Round 4 intro post

[foundationmods]

The last checks have been made. The support staff is pulling back to site 4 proper. Everyone not staying on-site at the containment area is saying their goodbyes and their 'see you soon's. It's all supposed to be business as usual, after all. Nothing really bad ever happens during this containment procedure, so everything should be alright. But despite that knowledge, there is a sense of anxiety in the air. Nobody expects anything bad to happen, but after the last year of chaos even a safe SCP like this has become 'I'll breathe more easily when it's over.'

Gabe is there too, giving his final instructions to everyone staying at the house. He looks almost bored with the proceedings, and he keeps looking back to his clipboard to make sure he has covered everything. One last run-through of how the 'game' will work, one last reminder of where to meet the retrieval team once someone has been eliminated from the game, one last warning to stay on-site until you have been eliminated. "We can't contact any of you directly during the game," he says at the end, "But we'll be watching. It should be smooth sailing, barring a bit of personal drama here and there, but all of us back at the main site will be watching carefully. If something goes wrong, we'll extract you guys."

At the very least, those familiar with Gabe will be able to tell he means what he says. So maybe his words can be reassuring?

Once everyone has left and the 24 contestants are left to their own devices, they will find a note in the living room:

Welcome!

Meet me in the studio at 2 pm. Until then, say your hellos and get to know each other.

- The Host

It looks like everyone has some time to get acquainted with each other. Some finger foods (fruit and veggie trays, sandwiches, cans of soda) have been left in the kitchen for people to have for lunch.

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((Welcome to SCP Round 4: Friend or Foe? This first part is for mingling. Part 2 will go up at 2 pm EST.

If you haven't done so already, go here and do the mass-adding for private conversation posts.))

Comments

[darkremnants]

[ Okay after losing one box of Swedish Fish and everything else happening, he'll be out in the common area with a box of oreos. He's decked out in the shirt he had in earlier. If anyone walks by, he'll wave them over. ]

So did anyone find anything new out with all these meetings or are we still at nothing? Does anyone know something on our host?


[ Later, he can be found outside checking out the trampoline. ]

[dereban]

Depends on what you want to know.

[darkremnants]

Anything and everything I can get. He knows everything about us, so I thought it's only fair.

[ him and fair is kind of a funny thing. ]

You're the one that had an interesting greeting for him. Know him from some where?

[dereban]

I don't think he knows everything. There's probably a good amount of things he doesn't know. Besides, I probably know more about him than he knows about me.

[ She shrugs. ] I've never met him in person, but I've heard about an iteration of him from someone important to me. Not to mention that I've read and seen all the material related to him and one of the things Dazai can do is absolute bullshit and it makes me angry--

But I digress.

[darkremnants]

[ how do you really feel ]

Go on. You can share the bull shit parts, too.

[ the only time he'll lend an ear. take advantage or something ]

bsd spoilers for newer chapters

[dereban]

[ she hates all of this ]

Apparently he can control his heartbeat.

To send a message to someone who can read it and it's bullshit.

[darkremnants]

[ staring for a moment before snickering holy shit ]

Looks like he did more than just play video games.

[ dazai what is this ]

[dereban]

Dazai is smarter than he lets on, but that's probably already obvious.

[duskhound]

...So wait, he can communicate through morse via his heartbeat? That's a thing he can do?

[dereban]

I don't think it's morse, exactly. . . but it's some secret code that only one person knows as far as I'm aware and I've never seen them in the Foundation, so.

[ SHRUG????


is there an ango here, who knows ]

[houndumb]

So besides his weird creepy heart thing, and his creepier thing where he likes watching people kill each other in a dumb gameshow, and stuff, what else? What's his weaknesses??

[Getting to the point here?? They don't know anything about this bozo, deets deets deets.]

[dereban]

. . . That I.


I honestly don't know.

[houndumb]

The hell?? Didn't you read and see and hear everything, what does that even mean? Did you do recon or not?!

[I'm sorry he's just like this.]

[dereban]

I did, but there's nothing-- ugh. Well.

Dazai's main ability is nullification. He's-- okay, fine. You would have to outwit him and manage to fight him with no abilities but I don't want it to get to that.

[scarsnstripes]

I can only tell you about a version of him who's older... twenty two, to be exact.

[So, at least three years time. And a job change.]

The Dazai I know isn't in the Mafia anymore so things are very different.

[darkremnants]

Is it the version that Oda is from?

[odasaku]

[ oda hesitates, clearly uncomfortable about this subject, before speaking up. ]

...The Dazai I know was the Boss of the Port Mafia. He's dead.

[darkremnants]

[ that's a rank up then. ]

Makes you wonder what makes this one different, hmm?

[scarsnstripes]

[Atsushi stiffens at that, at the thought of Dazai being dead. It was like a slap in the face, even knowing the Mafia was just like that.

But had someone killed him, or....]

Oda-san, did he...?

[...No, that isn't respectful to ask. He should--]

...My Dazai left the Port Mafia several years ago and was an executive. He's part of the Armed Detective Agency now and he's the one who recruited me.

[darkremnants]

Yours, huh?

[ ;) ]

It looks like this one doesn't belong to either of you.

[scarsnstripes]

Yes, the Dazai I know from my world.

[Is Vanitas trying to imply something here? Nooooot getting it.]

Yes, it seems like it.

[odasaku]

...Right.

[ oda nods, but doesn't look willing to say anything more. ]

[houndumb]

Dazai, Dazai, Dazai, why the hell's there so many of them? It's givin' me a headache just thinking about it already, he better not start dragging more of him in here like those Prinnies.

[Where did that even come from Nora what is your imagination. Stop cursing all of them like this?? Anyway:]

The mafia's those guys who beat up people for money and then kill people and throw 'em in rivers with rocks tied to them, right? And they all look like demons! I'm pretty sure I knew a mafia guy once.

[That's both thoughtful and kind of irritable.]

[odasaku]

It'd be terrible if we had more of him, yeah.

[ nora actually managed to get him to chuckle at the thought of dazais coming in like the prinnies ]

[houndumb]

[He's here to bring up stupid ideas and stupider mental images that's what he's for. Something. He's being perfectly serious about it but also yeah.]

I've never even heard of the guy before this and I've already had enough, one is more than enough!

Do YOU know anything about this guy's weaknesses?