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@Spoiler; video

[spoileralert]

Hey guys. Stephanie Brown here again, with your week-and-a-half-ly assigned reading.

Newcomers: You've been kidnapped and brought to a town in Alaska called Norfinbury, year 2150-something or so. Time travel, alternate universes, Eldritch horrors and probably other shenanigans are involved.

I'm happy to answer any questions you might have, but it's most important to know that if you see something freaky don't let it touch you, and if you get locked out at night you 100% will die.

[ Attached:
SurvivalGuide.doc
Map.gif
Infodump.doc
OtherResources.doc ]

@featherydouche; text;

[mrcreamsicles]

yo small correction
it might actually be past the year 3000
depends on what something we got told recently means
in other words prepare to be fucking confused and im sorry to the newbies that you gotta go through this shit

[spoileralert]

[ ... ]

eh, same difference?

[mrcreamsicles]

not really
considering all the mystery quantum fuckery and the question of how this town has been running for so long
but whatever ima clear out and let the newbies ask questions if they got em

[spoileralert]

If you say so.

@funyarinpa | text

[fiftheclipse]

[The entry comes late in the day.


Waking up somewhere unfamiliar with no memory of how he got there... It wasn't the most unusual thing for Junpei, anymore. But this. This was... Wrong.

Maybe because he couldn't remember being knocked out again. No, rather, because he did remember events that he should have lost if that drug had taken effect, and the haziness of waking up really wasn't helping him to work out what that meant. Was his bracelet malfunctioning? ... If it were, wouldn't it have come off?

But there was more to it. That constant noise from what appeared to be a tablet, next to him. How cold the room was. The rest of his team missing. It wasn't adding up to anything that made sense.

He had to get up and figure it out.


It's only after a thourough search of the house and the determination that it's far too cold outside to leave, that Junpei finally returns to the device, giving in and beginning its setup like it wants.

It's the only option left, after all.]


Okay. Fine. I'm on here.
What do you want!?

@funyarinpa | text

[fiftheclipse]

[He's opened the files, but.. The sheer amount of text...]

... Come on. All that?
Isn't that a little much?

[Maybe he wants to keep blindly assuming this tablet's just supposed to be a puzzle.]

@standardissue;

[deus_ex_phs]

A lot of things, really. Going home pretty much tops the list, but a cup of hot coffee would be amazing.

What do you want?

@clowncutie92; text

[clowngirl]

personally i could use a date with a hot bath and the best of the three stooges.

@quark; text

[averytinyparticle]

[Funyarinpa...? Huh. Quark squints at the screen. The username brings back an old memory but he shakes it off. It can't be. It's too weird.]

what the tablet?
yeah it doesnt like it when people try and skip the login phase
welcome to hell by the way!

[fiftheclipse]

So @ADMIN doesn't reply, huh?

The snow going away would be a start.

I found a coffee mug, but no surprise that it's empty.

[fiftheclipse]

Isn't hell supposed to be hot?
It's freezing in here.

[deus_ex_phs]

Admin only replies when it suits her, or if you bring up something directly related to her responsibilities. Even then, she doesn't always.

Unfortunately, that snow has been here for more than 10 months, nine of which I can vouch for personally. Don't think it's likely to go away anytime soon. If only.

Actually, there IS a place that you can find hot coffee fairly reliably. Down in the entrance area, near the gate. Some kind of fast food place. It's just not anywhere I'm planning to travel anytime soon.

Want a map?

[averytinyparticle]

isnt the deepest layer of hell supposed to be super cold?
i dunno
this is hell now either way but you get used to it

[fiftheclipse]

Only if you're mapping out some place with beer.
I'm not heading out there as long as I've got water.

[deus_ex_phs]

Beer's a lot harder to find.

You're going to want to get moving sooner than later. Stay too long in one place - say, a few days to a week - and cabin fever can really kick in.

@bluebird, text

[plaguenurse]

Um, if you're trying to talk to @ADMIN, she doesn't answer most questions. :( She might if you filter the message to her username...

Are you okay?

[fiftheclipse]

Are the standards that low, here?

[clowngirl]

lower, cuz i'd settle for a luke-warm sponge bath and a knock-knock joke.

[fiftheclipse]

... Not that different from Zero.

I'm doing better than whoever left all their stuff here.

[plaguenurse]

[Diana's heart drops into her stomach. She reads the message over again. And over again once more, before she can finally respond.]

Sorry, Zero?

[fiftheclipse]

The asshole who put us in this stupid game.
Is what I wanted to think at first, but this damned bracelet's not working anymore, so I get that it's something bigger.

I'm not even locked in, anyway. I don't think anyone is.

[plaguenurse]

[A game. A bracelet. Just like Quark...

Diana tries to take a calming breath. She doesn't want Quark to see her upset.]

No, we're not locked in right now. Curfew is at 8 PM. That's when the buildings lock for the night... I guess to keep out the bad weather.

My name is Diana. I'm a nurse. I haven't been here as long as some others have, but let me know if there's any way I can help, okay?

[fiftheclipse]

[Diana? Wait.]

Seriously?
It's Junpei!

[Wait, wait, wait.]

But.
This was supposed to be the time where you and Sigma were dead. I had your X-Passes and everything.
If Phi could've just died, too, then none of this would've happened...

[He probably shouldn't have hit send. But. Well.]

[plaguenurse]

[At first, there's an instinctual spark of relief. Someone from home! Someone she knows! Someone...



Someone who died.

Someone Diana killed.

There's a long stretch of time with no response from Diana, as she stares at the words on her tablet and tries to breathe over the tightening in her chest and the sound of her own heart pounding in her hears.]