FINAL INVESTIGATION

[whimsicalism]

INVESTIGATION

The relative peace of this week has, in some ways, been a welcome reprieve from the past month and a half of terror. There's no escaping reality for that long, though. The swarm of dolls late on Tuesday night were a rude reawakening, serving as a reminder of the game that everyone is still playing, even if your host is quieter than normal.

By the time Friday rolls around, there's virtually nothing of Kakuya's presence remaining. Though Ira Academy has been alarmingly silent many mornings before, it's never been quite so...abandoned. The power in the building is struggling. Runner lights have come on to illuminate the flickering hallways in the event they're plunged into darkness (and every so often, they are). Looking out at the playground reveals it has fallen completely into an Autumn fog, the different play structures moving slightly on their own in the bitter wind. The Little Brother units have all been deactivated before they even had time to retreat to their normal closet hideaways. Their still figures linger around the school, unmoving, eyes dull.

With the loss of any other presence around, the students are completely alone, but there's no escaping the school itself just yet. On your morning wanderings, you'll find that a new area has opened up on the fifth floor. A wall, previously thought just to be a wall, opens up in the Little Fears room. A plaque on the newly opened door tells you clearly that you're not supposed to be here: Staff Only. If Nanami knew of this area she's long forgotten it.

This area has three smaller subsections - a large room with a heavy metal door, a fancy looking bedroom with adjoining office, and several spacious meeting rooms - just enough for a few of you to explore each. It's time to rely on one another and try to unravel the final questions of this school and this horrifying game.


What will you find?

Comments

[imprefect]

[Interacting with Yasu is activating so many instinctual axes: her alpha girl posturing, her unintentional natural witch enmity... But they all have to get out of here before this school sucks them back in, and in a rare moment of maturity Nanami does not act on those instincts.]

... It's not gonna be that easy to get me to accept an apology from you. For starters, there's no point if you don't say sorry to her, too. [Huh. Maybe her weird talk session with "Neku" the cat made her think about someone else in this instance. Anyway, Nanami quickly waves Yasu off to her intended destination for the actual purpose of this investigation.]

The Principal managed to keep that doll girl under control for a long time. If I was her, that's the first stuff I'd try and destroy utterly. [Yasu probably already knows what to look for given that she's been speaking to their wayward host all along, but... you can't take the order-giving completely out of her.]