> Animus: Assemble

[caliginous]

Characters: Members of Group A and YOU
Setting: Fourth Floor -- the white lounge.
Format: WHO EVEN KNOWS
Summary: Karkat attempts to pull everyone into one place for counter-resistance.
Warnings: MALFUNCTION MAY OCCUR, that means depending on who you tag and who tags in, your character may end up injured. Please check individual sub-threads for malfunction warnings! There's also obvious body horror warnings here due to modifications from the event.

[In a room full of white, its not hard to spot the various victims of Jason's latest experiments. Each sits or stands in their own corner on or off furniture talking amongst one another or simply staring at the door waiting for someone to approach them.

Some of them don't look all that approachable, even if it appears that they are completely sane at first glance. Some of them might even look like they don't want to be there.

You won't really know until you approach them.]

Comments

[concept_killer]

[ooc; When malfunctioning, Satsujiki will attack and attempt to kill the person closest to him at the moment. His attacks tend always cause instant death/permanent loss of body parts despite regeneration, healing, and other factors. So let me know what you're okay with!

Satsujinki was taking his time to sit in a chair. Despite his physical modifications, eyes being implanted all over his body, he didn't seem to be in much pain. No, all that pain was mental, as his sight was seeing things his brain couldn't register. The sheer contradiction of things was enough to make his head roar with pain. Normal people weren't supposed to be exposed to this kind of thing.

Dealing with his own mental problems, he's mostly keeping to himself at the moment.]

[cherrygrail]

[ Sakura wouldn't have entered the room at all if she hadn't seen Satsujinki out of the corner of her eye. But after seeing him... she couldn't just leave him alone. Even though his whole body is covered in eyes, to her, it seems like he's gotten a better treatment than the other members of group A.

It was really her own selfishness that couldn't let her leave him alone. She had to make sure that he was okay, enough people had died by her hands, and given the responsibility, she'd try to save as many people as possible. ]

Satsujinki, it's me, Sakura. Do you remember me?

[concept_killer]

Huh? Well, obviously.

[Not that he could entirely tell by sight. He'd never seen Sakura in the first place but right now, he was pretty sure she wasn't human. Not that it mattered since he wasn't much of a human anymore either.]

[cherrygrail]

Are you... alright? Is there anything I can do... or...

[ The more Sakura talks, the more she thinks that this might be a really bad idea. She's stuck between wanting to bolt and wanting to help a friend. ]

[concept_killer]

What could you do? It's not like this can be fixed at all.

[Slightly depressive about it? Yep.]

[cherrygrail]

I'm sure there's something! I'll just have to think of it!

[ She's kind of considering wrapping him up in a big blanket, but, well, she wonders if that'll even help... Sakura's smart enough to know that the admins wouldn't give someone relief so easily. She's trying to think of any magic that would work, or if it even would work at all... ]

[concept_killer]

Not unless you can turn back time, which I doubt. I really do.

[cherrygrail]

Ah, no... not quite. But maybe this'll work.

[ Sakura holds out both hands, letting her mana flow through her body, which he should clearly be able to see. She'll mutter a bit of german but then...

... nothing happens. ]

[concept_killer]

Magic won't work. You think they'd make something like this that easy to undo?

[cherrygrail]

[ It's not that it didn't work on him, it's that it didn't work... at all. Shame on her for not trying to practice her magecraft earlier. ]

I know, you're right, I'm sorry.

[scorchedchivalry]

[It was about this time that Saber entered the lounge. She was looking for her master, following the faint trail of Sakura's prana, to find her talking to...]

Satsujinki. They got to you, too.

[Her hand came up to lightly rest on the small of Sakura's back. Basically there to guide the magus physically if needed. There were a lot of unfortunates around.]

[concept_killer]

It's not like I had a choice.

[He stood up but in a moment, his hand was holding his head.]

That kind of hurts...

[cherrygrail]

You should sit back down. Don't strain yourself.

[ Sakura's tempted to move to help him, but Saber's hand keeps her still. ]

[yumizuka]

[ If she's exhausted any, it doesn't show as enters the floor warily. Not that she's scared of being surrounded by the group if they all attacked her at once, but she did just get out of a taxing scuffle recently. Not wanting to revisit that part of her anytime soon, she heads for him in a straight line. ]

What are you doing here?

[concept_killer]

I was asked to come here so I showed up.

[He really didn't need any other reason, at the moment. All he wanted was to be back to normal, which wasn't happening anytime soon.]

[yumizuka]

Who asked you?

[ Satsuki stops before him with her hands clasping behind her back in an idle manner. ]

The one who wrote the notes? I got one too, but it didn't tell me to come here specifically.

[concept_killer]

The note too but...

...it's something a little special. I think off of us here got through this problem together. Like, we managed to fight back even though we all got these changes.

[yumizuka]

These changes.

[ She was trying so hard to not notice them as her voice lowers. ] Does it bother you?

[ Because she could make it not bother him if he really wanted oops. ]

[concept_killer]

Of course they do. Living like this is painful, to say the least. I can't even cover all of these up at once.

[What are you even thinking, Satsuki.]

[yumizuka]

I can just tell you it doesn't hurt and...

[ No, she can't. That's wrong and so she manages to bite her tongue. Literally. ]

Ow...

[concept_killer]

[He suddenly perks up. Despite these eyes, he can't really see much.]

Huh? Did someone hurt you?

[yumizuka]

No, I hurt myself. Sorry, that's so embarrassing.

[ Sheepishly adding on: ] Do you want to go somewhere else? I don't like being here.

[concept_killer]

What's wrong with being here? [No, he doesn't know how everyone else looks, sadly.]

flips back in here I GUESS

[yumizuka]

Aren't the others here dangerous? It isn't safe for you to be here and when you're already so...

[ Fragile, but come on what kind of girl tells their boyfriend that? ]

/throws you back into the sick booth

[concept_killer]

Everyone here is like me. I mean, we've all been hurt pretty bad but if they're dangerous, I'm dangerous too, aren't I?