[for those playing along at home, none of these losers got above a ten.
there's another thud. endorsi's light goes out. silence, for a long, long moment, and then the dinky little flashlight on endorsi's phone comes back on - and there's a monster, curled right in front of her. a monster with, uh. a fun and inviting face. the beak opens, and it shrieks, warbling and awful, and all four girls feel an intense pain in their ears as the noise rattles around in the vents. their hearing is now damaged.
the monster snaps forward and tries to take a bite out of endorsi, claws out and raking at her. the rest of the girls are right behind endorsi so it's likely they're not safe for long.]
[wow i wish i could be surprised that you gave us a furby monster
anyway, sqx puts her hands over her ears at first - ouch! - and then backs up rapidly, trying to block aoi in case the monster gets closer and bringing one of her hands down to tug medb back. hopefully medb will grab endorsi??]
anyway there is not much aoi can do from back here. i assume the vents are not big enough for her to push her way past anyone, so she's just - wincing and holding her head. ]
[she’s been tensed, ready to move, and as soon as she sees the creature, she starts to move back - but there isn’t much room to maneuver with everyone else right there, and the horrible noise stops her before she can move more than an inch, anyways. she’s thrown off enough by the sudden pain in her ears that she doesn’t dodge as effectively as she wants to - the bite sinks into her shoulder and the claws sink into her side, but she’s immediately trying to shove it off, aiming to dig out one of its eyes with her hand.
more than anything, she’s trying to make sure it doesn’t move past her, but the intense pain in her shoulder means she can’t hold it back as effectively as she’d like (because i, eli, support equal opportunity maiming for everyone). as this happens, though, to the others:]
Go back into the room! At least we’ll have more room to fight it there if it follows!
[can they even hear her clearly anymore? a mystery.]
[ unfortunately, the sharp pain and damaged hearing only serves to anger medb, and while she appreciates sqx's gesture, she shakes it off and motions for her to keep moving back.
With her ears ringing and the limited mobility from being in a vent, she can't do this with as much force as she wants, but she lifts the skull she took and tries to smash it against the furby's head over endorsi's shoulder - the opposite side that endorsi is trying to damage. ]
with a successful bite and claw, the monster tries its luck with taking a bite out of medb too! a second furby beak shoots out of the main one, aliens style, and tries to rip a piece off her. ear? a chunk of her shoulder? ara gets to decide.
however, endorsi fights back - she claws at the eye, and it's very much a real eye, actually? it feels that way, it's not hard plastic. between that and medb smacking the skull against the monster's face, it's finding that what it thought was its dinner is not going to be as easy to get at. it makes a sound like... well, like batteries in a furby toy dying, actually, and then skitters backwards and away. the vents rattle as it escapes further into the dark, leaving the four girls with bleeding ears and flickering light.]
shi qingxuan grits her teeth, torn between trying to keep herself between aoi and the monster and wanting to yeet in there to help. endorsi and medb get it to back off, though, and as it skitters away, she slowly brings her hands back up to her ears.
[ aoi is just looking up ahead to see how the others are faring.
the last instructions she (thinks she?) heard were to back up, but she doesn't want to - especially now that the monster has been fought off. for now. ]
[She can vaguely hear what SQX says, but it's too muffled to really make out. The bite isn't great, but the jacket did stop it from being even worse - and similarly, the long scratches in her abdomen look Nasty, but not life threatening. As the creature skitters away again:]
I just got this dress...
[Being without her normal level of strength in this specific situation is actually fucking with her, so she has to focus on something that doesn't matter at all (Endorsi please). At least nobody can hear her awful priorities! But after that moment passes, she's immediately turning to medb to assess her damage, concerned.]
[ it takes a piece of her ear because it’s time to ruin her beauty. ☆
alien style, though. hate that. she lets out a small scream when that happens, jolting back. sorry again, sqx! she’s livid for two seconds after the pain flares and throbs and she holds a hand up to her super extra bleeding ear. ]
It’s gone. [ she thinks that’s what was asked. ] I’m pissed more than anything. [ she’s doing her best to ignore most of the pain. ] I’ll be fine once we all get out of here.
[ she brushes her unbloodied fingers against endorsi’s cheek in appreciation for her concern. ]
[she heard most of that, probably, and she smiles at the contact. after a moment, she’s tearing some fabric off the new dress (the part that isn’t bloodied already) and hand it to medb.]
To stop the bleeding.
[she turns back, deliberating, before she starts down the path that veers right (unless anyone objects).]
[off they go to the right! this - seems to be the right direction, because there's light coming from the end of the vent. they keep going, until they find themselves in a vent facing a conference room.
there's a long table, with several chairs on either side, as well as a TV screen on the far wall. there are also several cups along the table, filled with things like scissors and pencils and pens. on the floor is a big rug with a zig-ziggy design on it. oh, and probably most importantly, there are eight people in the chairs, slumped over the table.]
first things first, once they see those slumped-over people, sqx is heading right on over to take a closer look at them. what do they look like? do they seem injured? if she listens, does it sound like they're breathing? if not - do they have a pulse? she'll grab the wrist of one of them and check for a pulse if she can't hear any breathing.]
before anything else, she's grabbing a pair of scissors in case they get attacked out of nowhere by something else. but then... while sqx checks to see if they're alive, endorsi is giving each person a quick glance to see exactly who they are.
but when she notices aoi:]
—Stick close to us.
[she doesn't trust this room and she Will protect the noodle.]
[there's a door, but it's also jammed. there's a vent across the room from where they came in, though!
when endorsi goes for the scissors, she sees a little piece of paper sticking out of where the pencils are being held.
as for the bodies... well. none of them are breathing.
sqx grabs the wrist of the closest one, and might be startled to realize that she recognizes who it is. there's no pulse, and his skin is cold, and a little blue. across from him, facedown on the table is another familiar face. next to him is a redhead, slumped in his seat with his chin on his chest. next to the redhead is a woman, staring lifelessly up at the ceiling.
the other four bodies are hard to look at. not because they're in terrible shape, but just because they seem... out of focus. it's impossible to tell who they are, or what they look like. for now, anyway.
either way, all of them are sluggishly bleeding from their eyes, ears and noses, and are very, very dead.]
literally all of the color drains out of sqx's face as she recognizes these people, and she bites down on her lip to keep herself from shrieking. it's not real. it can't be real, right? this is... they just woke up here. usually it's just four of them who go missing. this can't be, it isn't -
[ aoi is somehow not panicking. she is headed over to check out the tv though and see if it turns on. just ignoring that endorsi has to babysit her, sorry.
she's a little mumble-y because she can't quite figure out her own volume with her ears as they are, but: ]
Maybe they're... Like the ones in the tubes.
[ if nothing else, being from a game means aoi has decent pattern recognition, and this. is not how deaths usually work here????? shE HOPES??? ]
[there are a few corpses (?) that make her expression shutter, but—]
White...?
[for a second, she looks like she's going to reach out to him, but it's not real. it's not real, she reminds herself. she - has to believe it's not real. she pulls out the piece of paper and looks at it, forcing herself to look away from him.]
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laughs in terrible dice rolls ]
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there's another thud. endorsi's light goes out. silence, for a long, long moment, and then the dinky little flashlight on endorsi's phone comes back on - and there's a monster, curled right in front of her. a monster with, uh. a fun and inviting face. the beak opens, and it shrieks, warbling and awful, and all four girls feel an intense pain in their ears as the noise rattles around in the vents. their hearing is now damaged.
the monster snaps forward and tries to take a bite out of endorsi, claws out and raking at her. the rest of the girls are right behind endorsi so it's likely they're not safe for long.]
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anyway, sqx puts her hands over her ears at first - ouch! - and then backs up rapidly, trying to block aoi in case the monster gets closer and bringing one of her hands down to tug medb back. hopefully medb will grab endorsi??]
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anyway there is not much aoi can do from back here. i assume the vents are not big enough for her to push her way past anyone, so she's just - wincing and holding her head. ]
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more than anything, she’s trying to make sure it doesn’t move past her, but the intense pain in her shoulder means she can’t hold it back as effectively as she’d like (because i, eli, support equal opportunity maiming for everyone). as this happens, though, to the others:]
Go back into the room! At least we’ll have more room to fight it there if it follows!
[can they even hear her clearly anymore? a mystery.]
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With her ears ringing and the limited mobility from being in a vent, she can't do this with as much force as she wants, but she lifts the skull she took and tries to smash it against the furby's head over endorsi's shoulder - the opposite side that endorsi is trying to damage. ]
How dare you, you fursuit freakshow!
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with a successful bite and claw, the monster tries its luck with taking a bite out of medb too! a second furby beak shoots out of the main one, aliens style, and tries to rip a piece off her. ear? a chunk of her shoulder? ara gets to decide.
however, endorsi fights back - she claws at the eye, and it's very much a real eye, actually? it feels that way, it's not hard plastic. between that and medb smacking the skull against the monster's face, it's finding that what it thought was its dinner is not going to be as easy to get at. it makes a sound like... well, like batteries in a furby toy dying, actually, and then skitters backwards and away. the vents rattle as it escapes further into the dark, leaving the four girls with bleeding ears and flickering light.]
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that's unpleasant.
shi qingxuan grits her teeth, torn between trying to keep herself between aoi and the monster and wanting to yeet in there to help. endorsi and medb get it to back off, though, and as it skitters away, she slowly brings her hands back up to her ears.
blood. disgusting.]
Are you two okay...? Is it gone?
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the last instructions she (thinks she?) heard were to back up, but she doesn't want to - especially now that the monster has been fought off. for now. ]
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I just got this dress...
[Being without her normal level of strength in this specific situation is actually fucking with her, so she has to focus on something that doesn't matter at all (Endorsi please). At least nobody can hear her awful priorities! But after that moment passes, she's immediately turning to medb to assess her damage, concerned.]
We should keep going, but... Are you alright?
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alien style, though. hate that. she lets out a small scream when that happens, jolting back. sorry again, sqx! she’s livid for two seconds after the pain flares and throbs and she holds a hand up to her super extra bleeding ear. ]
It’s gone. [ she thinks that’s what was asked. ] I’m pissed more than anything. [ she’s doing her best to ignore most of the pain. ] I’ll be fine once we all get out of here.
[ she brushes her unbloodied fingers against endorsi’s cheek in appreciation for her concern. ]
We can keep going.
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you can also go backwards if you want? i guess.]
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but she can see well enough to keep moving so if someone in front decides which way they're going she'll follow]
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sorry. for her. ]
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To stop the bleeding.
[she turns back, deliberating, before she starts down the path that veers right (unless anyone objects).]
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[ she takes the fabric and tries to staunch what bleeding she can.
forward right sounds (haha) good! pretty sure that’s where the furby came from but why would medb remember that? ]
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there's a long table, with several chairs on either side, as well as a TV screen on the far wall. there are also several cups along the table, filled with things like scissors and pencils and pens. on the floor is a big rug with a zig-ziggy design on it. oh, and probably most importantly, there are eight people in the chairs, slumped over the table.]
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first things first, once they see those slumped-over people, sqx is heading right on over to take a closer look at them. what do they look like? do they seem injured? if she listens, does it sound like they're breathing? if not - do they have a pulse? she'll grab the wrist of one of them and check for a pulse if she can't hear any breathing.]
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before anything else, she's grabbing a pair of scissors in case they get attacked out of nowhere by something else. but then... while sqx checks to see if they're alive, endorsi is giving each person a quick glance to see exactly who they are.
but when she notices aoi:]
—Stick close to us.
[she doesn't trust this room and she Will protect the noodle.]
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Anyway, yeah, who are these people? Are they recognizable? ]
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when endorsi goes for the scissors, she sees a little piece of paper sticking out of where the pencils are being held.
as for the bodies... well. none of them are breathing.
sqx grabs the wrist of the closest one, and might be startled to realize that she recognizes who it is. there's no pulse, and his skin is cold, and a little blue. across from him, facedown on the table is another familiar face. next to him is a redhead, slumped in his seat with his chin on his chest. next to the redhead is a woman, staring lifelessly up at the ceiling.
the other four bodies are hard to look at. not because they're in terrible shape, but just because they seem... out of focus. it's impossible to tell who they are, or what they look like. for now, anyway.
either way, all of them are sluggishly bleeding from their eyes, ears and noses, and are very, very dead.]
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oh bad.
literally all of the color drains out of sqx's face as she recognizes these people, and she bites down on her lip to keep herself from shrieking. it's not real. it can't be real, right? this is... they just woke up here. usually it's just four of them who go missing. this can't be, it isn't -
it's hard not to panic.]
What...
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she's a little mumble-y because she can't quite figure out her own volume with her ears as they are, but: ]
Maybe they're... Like the ones in the tubes.
[ if nothing else, being from a game means aoi has decent pattern recognition, and this. is not how deaths usually work here????? shE HOPES??? ]
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White...?
[for a second, she looks like she's going to reach out to him, but it's not real. it's not real, she reminds herself. she - has to believe it's not real. she pulls out the piece of paper and looks at it, forcing herself to look away from him.]
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