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

[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.

[darkremnants]

Very. Seems to me like he just likes playing the fool.

[dereban]

He sure does.

[darkremnants]

So what's his deal with his ex?

[ a nod towards oda ]

[dereban]

Ahahaha.

This Oda isn't the Oda he knows. In Dazai's iteration of his world. . . they were both in the mafia, and they were friends, actually.

[scarsnstripes]

Wait-- they were friends?

[Things Atsushi has not done: Watched his own 'series'.]

...That makes a lot of things make sense.

[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 ]

[duskhound]

Mmm... Yeah, I'm probably not going to be able to break that without someone who knows the code telling me.

[dereban]

I know a lot of codes thanks to the Hotel, but. . .

[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.

[houndumb]

Nullification, what, he just turns magic off or something? That's cheating!!

[He's immediately all hissy at the idea, probably because his magic is turned off the entire rest of the goddamn time and missions are the only time he actually gets to stretch his legs. Grouch. Grouch!!!]

But it doesn't matter. If he's going to do something like that, I'll just punch him out! [Nora that's against the rules] It'll just hurt more in the end, so ha!

[dereban]

Magic and abilities through touch gets nullified.

But. . . good luck?

[houndumb]

I don't need luck, I just need a real good shot at him!!

[Yes, you're clearly going to get this with how subtle and good at ambush you are. There is no way this can possibly go wrong at all.]

[dereban]

Just don't kill him. . .

[houndumb]

Killing people here sounds like a pain too. I'll just make him wish he were dead!!

[Is that really what he should be doing.]