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Seven Horrors ([personal profile] sevenhorrorsmods) wrote in [community profile] sevenhorrors2025-07-19 09:00 am

[physical education 101]

Who: transfer students
When: July 1̷̝̤̳̙̫̭̻̝͓̄̇̾̀̕͝9̸̙̱̹͍̮̈́́̀̅͛̐̔̋ 20
Where: the. . . gymnasium?
What: an ice breaker
Warnings: moderate physical injury (not debilitating), psychological horror (absolutely debilitating)

[The school is empty. The school is quiet. The only sound that cuts through the silence is the soft ticking of the hallway clocks that mark the passing of each second.]

[. . .]

[At least. . . until a stiff breeze whips through the classrooms, scattering dirty papers and jerking the curtains aside. The clock strikes 6:00 a.m.]

[The school bell chimes.]

[ Team rooms | Endgame | Rewards ]
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[personal profile] tiebroken 2025-07-21 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ So it was a mistake, not her lashing out in anger. Well, that's a relief. She knows these things are hard to control, sometimes... with her explanation and the earnestness of her apology, Mizi shakes her head, half lifting a hand. ]

It's alright — I thought you might just want some space, that's all...

[ But since she's not telling her to go away, she guesses it's fine for her to linger? even if she's doing so a little tentatively. ]

I still feel that way, too.

[ That there's something after them. ]
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[personal profile] parttimesoldier 2025-07-21 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Suzuha's a mess of different feelings right now. Freaked out after what just happened, high-strung because there's no way they're truly out of danger yet, guilty for smacking this nice-seeming girl out of a knee-jerk reaction...

She's pretty sure she doesn't want to be alone though, even if every person here is no more than a stranger to her. She lets her hands fall back to her sides, but she can't quite shake the tension from her shoulders.]


...Yeah. That was some seriously messed up stuff going on in that room. Feel like it could come back at any moment.
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[personal profile] tiebroken 2025-07-21 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
It must still be around...

[ That thing. She's sure of it. In that sense, they're just being kept in a cage to be played with. Mizi is used to great imbalance of power like that; in her life, she's always the one that can be crushed, not the crusher. Being here isn't so different. But the devil she knows would be better than the one she doesn't.

Speaking of messed up stuff, she brushes some of her hair out of her face, which is still spider-goo laden. ]


Were you able to find it? That "key."
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[personal profile] parttimesoldier 2025-07-22 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Suzuha's in agreement—that's definitely not the last they've seen of that thing. Which is bad, probably really bad. But she's so used to fighting to survive every day that she refuses to let the idea of it get her spirits down for long. She'll get through this just like everything else.

Her expression does sour a little at the mention of the key, though. Felt like they were being distracted by a wild goose chase while the real threat swooped in on them.]


No. Honestly, I'm kinda convinced there wasn't any key at all in there. That whole thing was mind game city.
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[personal profile] tiebroken 2025-07-22 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ In a way, she's glad to see the other girl show some disdain for the mention of the key. Her eyes soften in recognition. ]

...At the end, we started thinking the same thing.

[ That there was no key, that it had all been a ruse. ]

They just wanted to watch us be scared.
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[personal profile] parttimesoldier 2025-07-22 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Give people power over others, and they'll do whatever they want to them to suit their own desires. Guess the same is true of monsters, too.

[She's seen it all before. The capacity to be cruel, to use others like objects, to control every aspect of people's lives for their own satisfaction and greed. The way they'd all just been played with fits right into the pattern.]
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[personal profile] tiebroken 2025-07-22 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ She's completely right about that. So right, in fact, that Mizi ends up letting out a quiet breath, quiet but amused. This girl gets it. ]

It wouldn't surprise me... if this was just for their entertainment.

[ There doesn't seem to be any bigger obvious reason why they need them here — whether for food, materials, or something like that. That's where her mind goes to first. ]

Did you recognize it? The "monster." It looked so much like a human, but huge...
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[personal profile] parttimesoldier 2025-07-22 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Something about the idea that it's all just for the entertainment of the deeply haunted things taking up residence here makes it feel somehow worse to her. A little seed of fear that could—maybe, potentially—blossom into hopelessness. Because if there is a reason they've all been specifically chosen to be here, then at least there might be something logical to puzzle out about all this. Something to deny their tormentors, something to strive to solve that might give them an inkling of how to get out of this.

Not that it still isn't possible if this is all just a sick game to them. But it just makes it feel deeply unfair. As if life wasn't hard enough as it is.

If she closes her eyes, she can still see that thing rushing for the window of that classroom. Practically sends a chill down her spine. Her gaze lowers to the floor and she shakes her head.]


Nah. Never seen it before. Somehow it looking kinda human makes it even freakier, if I'm being honest. Kinda wonder... what if it was human once?

[She wants to say it seems outlandish, but, well. All of this does.]
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[personal profile] tiebroken 2025-07-23 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ On that, they agree. The humanity of it had been what was frightening, not the scale or its bloodshot eyes, at least to Mizi. Her brow furrows deeper at the implication that it could've been human once, her kneejerk reaction quite unsettling. ]

Maybe it's been experimented on...

[ Forced to grow large? Or trained to be hostile? Unfamiliar with the idea of ghosts and spirits, that's the explanation she conjures to make the puzzle pieces fit. She's sure any person that was tampered with to that extent would go mad, too, though she's not sure what that has to do with the rest of the details of their captivity. ]

Or... maybe it's only partially human.
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[personal profile] parttimesoldier 2025-07-23 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Her own expression darkens considerably at the thought of human experimentation. That's skirting awfully close to SERN territory, and she hates to even consider it. So much of it doesn't add up, though.]

It's bad news either way.

[Whatever it is, it's clearly hostile. And, as the both seem to be in agreement on, it's likely still out there.]

We'll have to figure out a way to defend against it. I don't want to let it get the drop on us again.