Week 6

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After that mess of a game on Saturday and the arrival of an unexpected guest, the house falls into an uneasy quiet for the rest of the weekend. Nobody else has come on site since the start of the game, barring the prinnies who come and go every day. What could this interruption mean? Dazai gives no indication that the game is over, and yet they weren't supposed to see anybody else until it was all finished. Dazai's nervousness surrounding the person known as 'Mission Control' might be concerning as well.

The rain stops sometime on Sunday night, but the air becomes humid and muggy. Luckily the house is air conditioned, but going outside is going to be miserable for a couple days until everything dries up. While the temperature remains a steady 75 degrees, the humidity is awful through Wednesday. Luckily it looks like the weather will be less miserable by the weekend, which might be what everyone needs. There's no telling what Saturday might bring.

Dazai had said the game would end 'soon', and signs are pointing towards it only lasting another week or two. But when will it really be over? Will everyone survive? And will they be able to bring back their dead friends? Only time will tell.


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[duskhound]

Hm... I wish I had something to help, but I don't exactly have a lot of experience in this kind of thing. Back home it was mostly other people who led things, after all.

["Still, it isn't an active order, so at the very least, MC still believes this can be handled without doing activation."

...Look, she's going to keep on hoping and focusing on the bright side of things.]

[allmyfriendsaredead]

We don't really have party games where I'm from, either. Maybe you could tell me a little more about what you did at home? Were you a student?

["Let's hope he doesn't. Thanks for letting us know."]

[duskhound]

Well, I think I mentioned before that I was an orphan. Schooling where I'm from is largely privatized, so I couldn't actually get any schooling on the basis of being an orphan. And after I became an Inquisitor, well... None of us fellow Inquisitors in training were exactly the type to open up to people, especially considering what we were being taught.

I did manage to get into high school, though. Mostly because I had a Star Brand, which meant I was drafted into Fort City's standing defense, and part of the draft was going there... That being said, I mostly spent my free time doing Inquisitor stuff and practicing at the firing range.

Still, occasionally the S-Ranks all got together to hang out, although we never really did any party games.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

So not everyone goes to school where you're from?

[Huh... Her society puts a priority on education for a variety of reasons, even if not all of them are good. It's odd to think that isn't the case here.]

What is a star brand?

[duskhound]

Well, most people do, but orphans end up falling into one of the exceptions there. As for the star brand... This is going to go into the history of my world a bit, actually.

I think I mentioned Dusk beasts before, but they're basically monsters that are made up of pure Dusk energy, that are a global threat in my world: Once a spawner ends up released, Dusk beasts would swarm over the area, and they're almost impossible to harm with conventional weaponry. Around that time, the Star God gave a prophecy: That his brand would appear on the hands of people between the ages of 16 to 18, and that they would have the power to fight against the Dusk beasts. There were other prophecies too of course, but that was the important one. Those with the Star Brand can hurt Dusk Beasts, and as such, everyone with said brand is more or less drafted into Fort City to help fight them.

It's this thing, on the back of my right hand here.

[She moves her hand over so that Saki can see it a bit better]

Basically, it gives us the ability to harm things that don't actually have a physical form. They disappear on our 19th birthday.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[She does look at the brand, but...]

Why only that age?

[It's still not even an adult by her world's standards.]

[duskhound]

I don't really know myself. As far as I know, it's something the Star God decided on? Aside from the star brands appearing on people, we only hear from the Star God once a year, and that's only for select people in the Aterra Church who spread the prophecies given to them.

[It's because Anime, Saki. It's because Anime. Their world actively enforces the competence age range via divine providence.]

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[Why is Anime.]

It just... seems a little young? If it was a little older, it would at least be adults...

[duskhound]

Oh, there are plenty of adults working in Fort City still, it's just that they can't really do anything about the Dusk beasts without a Star Brand, so they mostly end up focusing on research and development and act as support.

[Still, it's not like she can do anything about who gets magical star brands and how long they stay on a person.

But also, I mean. She was killing people before then. If anything, being sent to mostly fight mindless monsters was a nice break from the usual killing people.]