yogen | just another day in paradise

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just another day in paradise

Who: all you cool kids
What: family meeting
When: 9/15
Where: by the poool
Warnings: none yet

[bro this is all so disorganized. Shepard can hardly stand it -- but she's heard of the meetings that they had had in the past, and she's going to take it upon herself to do one of her own. they had to get all of their facts together somehow, at least.

it's the Leader Things in her.]

Everyone meet me near the pool. Between the apparent disappearances last month and what's been going on at the pool, we need to get our facts straight. Meet me here after school's over for the day.

[aaand she's there at her designated time, hoping that they'd at least try to listen to her and gather as she intended...

she's not going to lock anyone in or anything, but if you try to pass her by, she's going to give you A Look like you'd better mind her message. not that she's even close to punching someone out, but. there's probably something a little bit intimidating about the commander who's looking at you expectantly if you try to ignore her meeting.]

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Wait, there's actually something in the pool?

[He had that hypothesis and shared it with several people, but, uh.]

I can't see what's down there. I dove down about thirty feet, but it was too dark.

Yeah- I can't tell how far down it is either, but maybe we shouldn't be trying that... I also don't know how big it is, but considering I can still see it from that depth...

( that would imply it's at least Pretty Big? )

...the water down that low is salty, too, like what the ocean's supposed to be.

["Supposed to be" because he's never seen the ocean, but he knows that it's salty.]

Do you think we can kill it? I mean... it bit someone in half and it's clearly... still hungry. [Do not perceive the fact that he fed it. In fact, he's just not even going to say anything about him and Komaeda feeding the fucking mystery leviathan.] I could lure it to the surface and kill it before it kills anyone else.

[???] We don't know if it killed that person, though. You can't kill someone just for being hungry.

It's a danger to everyone here, though. We can't use the pool unless we deal with it, and I don't know of an ocean anywhere around here to throw it into. Unless its sentient [or endangered] it shouldn't be a problem.

This school is already messed up, so it's probably better just to kill it.

... Or we could just not use the pool until we've found a way to remove the hungry monster from it, safely and without murdering it?

Well, I would say that's fair, and that no one should be using the pool unless they want to die? If it's aquatic, we can't exactly remove it from the pool and rehome it. It's not like a dog.

[Sorry Steph — on Elrios if there's a monster you kill it and you don't ask questions later, unless you're Noah and the monster might've previously been human but he hasn't thought of that yet for this place.]

Whoever put it there had some way to do it; we'll just find out what they did and... opposite it. And it'll go back home. Shouldn't everybody be able to go back home?

[lookin at him with big ol eyes]

We also don't know how far down the pool goes. It's... entirely possible it's exactly where it's meant to be.

There are leviathans in the depths of Henir's space as well.

Bottomless abyss in a school's swimming pool... isn't it obvious?

[hears "Henir" and gets A Look on his face... you know the one.]

If it's meant to be at the bottom of the pool, we can't relocate it, so I say we just kill it.

We're killing it because somebody's dead body got thrown into its house and it was hungry? How many fish live in a pool?

It could eat some of the living students! I guess we can close the pool down, but some people here are stupid and can't read the big yellow caution tape!

[like subaru, who's enjoying the water. hello fellow investigators. his actual stuff is off to the side, but he's floating in the water listening to them

a healing lobster floating in the seasalt pool......]

Maybe it only eats dead things. I mean, we've been using the pool up 'til now, right? And no one's lost a limb? So what's the big deal?

I guess? Just don't go down deep?

I can't swim that far down anyway. ☆

[unfor...tunately... he'd love to see hollow earth.]

If we lure it back up we shouldn't need to go down very far after it.

[He's come to this meeting this time, and he's dipping his legs in the pool and giving a few lazy kicks.]

I'm in agreement that we shouldn't jump straight to eradicating it, though. It could be an asset if we figure out what it wants. If anything, we can find a way to capture and contain it.

If it didn't come up when me and Komaeda were feeding it meat from the kitchen, [SO MUCH FOR NOT BLABBING] then I doubt it's going to come up that easily.

( NOAH? )

[of course it's maddy. if subaru thinks of this all in the abstract and like it's a fun game then he doesn't have to think seriously about a body being chomped]

Maybe it's like a rare fish and it only comes up during specific situations! Like at a certain time of day, or when it's raining!

[more likely the first,]

But putting that aside, do you think the person knew there was something in there in the first place...? Or do you think they just thought it was like, a good place to toss a body 'cause it goes down reaaally far?

Well... I'm not really sure, so don't quote me on this, but don't dead bodies float? You'd need to weigh it down so that it sinks, right? Maybe... that's what the rocks in their pocket were for... But I think you'd need a lot of rocks. That doesn't really answer any questions but I think whoever did this obviously wanted the body to sink, right?

My question is, how would someone have known there's a creature down there? When me and Komaeda were feeding it, we didn't know something was actually down there, it was just something Komaeda suggested to me at the time. When I swam down the few times I went, I didn't see or hear anything. [So it doesn't roar, but also to be fair it gets dark in the depths, so how is anyone supposed to see anyway?] I guess Nene knew, but...

Natsume said that the pockets had holes in 'em and the only rocks that stayed in there were the ones he found, so maybe there were more to help way them down...? Oh, or they could've tied cinderblocks to the feet and dragged them down that way!

[and it just

sorta

floated back up once the lower half got chewed. since iirc it was sort floating there when they arrived]

So I'm not necessarily sayin' they did know, but that if they didn't they'd still wanted it to sink 20,000 leagues under the sea. The monster might've just been a hidden bonus.

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...Was the feeding before or after the thing got a taste for human flesh??

[He's squinting at you Noah. There might be some judgement occurring.]

[Don't judge him he's very cute :(]

I didn't know anything was down there when Komaeda brought it up was the thing. It was just a hypothesis, over a week ago now back when the pool first opened up. We fed it steak.