yogen | give your friends a surprise

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give your friends a surprise

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]

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[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...

[beams]

Stephanie Meanswell! Did you just wake up?

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...

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!

Very chipper of you, miss Stephanie.

[Fighting over things... Legion being stabbed is very prominent in his mind right now.]

N-nobody's ever been hurt during one of these, right?

( we'd all like that but what do you really think, shin? )

(Oh noooo... he knew it. -_-)

... Not... seriously, at least?

[/left the last meeting before the stabbing]

[Somehow that's not the most reassuring...]

How... seriously, is not seriously?

Nobody's died yet!

[yet]

...that's kinda a low bar, miss Stephanie.

[Still, that does help a bit. At least nobody has died...

yet.]

Sometimes you have to, y'know... grade on a scale! It's actually pretty impressive, if you think about it that way. As long as it's just threatening to kill people, it's not so bad.

Depends if the threatening leads to actual death or not...

[He's thinking about a certain someone who was threatened into knocking him out cold. That could have killed him and he's still a bit salty about it a month and change after the fact. When will people validate his painnn... that they don't know about here.]

That sort of thing escalates easily, Miss Stephanie.

[Either someone caves or it just keeps going... the fight in the workshop continues to leave an impression on him.]

It hasn't so far! Just because you're saying you're going to cut someone's head off, doesn't mean you're actually gonna do it.

[it sounds weirdly specific because it is.]

[WEIRDLY SPECIFIC INDEED.]

W-wait, who was threatening to cut someone's head off?

[And more importantly, could they?]

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closewithnewintown - 2021-08-29 00:43 (UTC) - Expand

Hiyori-kun.

( ... )

Huh? Did I say something wrong?

Nope, I'm repeating you after all...

( he's going to walk around him in a circle. lighter? lighter? he's searching. )

[He resists the urge to twist to keep an eye on him as Komaeda pulls a shark. Reactions are the blood here.]

It's just this...

[He flicks the thing to demonstrate the flame... but also kind of as a way to keep hold of it.]

Edited (whoops bracket) 2021-08-05 05:37 (UTC)

Tsukimi-kun, have you tried lighting anyone on fire with it yet?

( you know, just a thought since he recalls... akira has lit someone on fire and they survived, could this be the same sort of flame? )

[Shin, opening the dead dove bag marked Komaeda: 'I'm not sure what I expected'.]

...wouldn't it be too small for that?

[It's just a lighter flame, after all, even if blue and mysterious. You'd have to get inventive to light someone up with it... Shin's going to just not follow that train of thought any further, for the sake of not feeling ill or remembering what charred flesh smells like.

The part of his brain that generates bad decisions spits out an idea and he flicks a finger through the flame a few times before re-pocketing it. Nothing happens.]

( STOPP not the dead dove bag... where did you find that shin. )

Hm... it must be for something specific, when you're alone in the dark... maybe you should try it then.

( not as if komaeda knows anything, and it's just an idea that he's throwing out there. it could be that if shin burned a candle with this fire, or maybe something else... it could give an interesting response. aside from that... )

I wish that paper was here... maybe you could find the hidden words by burning it, and seeing if it exposes anything special.

( like a black light, but the blue fire. )

Hm.

[His own repetition. He's filing all this away. Biting the leading question didn't work out too well for him last time, so he's not going to ask about what paper that is. He can fish around on that and experiment in the dark on his own time.]

Ahaha... who knows how much fuel it has. It's hard to use it on just anything, right?

[Ah yes, the 85 Ethers problem.]

Hmm... is there no liquid when you shake it?

( shin didn't let him hold it, so only he has the answers to that! there's also they could see if the student store has anything like it for the sale, or maybe even the fuel... of course it'd have something strictly native to the school. he's sure shin knows that already. )

[I've learnt something about lighters today. He takes it out again and shakes it.]

No sound so... it's full right now.

[That's reassuring, at least. Shin hasn't seen the school store yet, but that's only a matter of time.]