WEEK 5: CYOA

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[why wouldn't it be a furby is the question

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.]

[shiftingwinds]

[well



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?

[gamerbrain]

[ 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. ]

[fisherwoman]

[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.]

We should keep going, but... Are you alright?

[fergalicious]

[ 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. ]

We can keep going.

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[the vents are quiet! there's some cute lebiab action? hooray. where we going, friends, there's forward, or forward and to the right.

you can also go backwards if you want? i guess.]

[shiftingwinds]

[sqx only caught, like, part of that, thanks to their damaged hearing


but she can see well enough to keep moving so if someone in front decides which way they're going she'll follow]

[gamerbrain]

[ aoi wants to go right, but also doesn't want to speak to any of you people so she will also just take up the rear whichever way people decide.

sorry. for her. ]

[fisherwoman]

[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).]

[fergalicious]

Thanks.

[ 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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[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.]

[shiftingwinds]

[well. okay.

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.]

[gamerbrain]

[ if there's a door in this room, aoi is making a beeline for it to try and open it. if not... she'll look at the tv? ]

[fisherwoman]

[wow! she hates it!

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.]

[fergalicious]

[ Medb trusts nothing, so she also grabs scissors. Endorsi volunteered for Aoi guard duty. Great. She won't worry about that.

Anyway, yeah, who are these people? Are they recognizable? ]

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[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.]

[shiftingwinds]

[



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...

[gamerbrain]

[ 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??? ]

[fisherwoman]

[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.]

[fergalicious]

[ Her grip on the scissors turns her knuckles white when she sees the familiar faces. ]

It's an illusion meant to disorient us.

[ Her voice is cold with fury. It has to be an illusion. All the other cases of people missing like this.... seeing copies of people they know but aren't them. It has to be same. She refuses to accept otherwise.

She begins looking around the corpses(?) to see if there's anything sticking out from them outside of their bleeding and deadness. ]

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[the TV does turn on! it's sort of like turning on a program in the middle of a tornado/siren warning. it makes a very alarming sound, and shows a blue screen that reads UPDATE MINI INTEGRATED LIFE FORMS in a blinding red font. the lights in the room flicker, and in the distance there's thudding.

the paper endorsi finds seems to be another one of those grey tags. this one reads NAME OF DECEASED: DEAN WINCHESTER. the other information is scratched out, but under CAUSE OF DEATH: it reads SENT TO HELL.

medb does a look at the bodies - they're all icy and cold, but they feel pretty real. fleshlike, and a little stiff. however, when she looks at childe in particular, she finds that there's a red wire sticking out from under his shirt collar.]

[shiftingwinds]

[what the hell is that siren...

anyway, sqx sincerely hates this! the sound of thudding, in particular, also has her arming herself with a pair of scissors from the cups on the table. but once she's got that, she's going to start with yuri's corpse and check his clothing for any items he might have on his person. if she's not stopped, she'll check on the others (sans childe, since medb's handling him) too.]

[gamerbrain]

[ endorsi seems occupied so aoi is going to open up the vent.

she's not climbing in alone or anything!! she's just getting it ready for them. ]

[fisherwoman]

[she pockets the tag even as she frowns at the sudden siren and thudding - but while sqx starts with yuri, endorsi heads over to white to carefully check him over in turn, very carefully.

regardless of how fake she thinks this is, she looks furious, though she stays silent.]

[fergalicious]

[ Does having bleeding ears make the tornado siren better or worse? A mystery. That's the second item on their to do list bright on the TV screen, isn't it?

She frowns because she has no clue what that means and turns her attention back to Childe(?). I hate Childe Genshin Impact's clothes, but Medb will maneuver his stupidly tailored shirt to see where that wire goes. ]

What...?