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What is it, Tama?

where are you??

I'm in the dorm. Why?

[ there's a pause. like too long a pause. and then-- ]

i'm outside let me iiiin.

Ok

[ Honestly this seems like a normal conversation so. Goes to open the dorm door for her. What's up. ]

[ hi. ]

Okay, read this, take your time.

[ here's her phone:

Hello, young heroes. Or whatever you would prefer to call yourselves, I'm hardly the type to put titles on others.

Anyway, I shall begin to get to the point.

Those souls who've been lost during the span of this competition are not completely beyond your reach. On the upcoming full moon, there will certainly be danger from the man in white calling himself the moon. It will also be the most opportune time to recover your deceased heroes.

The red moon is when prinnies reincarnate, though considering the strange circumstances of this world, they would not be starting over from the beginning of their lives. As long as they're in the moonlight they should recover back to themselves without issue.

Do with this information what you will, but do attempt to hold onto what hope you can. As dire as the situation is, it is not impossible to see it through.

yeah! ]

...

[ This is good to know, but. ]

Where did you get this information from?

When the prinny dropped off the newspaper this morning, this fell out.

Considering all the suspicions we’ve had about the newspaper building… this kinda lends some more credit to them.

Do we have any idea on who wrote it?

Is there anyone we could even ask?

One of the leaders maybe? Goat saw the note as well and didn’t comment if they recognised the handwriting, but I think the leaders all know each other different amounts.

They seemed pretty interested in what the note said, at least.

They told me they've only been here six months before us. I don't know if that's enough time to recognise somebody's handwriting...

Do you think the four heroes -- the ones that died before we got here -- are in that building too?

[ Since this paper just all but pretty much says the dead turn into prinnies and prinnies are working away in the Harbinger building. ]

It … sounds like someone who knows what they’re talking about. And I kinda think a former leader would. There was something about the prinnies becoming the way they are due to sin?

They’d class our “villains” as people who had sinned, so maybe…

[ their dead are in the newspaper building and some are?? prinnies?? hello? ]

At least getting the prinnies into the moonlight shouldn’t be too big an issue. We just need to figure out when that moon will be happening.

Edited 2023-10-24 00:32 (UTC)

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One of the deceased four? If they're out there.

[ I hope all of them are prinnies. Or at least, appear to us as prinnies.

Oh yeah so I got this notification after you started this pc for me so right around now, after Tama looks away for 2 seconds, she looks back and Ryuki has suddenly grown a mustache. ]

Well, the moon's in first quarter right now, so...

[ i’m in tears. ]

Maybe…? It was…. Pink Pig, Silver Horse, Black Dragon and Marigold Monkey, I think? The first two have been mentioned in notes and the papers, but I haven’t heard a lot about the other two.

[ anyway she uh.

looks at him.

like ????? ]

Did you just get cursed?

[ His phone buzzes! And he's reading some texts. ]

Pink Pig was the person who deals a lot with prinnies, I think.

[ Glancing up at her though. ]

Huh? What do you mean?

Yeah, and Silver Horse was the one who died trying to get that mysterious book we’ve heard about. But I don’t think I’ve heard anecdotes like that about the other two…?

[ um.

well. she reaches out and gives his proud new ‘tache a little tug. ]