now. But we could try.

[goalsides]

[...hm. this makes him uncomfortable for like 60 reasons.]

Guess that's why the papers said "finish the story" huh. So my question is...what then, is this story going to go around and start checking out potential hosts? If it wants us to hate a little more, that kinda sounds like things are about to get even worse.

[foreversweaterweather]

Isn't it kinda doing that already, though?

[ambiography]

I have the feeling it was always going to get worse, but-- whether we can stop this is another question. We can always attempt to find a way, but it... may be set, after what it told us.

[momming]

[ She listens to this info. She looks at the notes.

She goes to headbutt a wall vigorously?? And after one good whack with bleeding forehead-- ]

We need to figure out who it might target.

[feytality]

D-Doctor?!

[ what the heck ]

[ambiography]

[just. gently wiping off the blood, are you good, otome.]

It's going to be hard to say. We could look at previous patterns, but evaluating what it might want the most out of this could be our best shot at determining it.

Unless it decides to act completely counter to that just to fuck with us, which, frankly-- not out of the question.

[ghoststrums]

It'll go for someone that'll draw hatred, but that could either mean someone it thinks is disliked enough for it or someone well-liked enough we'd hate it the most. And the latter is...

[ honestly it's a lot of people they're a good group ]

[selfestheim]

[ ...

hands her a paw patrol bandaid? ]

[headmt]

[Woah there.]

You alright?

[txt]

... "I will take them," eh? Sounds like we might have a body snatcher problem soon, if mot already.

[ambiography]

...so far, what we heard about was people just-- being influenced, as far as I can tell. It sounds like this is going to be a different situation, if we can't head it off somehow.

[foreversweaterweather]

What if we prove them wrong? We don't need a villain, if we befriend them instead!

[steelo]

[ hmmmm ichiro's got a thunderously angry expression on his face, mouth pulled into a scowl, arms folded. ]

...Do you think "them" might be the Dorm Heads?

[ not thinking that they were the villains - but rather, that whatever this is needs a "body". ]

[overlimit]

So, that hint... is there a reason that it kind of looks like a photograph?

Is that just to convey that we have no clear image of who our "villain" is...?

Or could it have something to do with that unexplained photo we all received when we got here?

[feytality]

[ lucretia is a very ic cat, while maya is thinking hard about this, also about what kon said.... ]

Do you think... if someone's getting possessed to do the killing, that's the story's way of trying to force a villain?

[illuminance]

It's hard to hate someone who's only being forced into their actions by another...

[branches]

... If we're not supposed to kill the killers, that might be it. It might be we need them alive to keep killing so they can become a real villain?

[FROWNING DEEPLY AT THIS IDEA.]

[godcards]

[ he's trying not to laugh. it's awkward. ]

If the story can't create a villain... what if there's someone here who doesn't need to be compelled to kill? A villain of their own making.

[shaft]

Could explain some of the antagonistic extra credit assignments too. And the whole dorm wars set up.