narumin rescue squad

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

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[ 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?

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

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[ 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. ]

tick tock;Clamor, Hanako, Sara, Shin

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[ 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. ]

grrrrrrr;Helena, Hikaru, Komaeda, Lucifer

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[ 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. ]

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[ 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. ]

Final Destination

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[ 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. ]

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[ 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. ]