narumin rescue squad

[adsum]

Participants: Clamor, Hanako(npc), Helena, Hikaru(npc), Komaeda, Lucifer, Sara, Shin
Location: Sun 4
Date: ??? nebulously October

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[adsum]

[ Narumi Ito lies asleep in Sun 4, a group gathered around the foot of his bed.

Hanako floats above, surveying those who'd wanted to try find the scattered fragments of Narumi's soul in order to return it to his body. Hikaru, naturally, is there to help their senpai however they can, looking up at the ghost with a mix of worry and apprehension. ]

Okay, so... how are we going to do this?

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[hanaban]

[ Instead of answering, Hanako smiles at them. Goes around behind them. And steps right into their body—-

Hikaru slumps forward immediately, knees hitting the ground and falling against the edge of the bed.

...

...

... ]

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[adsum]

[ They hop back up onto their feet. ]

Alright! Who's next?

[commences]

( komaeda will too, walk over to hikaru, wrapping his arms around their neck like he wants to merge as well.

...

...

he knows it won't happen, but listen, sometimes you do as instructed. )

You're broken, Goto-kun... how will you carry all of us?

( well komaeda's decided where he's latching to. )

[carpevinum]

[Lucifer has mentally lined Hanako up for execution. Anyway, moving on.]

[adsum]

[ Merging isn't exactly what Hanako had planned, but this isn't his body so he lets Komaeda cling to Hikaru all he wants. ]

Don't worry about that! [ covers Clamor's sickle ears ] I'm ejecting all your souls, so you won't be heavy at all!

`````````````78P) Lily named this toplevel and who am I to refuse

[adsum]

[ Each person feels a pull towards the only other empty vessel in the room, warmth, a sense of relief, opening their eyes to what looks like a wide expanse filled with door after door, some standing upright while others lay toppled on the ground, all different designs and colors, all closed.

Shin, in particular, will feel that this place is reminiscent of the room of mirrors he had found himself in back in August, which eventually led him to the memory of a little girl's final moments. ]

[hanaban]

[ everyone's okay? good! ]

...Okay! Let's divide and conquer!

[commences]

( manacle makes those manacle sounds.

divide and conquer! )

[sunstead]

[why does komaeda have— ok yknow what, he's not gonna ask

Clamor looks like a person again, though there's a shadowy blue tinge to his hair and general aura... and if you squint, you can almost see something that looks like a string hanging loosely behind him, leading back where they came from. Don't worry about it.

The first thing he's going to do is look at his hands, flex them a little experimentally, and then... pinch Komaeda's arm, because Komaeda happens to be the person nearest to him.]

Huh! This isn't so bad. [hell YES having physical sensations again, thank u narumin's vacated body]

tick tock;Clamor, Hanako, Sara, Shin

[adsum]

[ The door opens up to darkness, soft fabric pressed all around on either side of them in what feels like a very cramped space where the only elbow room is one you create yourself by shoving your friends out of the way.

Faint light filters through the bottom of what must be a door in front of them, the thinnest of slits illuminating worn carpet underneath their feet. A quiet tick tock tick tock can be heard in the midst of silence. ]

boy sure am glad theres no toyota carollas in this closet haha

[samuraiwomen]

[ Thank goodness nobody here is that tall... Sara is still uncomfortably squeezed between Sou, Hanako and Clamor, but theres enough space to see the light under what must be a door and to raise her hand to push at the soft fabric. A futon, maybe? ]

Alright! Lets do this for Narumi-senpai! [ Maybe they got a memory of a house, which seems simple enough. ] So...Can somebody get the doorknob?

THE MONKEY'S PAW CURLS

[notsosou]

I'll get it...

[Someone has to, and he's closer to it... they can't all stay in this closet or wherever this is forever. Whatever's out there... well he can quickly duck back inside if he needs to. He is going to elbow people trying to step away and get to the door, and his elbows make up for lack of force by being very very pointy. He turns the doorknob, opens it a sliver, peering out cautiously as the line of light expands in the space, and then slips out through the gap.]

Waugh...!!

[Like a split second later the others will hear a cry and loud thud because he's stepped on a small toy-ota corolla and utterly beefed it onto his back.]

[samuraiwomen]

Sou... [ She thinks about asking if he's alright...but he elbowed her on his way out here so she's...just going to step over him to examine the rest of the room.

Looks down at adorable little toy truck on the ground, looks back up at Sou. ]

You're still awake right?

grrrrrrr;Helena, Hikaru, Komaeda, Lucifer

[adsum]

[ grrrrrr-SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

A monster truck slams on the brakes, skidding on the slick road in front of where they open the door and step out onto a busy street, Hikaru in the process of picking themselves off the road and scrambling back before they get crushed under rushing traffic, car horns blaring all around, roars of engines drowning out all other sound in what looks like a big city.

It is pouring, and the rain is freezing cold. ]

[carpevinum]

[this door doesn't have a dog behind it at all!]

[commences]

( WHERE IS THE DOG? WHY IS THEY ON ONCOMING TRAFFIC? which is almost komaeda's natural habitat, anyway, he's not too worried about the ongoing traffic — instead, he's getting up from the ground so that he can pick a car for them to hitch-hike, but rather than being on the side of the road, he's waving his arms up like a "y", waving them to get the attention of the oncoming car — the toyota corolla — which is probably trying to get to their job. who knows! now it's not every day you see some random person in the stress with a manacle around their neck and a chain —

this is straight out of a scary movie, and the toyota takes a quick turn left which komaeda thinks they're gong to park so there's still a smile, but once it crashes into the crane truck with an already elevated boom that as a weight ball attached, he can hear the sound of metal colliding into one another, and the weighted ball knock right into the building that's being worked on. a skyscraper or something like that, lots and lots of glass shatter at once, falling down from the sky like unsafety rain, but the support of the building breaks, causing it to tilt towards the road —

yeah, komaeda's just going to walk over to knock on the glass of the car despite the road rage — the honking from all sides, the sound of screeching — that's happening around them. he even ignores the leaning building until it comes crashing onto the road, and the monster truck that almost ran over hikaru (whatever other car might have been in the vicinity) — debris and metal flies into the air, scattering all over the ground like a scene out of final destination, and hopefully it'll cut the highway in half so that the cars can't drive to the other side because this fucked up building is in the way, but at least half of traffic can't threaten them anymore.

knock, knock, knock.

is anyone alive in the toyota corolla? because komaeda can canonly drive, and who needs to walk when you can take this instead? )

[carpevinum]

[Lucifer is shielding the others with his wings, hello? What the fuck is this? What the fuck supernatural ass powers does this debauched slave-collar wearing BDSM freak have?

Anyway please enjoy your protective Bird Shield.]

[adsum]

[ Lucifer and Helena abandon the others and head towards the edge of town, in the direction of Lucifer's original dousing. And Helena is correct: Lucifer will see it before they reach it, the faintest of flashes out in the distance just beyond his stasis hex's reach.

Eventually, they'll come across an apartment complex completely engulfed in flames with nobody to put it out because it's not raining anymore and also all the firefighters are stuck inside the city.

Also maybe that high up point of interest isn't so high up anymore. ]

[carpevinum]

[...concerning. Sucks about the apartment complex but Lucifer's different. Toward the point of interest they fly, under Helena's direction of course because Lucifer does not have magical find-stuff powers.

He's ignoring the burning people, he does not care.]

[decrypter]

[you're just going to let Narumi's soul burn like that...

anyway. she ends up gripping a little tighter to Lucifer, because she can smell smoke, hear fire, and what was high isn't anymore - by this point, the image has faded, and all she has is her memory and instinct going on.]

Lucifer, what's happening?

[maybe they should have just stayed in the car. unless there's another tiny light, what can they even do?]

Final Destination

[adsum]

[ It would have been fine, though, if somebody were dying, because the bus pulls up to the location Helena specifies and they find themselves in front of the local hospital.

Also imagine that at some point during the whole car-jacking thing, Hanako told them he's going to do his own scouting around and then ditches them, so all my npcs are incapacitated in some capacity, but he leaves one of his floating souls behind in case they need him for anything. They won't need him. They're going great. I believe in you guys. ]

[carpevinum]

[Oh holy fuck they all made it. Alright. Lucifer picks up Narumi, Hikaru, and Clamor like luggage again and just walks off the bus calmly like Sara wasn't taking turns at 70 MPH or whatever.

Let's go to the hospital~]

[notsosou]

[I want you to know that whenever Sara shaved several minutes off his life by stopping suddenly or taking one of those 70mph turns too tightly Shin was reflexively doing the mom arm with Helena and then trying to play it off every single time thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Hospital!]

End

[adsum]

[ So, they decide the thing to do here is to grab Narumi and run. That's the plan.

With Narumi tucked under one arm and Hikaru under the other, Lucifer leads the way out of the hospital, the doors sliding open at their approach and revealing

white

empty space as their stomachs drop and bodies become weightless, a push from within and a pull from outside and they open their eyes to find themselves back inside the dorm room, sprawled out exactly where they'd fallen. Narumi remains in bed, turned over onto his side and muttering something about stolen buses and soapy potatoes, not exactly lucid but it's the first time he's spoken or showed any sign of life in weeks.

Hanako sits at the food of the bed. He looks... unhappy, for a moment, before noticing everybody rousing and the smile is back on his face, the careless laugh spilling from his lips as he welcomes everybody back.

On Clamor's wrist is 1 additional tally.
On Helena's wrist is 1 additional tally.
On Hikaru's wrist is 1 additional tally.
On Komaeda's wrist is 2 additional tallies (yeah I'm counting Narumi's dad).
On Lucifer's wrist is 1 additional tally.
On Sara's wrist is 1 additional tally.
And on Shin's wrist is 1 additional tally.

On October something, Narumi wakes up. He's wary of you guys who saved his life, but doesn't understand why. But he's alive, and he's fine(?), and that's what matters. You saved your tulpa. ]