afterliving | video; backdated to valentine's day

[ Have a brightly waving Yuri right now, looking too happy. ]

Hello on Valentine's Day everyone! As you can see, apparently the entirely school's gone completely insane!

[ Okay yeah no she can't keep that up with the stupid banging on the door in the background. It's obvious she's in her dorm room right now. There's another chair in front of the door, blocking it. Sorry about the inconvenience, Sonia. ]

Shut up already!

[ Yuri looks back to the laptop. ] Heads up, they're still pretty stupid. You can lose them for a while if you trap them in a classroom, but they'll find you eventually. Sonia, I hope you don't mind if I use your sheets to escape out the window. I don't really want to slaughter them.. [ She side-eyes the door. ] But at this point even knocking them out doesn't last more than a few minutes.

[ There's already blood on the door handle and it's unclear just whose it is, since Yuri already changed clothes. ]

We need a way to lock the doors from the outside to trap all of them. If anyone needs help, let me know where you are as soon as you can. SSS members: If you're close to the location calling for help, get to them as soon as possible. You know where the extra weapons are in HQ if you need--

[ There's a loud crack in the background as some kind of kitchen knife breaks through the wood of the door, making Yuri look back. ]

I'll be replying from my phone when I can. Stay in groups if possible.

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Actually, no, I wouldn't. This place doesn't surprise me in the least anymore.

[ She's lying, but she's saying it with so much confidence that it's hard to tell. ]

The NPCs are supposed to mimic human behavior, so it's only obvious that they have the potential to reach limits where some people can't reach normally.

You're the one who said they shouldn't be hard to lose in the first place.

They have the potential to reach beyond human behavior, since they're not human.

Have you ever dissected one of them before?

[ Actually she needs to know this. It may be gross, but if their internal workings are the same, then there's a possibility of them not being all that different from people. She may not consider them as 'human', but they're not 'monsters', either. Being one of them herself for a while proves just that.

Even though she acted a bit creepily. ]

Of course not. No matter what they are, they still look human. Just like killing all of them off would be a massacre of their entire.. species, I guess, and I'm not a murderer.

Nobody ever said you had to kill them. But dissecting things that aren't animals is kind of gross...

You can't dissect something that's not dead, Haruhi.

You totally can! I've seen it on TV, people dissecting creatures while they're still breathing. It's the same as doing surgery, really. It's not as if I want to kill them, I just want to see their internal workings. I guess an X-ray shot would be OK, too.

--You want me to vivisect one of them?

[ Haruhi, that's a little creepy. ]

We don't have pain killers here or anyone with surgical experience.

You don't have to. Besides, I may not be a surgeon, but I know how to do that sort of thing.

[ Even though it is a little gross, she’s not going to let that get to her. ]

We could always chloroform them, can’t we? Like, put them to sleep or something. … And maybe we could make some sort of painkiller if we have to. You said it yourself, didn’t you? That anything is possible in the afterlife.

Where are you going to get chloroform? I already told you, there's no medicine or drugs here. Unless you know how to manufacture it, you're stuck. And I really would like to know just what black market sort of things you've been doing if you know how to vivisect a human.

I practice on dummies for black magic-related stuff in middle school.

That's definitely not the same thing.

It was close enough! I'm not a killer.

No one said you were, just that you're kind of creepy.

[ She's just teasing now.. ]

I was already creepy back in October when I set that whole thing up.

[ Haruhi doesn't care about your teasing, Yuri...!! ]

Which thing did you do in October that was creepy again?

[ Time gets weird when you've been here long enough. ]

Halloween murder party.

It's not even murder, we're all dead anyway.

... What else am I supposed to call it? Besides, it was the NPCs that were offed. Though I wasn't the one who did the offing.

[ She just put herself up as the culprit. ]