WEEK 2

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WEEK 2

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The first week is over, and two of your number are gone. Everything related to the case has been cleaned up, with nary a knife left at the Main Square nor a trace of the mud shapes that once painted the clock tower walls, although some stray graffiti still dots some storefronts.

However you may feel about the entire debacle on Friday, there’s no doubt that something has changed about the atmosphere, although whether it’s something tangible or just a trick of the mind is hard to say. Maybe it’s nothing. Either way, there are more palpable changes to the city, with some of the fog retreating away from a few of the surrounding areas, uncovering new buildings and streets along the way. The night, however, remains unchanged as always save for the slow waxing of the moon, leaving it bright and full as early as Thursday night. Regardless of if you take it as an omen or not, at least that means the streets will be lit up fairly well for the week, provided some inconvenient cloud cover doesn’t slide right in.

[[Welcome to Week 2! Note that new areas have been added, and can be found under the Week 2 tab on our Locations page. Once again, feel free to make top levels at your discretion, and remember to note it in your header if you plan on investigating any locations. You can also privately contact The Lady or Rembrandt.]]

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[bawcock]

... Yeah, that aligns with something he told me too.

[ And probably of particular note to Mikami is... ]

I asked him about the Lady's offer last week too. You know, the one you were actually thinking of taking. He said that if anyone agrees, that's what's going to happen to them.

[inordertobelieve]

[ ...!!

Well, watch Mikami tense up considerably. ]

.... so a fate worse than death was what he was planning all along.

[bawcock]

Looks that way.

[inordertobelieve]

[ Yeah, he's just... going to sit down quietly right now. There's a lot to think about here and none of it is positive. ]

[bawcock]

[ Watches him sit down and quietly adds on. ]

... He also mentioned the person might explode.

[inordertobelieve]

[ ..... ]

Are you sure he wasn't just telling you hoax stories?

[bawcock]

Not entirely. Even I can admit that part's a little more suspect than the rest.

[ Shrug. ] But he said the person will become unstable. I figure that's about the same thing the Lady was trying to get at with her "90% survival rate."

[twoasone]

[ Since Mikami is going to mope, Shin wants to put his two cents in... ]

I get the feeling that's the price we were going to pay for taking one of her hints... Though if they lose their minds in the process we could perhaps talk them into keeping our poor comrade as a pet?

[ He's joking, clearly. ]

[bawcock]

Yeah, it is. [ Turning to his side as he thinks and remembers! ] All he really told me about the process was someone would "cease to exist as they do now."

[ Not liking the pet talk btw but he's distracted. ]

[twoasone]

[ But Mikami would make a wonderful pet- Okay he's dropping the pet talk. ]

Indeed she did... I wonder if they would have taken the person who asked for the hint as soon as they changed...?

[drydrown]

Oh, come now, why did you have to go and tell him? Now he's actually going to think before he does it.

[inordertobelieve]

[ Why is he 27 and suddenly getting bullied again. Why's that a thing. ]

You're disgusting.

[drydrown]

You're going to have to try a little harder than that, Teru Mikami.

[because cumore could have been anything in life and he chose to be regina george, tbh]

Don't be angry just because I'm not the one who was willing to mutilate myself without even knowing what would happen.

[inordertobelieve]

[ Okay, deep breaths, Mikami. He can just ignore this. It's cool. He'll just glare and let it be. It's FINE. ]

[bawcock]

[ Why is he 19 and vaguely defending a 27-year-old. Why's that a thing. ]

[p_q]

That doesn't seem to be a denial, Mikami Teru.

[And from out of left field-- No really, he isn't all that invested, but he was sort of quietly rooting for near-future lawzard?? Sighs, some people ruin all the fun even for the people who don't know what fun is. Rude.]

[inordertobelieve]

A denial of what? Thinking twice before throwing away my whole life?

[ Even he isn't going to deny that, sheesh. ]

I'm not exactly inclined to do that, yes. But all it means is that we have to work even harder at preventing future cases - or at solving them.

[p_q]

A denial that you'd throw it away after thinking twice.

[Somehow said extremely mildly but extremely judgmentally all at once.

He really wouldn't put it past this dude at this point, all things considered. What exactly is he, anyway, some sort of weird justicebot. And this is coming from Ulquiorra "I have exactly 3 expressions" Cifer here.]

There is no 'we'. There is only you, and your strange crusade and stranger fixation on whatever meaning it is you've created here on this playground that was made for you.

[bawcock]

[ Just sighing. ]

Do you really wanna see someone turn into one of those things?

[drydrown]

Not particularly? If it were just the Lady inflicting it on someone for the sake of it, then of course not. But someone so insipid as to take the offer without knowing what it entails would absolutely deserve whatever they got, and that horrid prosecutor certainly seemed like a prime candidate for getting what's coming to him.

[baitless]

...I wouldn't wish that fate on someone even if they were the most uselessly awful person I knew, but I'm not exactly surprised you're saying this...

[drydrown]

If you have something to say to me, you're welcome to it.

[I mean it looks like Mikami isn't going to, poor lamb.]

[bawcock]

In other words, he'd bring it on himself so it's okay. [ Shaking his head lightly. ] Sorry, but I just don't get that. I know her warning was enough for most of us to realize it was a bad deal and we shouldn't take it, but some people aren't so practical.

They need more information before they can actually make a decision. And if I hid something that I knew, or at least something I suspected, then I'd feel at least partially responsible for what happened to them.

[ More than partially but, whatever. Nobody needs to know that last part. ]

[drydrown]

My, that does sound like a truly personal problem and I'm almost sorry for your lot.

Teru Mikami's lack of self-preservation and inability to utilize common sense are hardly my cross to bear. If he chooses to mutilate or otherwise destroy himself in the pursuit of an ideal that can't exist here, then that isn't my problem, and I won't be convinced to feel like it should be.

[baitless]

...I feel like it is worth noting that there is nothing different about, well, my body at the moment, since after it was confirmed that they experimented on us I felt the need to check. The powers seem like the only real new thing at the moment.