[Video] un: foxtales

[byanyother_name]

[The initial video opening just displays a new sign on the wall of the common room. It looks like someone managed to find a piece of whiteboard and an erasable marker to incorporate into the sign. What does the sign say?

10 weeks without murder

Yes, you read that right. The whiteboard part is where the 10 is written with marker. It's clearly been made to be regularly updated. Kurama's voice when he speaks is...close to his usual calm tones but a little tense.]

Many of the people here will wonder why this sign is needed. The people who need it know why. I am one of the first group to fall through the Fissures, so this encompasses the entire history we know of of outsiders in this world.

I'm going to keep it updated appropriately, since...there might be more of us, apparently.

I would like to ask that no one tamper with the sign except for accurate updates. This is not a prank and it is not for pranks. It's for people that have suffered.

Comments

[byanyother_name]

No, we really aren't, with good reason. But even if they need more convincing, those who follow us will have something to tell them that they aren't the only ones.

At least, I don't really think people that haven't been through it would bother with a sign like this.

[burninglight]

Hell, -I- still need convincing right now. But it does help, however slightly.

At least a sign's absurd enough to be funny. At my age it's black humor or raving insanity.

[fantasykiller]

[His grip on his phone tightens as anger swells up within him.]

What the hell! Just what kind of monster abducts people for the sole sake of forcing them to kill each other?

text: ariadne

[daughterofthemark]

I hope that it will not need updating more than once a week.

[byanyother_name]

I have...mostly accepted it by now. But as noted, I've been here from the start.

I must admit I agree entirely. There comes a point somewhere between three and four digits that you really just have to find the humor in a wider range of things.

[byanyother_name]

As do I, quite fervently.

[byanyother_name]

It wasn't for the sole sake of the murders, but I doubt you'd be much happier with the other reasons.

They are insufficient at best and disgusting at worst.

[burninglight]

Pretty sure it was somewhere around early three digits for me, but 'humor' was a bit subjective at the time. The concept of 'laugh -or- go insane' is a newer one next to 'laugh -and- be insane'.

wait a godsdamned minute how old are you

log?

[press_start]

[someone has already vandalised the whiteboard! … to decorate it it seems. Flowers and smiley faces have been scattered around the ‘10’, along with a comment: “good job everyone! let's keep this a killing-free station!” ]

[daughterofthemark]

Ten weeks is a good start. We had difficulty making it two.

[byanyother_name]

That sounds like a story, and not a pleasant one.

Somewhere between 1300 and 1400, plus 17.

[burninglight]

It's not. Long, unpleasant, and requires heavy drinking to recount.

~2000, give or take a century or so. Plus 46.

log?

[byanyother_name]

[Kurama just looks at this for a long moment. You know what? It's fine. Perkier than he would have gone for but clearly someone else's handwriting and they didn't mess with the number.]

I suppose a little extra encouragement isn't such a bad thing...

[byanyother_name]

No one died ten weeks ago, I just can't confirm for anything earlier than that.

[byanyother_name]

[Not as such, no.]

Little enough, but there are times when you take whatever comfort you find.

...thank you, Izunia.

video: clearwater2000

[nojohnyouare]

...Thank you. Helpful... Maybe. It's concerning. But we'd be thinking it anyway.

[fantasykiller]

It doesn't matter what their reasons were. Toying with the lives of others is inexcusable.

[Touma goes quiet for a moment before continuing.]

I think you should take down your sign.

[byanyother_name]

I'm aware. It's sometimes difficult for me to accept that this place is different, and I have been here for all of those ten weeks.

[byanyother_name]

You are showing more common sense than people I have met many times your age.

I think we have less wall space than we have types of shit, to be completely honest.

[nojohnyouare]

[Mai doesn't say anything for a while. Her eyes open wider and she looks him over through the screen.]

Like us? But...

[She knew all the dead very well, and come the fifth season, could tell all the living on sight. This person was none of them. So he must not have been from Airlocked!

There are a few different explanations Mai can think of for this. She likes exactly none of them.]

[byanyother_name]

[Too many. As far as Kurama is concerned, even one is too many.]

It...changes you. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. But either way, it leaves scars behind.

I understand you mean well, Wren.

[byanyother_name]

[Congratulations, Mai, you have tuned with exactly how Kurama felt when he caught Ardyn patrolling Thursday night. Some of the people in his game tried patrolling, too, for all the good it did.

He nods slightly when she questions, quiet and serious.]

The Reaper's Game, mine was called. Horrifying, to think that this sort of thing happens in multiple places, completely independent of each other.

[byanyother_name]

Yes... but we have none of the same pressures behind us here. Killing will not free us from this world and there have been no motives. The androids, to all appearances, would be horrified by the very idea.

[nojohnyouare]

...So not Airlocked! But similar. Champions of a thing, like us?

[byanyother_name]

If you're looking for an argument on that, you won't find it here.

[Kurama tilts his head slightly and shakes his head.]

You are welcome to think that. Everyone is entitled to their opinions. I will not, unless and until one of the people I made it for asks me to, or it causes a genuine problem.