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Entry tags:
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- albedo,
- alkaid,
- anise,
- ayumu,
- bridget,
- captain america,
- celes,
- chise,
- claude,
- daphne,
- dean winchester,
- edgeworth,
- fai,
- guy,
- haseo,
- homura,
- jason,
- javert,
- kaworu,
- kinomoto sakura,
- kio,
- klavier,
- meche,
- nataku,
- nathan petrelli,
- nigredo,
- ophelia,
- otacon,
- phoenix,
- renamon,
- ritsuka,
- sam winchester,
- sebastian,
- sechs,
- taura,
- teresa,
- venom,
- yomi
Day 43: Chapel
And just like that, the disorienting feeling of blacking out just to wake up in an unfamiliar bed came again. Alkaid had wondered if it would - everything about last night had been different, all the way from the zombies to the eerie emptiness of the Institute to the strange broadcast at the end of the night. Had the Head Doctor been shot? Damn, someone had gotten to it before her. And who was the voice at the end there? It was like she'd been allowed access to some kind of strange mystery that she could not understand, one that had been going on for a long time before she had arrived and would be going on for quite a while in the future, after she was gone. Had these strange sets of circumstances been bugs in this place's programming? Who could say?
The morning's intercom greeting was strange, as well. Federal training whatsit? It didn't seem like this happened very often, from the sound of it, but so much had happened since the last day she remembered that the former Demon Palace Emperor was ready to take pretty much anything at face value.
The room she woke up in was still empty. Wondering where to stick the half-cracked bat that she'd picked up last night, she shoved it under the mattress hastily when she heard footsteps in the hall.
The stupid nurse was the same as ever, though. Some things never changed. "Ahh, good morning, Eileen. It's so nice to see you awake."
Alkaid rolled her eyes at the nurse's chuckle, and shook her head. She didn't care that the NPC thought it was nice, she just wanted to see the rest of the institute already.. see what had changed! "Yeah, it's fantastic. Whatever! Just take me where I'm going and be done with it!"
It was just then that she realized that she was not wanting to devour the flesh of the nurse in front of her. And that the pain on her arm had kind of abated - she couldn't see through the thick bandages they had covered her arm with, but she wondered if her skin was still rotting off like a zombie. Had they somehow cured her infection overnight? Or was the nurse not human, like Alkaid had always thought?
There was only one thing for it: she had to go somewhere else.
"Chapel, sun room, or cafeteria, then?"
"Does it look like I care?"
The nurse sighed, then started walking Alkaid down the hall, up the stairs, and down another hall to the chapel. No one here yet, huh? That was weird. She couldn't imagine that no one else'd show up, but who could say? This place had been turned on its ass.
The chapel was empty so far, and kind of nondescript. She shooed the nurse away, and stood in the middle of the space between the pews, standing akimbo. What would happen today? What would she learn about herself... her situation? How long had she been sleeping? Was she really still going freaking undead, or had that been somehow taken care of?
All this would come to light really soon. She hoped. Geez, too many mysteries!!
[unwittingly awaiting Haseo]
The morning's intercom greeting was strange, as well. Federal training whatsit? It didn't seem like this happened very often, from the sound of it, but so much had happened since the last day she remembered that the former Demon Palace Emperor was ready to take pretty much anything at face value.
The room she woke up in was still empty. Wondering where to stick the half-cracked bat that she'd picked up last night, she shoved it under the mattress hastily when she heard footsteps in the hall.
The stupid nurse was the same as ever, though. Some things never changed. "Ahh, good morning, Eileen. It's so nice to see you awake."
Alkaid rolled her eyes at the nurse's chuckle, and shook her head. She didn't care that the NPC thought it was nice, she just wanted to see the rest of the institute already.. see what had changed! "Yeah, it's fantastic. Whatever! Just take me where I'm going and be done with it!"
It was just then that she realized that she was not wanting to devour the flesh of the nurse in front of her. And that the pain on her arm had kind of abated - she couldn't see through the thick bandages they had covered her arm with, but she wondered if her skin was still rotting off like a zombie. Had they somehow cured her infection overnight? Or was the nurse not human, like Alkaid had always thought?
There was only one thing for it: she had to go somewhere else.
"Chapel, sun room, or cafeteria, then?"
"Does it look like I care?"
The nurse sighed, then started walking Alkaid down the hall, up the stairs, and down another hall to the chapel. No one here yet, huh? That was weird. She couldn't imagine that no one else'd show up, but who could say? This place had been turned on its ass.
The chapel was empty so far, and kind of nondescript. She shooed the nurse away, and stood in the middle of the space between the pews, standing akimbo. What would happen today? What would she learn about herself... her situation? How long had she been sleeping? Was she really still going freaking undead, or had that been somehow taken care of?
All this would come to light really soon. She hoped. Geez, too many mysteries!!
[unwittingly awaiting Haseo]
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"Um... everything, I guess," she replied with a somewhat sheepish grin. There were too many things on her mind to pick just one to focus on. "Like what happened last night, and all the things people are talking about on the bulletin, and that weird voice on the intercom this morning..." She stopped herself before she went on for too long, and sighed. "It kinda feels like a lot's suddenly changed here."
If something really had happened to the Head Doctor, then maybe whatever weird stuff happened was a good thing. But Anise knew they couldn't expect to be lucky enough to be rid of their one biggest enemy that easily. He was probably going to be back on the intercom later that day, laughing his stupid laugh and taunting everyone like the bastard he was.
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Weird voice...? Ritsuka vaguely recalled not hearing the Doctor's voice over the intercom that morning, but he didn't remember any weird voice. He'd slept in though, so maybe that would explain it. But something definitely had happened and it seemed like he'd missed out. "Changed? Changed how?"
He hated not knowing and asking Anise would be faster than checking through the myriad of notes plastered helter-skelter over the bulletin. At the very least he'd have an idea of what to look for. Some days he just didn't feel like sifting through the seemingly millions of notes on there, looking for the one that might pertain to him. He liked reading, but even he had limits. "I heard people talking about something happening here last night, but I didn't hear what. Do you know?"
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"You don't know?" Anise looked surprised for a moment, then realized what a mess the bulletin was. It was probably hard to find the important messages among the sea of check-up posts. Anise tried to read everything on the board, but she supposed some people might skim past the good stuff by accident.
"There was a weird conversation on the intercom last night. Somebody posted a transcript of it on the board somewhere. It sounded like somebody confronted the Head Doctor... and maybe hurt him, too," she explained in a whisper. If it was true, then that was good news, probably. That bastard deserved whatever he got. "People are saying it was that radio man who did it. You know, the one who died?" She studied the kid's expression, wondering if he really did know. How long had he been at the institute, anyway? If he was a new patient, that bit would probably just fly over his head.
Anise sighed, crossing her arms as she thought hard about the events. "And then the Head Doctor didn't show up for morning announcements today... And the Head Nurse didn't do them, either. It's weird, right?"
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At least she was willing to explain though. Ritsuka's hands stilled as Anise filled him in, giving him a better idea about what people were whispering about. Someone had hurt the Head Doctor? And it was the dead guy? Ritsuka was absolutely certain that man had died. People had talked about it, confirmed it all, and yet last night with the dead rising from their graves like they had been, why was it so impossible to believe that the radio man couldn't do it too? Furrowing his brow as he thought over this particular piece of information, Ritsuka had to wonder if the radio man didn't have something to do with the raising of the dead. What if it was his fault?
"Yeah...but if the radio man came back and got the Head Doctor, who's to say he didn't up and get the nurse, too?" Not the happiest of thoughts, but that was certainly a possibility. The Head Nurse transformed at night, too, just like everyone else. And if the radio man had gotten through to Martin Landel, then he'd probably gone through the lady to get to him. "...It's possible, at least."
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Hello, ! This is I.R.I.S. again, hoping that all of our guests are finding our facilities adequate during your tour...
The intercom came on as she was searching for the words to describe it, and with a glance up at a speaker, Anise just finished her thought with, "...like that."
Anise was sort of surprised to hear I.R.I.S. again. She half-expected the Head Doctor to be back by now. If there was anything she learned from fighting the Six God-Generals and the Commandant, it was that powerful enemies didn't die easily. And sometimes dying wasn't even enough to make them stop. She didn't have high hopes about Landel being gone.