thefoundation | Week 5, Friday

As evening falls, everyone settles in to relax and sleep. Many people are in the Blue room, including Saki. Interestingly enough, there is another guest as well in the form of Giriko who has been recently-Pooka-fied. All seems well in the sleepover, and nobody outside of a certain chainsaw even suspects that anything is about to happen.

Outside, near the garage, Giriko's former body suddenly gets up. It walks into the garage, looking for the chainsaw, only to find that it has gone missing. The body pauses, and is clearly trying to figure out what to do next. Then it leaves the garage, and it looks towards the house, but apparently decides against going there and heads towards the studio instead. Right by the door there is a large sledgehammer, which Giriko's former body picks up and hefts onto its shoulder. Then it heads into the studio itself.

About three minutes pass with nothing really happening outside. The cameras inside the studio are still busted, so nothing can be seen of the interior. But after approximately three minutes the door the the studio is flung open but Giriko's former body, which has apparently been yeeted out of it. The body goes skidding across the parking lot, coming to a stop laying on its back about thirty feet away from the door. There is also a keyblade embedded in its chest.

A few moments later, Vanitas steps out, followed shortly by Dazai. The pair walk over to the body and peer down at it as it lays there motionless. Since only distant cameras are recording this, what they say cannot be heard. But based on their expressions and random gestures towards the body, it's probably an argument of some sort.

Then Giriko's former body suddenly grabs Dazai's leg, and Dazai lets out a shriek that can be heard on the distant cameras, albeit faintly.

In the house, Saki looks to the window at the same time Dazai screams. She says, "What was that?"

Karen who looks to the window as well says "Maybe an owl?" All people at the party discuss the possibility of it being some kind of owl, and they end up using a stored reference database on someone's phone to look up the sounds a screech owl makes. By the time they find a sufficient answer, the following fight is long over and there are no more noises to be heard, so they collectively write it off as 'just an owl'.

Giriko is holding onto Dazai, picking him up and holding him upside-down as he stands up. Dazai flails uselessly like the loser he is, trying to kick his way out of the grasp but failing to make progress. Vanitas, meanwhile, holds a hand out towards Giriko's former body. The keyblade embedded in it suddenly de-materializes and reappears in Vanitas' outstretched hand, and a moment later he's rushing at Giriko's former body to attack it. A clean cut slices off the arm, and Dazai falls to the ground. And while he is down, he's not going to be out of the fight, as he's scrambling to turn around and grab Giriko's former body's bare leg, thereby nullifying any power within it. Abruptly the body falls back down, turning to a lifeless corpse once more.

Vanitas still stabs it a few times to make sure it's good and dead. Then the pair tie the body to a tree with some rope before heading back inside for the night. Everyone inside the house is left unaware of what just happened outside.

The night passes with no new deaths.

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So, what story are we sharing today?

[ yeah she's bugging him

might as well

WHAT ARE THE DEETS ]

[Only when she's safely in the no cam or mic zone, but...]

Just a little over a week. That's what he told me.

We're almost done with this.

We are, which reminds me. Remember how he said that only three more people needed to die this week?

[She nods.]

Do you... know something more about it?

He said the games will be harder and he can't really help much anymore. People will die.

[ They will probably wind up with more deaths ]

[...Ah.

Her gaze fixes on the ground, expression tight.]

Just how many of us do they have to kill before they're happy...?

Who knows. He's being an idiot about it.

[ He fixes her a look. ]

He's painting a big target on his back.

[And she matches that look.]

We'll probably have to save him from himself.

Pretty much. He's determined to be the villain in this story.

[ He's a Star and what do Stars do best besides shine? ]

[One Alcorsplosion was enough, Doezai. She sighs, pinching the bridge of her nose.]

Well, I'll try my best to survive. [Though she doesn't sound super confident in her chances there.] If I do... I'll see how I can help him.

[ There's a flit of emotions there for a moment. A blink and you'll miss kind... then he'll give a nod. ]

I'm going to give him what I was working on in a bit. Just in case.

[ Since there's no guarantees here. ]

[...?

She has questions about a couple things, but she'll stick with:]

What you were working on?

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Six weeks. . . that's the same length as the last game I was in.

[ not surprised ]

[ Closing his phone as he looks at her. ]

Want the story about the failed murder attempt?

You know what? Sure.

[ she's avidly curious.

come at her. ]

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[ There's a pause, and then he yawns. ]

We were watching a movie when that thing broke down the door. I threw my keyblade at it. We thought it was down... [ Let's skip the argument. ] When we went to check it out, it grabbed him. So I had to save him and stop it.

. . .What movie?

[ clearly that's the most important part here. ]

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[ There's another pause because so much happened that he has to think... ]

Kung Fu Panda.

[ oh.

well.

hm... ]

Thanks for saving him.

[ What was she even expecting ]

...don't thank me. I did it for my own reasons.

[ she's not even surprised, but still? still. ]

And what reasons were those?

The none of your business reasons.

[ and this is where she just

rolls her eyes again in the 'of fucking course this is why I don't trust you at all' manner ]

[ not that she trusted him at the get go but also when two people both have trust issues gestures ]

Secret reasons again.