Round 4 graveyard

[foundationmods]

[When your character dies, however that may be, they will feel themselves floating. For a moment or two they will linger at the site of their death, hovering just above everyone, watching.

Then they will feel a pull and they will get tugged all the way to the studio, through a wall, through the hall, through a door.

The place they end up in looks to be a backstage area. There is an area for storing supplies, a coat rack full of empty prinny costumes, a lounge area, and a place to rest. All of these areas are marked by a green border between the described rooms and the doors that go elsewhere. You will see prinnies come and go, hurrying around as they do their work for the day. But within those borders, some of the prinnies will take off their suits, revealing the human souls within. Men, women, old, young, there is a large mix. They are all very dead, though, and seem used to being dead.

And among all of the dead is one living girl, one who seems to be running the show behind the set. She can be found giving instructions to prinnies and telling them where to put things, but she will always take time to give everyone who arrives the same warning:]

Hi there! I'm Marona, and this is the backstage area. There's a lot to do yet, so if you could help us out I would really appreciate it.

All the areas with the green on the floor are safe to be in as ghosts. Your souls won't get pulled away as long as you stay in the safe areas. If you want to go outside of there, though, you have to put on a prinny suit. And if you do that, you have to follow the rules of the prinnies: no killing anyone, follow the orders you're given by the living, and try not to blow up too much.

If you have any questions, I'll be here! But you can come and go as you like. Just don't give Mr. Dazai too much trouble, okay?

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Site 4 stuff

[foundationmods]

[It's time to enact the 'be nice to site 4' and 'smuggle shit to the prisoners' plans! Tag in with what your character is doing and we'll thread it out!]

[eldritcheyes]

[Leo isn't that comfortable with doing prinny stuff in the House, so he stays backstage as much as possible. The other dead, wherever they came from, seem nice enough, and they don't know him or what he did, so they're "safer" to be around in his current mood.

So as he works side-by-side with some of them, he tries to strike up a conversation, anything to feel a bit more normal.]

Um... so, were you guys always here, or did you show up at this site when we did? How much of this mess did you see from this side?

[foundationmods]

[One of the dead, a man in his 30s or so, is the one who answers Leo.]

Actually I'm from this world. I'm not a 6350. But when I died, some weird demon kid found me and said "you're my vassal now" and I guess I just stuck around. I'm here on loan, just like most of the people here. We showed up at the site about the same time you did.

And we can see the mess at site 4 whenever any of us go there as part of our work. If you want to see it, you can go there too.

[eldritcheyes]

Yeah, I went once. Didn't really feel like going back after that.

[Leo cocks his head slightly.]

Did they know from the very start that contestants were gonna die this time? I mean... were you guys from this world part of a previous containment attempt?

[He bites his lip.]

I'm sorry if it's personal, I just want to know how long this kind of thing's been going on with Hes-- with the House. If it was just us 6350s they screwed over.

[foundationmods]

Nah, we're just people who died with sins. That's not too hard to find in this world, even outside of the Foundation.

The small angry guy who gave us those bodies, I'm not sure how he even got to this world. But he said "working your sins off will purify your soul and let you pass on peacefully." The prinny dance always looked peaceful, so I kinda assumed it was true.

The one guy from before, Reyes? He was right though. This SCP has almost always had a death-free containment procedure. It got hijacked for the sake of this game.

[eldritcheyes]

So it changed because of us... they want to get rid of all the 6350s. I guess they were hoping we'd turn on each other, prove that we're all monsters.

[He gives the man a sad, almost pleading look.]

What do you guys think? Do we really deserve a chance to live?

[visionem]

[ Alright. Alcor's got some caramel popcorn, chocolate truffles, and rice krispies treats because making things with flippers is hard especially when accounting for portability. And a thermos of high grade matcha, cause he can share for a worthy cause.

Cause he's a box penguin, he's gonna be flying in to site 4 as low to the ground as possible in an attempt to keep a low profile. So what's happening in site 4? ]

[foundationmods]

[A lot of...well not chaos, exactly, but anxiety and extreme work hours? It very much looks like the group is trying to get too much work done with too small of a team. Everyone is frazzled because of being overworked too.

From the hushed whispers, Alcor will be able to tell that it's been like this since Saturday. If he wants more, though, he'll have to investigate or question people.]

[visionem]

[ This really has just been one hell week after another for these guys, huh? Alcor probably shouldn't take pride in that, but some part of him does.

Hm though! Since he brought food he's going to go over to one of the workers who's alone, holding up a rice krispie treat in his flipper. ]

Would you like a snack, dood? You must be hungry working so hard, dood.

[foundationmods]

[The worker actually does take the snack, and she gives a quiet thank you.]

I haven't been able to even duck away to grab lunch yet, AND I skipped breakfast. You're a lifesaver.

[visionem]

You're welcome. If you don't mind me asking, what are you working so hard on dood? It must be important to skip two meals, dood.

[ Also going to take a peek at what she's doing too. ]

[overconfidant]

[Welp, Akira prinny will be showing up at Site 4 with an entire bandolier of coffee thermoses and a supply of strawberry crepes (thanks Saki).

He'll be passing them out to the most tired looking people.]

Dood, you guys look like you're being worked as hard as us.

[foundationmods]

[Akiprinny the delivery man~

Everyone he offers some to will give a tired 'thanks', but one guy in particular seems really appreciative. He's one of the guards that patrols the main hallways to watch for intruders.]

Shit, you knew just what I needed, huh? Thanks a bunch.

[He has bags under his eyes.]

[overconfidant]

Dood, you're welcome but you look like you need sleep more than coffee...

[Akira waves one flipper in a vaguely concerned gesture at the guard.]

Rough night, dood?

[foundationmods]

What I really need is a good night's sleep, but we're on double-shifts right now. The boss thinks something's gonna happen this week. I think we're all gonna crack from the pressure personally.

[merirut]

[There's a couple of spots to hit up here as he hands out some of his own coffee to the agents on site, but Prindalphon will be trying his best to find a way into or near MC's office.

He's mostly going to be hitting up the maintenance staff around here as he passes out the goods!]

Here. This should wake you up.

[.......ugh fine. He'll do it at least once.]

Dood.

[foundationmods]

[The maintenance staff does appreciate the coffee, and their disposition towards the prinnies is swinging towards friendly. Sandalphon will also be able to hear chatter about worries that the power or internet will go out again because of the tree branches, and that they would be cut off from viewing the house if that happens. Since it would take a few days to fix and all.

MC's office is currently locked. He will need to find a way in.]

[merirut]

[Everyone's worried about them power lines huh. Even though it's getting to the end of the line here...

But as for the problem of MC's office... hm. Well, maybe it's worth checking to see if the custodial staff have the keys, so he'll approach one of them with coffee.]

...Do you know if the boss is in his office?

[foundationmods]

Not currently, no. He's in the main monitoring room. Why, did you need to drop something off?

[The custodian isn't suspicious, at least?]

[scarsnstripes]

[Everyone else seems to be busy building trust with the staff here, but Atsushi’s also worried about the prisoners. They were trapped here too, and Atsushi was still suspicious of MC enough that he wanted a different perspective.

So today he shows up with a tray of covered plates, simple breakfast foods that could be eaten by hand just in case the guards won’t allow many utensils. He taptaps up to the cell, knocking on the bars with a flipper.]

Figured you guys could use food too, dood.

[foundationmods]

[We'll say he's at Gabe's cell, since that is the cell with clues and shit.]

Ah, another one of you guys.

[Interestingly, he actually takes the food and eats it this time.]

What're you guys even up to? It's a lost cause at this point, ain't it?

[scarsnstripes]

[Good good, he's eating.]

Nothing's a lost cause as long as you're living, dood. Or existing, in the case of us prinnies.

['Cause, you know. 'souls of the dead' and all.]

That's why you should eat up and keep your spirits up, dood!

[foundationmods]

[Gabe snorts at that, but he keeps eating.]

Unless you can get me my guns from the armory, I think I'll keep being pessimistic over here.

Mod ping for checking out the letter!

[merirut]

[Okay, so sometime after Sandalphon and Leo's Whacky Adventures, Sandalphon will bring the letter back into the studio and check it out backstage. He's a little wary about opening it immediately, so he'll ask for Leo's assistance in examining the contents.

So, what does the letter say?]

[foundationmods]

[The letter is written in simple printed handwriting, and contains the following:]

It seems I have underestimated them. You might have been right after all.

I'm going to give them one final test and see how they do. That should be enough to tell us for sure. Please watch this weekend, and we can make a judgement call after.

O5-MC

[The letter isn't addressed to anyone. It looks like an address would have gone on the outside, but MC hadn't finished it yet.

It feels like this letter is very important and should be held onto until an appropriate moment.]