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[principals]

Who: All y'all
When: Day 1 – Morning
Where: Everywhere
What: School is in

[Somewhere, a bell begins to ring. You may know the type—obnoxious and loud, signalling the start of a brand new day of lectures and learning. Rise and shine, lovelies; wakey wakey eggs and bakey! And with that, just as the toll falls silent, you hear the sound you may have been waiting for: the click of a lock.

You're free to explore.]

Comments

[soldieronwards]

Yeah. A few of them are pretty familiar with this sort of situation.

It sounds like there's a whole industry in kidnapping people out of their worlds and forcing them to compete in teams.

[repaircosts]

[ nodding ]

That's what I got from chatting with my team, too. ... did they —

[ hesitating a bit, like he's not sure how to put it -- but also, honestly, he's just upset about the whole thing on his own ]

Did they tell you anything about having to kill other people?

[soldieronwards]

[he pauses at that; his expression goes kind of still, the amiably cocksure demeanor fading]

Yeah. They said we'd probably be forced to hurt each other.

[repaircosts]

[ Well, damn. If it's a widespread theory, then most probably Rena was right. So he grits his teeth before talking again ]

... fuck this bullshit.

[soldieronwards]

I'm with you there.

I'm not seeing any clues to how to do it, though.

[repaircosts]

We don't know if we gotta kill each other for sure yet either, it's still just a theory. We've got no fucking thing so far, these asshole didn't see fit to inform us of any-fucking-thing.

But we ain't gonna go anywhere if we don't find the asshole behind this, anyway.

[soldieronwards]

No, we're not. But I'm not seeing anywhere they could be hiding. It looks like they might just be planning on making us wait.

[repaircosts]

... All right, listen. This is just a shitty-case-scenario here, but my teammate said we might have to kill or maim each other. I can't do shit about it if people die, but if people get hurt, I should be able to fix 'em up.

Keep that in mind if you need it.

[soldieronwards]

[he pauses, then nods]

What's your name?

I'm Bucky. I'm no medic myself, but I can fight.

[repaircosts]

It's Josuke. Nice to meet you, circumstances aside, I mean.

[soldieronwards]

Yeah. Maybe we can meet up for a drink or something when we're out of here. And you're of age, I mean.

[maybe a little bit of a smirk there.]

[repaircosts]

[ making the most unamused face ]

That ain't funny.

[soldieronwards]

Yeah, it was.

[repaircosts]

I guess old geezer always got a weird sense of humor. Better smile and nod along.