give your friends a surprise

[closewithnewintown]

Who: EVERYONE
What: FAMILY MEETING
When: 8/4, right after school closes.
Where: Student council room
Warnings: Eventually, probably.

["If my friends back home were acting like this, I would've already locked them in a room and forced them to figure out their feelings."

the job puts all of her considerable superspy skills to the test. she knows where every normal kid's locker is; it's easy enough to slip the note into each that morning. if it's someone who she knows would be unable to read the note, she tells them its contents, but keeps her own involvement out of it. lies of omission don't count.

the note reads:]

I have very important information about this place. Please come to the student council room after school ends today.

- Nao Sato

[and if the text looks just a bit girlier than you'd think she'd write, hey, you don't know her. she's got layers.

either way, it's a pretty interesting proposition: the student council room door is, for the first time in seemingly ever, wide open. anyone can walk inside - and, hopefully, most everyone should. because it's only when Stephanie thinks that she's got enough of them inside that she actually enters the room, shutting the door behind her.

click.

it locks. she grins, spins the key on her finger, and slips it into her pocket.

"How are you supposed to do that with grownups?"

the exact same way, she's decided.]

We haven't had any meetings since, um. Well. The last one. But, I'm pretty sure nobody has no more murders to report, so it shouldn't be too bad, and we can all just focus on the most important task: Getting along! All of us are on the same team, but most of us barely even know each other; some of us even hate some of the others! [SHE SAYS, LIKE SHE DOESN'T ACTIVELY DESPISE KOKICHI] So, I figured we could spend the evening fixing that problem. Play some games, talk about stuff we've discovered since the last time...

And, maybe, if everybody does a really good job, I'll unlock the door!

[smiles]

Comments

[closewithnewintown]

-- Oh, and the track will kill you if you touch it. That's kinda important, but not as important as the rest of it.

[this is where you can try to bribe, beg, or bully the key from her, but are you willing to die for it. no? then you will not match her power.]

[commences]

And how will it kill us... will you tell me in explicit detail?

( you know what, she wins, but if he's going to die, might as well learn how. )

[closewithnewintown]

The kid touched it, and went all...

[flops hand]

And then they turned into shadows and weren't there anymore.

[commences]

Were their clothes left behind... you know, like in the movies?

( thinking. hm... that death doesn't sound quite as fitting for komaeda, but you know what... beggars can't be choosers. )

[closewithnewintown]

... [has to. think about this. because it's not like she actively noted that.]

Nope, whole thing. Shadows, then gone completely.

[commences]

Then they just went to the reverse world, maybe they're living happily in such a hell...

( sighs... ) There's no way to check though, considering they all look the same.

[closewithnewintown]

They weren't breathing for about ten minutes before that happened.

1/2

[notsosou]

[Nao Sato... that's the student Senku mentioned...

Shin is Extremely Suspicious, of course he is. But that just means he noses into the room suspiciously, and hovers avoiding the growing crowd of people and being near the door suspiciously, and absolutely still gets caught because this is basically a cardboard box propped up on a stick for him. He's absolutely kicking himself.]

J-just how much is a 'good job' here?

2/2

[notsosou]

[Either "group bonding" or giving up a piece of information. Truly an agonizing choice. He pulls something out of his jacket pocket, holding it on his palm.]

...I found a lighter with a blue flame. No idea what it's for yet, but it seems like it could be important. ...Can I leave now? [No.]

[closewithnewintown]

[gestures vaguely]

Well, I have the key, so it's pretty much "when I decide it's good enough," I guess!

[notsosou]

[THE NIGHTMARE SCENARIO.]

Gah...

[You can see the light slowly leaving his eyes as he accepts his current fate.]

Ahaha, I don't even know who you are, sorry...

[closewithnewintown]

[beams]

Stephanie Meanswell! Did you just wake up?

[notsosou]

Meanswell, huh. I'm Sou Hiyori.

[Say you've been here a month.
Lie and see what you can get. <----

It absolutely does not occur to him an ounce of fact-checking would make this completely fall apart in an instant.]

You got me! I have no idea what's going on, to be honest...

[closewithnewintown]

Every once in a while, everybody who's stuck here gets together in one room, and we kinda discuss what's going on and what we've learned, but mostly just fight over things. This time, I'm hoping there's less fighting and more... bridging our differences and coming together as a team!

[commences]

Hiyori-kun.

( ... )

[compendiem]

What if we cover the track...?

[ Because clearly the answer isn't to avoid the track, it's to make their own track. If they're lazy about it, he's sure they can just set occasional cobblestones and it'd be like playing The Floor is Lava. ]

[closewithnewintown]

If we could... No. It's too risky. We should just avoid it all together.

[and by her expression this is basically the most emotionally devastating thing she's ever had to do.]

[compendiem]

[ Minato looks away so she doesn't see his expression that suggests he's not going to listen. Something risky... how can he not take a closer look ]

[closewithnewintown]

... [bristles] What's the point of warning everybody if you're just gonna go off and get yourself killed anyway?

[CAN'T YOU FREAKS JUST ACCEPT BEING SAVED]

[compendiem]

...It's important for people to have a choice. [ even if that choice is to die ] Besides... we can't just run away from everything that might kill us. There's too much.

[comprises]

I'd think it'd be a bit higher on the priority level than everything else.

[lord...]

Unless death is actually no big deal.

[why are you bullying a child]

[closewithnewintown]

Most of us can't even go that far without passing out. Everybody being mean to each other is a pressing concern.

[comprises]

I think it's mostly because we're all cooped up here, don't you think? There's no way to spread our wings...

Do you really think that locking people in a room will help that?

[he really doesn't care, so.]

[closewithnewintown]

No, I think it has more to do with, y'know. The murdering.

The best way to get past problems is for everybody to say out loud why they're upset so everybody can work on it as a group. [sniffs] Is it my fault that all the grownups here are less mature than a seven year old? This usually works.

[comprises]

Hm...and if people aren't upset? What then?

[he's. a little salty to be taken away from everything, but the reason why he's murdered already is to fuck with things.]

Perhaps there's no explicit reason for everyone to be upset. Or maybe they'll just pretend to get out of this room. People do tend to lie, after all.