WEEK 8

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[When you wake up, there's a text message in all of your inboxes, warning about how stressful exams week can be. The email comes replete with names of study sessions, tutoring hours, and free pizza on other parts of the campus. And it encourages you to check online for the exam schedule based on your class and section number.

There's also a note that there will be weekly stress puppy pop ups to help you relax? So that's nice and thoughtful! But ultimately, at Fayflower, they just want to make sure everyone has what they need to do well on their exams.

What a nice email.

But things have obviously deteriorated around you, with the wall looking visibly... damaged? If you get close, it's extremely easy to lose track of yourself... and you might come away with a few bruises you didn't know you got. Who knows. Maybe Terra?

Happy final week.]

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WEDNESDAY

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NIGHT -- COMPUTER LAB

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[DING. You have (1) new chat from Luxbourne.]

[reshoot]

[Max is no stranger to lurking about the campus after-hours, you know, just in case something really suspicious happens. Max zooms towards the ding & light as soon as she notices, nervously looking down at the screen.

She'll open the chat. Hello?]

Luxbourne

[throwabookatit]

Hello. Is this one of the "students" of Fayflower?

AFTERNOON -- COMPUTER LAB

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[DING. You have (1) new chat from hamburgerhelper.]

[ososoi]

[ Osomatsu peeks in the computer lab out of curiosity to see that there's something on the computer. ]

[ ...There's a chat? ]

[ He wishes he knew more about computers but here he is, on one of them, opening the chat. ]

[ Who is it? ]

[itwasfeyt]

Hello!

I'm making this message out because there's very important business to discuss!



Huh, I wonder if this actually got through. Do I need to type a command or something?

Send.
"Send".

meeting.

[buriedearth]

[ It's been ages since Terra's done this... but there are posters everywhere all over the school around night time. Once again, the words are simple and to the point:

Everyone, come by the usual place ASAP.

-- Terra

There's food in here, along with some chairs clearly moved in here because the food's gotta be placed somewhere. There's stew, steamed vegetables, and fruit. ]

I thought it might be a good idea to talk about what we're going to do going forward, with what that man proposed, and if anything's been figured out. I thought it'd be also good to present a reminder that, no matter what happens, we're all in this together, and we won't make it out if we don't work together to help make it happen.

[ Terra will leave it at that, plain and simple, for anyone else to speak up. ]

[swordsinternally]

I don't have any new information on my end, but my thoughts on the matter haven't changed. I'm not going to let that man have his way with this ridiculous witch hunt. It doesn't matter who the spy is. I won't allow them to kill that person.

[buriedearth]

I won't either. They've had enough fun forcing us to play their sick games--I don't see why we should continue to follow along with this any longer.

[whatsmytalentagain]

[Rantaro nods as he sets down his notebook on the table... Along with a familiar looking cell phone? Looks like he's been planning for this.]

Got in touch with Han's spybot today. They said they read a recent email about Jim planning to fire everyone. Not a good sign knowing him.

Also, could Max come and get her phone? I found it with the stuff outside my room this morning.

[blackcatintheruemorgue]

The deceased made contact with me in the computer lab yesterday.

[He shows one of the posters he printed out.]

Or... well... Yoosung specifically did. Other than wanting to talk to Akira, Terra, and Max again... he's doing fine. I... don't know who this is... but he started dating Yuuki; who is his fellow co-leader of The Phantom Guild. So.. um... that's good for him. Yoosung overall seems happy and has embraced his new nature as an AI far more than everyone else there. He was apparently the only one to let one of the AI on the other side mess with his coding. He's... apparently omniscient to a degree now? He said it was like cheat codes.

[What is a cheat code???? It's.... a video game thing... right?]

Erm... anyway! He said that we no longer have to use ouija to talk to the deceased. We can now use chat rooms in the lab. I asked him how we could get in contact with them easily and he said he'll have people watching for any opened chats. So... if anyone wishes to try and talk to someone... do that.

We mostly traded information. I informed him about all the recent events here and he shared the information they gathered on their side.

First off, the fitbits are what they make our AI 'backups' from.
Second, they have a good idea of who was controlling the android that killed Connor. A look-alike of Han with a scar on his face called "H"... or "Nah" as they've been referring to him. He's apparently in the school somewhere. So... we will need to be cautious about the possibility of encountering him eventually.

Third, the AI that inhabit the simulation with them are Eve, Lucian, Sola, Prier, and Violet. We might be able to find and talk to them if we go through the secret door behind the bookcase in the robotics lab. Yoosung said that Lucian is the oldest AI and thus gives the best information... especially if you... ah... um.... f-flirt with him.

[Just.... moving on from that.]

Yoosung got this from him at one point.

[He shows the picture of the screen on his tablet:

exp.1.0.1 -- 02/06 -- greenlighted -- system failure -- code:209867 -- missing parameter x
exp.1.0.2 -- 02/19 -- greenlighted -- program failure -- code:2105 -- x-y+?? = ??
exp.1.1.1 -- 03/04 -- greenlighted -- connection failure -- code:9998 -- component m not found
exp.1.2.1 -- 04/20 -- greenlighted -- system overheated -- results inconclusive
exp.1.2.2 -- 05/12 -- greenlighted -- program failure -- code:3214 -- component y malfunction
exp.1.2.3 -- 05/23 -- greenlighted -- program failure -- code:2105 -- power loss

...

There's a whole lot of this, recording what had to be hundreds of separate tests. The last one however, is unlike any of the others.

exp.96.42.73 -- 09/22 -- STOP

Yet there's another page attached with "exp.96.42.73" on it. And it has a lot of unclear mumbo jumbo on it but there's one word that stands out. SUCCESS.]

Yoosung hasn't figured out what it means yet, but he thinks it has something to do with Fayflower in the past when James was still in school.
Apparently the voices you from the entrance exam heard were from the past during that time period.
He says whatever incident occured when when Brynn, Yui, Arden & Kasumi were trapped there, may be something to look into. I agree with that assessment.

The simulation they are in is running on a separate power source, so we don't have to worry about them if we cut off the power generator here to try and talk to the past.

Fourth, there are apparently 25 admins total.
Fifth, the simulation is apparently mostly the same as our side... disregarding the modifications they've personally made.
Sixth, Vivi apparently plans to download them all to android bodies eventually.
Seventh, Yoosung said The Phantom Guild will do their best to assist us in anyway they can.

[That's... it unless he's forgetting anything.]

Right... um... any questions?

[unhalting]

[They've pretty much stopped with all the pretenses for their meetings, haven't they? Not that Orga minds, since he found a lot of the excuses silly anyways but it really does feel like they're ready for things to finally end. For his part, he generally listens to what everyone else has to say first before he speaks up.]

...I don't really have any new info to add, but I'm gonna ask: we got a plan for after the spy's been found out? I doubt they're just lettin' anyone stroll out even after all that.

NIGHT -- COMPUTER LAB

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[DING. You have (1) new chat from hangetsu ☽.]

[swordsinternally]

[ You know what, let's have a shot at this. ]

Hello?
Who is this?

[covertizer]

[ So apparently the afterlife has wifi now. ]

Hi?

Paging deadland chat!

[whatsmytalentagain]

[Rantaro's making lunch for everyone on his 18th birthday. Because acting like an adult is the best way to celebrate being a legal adult in America (even though the age of adulthood is technically 20 in Japan.) Today's dish is stovies made from the memory of watching Rebecca make it and whatever's leftover from the past few days. For the vegetarians, he made some kind of salad. He's doing his best here.

Though... Whoever shows up to lunch will notice he's served refrigerated papou fruit slices as a side dish. There's a note attached to the little plates he put them on.]

Terra-san said sharing these would symbolize creating an unbreakable bond with someone. I don't know how valid this is or if there's anything romantic involved, but if we're gonna work together to get out of here we may as well feel like a team. Enjoy.

[... Plus, he's finally fixing his mistakes.

Later on, he'll be looking around the computer lab... He's trying to find an open chat from the dead. Any open chat would do.

He just needs to talk to someone from there again. That's all.]

lunch

[ososoi]

Ah. Ya makin' lunch this time?

[ Osomatsu wistfully looks over the food. Stovies... ]

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[DING. You have (1) new message from username anchor.

Goodday everyone! Is there anyone you'd like to contact?]

paging deadland chat

[blackcatintheruemorgue]

[Poe has been sitting on this since Monday. He got his outfit used to wear six years ago. He's been debating on how exactly to combine it with his current outfit ever since he got it back. It... was from one of the most stable periods of his life. So... wearing it again might not be an bad idea. When he emerges from his room today, it's with a new look. He finally settled on putting on all of his old outfit -ribbon hair tie included- and then just putting his jacket and shoulder coat on top of it. He still has his white neckerchief though.

Poe spends most of his time today waiting in the Computer Lab. He'll open a chat if possible and set his username to his name. He'll be waiting to see if any of the dead respond. If he can't do that, then he'll just wait to see if any dead chats pop up. There's so many people he'd like to talk to. Waver, Alexander, Rebecca, Viral, Hank, or even Mitarai would be welcome. Anyone really.

He's brought a few books from the library to bide his time while waiting though. Feel free to talk to him while he's waiting for the dead to make contact.]

You too? Computer lab

[whatsmytalentagain]

[Huh. Rantaro's over in the computer lab too. Have a friendly wave.

Any luck?]

pinging dead chat!

[buriedearth]

[ Well, at least no one can say that it wasn't a productive evening. That being said, Terra wastes no time on personal plans.

So at some nebulous time after the meeting, Terra's going to be heading to the computer lab, ready to make good on what he planned. He's going to fumble a little with the computers (more the chatting program), before entering his name as "endsoftheearth" and trying to see if...anything happens. Yeah. ]

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[Apparently no one comes in when Terra tries to start a chat.

But, then another chat opens from Superman ★!]

Anyone there?

investigation??????

[swordsinternally]

[ He's going to regret this, isn't he...... late in the evening, Tsukasa is going on his own (nobody's going to want to see this probably?? god) to the robotics lab. Of course he's going to knock on the door even if he can just walk in because he knows that Vivienne is there.

Um.

Here goes nothing. ]

[childrenofinvention]

[Oh but strangely it’s not Vivienne that answers. It’s a young looking man with black hair.]

...pretty late for a house call.

[He grins like the Cheshire Cat. That’s probably fine.]