02.50 - week two, saturday

[afflictionmods]

W2 SATURDAY

Like last Saturday, everyone will get an announcement on their tablets; this time, the announcement is preceded with a bell of some sort before Lorelei appears on the screen again.

"Good morning, everyone. This is an announcement to let you know that today's lesson will take place starting at 8:15 tonight. Again, today's lesson will be starting at 8:15. Please meet at the lower campus exit near the lecture by 8:00pm; Florence will be waiting for you there.

If you have a bag for some snacks and, perhaps, an item you can use for self-defense in the case of an emergency, please arrive with those things on you. We will provide you with an overview of what to expect when you arrive at 8pm.

Thank you."

The alert ends.

You have the day to prepare, ask each other what the hell is happening -- Florence and Lorelei do not seem to be available, strangely enough. There's a lot to take in with the information you have now. But before you know it... night falls.

FULL NAV

(CODE)

Comments

[cloudalike]

Ah - if our entire being were to be spirited away and not just our soul, there's no need for us to die before being spirited away a second time.

[ He's grateful for such thoughtful and thorough companions. ]

[escardos]

But the answer could be right there in front of us. In fact, what if this is all like the Matrix and we're sleeping in some pod?

[unenvying]

[ wei wuxian and chill do NOT go in the same sentence ]

It's not like they're going to let us go even if we don't tamper with it, since we're kind of... stuck here? Right?

[unsinksyourship]

Don’t trust the mall.

[Said in an ominous voice, but since they both Know, he also adds:]

I think I have to add about fifty don’t trusts to whatever this is, though.

[undertakings]

Of course not. The world just isn't that convenient of a place.

[iubar]

[ tbh, ace will probably do the same. but who knows what's to come. ]

Good point.

[escardos]

[ ....

anyways, ]

No, a secondary location is where kidnappers take you after they take you to the first place.

[vivens]

[ oh yeah? ]

Was this part of the lesson plan from the start? Something like this would have been nice to explain on the first day.

[unenvying]

Excellent, we're on the same page then!

[ SO HE WASN'T JUST HEARING THINGS, YOU KNOW. ]

[affligere]

Oh.

You will not be doing that.

[unsinksyourship]

No, that’s a ghost or a youkai or anyway, it’s something that wants to take you to the other side. Are we dead this time…?

[Half-muttered to himself but he just sounds annoyed about it for some reason. They’re probably not dead, but what. For how long.]

Is this bus going over some kind of weird ghost boundary??

[cloudalike]

Oh, we can cleanse the malice - [ which, in his mind, is different from saving. ] - but what kind of cleansing requires this many people - and nearly all of them unfamiliar with exorcism?

[escardos]

That's right! Let's just try to take the steering wheel from the driver or something.

[kaientai]

I don't, but maybe that thing we saw before we showed up here did that for us...? Then again, wherever we went the other day didn't involve anything weird other than waking up where we didn't belong so maybe it's the same thing...

[vivens]

[ who knows indeed. ]

Don't go collecting more bruises while we're out there.

[unsinksyourship]

H-How are planes and a bus the same…

[He has driven neither so he’s not sure if this should be a real question or not. But Flat is a questionable individual and therefore he’s questioning, thanks.]

[cloudalike]

If only it could be that easy.

[ He's tried his entire life to deal with his condition, so... ]

[magicam]

No way...!

[unluckyday]

[ Oh! That make sense, except: ]

Why wait a week to take us there?

[unluckyday]

Yeah... I don't think we can trust most things here.

[magicam]

[Excuse, you, Florence, that is, verifiably, a spooky orb and not a bus. A spooky orb promising things that sound nice, but really end up just being super unsettling when they're, you know, coming from a spooky orb that is drawing everyone in closer.

...And then it's a bus.

On the inside.

Yeah, that doesn't make it any better, so catch Cater hanging out on a bench near the back, leg bouncing anxiously as he stares out the window into the fog.

...Yeah, that's not helping.]

[catarou]

Hmm.... the ghosts that plague me every day since my birth have informed me that we are not dead.

[pr159]

[ gives a deadpan look back, just sitting here with his three knives ]

[unenvying]

Okay I am assuming that you know how to operate this contraption?

[ tori are they actually doing this i hate them ]

[affligere]

[They do(?) insist! But they seem to believe Ryouma has accepted his fate. Sorry, Ryouma.]