Week 7

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Well this is all starting to feel incredibly routine. After being trapped here for a month and a half with no sign of rescue, maybe you have just resigned to the idea that you'll never leave this place and that people will keep dying until none of you're are left.

Truthfully, I can't even pretend to make an optimistic about any of this. it's a dark and horrid world you all live in.

There are no new floors today. It seems you finally have access to the whole mansion.

15 people remain]

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Comments

[upgradeit]

It'll at least keep us from accidentally shooting each other because we're hallucinating? Like, what if he had shot at an actual person?

[HE'S JUST???? SAYING????]

It's easier to dodge a knife than a bullet.

[nachosquire]

Easier to heal from a knife wound than a bullet wound, too.

[unless it yknow gets a main artery or something.]

I'm just saying the less weapons we have the better. We need to start promoting a little thing I like to call "Safety" around here.

[sorrydoods]

I just meant with the other weapons. We should probably throw the gun outside or leave it in a locked room or something to make sure no one uses it again.

I guess we could still try, though. Better to at least try to make this place a little safer.

Also, heads up! We're gonna start going up the stairs.

[upgradeit]

Doesn't he have a chainsaw too? Why does the goat who's hallucinating have so many dangerous weapons?

[Hiro actually decides to be useful while he's complaining, coming around the side to support Lekmet's body while they're going up the stairs because he has free hands.]

[nachosquire]

[hiro you're a good boy]

I don't know?

[Marco looks down at his feet as they start moving up the stairs, so he doesn't trip and make this situation worse somehow.]

Should someone, like, go into his room and search for weapons? I'm starting to get a little worried not gonna lie.

[sorrydoods]

[marco don't be ridiculous you're both good boys]

Yeah, we should probably do that when we're done taking him to the medical room and making him feel better.

I think they might be some of the things that come from that slot machine in the casino. I think Rocket got a shotgun from there too, once.

[Almost to the second floor! Just a little bit more.]

[upgradeit]

Of course they're from the machine. [He would rub his temples, but his hands are full of goat.] For every kind of okay thing that we get out of there, there's like twelve terrible things.

[nachosquire]

Ugh, if only there was a way for us to get rid of that machine somehow. Or maybe we should just baby proof the entire place, y'know? Foam all over the walls and furniture and our bodies.

[Marco says that through a wheeze, as they get up to the top of the stairs.]

[sorrydoods]

Yeah, tell me about it.

[He's really thinking about just up and hiding the slot machine somewhere it won't be found or something.]

If you find enough foam for that, I'm definitely willing to help with something like that.

[And as they get to the second floor, Soos is going to gently set Lekmet's shoulders on the ground.]

You need a break, dude? Sounds like you're having some trouble.

[upgradeit]

Isn't foam for soundproofing? Whatever, switch with me, stupid.

[Hiro gently hipchecks Marco. Let him carry the stupid goatdad. It's not like he hasn't carried stupidly heavy things before.]

[nachosquire]

He's like, a seven foot tall goat demon and my arms weren't made for lifting heavy things okay!

[he feels like this is bullying but fine!! He'll move out of the way and take Hiro's place instead.]

[sorrydoods]

Oh come on, you do karate! Shouldn't something like that help build muscles or something?

[And up Lekmet's shoulders go as Soos starts heading toward the next flight of stairs.]

[upgradeit]

Some karate probably does, but it's mostly like yoga for boys.

[By which he means 90% of the time you're doing kata and practicing forms rather than, like. Flipping dudes into the mat. Weirdly, for someone who looks as noodly as Marco does, Hiro seems to be having less trouble.

He does lift, actually. Even if it's just stupidly heavy armor and metal prototypes.]

[nachosquire]

Hey, karate is more than just "yoga for boys"!

[He takes offense to that, Hiro. How dare you and your apparently strong muscly arms.]

But I mean... yeah. There's a lot of forms and kicking and punching but it's not like you have to be a big beefy swole guy to know karate. The point is that anyone can learn it, even annoying little brats like Jeremy Birnbaum.

[sorrydoods]

Okay, you got me there.

[There goes his idea of having Marco flip him onto his back as some sort of test.

Also hey not as heavy for him anymore!]

Let me guess, Jeremy is the local annoying kid that just won't leave you be and always has to bother you for some reason?

[If he had a dollar for every one of those that he knew, he'd have at least two dollars. They'd probably get taken away, but he'd at least have them for a little bit.]

[upgradeit]

Or is he that one white kid who's in your karate class whose parents basically pay for him to get belts but he's actually garbage at karate and everyone else dreads having him as a partner because all he ever does is cry if you win?

[That's . . . incredibly specific, Hiro.]

[nachosquire]

Both.

[Marco says that with all the salt you can possibly imagine.]

He's the white kid who's parents pay for the dojo and pay for his stupid private lessons and he cheats using brass knuckles during matches and he follows me around to annoy the crap out of me even when we're not at practice and the worst part is he's younger than me so I can't even justify punching him in his stupid face!

[he lets out a growl like timmy turner's dad you know the one]

Jeremy Birnbaum.

[sorrydoods]

...okay, first I should tell you that we're gonna start heading up stairs, so be prepared for that.

Second, how many bratty kids just decide to straight up use weapons just to make themselves look better than others?! It's like Gideon's cousin that prefers brass knuckles over lamb shears.

[What's next? Some kid Hiro knows that gets to use a flame thrower?!]

[upgradeit]

The correct thing to do here, Marco, is to hack into his social media and change all the passwords and emails so he can't get back in.

[No . . . No, Hiro. That's the opposite of the right thing to do.]

He's probably too dumb to have a hard password. I bet I could do it in half an hour, maybe.

[nachosquire]

...Hiro, I love you when you use your smarts for evil.

[It's too bad Marco isn't as responsible of a person as he should be.]

[sorrydoods]

Oh, don't forget to replace all his profile pictures with weird or embarrassing ones! That'd probably make him even more upset!

[And it's too bad Soos took too much shit from other annoying kids otherwise he'd probably be scolding them.]

[upgradeit]

Yes. Marco, do you have any really ugly and unattractive photos of this kid? We are absolutely doing this if we ever get out of here.

[Somewhere, Kim and Tadashi are both sighing. You can put the boy in college, but you can't keep him from doing Crime.]

[nachosquire]

I don't have photos of kids on my person at any given moment, but I could trip him and take a picture of it with my phone?

[all of you are bad people. all of you]

[sorrydoods]

[look the other option of them not trying to get revenge is less fun wouldn't you agree]

You could try talking with his parents. Parents always seem to have photo albums of their kids looking super embarrassing.

[Lucky for Soos he has a grandma so none of those exist for him...maybe...]

[angelgoatdemon]

[The sound of mockery stirs him awake. Show him the object of ridicule.]

Whaa...What'd I miss.

[He's got a pounding headache, it's fine.]