one new mouse

[vivariummods]

It's been two days since the vote. Since then, there has been little activity. The speakers have never been turned on since that day, and there's been no sign of the owner of that voice. No further contact has been made, and it seems as if the group was abandoned again without a clue as to why they're here. ... Unless any members of the group are lucky enough to wake up early enough to catch a glimpse of something, uh, "new"... In the Greenhouse, while the artificial sky is a reddish colour from "sunrise", a large metal ladder is placed in front of the sickly trees. Beside the ladder is a children's wagon, filled with apples, and on top is an upright mouse with a gas mask... Yeah, as if this place couldn't get any weirder. The mouse quietly mumbles to itself, something along the lines of "... work... not paid... test subjects... spoiled", and holds an apple in one paw and a tape gun in the other. It appears to be taping the apples to the tree branches, one at a time, occasionally climbing down to grab an armful of apples to bring up. It's only a third way through the pile of apples (which only seems to be about a dozen...) so catch it while you can.

Comments

[toybombs]

I have no idea... it looks like I was in a funny group.

[She sticks out like a sore thumb...]

Maybe they were teachers...? [Although that doesn't really match the clothes, either. And why would she be the lone student among them?]

[elliexir]

Oh right, sorry, forgot about the whole memory loss thing.

[ It's still kind of hard to wrap her head around the fact that everyone here is suffering from amnesia... ]

But maybe? They don't look like teachers, though. More like explorers or something.

[toybombs]

...Th-then, maybe it was a trip?

[Ultimate teacher's pet Rio Takeuchi???]

[elliexir]

You're the only student in the photo, though. Kind of a weird to take just one girl on a field trip with a bunch of old dudes.

[toybombs]

H-hauuuu...

[She doesn't have any other response to that, apparently. She was just trying to come up with something that made sense, but...!

Ellie probably thinks she's weird now, huh...]

[elliexir]

[ Ellie takes notice of Rio's expression and straightens, putting her hands up. QUICK ELLIE FIX THIS UP ]

Hey, don't worry, though! I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for it! It'll probably come to you and you'll find out that you were on some cool exploration searching for dinosaur bones or something equally cool.

[toybombs]

[Well, that does seem to placate her somewhat. The tears threatening to fall vanish immediately as she tilts her head.]

Dinosaur bones... so you mean we could have been on an excavation?

[elliexir]

[ Oh thank god... Man, it's always damage control around Rio. ]

Yeah, it kind of looks like it. You're clearly travelling somewhere, so why not looking for dinosaur bones? That sounds pretty awesome.

[toybombs]

[She seems to think on that for a moment.]

I don't know much about dinosaurs... But maybe I just forgot it all?

[So far she seems to know mainly medical things, like how to patch up certain wounds... and also other fun details like how to cause those types of injuries in ways that are harder to treat.

Hmm.]

[elliexir]

Maybe? Honestly, nothing will really surprise me anymore when it comes to that.

I still can't believe that we forgot everything but our names.

[toybombs]

It really is strange... I wonder how they did it? I didn't think it was even possible to make someone experience such a selective memory loss on command, much less a whole group.

[elliexir]

Is there even any point of erasing our memories? Besides trying to make us confused as hell.

[toybombs]

Maybe... all of us knew something about them that they wanted to get rid of?

[elliexir]

Really? You think we knew something like their identities?

[toybombs]

Or an evil plan of theirs, or something... there's no way to know. Especially since we can't even remember enough about ourselves to know if there's something all of us have in common from before we ended up here.

[elliexir]

Yeah... It looks like we're all pretty different though. Like you got us and then some pretty old dudes, so I got nothing on similarities.

[ Kaidou's 14 but she's labelling him as old since he's a jerk ]

[toybombs]

Maybe all of us were in the same area then, for some reason...? Or maybe each of us even had some sort of contact with each other.

[elliexir]

Maybe? It still doesn't really make any sense though.

[ Why would they all be in the same location? What kind of contact would they have had? What the hell did they witness to be trapped here? ]

Man, the more we talk about it, the more confused I get.

[toybombs]

It's the age of the Internet. All sorts of different people could be connected even if they didn't know it.

[elliexir]

Yeah, but it's still pretty hard to imagine...

Maybe we should ask that mouse some questions, if it can even talk. It's just as weird looking as everything else around here.

[toybombs]

[She shrinks back slightly.]

H-he scares me... he looks all weird.

[How rude, Rio. But still...]

...I'll go if Ellie wants to, though.

[elliexir]

[ Extremely rude. Calhoun is beautiful?? ]

Promise we won't take too long sticking around it, okay? Plus, I think with the two of us, we can take on a tiny mouse. Maybe it's as dumb as the goat.

[ which they ran away from but it was dumb enough to be held back by a fence soooo who's the real loser here? ]

[toybombs]

But we had to run away from the goat.

[She's pretty sure that makes them the losers...]

[elliexir]

But the goat was held back by a simple wooden fence soooo that makes it pretty dumb.

[ c'mon, rio, they're totally the smart ones here... they are the winners ]

[toybombs]

[That just makes her look uneasily at the fence.]

It... It would be bad if it were smart enough to open that-!