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[LP CYOA] Spiral
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Nah. I don't think it's about being heroic. Or 'anheroic', for that matter.
We should not have split up in the first place. It's, like, the first law of the horror genre. It opens us up to potential liability of splitting even further, when those who are concerned for the missing people try to find them while the others could not care less and want to do their own thing.
If you remember the first night, that's how everyone died. First, the hospital have separated Amanozaki and us from the group and killed her. Then the group split to find us, which lead to Uehara getting killed. Then they locked us up in a room and we nearly died there as well. What happened to the rest of them is unknown, but there is an implication that they didn't stay united. Mori had some bullets missing from his gun, even though Taketatsu did not have gun wounds, so I can only assume Mori wasn't firing at him. And we didn't find Sakimura, Sawada and Mitsuki until the very end.
Divide and conquer is the motto of this place. So far when there were more than one person, we managed to avoid the worst. Mori bailed us out from Amanozaki's corpse, we saved Mistuki, and I want to hope that we have aided Shiba as well.
If there were more people like Mori around when Taketatsu started cutting people, perhaps he would not have succeeded in killing them, either. There is a question of why Mori had a large knife wound, though.
There is also that case with Uehara's death, but the circumstances are highly suspicious and our memory too unreliable to judge what really happened there.
Generally, safety indeed seems to be in numbers. The more people are around, the more likely they are to notice that something is messing with one of them, and the more likely they are to help. Making a close-knit team out of separate groups of loosely related strangers would bring us a step closer to our freedom, I would think.
We should not have split up in the first place. It's, like, the first law of the horror genre. It opens us up to potential liability of splitting even further, when those who are concerned for the missing people try to find them while the others could not care less and want to do their own thing.
If you remember the first night, that's how everyone died. First, the hospital have separated Amanozaki and us from the group and killed her. Then the group split to find us, which lead to Uehara getting killed. Then they locked us up in a room and we nearly died there as well. What happened to the rest of them is unknown, but there is an implication that they didn't stay united. Mori had some bullets missing from his gun, even though Taketatsu did not have gun wounds, so I can only assume Mori wasn't firing at him. And we didn't find Sakimura, Sawada and Mitsuki until the very end.
Divide and conquer is the motto of this place. So far when there were more than one person, we managed to avoid the worst. Mori bailed us out from Amanozaki's corpse, we saved Mistuki, and I want to hope that we have aided Shiba as well.
If there were more people like Mori around when Taketatsu started cutting people, perhaps he would not have succeeded in killing them, either. There is a question of why Mori had a large knife wound, though.
There is also that case with Uehara's death, but the circumstances are highly suspicious and our memory too unreliable to judge what really happened there.
Generally, safety indeed seems to be in numbers. The more people are around, the more likely they are to notice that something is messing with one of them, and the more likely they are to help. Making a close-knit team out of separate groups of loosely related strangers would bring us a step closer to our freedom, I would think.
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Yes, that's actually what Tokigawa attempts to do every time. Ultimately it didn't work out too well in the first night, though. That, and with the memory reset, you have a limited time to accomplish bonding from scratch even if that is your aim from the get go. Gonna need to boost up the character's charisma more.
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By the way, where is he? Since Uehara didn't miss the briefing like we did, could she tell us what the rest of the group have planned to do?
Maybe there is someone looking at us at the basement through the cameras right now... if the cameras even can see this section of the building, what's with the power outage and time alterations.
Maybe there is someone looking at us at the basement through the cameras right now... if the cameras even can see this section of the building, what's with the power outage and time alterations.
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Unfortunately, I don't have a good idea of what is what in the hospital. We are not in the main building anymore, are we? Or are the blocks connected to the hospital via walkways count as one building?
The quote above is exactly why I am asking the question.
The quote above is exactly why I am asking the question.
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The main building is where the lobby is. It is connected to here, the physiotherapy building, and the specialist clinics by walkways above ground and service tunnels below. The research and imaging building is similarly separate but connected. All of them can access a shared central courtyard if the doors are operable.
Tokigawa's briefings are the best place to get clarification for this sort of info.
Tokigawa's briefings are the best place to get clarification for this sort of info.
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Eyes, ears and analytical thinking.
Sakaki has a notebook describing the ritual and the murders that took place here. If we want a history of this place, he is our best bet.
Mori knows something from a present day, something linking the Shinohara family to the disappearances.
Maeda is likely to know us from when we were young.
There are different threads to start pulling if we want to launch an investigation.
Sakaki has a notebook describing the ritual and the murders that took place here. If we want a history of this place, he is our best bet.
Mori knows something from a present day, something linking the Shinohara family to the disappearances.
Maeda is likely to know us from when we were young.
There are different threads to start pulling if we want to launch an investigation.
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The investigation might be not the only goal worth pursuing.
Besides, we find plenty of notes and clues on our own. Here is Amanozaki offering you to investigate the spirit and a way to pacify it, something that you are unlikely to find unless you learn how the woman was killed. Here is the secret door that the hospital itself wants you to open (how else would the key end up in your pocket?). If you want knowledge, there are paths you can take even now.
Also, what is more important, to get to the bottom of what happened here, or to escape with our lives? One might be connected to the other, but not necessarily so.
Besides, we find plenty of notes and clues on our own. Here is Amanozaki offering you to investigate the spirit and a way to pacify it, something that you are unlikely to find unless you learn how the woman was killed. Here is the secret door that the hospital itself wants you to open (how else would the key end up in your pocket?). If you want knowledge, there are paths you can take even now.
Also, what is more important, to get to the bottom of what happened here, or to escape with our lives? One might be connected to the other, but not necessarily so.
Kz3r0 BB
Nevill C D>A
ERYFKRAD DD
Jester BB
Grimgravy B A>C
Baltika9 CB
Ifeex C>B x
Nyarmith CB
Rex Feral A x
LWC1996 DB
Lambchop19 CA
Elfberserker CD
Kipeci CC
Akkudakku C C>A
oscar AD
Chumbucket CD
A - 2
B - 3
C - 9
D - 2
A - 2
B - 5
C - 2 (1)
D - 5
x - 2
Nevill C D>A
ERYFKRAD DD
Jester BB
Grimgravy B A>C
Baltika9 CB
Ifeex C>B x
Nyarmith CB
Rex Feral A x
LWC1996 DB
Lambchop19 CA
Elfberserker CD
Kipeci CC
Akkudakku C C>A
oscar AD
Chumbucket CD
A - 2
B - 3
C - 9
D - 2
A - 2
B - 5
C - 2 (1)
D - 5
x - 2
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That's coz ppl have a hard on for those two.
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I too like a good MYSTARY. CD
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See, now you need to clarify whether B or D qualifies as 'whatever', as we have a tie between them.
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