WEEK 1 || ACT: MINGLE

[foundationmods]

Monday comes onto the snowy town, though it still looks as if it's 'night' as ever.

Then again, you are underground. That's just to be expected, considering no natural light can get down here in the first place. The Monsters around you are just as friendly as ever, and there's so much to explore.

But, there is also that ever-looming threat. Still, it doesn't seem like anyone here could do such a thing as summon something to eat this world....right?

Well. You still have time to figure it out.

...In fact, you'll have nothing but time.


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[moonlightalter]

[DAZAI PLZ]

Switch.

[cw_suicide]

WHAT'S WITH THAT EXPRESSION, ATSUSHI-KUN?

[moonlightalter]

Because you're-

[Wait, no.

He'll go join Dazai just outside the party, so they don't have to yell at each other.]

Because you're making jokes anyone would make a face at, that's why.

[cw_suicide]

Inaba-chan didn't make a face.

[moonlightalter]

She also likes terrible jokes, of course she wouldn't make a face.

[cw_suicide]

Must be a negation ability trait.

--ah, and Atsushi-kun, when you have time, could you help fill in the gaps for me?

[pulling out his notebook which has some scribbles inside.

hush hush down low on this but also...]

I'm still getting up to speed with a few things.

[moonlightalter]

[He peeks in and sees the timeline.]

Ah, you mean, with the stuff I experienced? Do you want me to write it in, or just tell you?

[cw_suicide]

I got a general gist of the various trials from Ren-kun yesterday, and we had some theories going back and forth about something, but I'd like to hear it fresh from someone who experienced it.

[moonlightalter]

Well, mine was an expedition to check out what was presumed to be a new SCP. Previous agents sent to check it out had gone missing, and we were the second group to investigate it.

...I know that sounds similar to your situation, but ours was actually different. The Foundation also tested a memory-erasing drug on us at the time, and all of us forgot we were even agents. Our memories slowly came back during our time at Hotel California.

By the way, the hotel was alive. And it actually treated us pretty well, after everything was over. It was just very, very sick, and it needed our negative emotions and despair to feed off of and heal itself.

[cw_suicide]

[woooow, he is finding the Foundation just continues to be Dog-awful]

... funny, that. The spider wanted our despair and pain to feed off as well.

I don't know if the curse required that, but the spider certainly wanted us to feel that.

[moonlightalter]

I think the curse was something else entirely. The Hotel...well actually, the Hotel was just one of many 'living buildings'. At the end of it we saw her daughter and grandchildren.

Apparently fear makes them grow, but once they're older and established, happiness is enough to feed them? Because the Hotel's grandchildren were haunted houses. And the Hotel said that they 'grew up' when they shifted from a haunted house to something more friendly to humans.

[cw_suicide]

The mansion near the Winchester house was also one of those houses.

Or something very similar...

[moonlightalter]

Oh, that's the one we stayed at. It's the same kind of living house, yes.

Everything that happened at the hotel was pretty bad, but in the end our suffering helped the Hotel heal, so I guess it was for a good purpose. And since Ichigo and Syzael-san were both there, everyone who had died was put into new bodies and it all turned out alright.

[cw_suicide]

[this face]

[moonlightalter]

[His smile falls a little.]

What's that look for?

[cw_suicide]

[he smiles]

Ah, well. Everything that happened in the Winchester house was so miserable and terrible, but in the end everything worked out, didn't it? I even got my lovers' death--though it wasn't even a suicide--and we were brought back to life and given new bodies and now everything's turned out all right.

[moonlightalter]

[Just. This face.

And he's going to reach out- moving slowly, so he doesn't startle Dazai- and attempt to catch Dazai's face between his hands. Because he wants to smoosh that face a bit right now.]

[cw_suicide]

[wow. he was making a point here!

... lets it get smooshed a bit if it makes tiger feel better.]

[moonlightalter]

Helping a living hotel that would have otherwise died is very different from feeding into a curse that wanted to destroy the world. Don't tell me you can't see the difference there.

[SQUISH SQUISH SQUISH]

[cw_suicide]

[reaching up to grab his hands to make the squishing stop.]

So just because there was a positive outcome, you'll overlook the suffering?

I can understand that. For The Greater Good has been something I've been well used to for a long time. But honestly... these days, it's very exhausting to hear.

Why did that house need to be saved at the expense of so many people? Isn't it natural for things to live and die? What's so special about it? It being your choice is one thing, but what gives someone a right to dictate the worth of your life in comparison to that house?

[spoilers: there is no right. and he's the worst offender and he knows it.]

[moonlightalter]

...it was our fault.

[He had been avoiding that part, but since Dazai is preventing him from squishing his face more he'll just let Dazai hold his hands for a bit.]

One of the agents that had gone in first, he was sick. And the Hotel caught the sickness from him, and we had to remove him from the Hotel entirely before the Hotel could even begin to heal. If we hadn't sent that sick agent in, then the Hotel never would have gotten sick in the first place.

[cw_suicide]

So cleaning up after the Foundation.

Again.

[dislikes this pattern]

[moonlightalter]

Cleaning up after Reyes-san in particular, actually. He didn't tell anyone he was sick.

[cw_suicide]

Thorough vetting of personnel is supposed to be part of the job.

[UGH. HIS EX-MAFIA LEADER BRAIN THAT SOUNDS SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE MORI-SAN IS SO OFFENDED BY THIS INEFFICIENCCCCYYYY]

[moonlightalter]

True. ...though thinking about it now, Mayuri probably knew about what was happening to Reyes-san and sent him on that mission on purpose to see what would happen. That does sound like something he would do.

[All the more reason Atsushi is glad Solomon is back now.]