[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]

That is an entirely fair suggestion, particularly as that confusion has already occurred with one person.

I'll make adjustments.

[misanthropicprinciple]

It's cool. I have plenty of experience with this shit, I can anticipate a lot of the paranoid reactions you might get.

[byanyother_name]

...this is going to be another conversation that will make me very angry at people I can't reach, isn't it?

What is your criteria for 'plenty of experience'?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Four life or death games, all of which are over, the masterminds dealt with in some way or another.

[byanyother_name]

Four? And I thought it was bad enough knowing there were two separate ones...

[misanthropicprinciple]

Well, "separate" is debatable. The first two were related historically, I guess, but two distinct games run by very different people, while the second two were...

Let's call them two rounds of the same shit. Seasons, if you will.

[byanyother_name]

That damned television show Ardyn told me about. And two others?

...may I ask, if you know, what were the reasons behind the others you went through? Ours at least had some kind of decent cause behind it all, however deplorable the methods.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[A pause.]

"Decent" depends on your point of view.

The first was an attempt to save a young girl's life and punish those who otherwise would have killed her. They put nine young children in mortal danger; the nine of us also ran the risk of death, but ultimately, eight of us escaped physically unharmed.

The second was designed with a few different goals in mind, one of which was the release of a deadly virus that would wipe three fourths of humanity off the face of the Earth - six billion deaths. On the other hand, one of the other goals was to raise and strengthen powerful espers to save all eight billion humans from an omnicidal fanatic. Some of the mastermind's other motivations were more selfish and less globally relevant.