WEEK 5 MINGLE

[foundationmods]

WEEK 5

They said it was a break week, but two of your number were lost anyway last week. While you're all tired and still recovering, the speakers crackle to life with the voice of The Lady.

"Attention, Guests. The game is back on. Break week is now over. Happy Holidays."

The Staff are still like they were last week - only this time, the orders almost always go wrong, if they even manage to go through - the Staff are vanishing constantly. Meals are also getting affected - they're still perfectly edible, but they're not as delicious as they once were, with seasoning and other things occasionally being off. The Sign warning people to not take knives is still on the kitchen door, but The Chef seems incredibly tired, often resting on a chair in the corner.

The Resort is still furnished with Holiday items - but after Medic's christmas protest, there are more items related to other holidays up, and it's much more balanced - objects and colors of multiple holidays side by side in harmony, with the mistletoe still up for any needed smooching. There are, however, more wriggling...things, and there's even an entire 'tree' made of eldritch tentacles with glowing balls of light on them that wink in an oddly hypnotic fashion.

The weather is still nothing, but the courtyard seems to have switched to a much warmer clime, which while still a little cool is pleasant enough to sit outside in. Finally, the music this week seems... almost ominous...?

On Monday morning, another memory is returned to everyone, one more traumatic this time instead of gentle like the others have been. Yet, you feel as if you know a little more about your time in this world, now. Not everything, but...enough.

Enough to see this game through to the end, at least.


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cw: suicidal ideation

[resortghosts]

[ There's a bunny hoodie ghost sitting nearby, tapping away on his tablet. ]

my memory's probably important, though...

[ His hands pause. But then he gets to writing again: ]

i remembered tracking down scps, like we thought. it was the usual kind of mission for me by then. i was really used to it!

i got ahead of my squad, but the person i found was big bro mikado- or... i guess he was actually my future self? he was another thaumiel like me, but... he was dying

he wondered how long i would last before my eyes were used up and they'd send another thaumiel after me, too. i don't think that was my first mission where someone ended up taken out by the squad, either...

[ His hands stop for another moment. ]

i kind of guessed it would be this sort of thing. i guess i really am an enemy after all! there's probably lots of people who would still be alive if it weren't for me

maybe this world would have been happier if i didn't exist

sooo if anyone agrees with that, i'll accept it

sorry...

[ And after that, he rests his hands on his tablet, head down. ]

[duskhound]

[To be honest, there is so much alarming stuff going on there, she doesn't know where to start.]

So, um... The Foundation had you... eliminate your future self?

[resortghosts]

yup

he was someone i thought was my cousin? but he said "the younger me" and...

i didn't know about mikado having the same power as me. i thought he was normal

[duskhound]

Well, he probably kept it a secret for some reason. I don't really know why he would keep it a secret, though.

[Then, the next important thing...]

...If what he was saying was true, the Foundation intends to use your powers until they burn you out, and then have you killed like what happened to him.

[resortghosts]

[ After reading all of this, bunny hoodie is getting a forehead flick. And also a text response in lieu of a verbal one so that everyone can see it.

Although he can probably see the person that this message is coming from just glaring at him. ]

Don't say that about yourself, you idiot!!

"Maybe this world would have been happier if I didn't exist"?! That's bullshit! Everyone deserves to live, no matter who or what they are! Don't even think about throwing your life away like that.

What ifs won't change that you exist right here, right now. We don't know what could have been. And it's entirely possible that the world could have also been worse without you. You've helped us out so much, after all... in ways that nobody else could even do.

[resortghosts]

[ The hoodie noticeably jolts at the flick, curling up. ]

if we get out of here and get new gigai, i'll probably go back to tracking down people

is everyone really okay with that...?

[resortghosts]

"Probably".

Is that what you want to do, though?

[theycallhimmrpchan]

Nanase-san. Don't ever say it's better if you don't exist. That - thing - put you all between a rock and a hard place, just because they took advantage of you doesn't mean you're a bad person.

[resortghosts]

if i really was the person tracking you...

i probably didn't think about it. i... probably didn't think about a lot of things

sorry...

[theycallhimmrpchan]

You're probably not the only one who was used to track me, the only difference is you're more likely to get me faster - and making sure the

[Ryoga fishes, his expression wavering the images from his 'dream' coming back]

'Workers' from running into something even more dangerous... that would eat them.

[whirlingmace]

Hey...

[ Putting her hand on the bun hood. ]

Don't say that, Yoyo. It's not your fault your orders were really really bad.

[resortghosts]

[ There's a pretty long pause before he writes some more. ]

red told me i should think for myself more instead of just following orders

but i didn't listen

i was fine with doing what i was told

[whirlingmace]

But now you aren't, right? Because you have a place with us.

[ So he doesn't have to try to be useful to the Foundation to be wanted ]

[dolleyed]

Kid. They're never gonna let us be free anyway, it doesn't matter if it's you chasing us or anyone else.

We're foundation property and that's it. No worse or better among us.

[resortghosts]

[ Another long pause before he gets a reply. ]

yeah. thinking of it as helping this world was probably pretty stupid, huh...?

i probably don't have too much time anyway. mikado's 8 years older than me

[dolleyed]

Maybe the lady who keeps putting me back together when I die can be persuaded to do you a favor here, who knows.

8 years is a long time anyhow.

[latebluemer]

Nanashi... Do you want to be our enemy?

[They’ve been having a lot of conversations with echoes lately, haven’t they?]

[resortghosts]

no

but i might have to help hunt people down again once we leave

it's pretty much guaranteed, isn't it?

[latebluemer]

Is it? You don’t want to do it anymore, do you?

[13thpromise]

Shut up.

[ That was a very nice for him to say, but today's hard and hearing those words makes him just... ]

Don't...don't say anything like that again, okay? That you'd accept something like that.

[resortghosts]

[ His hands lift off of the tablet, hovering for a moment before typing, resigned: ]

whatever people choose... i'll accept it

if people want me to stay, then i'll stay

[ Though that's exactly what caused this mess to begin with, isn't it? ]

[rosebridled]

[ Killing your future self... She vaguely wonders what the Dios from back then would have thought of Akio.

...and what she would have thought, too. ]

Most individual existences don't matter as much to the world as people think they do. I wouldn't worry about that, if the world's happiness is really your concern.

[resortghosts]

"it doesn't really matter" huh...

[enter_the_darkness]

You really are the biggest idiot...

[ Vanitas, who has been super distracted, suddenly sounds... a little pissed, at first? Woah. At least that dims down after he rolls his eyes and looks away from the bunny hood. ]

It's not anyone's job here to decide if you should exist. If you need us to give you permission, then what point is there?

[ Jawline... tensing... ]

It's nobody's job to hand you your ending.

[ For just a moment, he's glancing around - if Tsumugi is around, his eyes will be landing on her for a couple of seconds. He looks incredibly tense, hands tightened into fists. He will look back to the hoodie after that. ]

That's the lazy, cowardly way out. Stop making so many damn excuses and learn to use your own damn head for once.

[resortghosts]

[ His head snaps up at Vanitas' words, though in the end...

He merely looks down again. That's... expecting way too much from him. He's not someone who can do that so easily.

He's garbage, after all. ]