afterliving | voice; action for SSS members

SSS members: headquarters to pick up arms. Now. I have enough for each of you. If the shadows are going to start appearing again, I want all of you ready.

We're not going to Guild this time. We're standing and fighting and defending anyone who can't, that stupid NPC they're after or otherwise. If you can't fight, you're taking a weapon just in case. Don't do anything stupid and run if you have to. Those of you who can't fight, come talk to me right away.

[ Yuri sighs, her voice taking on a singsong tone, like she's trying to act like it's not a huge problem. After all, if everyone's terrified then it only makes things worse. ]

I've had it up to here with that stupid boy NPC's face, he should've stayed gone after I shot him in that dumb mug the first time!

{{ OOC NOTE: After a certain amount of time during this post, any threads that remain on the network will get cut off. Yuri's going to get turned into an NPC. Anyone is welcome to switch to action at that point. I'll specify a different location in each thread if your character wants to run into her! }}

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Also you'd probably hurt yourself from the backlash or end up hurting someone else.

[ Or having a minor freak out like the first time Yuri shot someone in the afterlife. ]

Backlash? Is the recoil really that much?

I've seen someone smack themselves in the forehead with it and knock themself out cold once.

[ Who knows if that's true or not.. ]

... You're kidding, right?

Of course not. You can dislocate your shoulder if you don't hold a rifle the right way and get hit with the backlash too, you know.

[ That one's actually true, at least. ]

Not as easy as it seems in the movies then.

Definitely not. I wish it was though, it'd make things a lot easier.

Real life is harsh, huh?

[Then again, this isn't exactly real "life".]

I wouldn't call that one of the harsh things, really.

Right, I suppose there's much harsher things than recoil from firearms.

Like shadows, for example.

Right, like the shadows...

[ Were you looking for an ominous lack of reply to that comment? If you weren't, too bad. Yuri's apparently done replying.

Of course, she's easy enough to find in the cafeteria at lunch time in the regular students' uniform, getting lunch and sitting with a few other NPCs. ]

Hm...? Yuri? You still there?

[The line is dead. Weird. He'll see her in the cafeteria later though, almost not recognising her without the SSS uniform.]

Hey, Yuri, what's up with the uniform change?

[ She looks over at him, but there's not much of that spunk she normally has. ]

This is the normal uniform, what are you talking about? If you're talking about the spring uniform, it's been a while since we switched seasons.

I mean the SSS uniform, obviously.

Is that another school?

[ She looks like she honestly has no idea. ]

You seriously don't know... Nakamura?

[He hesitates slightly before using her surname because I'm totally headcanoning that violence absolutely happened last time he used it.]