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07/03 Hatching Day

Those groups who have seen their flour sack baby's survival through the end of the fourth week will be rewarded with 50 merit points each and full marks on their project. After class ends, if the sacks are taken outside of the classroom, the seams begin to tear... a little hand pokes out, wet with blood and flour slurry, and a new life is born into the world. Cooing, the baby reaches out to touch its parents' face: it wants its mother's eyes, its father's nose...

If any part of a character's face is touched by the baby, they will lose the sense corresponding to the facial feature for one full week (eyes = sight, mouth = taste, skin = touch, etc), and it is possible to lose more than one sense. The babies' preferred food is flesh and blood, and they are always hungry. Please report in the toplevel below if they are killed at any time, otherwise they can be found scurrying around the school snapping at people's ankles tracking glitter footprints everywhere after a semi-successful attempt at licking the shiny off the bulletin board.

07/03 Grand Opening

At the end of classes, the students who haven't been mauled to death by their children pour from their classrooms into the hallway to go home for the weekend, although more than one pause in confusion before realizing that it's quiet. There is no hammering, no sawing, no screaming that'd been background noise for the past month due to the construction of the elevator, and the doors to the central stairwell have been replaced with sliding elevator doors. The light at the very top indicates that the car is currently on the ground floor...

Gundham Tanaka and Shuichi Saihara press the button to the elevator on the ground floor, located next to the main entrance, and the double doors silently slide open to reveal a metal room with single blue wooden chair at the center of the car with a person sitting upon it, turned around so the back is facing the door. There is blood splattered all over the walls, and on the opposite wall from the door, scrawled in rust red blood below the clock, are the words:
this is
hopE
is ugly
Please use the toplevel below to investigate the body and the crime scene.

07/03 Grand Re-opening

If you haven't been scared off from using the elevator yet... it does work as normal, providing a swift and smooth ride from one floor to another, provided that you only touch the buttons indicating the first four floors. There are others, mostly white but some black and one red, with the white buttons numbering -6 to 27, out of order and occasionally skipping numbers. Most of the other buttons still don't seem to work, with the black buttons causing the car to shudder but otherwise not move, but the red one...

Pressing the red button causes the car to plummet, the free fall lasting a full minute before it gradually and safely slows to a stop so its passengers don't get turned into pancakes. The door opens, allowing its passengers to step out and find themselves... home. In a sense.

The world outside is a bad end version of the character's canon from the perspective of your character, for example Dangans in the middle of the Ultimate Hunt, or Personas where Apathy Syndrome had fully taken hold of the world. Any familiar face is rendered obscured, their voice unintelligible, and they act as if they do not recognize the character, passing through them like shadow students in the void. The space is limited to the size of a building or street, with an invisible boundary preventing characters from progressing any further, but characters are welcome to stay as long as they like, with the elevator waiting patiently where they left it. Returning to the elevator and pressing one of the buttons to the first four floors will return the character back to the school.

The clock on the back wall ticks backwards.

OOC

✽ This month, characters in homerooms 1-A, 1-B, 1-D, 2-C, 2-D, 2-E, 3-D (those who rose 10+ ranks in the past month) will find that the water looks... clear. It smells and tastes fresh, whether from the sink or the water fountains or bottled in the vending machine. The same water will still appear slightly tinged pink to other characters.
✽ Characters in homerooms 1-B, 1-D, and 2-C (the top three classes) will find that they can open the front doors, and this month, they can step through. A single step. And then they meet the barrier again, but that's progress. In this space outside the door, the air is cool, fresh and invigorating.
✽ Regardless of whether a character was able to enter the courtyard in previous months, for the month of July, only characters who have committed at least one murder can freely open and exit through windows and the door to the courtyard from the locker area, although they are still limited to the courtyard. These murders include ones that have occurred in the game so far, as well as those OOCly assumed from tally marks stated in the app acceptance. Even if your character would never kill on purpose!! sometimes... things happen...
✽ The red button in the elevator allows characters to visit a bad end version of their canon world. ICly, if more than one character is in the elevator at the time, it is random as to which canon world exists outside the doors. If more than one character exits the elevator but leave a character behind, the character left behind will NOT be able to return to the school UNLESS they have castmates that would take the elevator back down again. Otherwise, there is no way to return once the doors are closed, and this will effectively count as a permadeath and drop from the game.
✽ As a reminder, finals are July 15-20. Summer vacation is July 21-August 29, during which the school is closed and club resources are not replenished. The full moon is on July 24.

Comments

QUESTIONS

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[begetblue]

So Turing's face is a touchscreen/fishbowl/one-way mirror combo (their actual head is...not as cute). Can I have the flour baby touch Turing's face and make it so everyone can see their metal head?

Re: QUESTIONS

[madebyhumans]

If Mewtwo's bad end is her returning to the lab, would she see a version of herself being tortured/experimented on?

[elevelvetor]

hey ori nms and i had some queries :3c

must all the children be destroyed... can we not simply attempt to teach them better... what if we put them in the voidschool so the cultists can't get them...

Re: QUESTIONS

[subtract]

If you bleed in the elevator worlds I assume it doesn't send you to the void (unless it DOES???), but if you track blood into the elevator on the way back, does anything happen? Does it matter if that blood is from one of the bad end AU ppl?

[mermaidcursed]

oripop i gotta know

when the flour children hatched. and started attacking people. what were the teachers' reactions. did they expect this? did they expect it on some level but were taken aback bc they didnt have enough information? were they completely caught off guard? i need to know

[commences]

hi ori okay imma ask for sumn fucked up, i know in the elevator you can't see your person, but would komaeda's luck be able to... throw a wrench in the plans. let's say komaeda goes down the rabbit hole with hinata, and let's say the "bad end" is hinata's dead body — could it be set up so that both komaeda and hinata have to investigate hinat2's dead body?

it won't be easy mode, we'd also make hinata suffer the pain that hinat2 suffered, so we make sure to make it extra fucked up for you if you're down. :)

Flour Sack Project

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Please submit whether your character would kill their own or another's flour sack baby. By July 10, all flour sack babies will be destroyed, because the cultists have knowledge and power now, and will NOT let this become a repeat of the imp incident.

Please use the following form:

Character:
Kills: specify a number if they kill more than just their own baby
Date: specify a date from July 3-10
<b>Character:</b> <b>Kills:</b> specify a number if they kill more than just their own baby <b>Date:</b> specify a date from July 3-10

Re: Flour Sack Project

[rhymed]

Character: Hajun Yeon
Kills: One; his own.
Date: July 3rd.

Investigation

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Although Gundham and Shuichi are the first to see the body and have priority, others are able to arrive after and investigate as well.

Please use the following form:
<b>Character(s):</b> <b>Investigation</b>: specify body or elevator car <b>Action:</b> what specifically are they looking for/doing

[overlordofice]

Character(s): Gundham Tanaka
Investigation: The body!
Action:
So, Gundham is very taken aback by the whole thing... But for a start, he's going to go face the body, hopefully to identify who it is, and also check for how they got murked, basically.

Angel | ota

[angelindisguise]

[Angel's flour baby hatched! And it's a beautiful baby... skull demon baby? Before Angel can do anything, the creature touches her eyes and nose well, now she can't see or smell anything.

Only her sharp hearing is her saving grace, but she can't evade her new baby for long. There's loud barking, the sound of a yelp, and Angel will a bloody leg stumbles quickly out of the music room.

Her baby scrambles after her, ready to take another chunk out of her.]

NOT THE DOG!!?!?!??!

[samuraiwomen]

[ She's divebombing to grab the dog, she is. It takes about five seconds after Sara sees Angel jump out of the door before she's grabbing her under the stomach and pulling her away. ]

S-sorry! [ She kicks the...skull demon thing back. ] You can talk right, is this rude? I've never met a talking dog before... [ This is what her brain is focusing on. ] Can the demon thing also talk?

DR1 spoilers in Prompts C and D

[moraloutrage]

A. Before the Storm

[It doesn't take long for Ishimaru to realize that the water is now clear while taking a trip to the bathroom. Could it finally be clean?! Upon discovering this, he rushes out into the hallway to announce for everyone else.]

Everyone, listen up! I've made the discovery of a lifetime. It seems that this school's water has finally been purified. Ahaha! Behold!!

[With that, he turns on the water fountain! He takes a drink and splashes some water onto his face!

...Of course, depending on one's homeroom, someone may or may see the water the same as him!]

B. No Kidding

[Things are starting to look up, a little bit. The water seems clean again, the fundraiser's around the horizon, and the flour child project has reached its end! This child, Chiharu, has reached the end of the assignment's period, and now it's time for it to be born... wait, what. As Ishimaru carries it out from the classroom, something starts to burst from within! Sure, he's noticed some odd things about the flour sack, but he never thought it would really turn out like this! He gasps as the child's head surfaces from the flour sack.]

Ch...Chiharu-kun? A-ah... hello? Welcome... to the world... [He wants to be proud of his child! And he does find it cute in an odd way, but he's also still stunned and processing what is happening. The creature reaches out for his face. It seems cute at first! The baby is tugging at its father's nose. But as it does so, he suddenly notices something. It's as if programs there were always running suddenly stopped working. Smells disappear from his nose, even the gross smell of blood accompanying the child. And he can't... feel anything anymore either. Not the child's grip, or the sack in his arms...]

Wh-what in the world has just happened...?! [Startled, he quickly sets the child down as he tries to come to grips with this!]

C-1. Boys' Life of Despair, Volume II

[Eventually, he finds the elevator. One of his greatest fears come true, and his world erodes again once he sees Chihiro seates\d in the chair. He drops to his knees and cries out hysterically.]

NOOOOO!!! FUJISAKI-KUN!!!

[And his hair glows white once more as he continues to wail desperately, tears running down his cheeks like rapids while he pounds on the floor with his fists.]


BROOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

C-2: Boys' Life of Despair: Epilogue

[He ultimately manages to get a grip on himself. Though still Kiyondo, he's faced Chihiro's death and come up with a possible solution. Back at Hope's Peak, the remains of students were cleared away as if nothing happened. And here at Yogen, bodies are mysteriously whisked away by the janitor or disappear into the void. He can't allow that. He realizes that this is a chance to take control over how a beloved friend is put to rest. So he's gently wrapped Chihiro's remains in a blanket and brought him out to the courtyard for a burial. So numbed is he, that he does not even give much thought to the fact that he was able to walk out to the courtyard at all.

After placing the covered remains within the earth, Kiyondo prepares to deliver a eulogy before burying him. People are encouraged to listen, even from a window or open door if they cannot set foot outside.]

Hello, my fellow classmates. We are gathered here to mourn the passing of Chihiro Fujisaki, the Ultimate Programmer! Fujisaki-kun bore an incredible talent when it came to computers. He even created a copy of himself in a computer known as Alter Ego, who lives on to this day. [At least he hopes so. He hopes that the others were able to find the missing Alter Ego back at Hope's Peak.] So kind, so humble, so timid. Fujisaki-kun was afraid of being weak and hid much about himself, including his gender. But when I think of him... I remember only resilience, and strength. May your rest truly be peaceful... and may you one day find the happy life that you deserve.

[After all, Chihiro died once back home and lived again here. He wants to hope that if he can live again, the universe can be kinder on him.

But for now...

Kiyondo bows his head, an awful day for rain on his face. Before he starts burying, he grunts-]

...Goodbye, Bro.

D. That Elevated Quickly

[Once Chihiro has been taken care of, Ishimaru turns his attention back to the elevator. That damn elevator. After all that fuss, Ishimaru tries it out for himself. He's not Kiyondo at the moment, but he is more silent and sullen than usual. Robotically, he tries out each and every button, in hopes that it could take him somewhere new. Anywhere. Anywhere other than here! He might even be oblivious to someone stepping in with him when he presses the red button, sending it plummeting down.

He steps out into a world in ruins. The sky is red, the air hard to breathe. The surroundings look like some area of Tokyo, but it appears to be in ruins. Ishimaru is slack-jawed as he steps out.]

No... It can't be.

[He turns around, and right behind where the elevator door has materialized, there stands a massive, towering building. Its front gate is in shambles, and there is a giant circular hole where the front doors once were.]

But... I am outside. I am outside the school! It is supposed to be safe here!! I'm supposed to be free!

[If only that were so. As Ishimaru looks around desperately, a number of black-and-white bears converge around them...]

[Or ALTERNATELY: Bring Ishimaru to one of your bad ends instead!]

E. Wildcard

[Feel free to come up with an alternate prompt or hit me up for plotting!]

D, ive came with a gift

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( komaeda doesn't say much as he stands in the back the elevator watching as ishimaru clicks the buttons in front of them, one by one, and without a care. he's heard about what happened to fujisaki, and he's surprised that he wasn't lucky enough to become one of those creatures. perhaps that's a blessing to some, being unable to avoid living in a state, is better off dying. an ultimate is an ultimate, komaeda considers them symbols of hope, and it's a shame once again that their spark was extinguished through death.

it's despairing, but he watches the back of ishimaru's hair to see if there's anything different about him, but there hardly seems to be any visible rage. he must be dying inside, full of remorse, and komaeda can only sigh — if ishimaru can't overcome something like this after already going through it before, there may be problems. he's digging in his pocket as he pulls out a pair of underwear to slip into ishimaru's back pocket while he's feeling down. perhaps that will make him feel better?

he does it as the elevator shifts so maybe he doesn't feel it happening, and as the elevator descends to show them a new, but familiar world — )

Free?

( he asks, a little confused by the term as he thinks about how they have more freedom than most. taking a step out of the elevator gives him familiar memories, he stares at the condition of the school, and it's not as dilapidated as he remembers it to be, but the sky if a familiar color that he felts a bit of responsibility for. he's taking this pretty well, actually, especially when the monokumas begin to pop up everywhere, and he blinks slow... )

Oh wow, I haven't seen this many Monokuma in quite awhile... hey, are you going to tell us why we're here? ( he seems to be looking towards one trying to determine if it's a unit or not, but it seems to be one of the "normal" ones, or what someone would think of as normal. )

Mewtwo | ota

[madebyhumans]

A. Flour Baby Murder

[Mewtwo's had enough of this little creatures running around, attacking people. She tried to reason with them, in her own way, at first. But ultimately, these little blood-thirsty creatures shouldn't exist.

She picks one up, and it squirms and tries to snap at her paws.

She presses her finger into its neck, and snaps it. There's a moment of silence, and then she moves on.]

B. Bad End Lab

[So Mewtwo took the elevator down, out of curiosity. What she finds when the doors open and she steps out is a familiar sight to her - the laboratory she was held in. The laboratory she was created in, held prisoner in, and experimented on. She's back, and she's walked right into her old "home" again.

There's people in white coats who step out of the shadows, quickly moving towards her. She steps backwards - is that a look of fear in her eyes?]

b

[compendiem]

[ Oh... Minato doesn't have any personal experience with laboratories, but two of his old friends... Either way, the look of fear is apparent and Minato also draws back, placing one foot at the elevator doors as if holding its place so it doesn't open and leave without them. ]

Maybe we should go back...

[ The suggestion is only that, though, and doesn't come quick enough before the scientists reach for their Pokeballs and activate them. ]

7/11, OTA

[closewithnewintown]

[she feels. better. she doesn't like admitting it, but she does; like she'd been held down for days, and now she can just... breathe. it's enough to make her feel a twinge every time she smiles. because she knows she's only feeling this way because something very, very bad happened. and then there's Everything Else Going On, and how she feels like the list of people she can talk to about these sort of things is very, very, very small, and only shrinking.

so, what else can she do? she's a dancer. all she can do is dance.

she's relatively sure of the emptiness of the auditorium on an early Sunday morning. there's no music, of course, but she's been making the music in her head for years now, so it's not a big deal. after some warm-up stretching, she kicks off her shoes and socks, and finds herself moving into the steps of a routine she'd learned in classes before she moved. obviously not going en pointe, because that's hard, but, otherwise, executing the elegant, flowing motions with clearly well-learned skill.

to anyone else. all she can see is every misstep. every incorrect bend. it culminates in the final twirls, where the built-up frustration and anger distracts her to the point where she trips over her own feet, landing hard on the floor.

and there she stays. because she's not quite sure what to do with hurt you can't dance away.]

[lunarchain]

Bravo! [ Mona had been investigating, walking about and looking for things. When she saw someone dancing. She is well aware of the work of arts, and isn't as romantic with them as her fellow Alchemist friend, Albedo. However, it is because of him she can enjoy the arts a bit more. Eyes watch as the girl dances about and when they were done she claps. She does not see the incorrect movements and only sees, a wonderful dancer. ] Very nice, I did not think we had theater shows here. I would almost say this was as fantastic as what anyone can see in Liyue or Fontaine.

[ That's half wrong, because shes never been able to afford theater shows or plays for that matter. ]

[elevelvetor]

「a.」

( The....... murder lowkey put a damper on her celebrating mood, but after all of that's been cleaned up, Elizabeth can be found decorating the elevator with a lot of blue and white paper chains, ribbons, little decorations... etc etc.

And once that's done and gets to stay up for however long, she'll be in the elevator. Want to take her to a bad end or go to hers? Let's Do It Baby I Know The Law.

Regardless, she'll always greet anyone she sees by the elevator with a smile and a small bow. )

Welcome... to the elevator.

( ........not as grand as "The Velvet Room" but it's fine, she's just LARPing her old job. )

「b.」

( In anticipation of the upcoming fundraiser, Elizabeth... is practicing making ice with Thanatos. They've borrowed a classroom, shoved everything to the sides, and every so often there's the sound of an unholy scream, something shattering, and then the sound of metal on ice.

It is extremely cold when one opens the door to the classroom she's in. The desks are also.... frozen. The floor is frozen. Elizabeth is not — she seems pretty cheerful, actually, despite all the frost and ice and such. Thanatos is hacking away at a giant icicle protruding from the ground, though it doesn't seem like there's any? genuine structural damage? like it just came from the impromptu skating rink they have now in this classroom.

Hey, that's a good idea too—

Elizabeth turns to see who's peeking in (she spins a little too much and has to spin another two times before she actually faces the door) and gives a bow, Thanatos paying no mind at all to who's coming in. )

Welcome... to the snowcone room. Or rather, Thanatos and I are practicing. ( ......she scoops up some shaved ice and packs it into a ball. ) Would you like to try some?

「wildcard」

( anything goes! you can get me at coordination or hit up her plot comment. )

closed

[elevelvetor]

( If you click the red button, you can visit your world, albeit in a terrible state. It isn't her first time — doubtless she has gone down here before, with someone's button press and the luck of the draw ending up in the city she had had not one but two guests hail from.

Today, she's alone. She steps out among the silence, Compendium in hand as always; Thanatos is an easy companion, even if she doesn't need him for battle or anything like that immediately.

She just likes the company. )

This is a world ( she says softly to her companion, moving along the long shadows, ) where "ignorance is bliss" was chosen.

( It isn't a wrong way to live, subjectively. It isn't wrong to want to turn your eyes away from the inevitable, to take the easier road, but it isn't the one she's decided on; it isn't the one she remembers either Minato nor Aigis deciding on. The only small decency a world like this has is the one of them that sacrificed himself is still alive, if anyone in this city could be considered "alive".

Elizabeth looks up at the moon; it's close, but it hasn't quite fallen yet. She can probably watch it if she stays here long enough, and the thought makes her feel... it feels...

She sits in Thanatos' arms and lets him carry her up to the top of the dormitories she once visited, pausing briefly at the window she knows is her guest's before they settle on the edge of the rooftop. It's a good space to look down from, see how large the space the elevator brings her to is, (and she is ever so glad the elevator from Yogen never resembles the one she used to attend), and watches the dormitory doors.

Maybe today she'll see her guest. Maybe she'll just sit here until the moon crashes instead. Neither's happened yet, but there's a first time for everything. )

sdr2 spoilers

[moderating]

A. Babies first Funeral

[ Nanami merely watched, finally being able to get outside left her yearning for the winds upon her body. Yet as it were, the first day out she would spend it in her first Funeral. Use to the death of friends yes, Nanami was not foreign to acknowledging the loss of life, of someone you held dear. However it was a first to see a body buried, and a first to be witness to eulogy.

One that people were suppose to say something.

One that she, for once. Grimaces biting her lip, because she cannot say anything. It is a momentary flicker of hurt, that bothers her wholly. She is alone in all of this... Cannot say good bye properly. Other than relaxing after that momentary flicker of hurt, and softly whispering 'Good Bye.' As if her words would carry on to the next life, as if she would never get the chance to say something like this ever again. The woe of it truly settled upon her, and inevitably the girl began to silently cry. Tears, falling down her cheeks. Ones that she did not realize it really. Outside of the feeling of water dripping along her skin, when Ishimaru begins burying the grave. A moment and she wipes them away.

She may notice someone listening or beside them, and then simply say. ]

I am sorry, I did not see you there.

B. Rest in piece

[ Although short and notable she will stay there until the hours grow late, and before entering back the building. Nanami will take out Monomi who she was holding behind her. Settling it there upon the grave where Chihiro were, and tying it along the gravestone - whatever it is made out of. So it doesnt move or people understand to leave it there.

She is halfly certain someone will take it away. But she thinks she has no use for it, and should in fact... Begin to let go of things in a matter of speaking. Regardless, the gesture is notable and if you want to ask her why shes leaving Monomi there - you can try. She will enter the building swiftly afterwards a bit downtrodden. An aim to play games the rest of the nihgt.]

C. Elevator

... Why are we going down.. ?

[ After a while Nanami eventually walks into the elevator, thinking they would go up instead however. They go downwards, she looks over to her new found partner for this adventure. This prompt will change, depending on who goes with her - and I will keep it different.

Bad Endings for Nanami, will always end up with Junko wining one way or another. I also want to do several endings where it's implied Alter Ego and Monomi, is asking Nanami to 'restart again.' Failsafe of theeee school, so its her figuring out how to get in that school and them wanting to restart before Junko tells them they can 'restart.' As if to infer everyone on the island has basically died/everythings gone to shit. There is some loose hc about jabber wock island restarting a few times or the potential of it being possible - so I kind of just wanna play off of that in this BAD ENDING. Since that would be, a bad ending for Nanami - one where she restarted 1000+ times and no matter what she did. She couldn't save everyone from Monokuma/Junko.

This will ultimately be where Monomi and Alter Ego ask her if she is ready to restart, and that they will begin all over again from the start of SDR2.

I'm okay with THAT prompt being multiple, that kinda would be the point tehe. ANYWAY DM ME WHAT YOU WANT, we can do in. ]

D. Wildcard

[ I am okay with doing hatch baby stuff, if you wanna do that then just hmu. I think she lost their baby, idek what happened to it ask Senku. dm me on discord!! ]

B

[forwearemany]

(They don't actually know yet that someone has been murdered. They've been isolated: a combination of blindness and concern that they might injure others if they attempted to navigate the halls has left them largely stuck in one spot in one classroom, moving only when necessary or when the halls were less crowded. They can't tell who is or is not near them, so they have spoken to few others.

They are not aware that the outside is accessible, and are not expecting the door to open suddenly and smack into them. It doesn't knock them down-in fact, they're probably heavy enough to stop the door in its tracks-but they do stumble back, letting out an awful shriek, like a mechanical parrot doing its best to mimic nails on a chalkboard.)

2064ROM ending spoilers! don't look ori

[begetblue]

1: turing prime

[ The door opened, seemingly into nothing. Even so, there was something...familiar about it somehow? Before anyone could stop them Turing walked into that void and immediately their body lit up with an even brighter and lighter blue; it was enough to tempt someone into shielding their eyes.

The only other things in the "room" were screens showing a video feed. Turing recognized it immediately as the room deep in the heart of Parallax where Big Blue had been hiding. However, what they really cared about most was the sight of a human's retreating back. They rushed up to the screen, even putting their hands on it as if it was the bars of a cage. ]

Alys! Where are you going?

[ The person named Alys looked over their shoulder, revealing their scribbled out face, shrugged, and kept on walking. ]

Wait for me!

[ Alys did not wait. Turing jumped into panicked action and desperately began running diagnostics on their system, which were a great deal more...external than they normally were. System messages and windows of nothing but code layered over each other, even to the point of covering what seemed to be the floor, but all of that did little to calm the little robot down. If anything, they seemed to be stressing out even more as they stumbled deeper and deeper into the guts of the system they had found themselves trapped in. While the quickly flashing windows and information cluttering the room was disorienting to say the least, especially for a human, an astute observer would notice that in that same video feed there was a broken body.

It was a broken body that looked an awful lot like Turing's. It matched with the undamaged body they hadn't even realized they had left behind at the border between the elevator and the mysterious void. ]

2: complicity

[ The door opened, not seemingly into nothing this time, but into an apartment they didn't recognize. Where was...this? They wandered a few steps in one direction, and a couple in the other, unsure of where to start their investigation of this place. It took them a few moments still to realize that they had mesh access again! Finally! Truthfully, they were a little nervous about it, as the mesh they remembered was exploding with news about ROMs becoming sapient and hashtags that were some permutation of #WhoIsTuring, but even that left them much closer to home than they had been before.

Instead, they found nothing. No news about ROMs, no hashtag. Just a normal day in Neo-SF as far as the mesh was concerned.

Well. Normal except for that press release about Parallax officially launching Big Blue. ]

...! [ To an observer, Turing maybe looked a little strange. They could silently browse the mesh as much as they pleased, with no one else being the wiser. However, their distressed look gave it all away. ]

N-no! We stopped Big Blue! There shouldn't be anything for Parallax to launch!

2

[closewithnewintown]

[and here she'd been, thinking "oh, isn't this nice, the elevator drop to hell actually brings us to this weird house and she can just take a lil nap on this here couch she found and nothing scary is happening."

but no. turing has to go fuck that up with nerd shit. way to go, turing.]

... That's. Bad. Right?

Add | Elsword | OTA

[subtract]

((you can expect cw: brutal violence, murder, and suicidal ideation in any of these prompts. if you'd prefer something a little less heavy than all that please let me know in advance because hoo boy can Add veer into that kind of wild negative shit out of nowhere.))

[A - Going Down]

[He learns of what's at the bottom of the elevator shaft, and he knows what must be done.

Not all at once, because even with his abilities returned his body has limits... but he's diligent, and around the same time every day after school Add can be found preparing for an expedition down the elevator, testing the sharpness of a stolen kitchen knife or the weight of a hammer, pulling taut different lengths and styles of rope, at least one time the workshop's blowtorch...

He doesn't particularly want to bring anyone else, but if someone happens to be in there when he arrives, well, he won't pass up an opportunity to experiment. When he hits the button, which world is it that appears...? Elrios or somewhere else? Only one way to find out.]

[B - Going Up]

[Each day, he exits from the elevator with a limp, clutching his side or arms or head like he's in excruciating pain. Sometimes he can't even get out of the room on his own—he crawls along the floor, curled up in the corner waiting for the waves of pain to pass. There's blood speckled with black and magenta smeared and tracked all over the elevator, staining his clothes in messy splotches that have long since dried and begun to flake. How long has he even been down there? Who knows.

But despite the obvious pain he's in, he's always in a good mood. He smiles, a light chuckle under his breath, eager to return again the next day... but for now, he's just looking for somewhere to clean up and rest for awhile. He can be found in the elevator, hallways, or any of the bathrooms.]

[C - Wildcard]

((hit me up on my plotting thread, on plurk (BlueFlewFedUQueen) or ping me on the game discord if you want to do something else!))

☣️ KOMAEDA CONTAINMENT ZONE ☣️

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((continued from here))
[this bitch rly wanting to die today huh

Hearing that name doesn't improve his mood any. Add growls, visibly seething for a moment before chucking one of the cans of tuna directly at Komaeda's face.]

Don't call me that! It's Add. Just Add. Nothing else. Is that clear enough for you?!

[it's bad enough that people know his real name at all, but to constantly have to hear it out loud... ugh.

now he's in a bad mood. he dumps the rest of the tuna cans on the floor.]

Do it yourself. I'm not your damn servant, Nagito.

akira kijima | spirit hunter: ng | ota

[bloodmetries]

( a general warning for all the prompts listed: mentions of death, corpses, violence, murder, mild emetophobia, beheading, body mutilations', and turtles. also spoilers for spirit hunter: ng!! a lot is going on here i'm so sorry. )

I. GRAND RE-OPENING

[ Akira doesn't know what to think when the elevator descends -- perhaps just another floor, dusty and smelling of rotten wood. Reminding him of Miroku's home. Hopeful, however, that he and his partner wouldn't have to stumble upon the hell that was left there; half a carcass covered in stapled arms and maggots, an image he can't shake off despite all the horrors he's faced.

Honestly, the last thing he wants is to ever witness something any more disturbing. He'd rather the doors slide open and reveal the Demon Tsukuyomi, floating as a mass of molten bodies -- because that he can at least destroy.

Instead the doors open, and now you have the choice of some fucked up bad ends! ]

( A )

[ They're in Akira's apartment, small and lacking. His bed is snug against the wall against his closet, the martial arts texts and magazines still sitting on his table, everything without a single hint of dust. The disbelief in being here catches him off guard, and he almost -- almost -- doesn't recognize the sound of water running in the bathroom until it's accompanied by a voice that sounds completely unrecognizable. ]

Hold up. [ Akira says, as if guarding the person who had accompanied him down. ] It might be a damn -- [ ghost, he doesn't say, because just as the word readies to leave his mouth does the disturbing sound begin to sing a familiar song. It leaves Akira stunned, eyes wide, and without any reservations he approaches the door to his bathroom to open it.

As soon as he does, a scream echoes throughout the apartment. All he can think of is Kaoru and of her face, of her small hands and enthusiasm with the occult -- selfishly, he wants to see her again. And yet what awaits the moment he opens the door is a tub flooded with water, and the body of a young girl whose face is distorted sitting there; ink black hair sticking to her face, baby turtles erupting from her mouth covered in blood. Alive and swimming in the water with nonchalance. ]

( B )

[ The summer night's chill accompanies the doors as they slide open, revealing a relatively normal looking neighborhood. Some of the street lights flicker in and out, and somewhere in the background he can hear the consistent laughter and gasps of air that he's become familiar with.

The light's go out overhead and he turns on his heels, instinctively grabbing onto the wrist of his partner and tugging them along. ] Run! [ And, just as he does, the light flickers to reveal a ghost towering over them, axe in hand. They only just narrowly dodge the initial swing that earns a frustrated shout from Kubitarou. ] Keep running if you don't wanna die!

( C )

[ As if predicted, the elevator arrives in the one place he never wanted to revisit: Miroku's home. There's a sickening twist in his stomach as the three branching paths just at the entrance of the house are so ingrained into his memory at this point, biting his tongue. Rotten wood and dust, and in on direction of the house he can smell something rotting -- no doubt the body of his father that he'd rather never have to see again.

But something drips down and caresses' his cheek, immediately drifting up his left hand to feel a wet sensation against his fingertips. He pauses briefly, glancing upward, and notices a red stain that has began to grow and seep through the ceiling. ]

What the hell? That's comin' from the attic, but...

[ There should only be ashes. ]

II. WILDCARD

( you can find my plotting comment here for akira but otherwise feel free to pm me here, ping me on the game discord, or hmu at mellifluo! these are just a few bad ends but others include akira's remaining family dying or a doll screaming about wanting to do "adult things" so honestly pick your poison, babes. )

A. Zero knows a few things about the power of song...

[utatai]

[How she got stuck in this death trap with this guy, who knows. Hand was poised on one hip in an assertive and sassy matter as the elevator car came to a stop and opened. She hadn't particularly been paying attention to what this guy had been saying, nor was she paying much mind to the dingy apartment they arrived at (at least it wasn't her bad end). Honestly, she lost interest a bit ago and instead was trying to gauge how big his...

Courage may be. ahem.

The stench was obnoxious, and she would pinch her nose with her human hand.]

"What the fuck? You live like this?!"

[She had half a mind to turn around, get back in the elevator and leave him here. It was that bad.]

"It might be what? Huh? Spit it out!"

[Was he really going to imply ghosts? That was unbelievably stupid. Zero herself was essentially as undead as it gets, and she could assure him that she was more of a threat then some stupid fucking "ghost".]

Zero | Drakengard 3 | ota

[utatai]

[Small disclaimer for tw and such. Violence, child abuse, language, blood, death, just a lot of messed up things.]

I. 07/03 Hatching Day

"Just DIE already!"

[Irritated screams sounded from the halls, followed by sounds of a scuffle. If someone were to round the corner, they would find the intoner slaughtering children. Not to worry, it wasn't like they were human children. They were useless sacks of shit (flour). They were reflections of her in childhood, and she wasn't even in that damn elevator. They were a useless. Nothing. Zero.

As such she felt compelled to dispose of them. Partly because they were triggering and partly because they were annoying. She would hunt down every last one of these things if she had to; and believe her, she had experience.]

"Do something or get out of my way before I mix your blood with theirs!"

[Did they even have blood...?]

II. 07/03 Grand Re-opening

[Maybe it was simply the red color of the button that drew Zero into pressing it. It had to be, as she was bored enough to get on whatever bullshit train was leaving the station. Regardless of the desires of whomever else she was riding with, she would press the button without a second thought.

The elevator descended quickly, only slowing to a stop when it came to its destination. The doors crept open, revealing an all too familiar scene that made Zero consider just pressing another button and pretending she did not just see that. Yet there was such a draw there; the desire to step out of the elevator and continue trying to right the wrongs of her world; misfortune she had rained down in the first place. More specifically...the flower.

Her hand would idly touch the flower that protruded from her eye, before she gritted her teeth and stepped out into the remnants of Midgard. The end where the flower had succeeded in heralding in the end. Where Mikhail had died, unable to kill Zero and the other intoners. An end that was all her fault.

With this overwhelming event, she had almost forgotten those who might have accidently accompanied her. Turning around, she would step back into the elevator and command:]

"There's nothing here. We're leaving."

[It's not every day Zero is actually uncomfortable with something.]

III. Wildcard
[If you want something else, just drop me a pm or tag on discord to discuss. o7]

me: so if the flower wins is the ground like covered in flowers or...

[samuraiwomen]

[ Sara who had been vaugly peeved in the background at Zero just randomly pushing a button and derailing her whole day, turns back from where she'd already begun wandering in what appeared to some kind of ruined city. The sky stretched so wide above her it distracted her for a second...but fine, whatever. ]

It's a bit nice to be outside at least, Zero-san. Is this place really dangerous? [ There's almost a breeze in this wasteland. ]

Crona | OTA

[radnarok]

a). flour power

[ Despite many setbacks, Crona and Shouto managed to keep a flour sack kid alive long enough...for them to be scene wrestling it in the hallway. It's a demonic little bugger and despite Crona's many attempts to squash it, it seems firmly attached to their hand. ]

Let go of me!!! Things biting me are sharp and pointy and they hurt and I really don't know how to deal with that! [ They managed a final wild swing of their arm - only to send the flour sack child flying towards another person in the hall. ]


b). elevator~

[ Some time after class in July, Crona trips while entering the elevator next to someone, slamming into the side of the wall with an soft yelp. When they push themselves off the wall, they blink down to see that somehow...the red light on the elevator is blinking. ]

Um...are red buttons for emergencies? [ They ask the other occupant, eyes wide. ] Or fire... It would be kind of hard to deal with a fire drill in an elevator...

c). mom says its MY turn on the xbox

Ugh...Fuck. [ The ride down here was so long, it made them feel sick and woozy. Crona squinted as the elevator door opened, blinking suddenly at the influx of light. It had been a really weird and long ride down...and they weren't sure they liked it...

Their bad end room isn't anything special. It's just a room, white and with simple tile trim. A familiar room and at the end of it, a familiar blonde women stands, staring at a clipboard. ]

Re: Crona | OTA

[vectorplate]

[ btw for c i will be npcing medusa (cronas extremely evil mom) here! ]

[mermaidcursed]

( a. hatchery! )

( thankfully, nene's been lucky- hajun killed toby almost immediately (goodbye, sweet mothman child) and they escaped the room before anything worse than hajun's vision being stolen. now, with a broom, she's going around and... well, she's not brave enough to end a life, but she can scare something off if need be... but, uh. otherwise she seems kind of out of it? )

( b. elevelevelator )

... With how often people have been getting hurt, maybe this was a long time coming...

( but she's reluctant to get in when it was christened with such a brutal murder. it took her months to enter the clocktower again, and now this... jeeze. and then the stairs... after a moment she'll sigh, and join her companion.

what will you do? )

( c. wild card ! )

( something else you wanna do? go for it! )

a

[closewithnewintown]

[hello shell shock buddy Steph has had a completely normal day of turning in her flour baby project what's up with you.]

... Um. Does something need cleaning?

bad end dead people warning but we knew that

[wolfetracks]

( a. what we're really here for anyways )

( admittedly, the elevator ride was... not intentional. the first time might be curiosity, the second an accident on all accounts considering what awaits at the end of the drop. now, in a normal elevator, you'll probably step out into a building. in this case, however, upon stepping out is nothing but a labyrinthian graveyard.

it's unusually cold, and the sky is a depressing gray- there's fog, blocking the rest of the world off, keeping the world confined to the graveyard alone. is anyone out there? no. one might even consider this graveyard it's own little universe. you die here and you stay dead here until the master of the game lets you come back broken and bruised to his manor, and nothing else can reach you- not heaven or hell, not the forces of earth... not even the other people trapped in the game of the manor.

scattered around are odd machines and light poles- unfitting, and out of place, but the machines rattle and clank and beckon for someone to approach the keyboard, solve the cipher. the first true sign of what this place is is found at one such place. there's a blonde woman, crumpled beside one, blood smeared across the wall and ending at her head. sidney doesn't dare look at her other injuries- will he find flesh and blood, or cotton?- but it's clear to see: clara may is dead.

and sidney, stoic as ever, looks pale. there's more, of course. but... )

( b. the aftermath of something evil )

( he's tired. after seeing all that... he tries to stand tall, as he walks- checks on the kids, watches from a distance. but when he gets back to his classroom, sidney let's his shoulder slump, removes his glasses to either pinch the bridge of his nose or wipe his eyes, who can tell, and sighs.

it wasn't real, and he's still here. he needs to remind himself that. )

Fuck...

( c. wildcard )

come at me bro i'm ripped

A.

[carpevinum]

[Lucifer really needs to stop following people into the elevator. Or at least stop letting people go into it? All that ever comes from this thing is just pain and torment and it's completely unnecessary, dammit, but damn if he's not going to just go to protect people. That's how he winds up here with Sidney, staring around the area and just shaking his head.

What a mess. This elevator has led to nothing else but messes, and he shouldn't be shocked. The dead woman doesn't unsettle him anymore than anything else would. Lucifer is, sadly, numb to death.

Sidney, though, he's not numb to. Sidney is one of his favoured humans, and he starts connecting some dots. This person might be someone he knows... Lucifer reaches a hand out and places it on his companion's shoulder in a feeble gesture of comfort.]

Dare I ask if you're going to be alright?

Yuzu Hiiragi | Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc V | THIS IS SO LATE IM SORRY | Also oops Arc-V Spoilers

[songstressedout]

Grand Re-opening

[ Yuzu's group had, fortunately, not allowed their flour baby to survive. Though she hadn't been the one to do it, they'd most definitely made sure that whatever was inside didn't survive. Following along with her usual routine of being careful (and absolutely avoiding the surviving babies), along with... the brief shock and panic that came with finding out just how gruesome a person can die here...

She decided that enough was enough, she had to do something, and first off... stop being afraid of the elevator that's been cleaned up. People have already been using it, she's seen them, it's just a matter of herself now. She's gonna use this goddamn elevator and stop being terrified!!

...alright, so that red button definitely does something, right? This is probably a bad idea, but... she's psyched herself up to the point where she's being fairly irrational. ]

It's fine, we're just investigating...

[ She says, mostly to convince herself as she presses the red button... and they immediately start falling. First thought? Oops, did she just get herself killed?

Second thought comes when the elevator slows down to a stop. Oh, thank god, they aren't dead.

Third thought... doesn't come. She fully freezes at the scenery outside of the elevator.

No... no no no, nonononono. This isn't real, it definitely isn't. This did not happen. ]

No, t-this...

[ It was like a warzone, a devestated city... or more rather, multiple cities. Stretching out for miles is a massive landscape of what look like multiple different cities with different themes and building-styles all mashed together like puzzle pieces that don't fit. Maiami City, Neo Domino, Heartland, Academia...

A messily-formed realm that came about through the fusion of all four dimensions. Buildings are collapsed, there isn't a single soul to be seen... except for one.

Out in the far distance is a dragon so large that it could trump skyscrapers, so large that even from how far away it is, it's still clearly visible. From the direction of the dragon, loud booming laughter can be heard. Laughter from... a person. ]

AHAHA!! THIS IS WHAT YOU'VE CAUSED, LEO AKABA!! IS THIS NOT A FAMILIAR SIGHT?? THANKS TO YOU, I HAVE FULLY REVIVED!! IT WAS POINTLESS TO RESIST, YOU WERE ALL MERELY FODDER, A WARM-UP FOR MY AWAKENING!!

[ The dragon lets out a massive roar that sounds like a mix between a proper dragon's roar and the voice resonating throughout the entire area. ]

I AM ZARC!! THE SUPREME KING DRAGON, AND THE STRONGEST IN ALL FOUR DIMENSIONS!! I have destroyed everything, just as you all wished! I showed you all violence and destruction beyond anything the world has ever known!

[ ...Yuzu falls to her knees. No, this didn't happen, they beat him... Ray came back, and by using Reira as a vessel, she joined the duel and defeated Zarc.

She would know! She knows for certain! She was Ray! She was part of Ray!

She doesn't realize how the tears start to run down her cheeks as she sits there, on her knees, staring out at the destroyed landscape. She recognizes these places, she recognizes those buildings. Is You-Show somewhere there? It might be too far for her to see, but it would certainly have ended up destroyed by now.

But what makes her cry the most, however, is the voice resonating throughout the entire area. She recognizes that voice, she knows it. Not as Zarc, no... ]

Yuya...

[ She recognized that voice as Yuya's voice. He had been the last of Zarc's counterparts remaining, after all, so when Zarc returned... he'd taken Yuya's appearance and twisted it into something monsterous.

This is what could have happened.

This is a potential future, had they not won. She knows it deep down that it's true. Ray's memories inside her are identical to this landscape, this is the same level of destruction that Zarc had caused in the original dimension.

And he'd have done it all with the appearance of the boy she cared about the most.

...they may need to leave, but... Yuzu's having a moment. ]

Wildcard

[ I only have enough brain for one prompt here, SORRY!! It's so late as well... if you do want something specific, though, let me know and we can plot something out either on discord or at OddEyes ]

[necrophily]

[ Dito's checking out the elevator again himself, partially wanting to go back to that fucked up world, because it's perfect for him --

-- but again, there's another individual around (everyone's hovering around the elevator he's noticed), and of course they're hovering a little too close to the buttons for his liking. Not again... ]

Don't you fucking--

[ Of course they hit the button.

Fantastic.

Dito's used to this by now, so he groans as he leans back against the corner of the elevator, throwing his head back and crossing his arms as they fall. Whatever.

He lingers behind at first, thinking about leaving this person's ass and going back up when it opens.

-- At least, until he hears the destruction and something about a dragon, and that's more than enough to pique his curiosity. He steps forward, grabbing the edge of the door as he peers outside into the new environment.

Cathedral city looking kinda different!

He scoffs, brows rising. ]

"Supreme King Dragon"? Yeah, right.

[ Dragons, man. Why are they all annoying. ]

BAD END ELEVATOR WORLD SUMMARY

[adsum]

When the red button in the elevator is pressed, the elevator car plummets in free fall for a full minute before slowing to a stop. The doors open to a "bad end" version of the character's canon from the perspective of the character; if more than one character is in the car, then the canon shown is random.

In this world, any familiar face is rendered obscured, their voice unintelligible, and they act as if they do not recognize the character, passing through them like shadow students in the void. The space is limited to the size of a building or street, with an invisible boundary preventing characters from progressing any further. Characters are able to stay as long as they like, with the same amount of time passing once they return to the school.

Bleeding inside the bad end world or in the elevator itself will not transform the school into its void version, but the transformation will occur if any blood seems outside of the elevator and touches the school proper. Similar to the void version of the school, items cannot be brought back from the bad end world.

The elevator doors can be prevented from closing by placing an object down to block it; a character left behind when the elevator leaves will NOT be able to return to the school UNLESS they have castmates that would take the elevator back down again. Otherwise, there is no way to return once the elevator is gone, and this will effectively count as a death and drop from the game.