[...he's done talking. He's done with a lot of things, so he's getting up and heading for the cassette player since Higekiri's at the camera.]
Stop might be a square. Or there might be a switch to turn the whole thing off, too. Try flicking that. But...what do you see when you look through the eye? [He's going to pause the tape player, too. So what happens when, maybe, the tape player is paused, the camera is off, and a sword is looking at a young woman on a bed whose corpse went AWOL?]
Hitting any of the buttons on the camera doesn't seem to do much, really. It's still recording. Still showing a mess of blood and gore on the bed, which... Beck is now laying on top of, according to the viewfinder. Though Beck herself won't feel it, Higekiri will be able to see through the camera that some of it has rubbed off on her, coating her skin and clothes. Gross.
The cassette player will pause, as normal. Nothing out of the ordinary there. ]
[ . . . . Hmmmmmm, that is concerning. Higekiri blinks.]
Miss, consider moving from the bed. It's nothing dangerous, but perhaps uncomfortable.
[LOOK, HE'S TRYING TO HELP WITHOUT RESURFACING HER TRAUMA
Can he move the camera around? If he's using the viewfinder would he be able to see anything inside it that stands out from the normal room - besides the whole blood, guts, and gore bit?]
[They can do that and be useful. He's going to go back to the bed, lay the fuck down, pick up a dildo, and lob it against the door as hard as possible, bemoaning his goddamn existence.]
What in the fuck do you want from us this time? [Who is he talking to? Who knows.]
[Being the type of dildo with a suction cup at the bottom, it bounces off the door before sticking to the next surface it touches — sadly jiggling from the impact. Wobble, wobble, wobble.
Just like the last times, pressing the NONE button causes it to light up in green. Meanwhile, ALL goes dim.
As for Higekiri... Hm! He will discover that the camera can, indeed, be moved. The tripod is set up so the camera can easily be spun around and aimed at any corner of the room. Is he point it towards any part of the room specifically?]
Nothing that I think should be comfortably described in detail - but perhaps we should all take long baths after this. It can be relaxing as well.
[higekiri stans cleanliness!! and junpei not throwing shit around!!!
but Higekiri is going to go ahead and move the camera around!! He aims it toward the door, like he's hoping that they'll get some kind of hint first - but then he'll also aim it toward the light switch, toward the monitor on the desk, and then toward the switchboard system. He'll also be okay with doing a full 360 because he's just curious.]
[He's watching the camera move, but he's staring at the monitor. He'll get up and readjust it so he can see before returning to the bed.]
Hey, Higekiri. Repeat that cycle with the camera again. [He's just watching to see what happens when the camera goes to the door, to the light switch, to the monitor itself, to the switchboard, and when it does the 360 and by nature the 180. i.e. assume he's moving the monitor while Hige's doing the camera thing and watching. What happens?]
[Nothing happens if Junpei spins the monitor around while Higekiri spins the camera, except for the fact that he'll miss some of the footage. Sad. :(
That said... Huh. As Higekiri moves the camera around, a few things will become visible on the viewfinder and monitor. In order:
- Something has been written in blood on the door. From top to bottom, it says: 1ST, and 2 C. - Beck's duplicate sits daintily on top of the desk. She's still naked, her legs crossed, and the flesh still missing from her face. She is also absolutely coated in blood. She waves cheerfully at Higekiri, before getting up and walking outside of the camera's field of view. - On the switchboard, the slot where a cassette can be inserted seems to be glowing. - Like Beck, Junpei is covered in blood after laying down on the bed.
Spinning the camera around a second time will show the same sights, save for Beck's duplicate. She's disappeared from the room.]
[ - is what higekiri says when the camera ends up falling on Not Beck. he thinks idly of how one of his former names was demon cutter, and how he would find it acceptable to relive that name again if it were to mean cutting her down. after all that, he straightens and retrieves the first cassette from his pocket, taking strides over to the switchboard
he turns to junpei, tilting his head and offering a smile through the headache.]
Please direct her outside as soon as possible, if this is to be the final step. I will follow after.
I will commence when you are ready, please let me know when to proceed.
[they deserve to have fair warning?? but once the two of them are settled - he will put the cassette in the switchboard where it was glowing! (and he'll hit play if nothing happens at first, since he saw the other do it before)]
[Seeing as the first time with that cassette went so well, she's going to take Higekiri's advice and stand pretty close to the door as she realizes what he's about to do.
For obvious reason, she looks apprehensive, but she doesn't tell him to stop or make any motion to move towards the switchboard. Instead:]
[He gets up from the bed, thinking about what he managed to catch on the monitor and understanding. He's heading over toward the door, lingering a little ways away just in case but mostly closer to the door itself.]
[Indeed, nothing happens when Higekiri pushes the cassette into the slot. However, it's an entirely different story once he presses play.
Unlike the last time, there are no angry duplicates coming after them. Instead, the P.A. system crackles to life for a fourth time. There are a handful of seconds of nothing but distorted, garbled audio... But once they get through that, the same voice as before begins to speak.]
I spoke to H ҉̵͢-̶̧҉̶͜-̀͏-̨͟͏̵ again. He seemed to be in a bad mood. But that's hardly surprising nowadays... It's easy to forget how he used to be when this all started.
"This is pointless," he said to me. "They're hunting us down, like we're -̡͜͠͞͠-̶́̀͟-͏̷̶͢-̕҉̶̡-̷͟͠. There were 33 of us four weeks ago. Now there's only 12! And my brother, he was--"
I asked him to calm down. Pleaded with him to hold onto his hope. We would speak to C ̶͟-̢̛ ̵̢͘͝-̶́-͜͝-̸̡͘͞͞ ̶̧-̵̶̕͡͠ later, so he could share with us what t͘͘͜͟͠-͘-̶͏ ̶̴͡͏e̸̵ ̶̢d́̕͟é̛ ̧̨͘͜-̸̛͢͞ ̵͢҉͜-̡r̶̶̶͡҉t̶̷͠e͜͠҉̧-̛̕͡ had whispered to him.
But as our conversation carried on, I could not let go of my guilt. I could not tell him what I had done, and who I had protected.
[Once again, the audio becomes heavily distorted towards the end, making it so they cannot understand what comes after this brief clip of audio. As Junpei and Beck are standing close to the door, they will be able to hear a click coming from it once the cassette has finished playing.]
Higekiri is almost disappointed he didn't get a demon to cut.
Well, he's still listening!! And he's thoughtful about it, looking like he's sincerely trying to trying to focus for once. Then when it ends, he'll wait for the two to open the door and then retrieve the tape afterward, pocketing it again as he turns back to Beck and Junpei.]
Let us depart.
[he does look a bit concerned for a moment - but it just as quickly disappears underneath a smile]
[She listens to all of that, but it doesn't do much to make her any less distressed - still, it's information they didn't have before, at the very least.
All the same, she doesn't hesitate when Higekiri says that. She's stepping forward to head out the door as quickly as she can.]
[They won't have any trouble getting out of the room now that the door is unlocked, at least. They'll even get to keep any items they've taken with them. Nice! As they all step out into the first floor corridors, however, they will hear something shuffling and moving behind them. Should they glance back quickly enough, they'll catch a glimpse of the room resetting itself. The switchboard resets to its original settings, the dildo Junpei threw pops off the door to roll across the floor to its previous location, and the camera spins back towards the bed.
As the lights inside the room switch themselves off, the door closes behind them. The lock will click shut once again.
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Stop might be a square. Or there might be a switch to turn the whole thing off, too. Try flicking that. But...what do you see when you look through the eye? [He's going to pause the tape player, too. So what happens when, maybe, the tape player is paused, the camera is off, and a sword is looking at a young woman on a bed whose corpse went AWOL?]
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Hitting any of the buttons on the camera doesn't seem to do much, really. It's still recording. Still showing a mess of blood and gore on the bed, which... Beck is now laying on top of, according to the viewfinder. Though Beck herself won't feel it, Higekiri will be able to see through the camera that some of it has rubbed off on her, coating her skin and clothes. Gross.
The cassette player will pause, as normal. Nothing out of the ordinary there. ]
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Miss, consider moving from the bed. It's nothing dangerous, but perhaps uncomfortable.
[LOOK, HE'S TRYING TO HELP WITHOUT RESURFACING HER TRAUMA
Can he move the camera around? If he's using the viewfinder would he be able to see anything inside it that stands out from the normal room - besides the whole blood, guts, and gore bit?]
None of the buttons appear to be working.
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What was it?
[Does she want to know? Probably not.
At any rate, she's going to head to the switchboard and press the 'none' button, because I have no other ideas.]
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What in the fuck do you want from us this time? [Who is he talking to? Who knows.]
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Just like the last times, pressing the NONE button causes it to light up in green. Meanwhile, ALL goes dim.
As for Higekiri... Hm! He will discover that the camera can, indeed, be moved. The tripod is set up so the camera can easily be spun around and aimed at any corner of the room. Is he point it towards any part of the room specifically?]
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[higekiri stans cleanliness!! and junpei not throwing shit around!!!
but Higekiri is going to go ahead and move the camera around!! He aims it toward the door, like he's hoping that they'll get some kind of hint first - but then he'll also aim it toward the light switch, toward the monitor on the desk, and then toward the switchboard system. He'll also be okay with doing a full 360 because he's just curious.]
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[Anyways!! No brilliant ideas are coming to her, so she just stands and waits to see what happens with the camera.]
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Hey, Higekiri. Repeat that cycle with the camera again. [He's just watching to see what happens when the camera goes to the door, to the light switch, to the monitor itself, to the switchboard, and when it does the 360 and by nature the 180. i.e. assume he's moving the monitor while Hige's doing the camera thing and watching. What happens?]
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That said... Huh. As Higekiri moves the camera around, a few things will become visible on the viewfinder and monitor. In order:
2 C.- Beck's duplicate sits daintily on top of the desk. She's still naked, her legs crossed, and the flesh still missing from her face. She is also absolutely coated in blood. She waves cheerfully at Higekiri, before getting up and walking outside of the camera's field of view.
- On the switchboard, the slot where a cassette can be inserted seems to be glowing.
- Like Beck, Junpei is covered in blood after laying down on the bed.
Spinning the camera around a second time will show the same sights, save for Beck's duplicate. She's disappeared from the room.]
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[ - is what higekiri says when the camera ends up falling on Not Beck. he thinks idly of how one of his former names was demon cutter, and how he would find it acceptable to relive that name again if it were to mean cutting her down. after all that, he straightens and retrieves the first cassette from his pocket, taking strides over to the switchboard
he turns to junpei, tilting his head and offering a smile through the headache.]
Please direct her outside as soon as possible, if this is to be the final step. I will follow after.
I will commence when you are ready, please let me know when to proceed.
[they deserve to have fair warning?? but once the two of them are settled - he will put the cassette in the switchboard where it was glowing! (and he'll hit play if nothing happens at first, since he saw the other do it before)]
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For obvious reason, she looks apprehensive, but she doesn't tell him to stop or make any motion to move towards the switchboard. Instead:]
Be careful.
[TRUST NO CASSETTE!!]
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Do it. [And he'll wait for the cassette to play.]
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Unlike the last time, there are no angry duplicates coming after them. Instead, the P.A. system crackles to life for a fourth time. There are a handful of seconds of nothing but distorted, garbled audio... But once they get through that, the same voice as before begins to speak.]
"This is pointless," he said to me. "They're hunting us down, like we're -̡͜͠͞͠-̶́̀͟-͏̷̶͢-̕҉̶̡-̷͟͠. There were 33 of us four weeks ago. Now there's only 12! And my brother, he was--"
I asked him to calm down. Pleaded with him to hold onto his hope. We would speak to C ̶͟-̢̛ ̵̢͘͝-̶́-͜͝-̸̡͘͞͞ ̶̧-̵̶̕͡͠ later, so he could share with us what t͘͘͜͟͠-͘-̶͏ ̶̴͡͏e̸̵ ̶̢d́̕͟é̛ ̧̨͘͜-̸̛͢͞ ̵͢҉͜-̡r̶̶̶͡҉t̶̷͠e͜͠҉̧-̛̕͡ had whispered to him.
But as our conversation carried on, I could not let go of my guilt. I could not tell him what I had done, and who I had protected.
[Once again, the audio becomes heavily distorted towards the end, making it so they cannot understand what comes after this brief clip of audio. As Junpei and Beck are standing close to the door, they will be able to hear a click coming from it once the cassette has finished playing.]
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Higekiri is almost disappointed he didn't get a demon to cut.
Well, he's still listening!! And he's thoughtful about it, looking like he's sincerely trying to trying to focus for once. Then when it ends, he'll wait for the two to open the door and then retrieve the tape afterward, pocketing it again as he turns back to Beck and Junpei.]
Let us depart.
[he does look a bit concerned for a moment - but it just as quickly disappears underneath a smile]
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All the same, she doesn't hesitate when Higekiri says that. She's stepping forward to head out the door as quickly as she can.]
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As the lights inside the room switch themselves off, the door closes behind them. The lock will click shut once again.
All's well that ends well.]