R1 DEADLAND

[lockdownmods]

[it’s strange, for the people who were already dead, the shift in scenery is sudden and complete. For those who have just arrived? It’s like you’re back where you left?

How strange.

But if you ever need her, you can always reach out to the guardian of this place.]

LOCATIONS
Note: locations lag a week behind the living counterparts

Comments

[photomode]

[no mom let her fight??]

That-- Mom, but he punched you?

[newhire]

...that sounds really incredible.

[This just. Brightens up her whole life right now. The idea of Oswald’s face with a million darts in it...]

I take it the Phantom Guild is your work?

[newhire]

[don’t fight the police honey]

I... deeply hurt someone important to him, even if I didn’t mean to. He has every right to be mad. I’ll be okay Eve. I promise.

[donotlick]

Your what now?!

[ Oh he is not ready for more kids. ]

[starswink]

Yeah. It's all his fault... he's the one ordering all the executions. He must have taken your hearing too, somehow... just like how they gave us all nightmares in the entrance exam. I know I'll never forgive him for how he messes with people!

[He kept a couple darts for himself, so he flings one and hits him right in the mustache.]

[photomode]

You! Just! Punched! My! Mother!

[photomode]

[mother, you need to find some chill

and so does this gent.]

We shouldn't fight here, though.

[donotlick]

You -- you came back to life, right? What the fuck are you doing here?

[ One thing at a time, ok. He isn't gonna hit her more than once, he's not an asshole.

Well, except he hears her explanation and that's. Okay. Swell. ]

Well, fuck. Look, I don't know what you and Connor talked about or didn't talk about, but the fact is, you killed him, and I don't care if you kids made up or if you're Asian or not-Asian or whatever the hell.

I'll never forgive you for hurting Connor. End of fucking story.

[starswink]

Yeah! Me and Yuuki are the leaders.

[And they've put up flyers all over the place at this point, so he's just going to find the nearest one and kind of jazzhand at it.]

Ta-dah~

[donotlick]

You! Have! Got! To be! Kidding! Me!

[ He can clap back, he's a millennial. ]

[newhire]

Yes... yes you are absolutely right. I’m sorry Eve.

[photomode]

[ don't make her clap

she's not actually that good at it]

I'm not! I don't know what she did out there, but! I'd rather you not punch her in front of me.

[a delicate sniff]

[photomode]

Mom, what happened?? You yelled.

[starswink]

[Of course there's nothing wrong with high fiving a cat. High fives, nine lives.]

It's not weird. It's just like what we did before. High fives are good for morale!

[12d3]

[Hearing that gets 2-D to pause, and he stares at the posters ahead of him for a very quiet moment.]

.....I thought it was Mister Young who took my hearing away.

[He was the one who said it, after all.

"Every day, there are aspects of living that are important to us. Until one of you has managed to take the life of another hero, you will be unable to enjoy that simple pleasure."]

[donotlick]

Yep. Apparently.

[ Hank shrugs. This place is fucking weird, he's just taking what he can get at this point. ]

Robots, man. I know they make 'em evil sometimes, but this was a fucking mess. Real cartoony bullshit if you ask me.

[ A pause.... ]

What happened to your eyes?

[donotlick]

[ He has 0 sympathy, he is Too Mad From Dying. ]

Well, guess what, honey? Your mom killed my partner. So I owe her a goddamn punch and then some, that clear enough for you?

[starswink]

Really?

[Well... Yoosung wasn't there. He didn't know about that...]

I thought he was just roped into things... is he doing more things to hurt people too?

[I mean they did replace all the faculty that was on the wall with these posters, you probably COULD throw darts at Han if you wanted.]

[12d3]

Uhh... wha?

[For a hot minute 2-D has completely forgotten anything different happened to his eyes, and Hank can probably see the gears turning before the realization dawns on him]

Oh-- oh yeah, uh. I dunno?

[He gives Hank a sheepish looking smile.]

When I woke up they were all normal again. It gave me a real spook, that's for sure. It's been... god, fifteen or so years since my eyes got messed up in the first place.

[photomode]

That is factually incorrect. If he were killed, he would be here.

But I don't know who he is.

[12d3]

Er, well.. I dunno honestly. Everyone seemed to like him but he was the one who told us that we had to kill each other to get our stuff back to normal. So I thought... it was probably his fault.

[He'll gladly throw a dart at Han's poster, hitting him right in the eye.]

He lied about us bein' heroes, too.

[starswink]

...They all do that.

[There is a bottomless salt mine for the entrance exam trial left here untapped, but before he can get into that he'll just be impressed at that last throw.]

Oh, nice shot!

CW: talk of strangulation

[newhire]

Oswald Hale killed me. When I rigged his results to avoid bloodshed, he took me by the neck and hung me with his bare hands. You don’t come back to life from that. Nor will the Apprentices he executed today.

[She’s not sorry about the way she has to hiss those words out. But she... she doesn’t want to fight him or anyone here. It’s not his fault.]

...it doesn’t matter. That’s fine, I’m not here for your forgiveness. I just didn’t want the others to see me this way. Not when they’re all so torn up already.

...and there is absolute nothing Asian about the name Vivienne Gallivan.

[She can’t believe you’re even a little confused there.]

[donotlick]

He's an android. He doesn't get to go anywhere after he dies.

[ Hank rolls his eyes. Wasn't that what they'd talked about? No android heaven? Just... nothing? ]

Connor was shut down by your "mom," right before she went and deleted herself. I was able to restart him later, but that doesn't change the fact that he was dead. Vivienne overloaded Connor with so much fear and pain that he died.

[12d3]

Thanks.

[He gives a little smile, before it falters as he looks down at the darts in his hands.]

...I guess they do though, don't they? Maybe I was being unfair to assume he was just as bad as the rest...