[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

un:alibaba

[notjustahacker]

You're right. Why is it necessary to state how many weeks it's been without murder? I'm beginning to feel i'm missing something.

[ There's a frown on her face right now, giving Kurama a bit of a look. ]

[fantasykiller]

Would you mind explaining the reason for the sign to the rest of us clueless people? I know you say it isn't a prank, but from the perspective of someone who doesn't understand the meaning behind the sign, it just kind of comes off as a bad attempt at dark humor.

text; elevencrows

[founderinglight]

Not a bad thought. Though I suppose it depends then on if they're willing to trust such signage at face value.

[Unlike the rest of the game, apparently, Izunia has a decent handle on what this is for and what it represents. It makes his heart ache that it's needed.]

video; darkwings

[thoroff]

[Like Izunia, Wren knows exactly what this is for, but...]

I don't know... I understand what you're trying to do, but is that truly wise?

[byanyother_name]

[No frills no details version it is, then, because Kurama isn't willing to be the one who tells Akira and Goro's little sister that he met them in a murdergame.]

Some of the people here now have been through a set of circumstances where a week without murder is not only not a given, it's the exception to the rule.

un: masayoshi shido

[makejapangreat]

[Well. That's rather straight to the point, isn't it?

For people that have suffered... what the hell? And then he sees Kurama's response to Futaba and... that sounds like hell. (A hell he inflicted on someone. To see the lasting psychological effects, even if it's not his son, makes his stomach churn.]

Let us hope that number only continues to grow.

[... haaaaa so guess who's still half-expecting to get killed by his son]

[byanyother_name]

Some of the people here now have been through a set of circumstances where a week without murder is not only not a given, it's the exception to the rule.

[Stock explanation is go!]

un: iondeluge (text)

[letsplayer]

fuck

[superstylishsquid]

This kinda makes it seem like a bunch of people here just walked out of a horror movie, you realize that.

[fantasykiller]

What!?

[His expression visibly sours.]

These 'set of circumstances' you're talking about. What exactly are they and how are they connected to these murders?

[byanyother_name]

That isn't something I can control. But even if they don't, it might provide some assurance that someone understands.

[Kurama doesn't exactly love that it's needed, either. That he, Akira, and Goro aren't the only ones to suffer this particular strain of paranoia.]

[founderinglight]

...It's bad enough to know that such things were done once. I'm sorry.

[Guess who hadn't gotten your murdergame talk yet.]

[byanyother_name]

[What Wren does not know is that Kurama isn't seeing this from an outside perspective.]

I suppose only time will tell. But I am one of the people here with a right to try it.

[byanyother_name]

That's probably close enough to what actually happened.

[byanyother_name]

It's a long story. Some people have worse introductions to the multiverse than others.

[letsplayer]

I feel like I'm going to immediately regret asking what happened in more detail

so you know what, I won't

you think we should make more signs for different types of shit though

[byanyother_name]

At least mine actually served some sort of good, however twisted the method.

[Yeahhhh. It's not exactly something he likes to talk about.]

[founderinglight]

[Not something anyone would, really.]

I imagine that to be of little comfort.

If there is anything I can do, you need only ask.

username: Captain Undyne

[seafoamgreen]

Wait, what happened ten weeks ago?!

[At least it's a different question that the other ones?]

[thoroff]

[She averts her eyes. Just how many people here have suffered through such horrors?]

I just feel like this might do more to inspire unease than relieve it...

[She looks back at Kurama, her brow still drawn in clear sadness.]

But forgive me. I haven't experienced what you have, and I don't mean to be presumptuous.

[byanyother_name]

[Kurama is feeling pretty pointy right about now. He found out some things that didn't agree with him Thursday night.

Some other things he's found out that don't agree with him; this man is Masayoshi Shido. He thinks the likelihood of more than one person by that name having appeared here this particular Fissure trip is vanishingly small.]

I agree. So I would appreciate it if you didn't give Goro too many opportunities to try to kill you.

[It's definitely a lot cooler than the last time they spoke. But at least it's still polite?]

[byanyother_name]

Ten weeks ago is when people from other worlds started appearing here.

[It's also a much simpler question to answer.]

[seafoamgreen]

Okay, but did anyone die????

text; luciferskylight

[burninglight]

Appreciated.

Silly as it looks in concept, hopefully that'll help set anyone else at ease when and if they should follow us.

Though admittedly, some of us aren't the most trusting, so I imagine it'll still take some convincing in that situation. ┐(ﾟ～ﾟ)┌

[byanyother_name]

[Sigh.]

I'm aware of at least two instances of people being abducted from their home worlds and placed into a situation where their captors demanded someone be murdered each week.