05 - week five

[afflictionmods]

WEEK FIVE

Come Sunday morning, the portals around Estelline fade away, but not all of the oddities hanging around disappear so quickly. The recreations of your dreams and memories are still around, ever changing and shifting. Whatever it is that brought these things here hasn’t ended, not yet.

You don’t have time to worry about all of that, though, even if you know you should exercise caution once two of you found yourselves on the bad end of a monster’s claws. The course still isn’t over, though, even if the portals changed lesson plans. Everything continues on, with new places to explore as the fog pushes back once again. This week still feels a little more like what you’re familiar with, though, after Saturday’s lack of lessons.

...For now.


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Comments

[afflictionmods]

[He's doing his best... And it seems like a lot of the questions are about emotions, from what he can make out? Quelle surprise.]

Kyle...

[Clears his throat.]

I'm... not sure what I think about this, but I don't think my opinion matters a-all that much, sir.

[vivens]

Nice to meet you, Kyle.

[ he sure is doing his best and sabo will give him plenty of props for it. ...and really no surprise about the questions. alas. ]

You can just call me Sabo, but I think your opinion matters a lot. If you feel strongly about it then that would affect the work you do, won't it?

[ all pleasantly. ]

Say, what brought you to this kind of work?

[afflictionmods]

[Nice? To meet him]

Um...

[This wasn't how he was expecting things to go? But it's nice...]

Do you mean why I'm here or why I'm working for Camellia...?

[vivens]

[ yea?

you okay there kyle? and imagine if the interrogation never happened...but alas. ]

I imagine both of them are closely linked, but let's go with why you decided to work for Camellia. I gather that they're a pretty influential group. Must be quite impressive to work for them.

[afflictionmods]

[He is not okay, and he will only become less okay in the near future.]

Well, yes... working for Camellia, especially after college, would look great if I decide to go e-elsewhere... Plus, I mean, my family is from Estelline and I know it's a pretty small town, but... Y'know... How it can be. Er.

[It's pretty obvious he's not used to talking about himself.]

[vivens]

[ poor future kyle, and it's okay. sabo can do some leading in terms of the conversation. ]

I do, actually. I grew up in a pretty small place myself; though I don't think the prestige of getting involved with the higher ups there have the same effect here.

[ mainly because that would mean he'd have to accept being a noble and sabo would literally rather die than to have done that so. here we are. ]

If you're a native here—where are you staying? I've heard something nasty happened here a few months ago.

[afflictionmods]

I’ve been staying at Camellia… There’s some crash rooms there, so it hasn’t been too bad…

[Wait. He has work to do.]

B-but, uh, that’s really not… relevant to this survey, I think.

[vivens]

[ thank you for that information kyle. ]

Why wouldn't it be? Some of our distress has been because of the mystery of what's been going on around here.

[ you know, even if he's trying to play kyle, he's very serious about this part. ]

If we knew that the people who were once living here were safe then that'd help our emotional stability quite a bit.

[afflictionmods]

Well… I’m not sure if safe is really an accurate statement. Things are still pretty, you know. Not… great…

[…]

I think things might be getting better? Maybe? The fog is lifting and all…

[vivens]

[ not great is a polite way of putting it... ]

I've noticed that. Does Camellia have further insight into the fog or is that part of the reason why you've come to talk to us?

[afflictionmods]

Well… I don’t know, honestly? It’s been really hard to look into the fog very much because we don’t have a lot of time to actually look at it. We can’t really go out at night because those orbs make it too dangerous, but night is when the strangest things are happening…

A lot of things are beyond our control…

[vivens]

Is that so...

[ hmm. well, sabo is pretty sure kyle wouldn't be able to tell a believable lie even if costed him his life so— ]

Would you say that your situation is only marginally better than our's?

[afflictionmods]

W-well, I mean, probably not because I’m not… You have those bonds that means when someone else gets hurt you feel it? That’s probably worse even if things overall are pretty… bad?

[vivens]

[ oh? what were you going to say there kyle?? still sabo has to laugh at the mentioning of his bond. ]

It's only bad if your partner is a reckless idiot.

[ said with all of the fondness in the world. ]

Say Kyle, does the word "kiznaiver" mean anything to you?

[afflictionmods]

[🌈 happy pride 🌈]

Kiznaiver…? No, I’ve never heard of anything like that before.

[vivens]

[ 🏳️‍🌈happy!! pride!!!🏳️‍🌈 ]

I see; so that's unfamiliar to you.

My apologies, I've unintentionally asked you plenty of questions. I don't want to have you getting in trouble for anything.

[afflictionmods]

I'm... sure answering questions won't get me into any trouble?

[He sure hopes, at least! Because he's not getting paid for this!]

As long as I provide insight into this program there's nothing to worry about.

[laughtrack.wav]

[vivens]

[ kyle you suffer and for what!!! ]

If you say so, then—are we the first group that you've done this experimentation on? Or will we be a baseline for future experiments depending on the results.

[afflictionmods]

This wasn’t something my department covered so I… don’t know? The results will probably decide if there will be any future iterations of the experiment, yes, but as for if this is the first version…

[shrug!]

[vivens]

[ hmm. ]

And what is the name of the department that you work for? If you could tell me.

[afflictionmods]

Regulations? S-so, you know, I don't do a lot of... field research...

[vivens]

Mind if I ask what changed to have you come out here and speak to all of us? I can't imagine it's too comfortable for you.

[afflictionmods]

It's... fine.

[until it isn't]

I think it's just a matter of it's been a while and there hasn't been any... reports on progress...?

[vivens]

If you're not used to doing things like this, then I'd say it's pretty brave of you.

[ it's always "until it isn't"... but have some confidence! maybe? ]

Oh? Is Lorelei not sending anything back to you all? Or is this more of an independent sort of situation—if that's something you're allowed to divulge.

[afflictionmods]

W-well, I didn’t have much choice, but that’s… Um. Okay.

[Moving on!!!!]

I don’t really know many specifics because I was just sent here, but… I think it’s the latter? Maybe? Probably…?