Evil Dead

Tirea:<I...know how you feel. Kinda.>

Taiyo hands Euryale her phone.

N"Bright idea, Taiyo. Ignore the maniac, I'm sure that won't piss him off. You know, next it could be you, or Euryale."

L"...What does it say?"

E"Well, it's from Roatha. So he's not hiding that anymore. And it reads, 'Taking a break from playing with dolls. I didn't give you enough clues?'"

Mimiru: "Why don't you fuck right off? She's scared, okay? We all have our ways of coping."

"I guess you do."
"Withholding information puts all of us at risk," Eduj said.

Eve:<Everyone, please calm down. It looks as though we may be missing something important.>

*Eve shakes her head at the lot arguing, but pats Taiyo on the shoulder*

Tirea:<Sorry about Noct...>

N"...Are you sure about that? It's not just Roatha, you know. Ira can get into anyone's head. Push them to say or do certain little things to help him out that they'd never even know. And Taiyo's probably not that hard to fool."

*Euryale gets up & turns on him, pointing angrily.*

E"And how do you know YOU don't fit that description?!"

*Nero starts to say something, then pauses.*

N"Hmm--touche."

L"Any chance we can move on from this soon? We have a lot more information to cover."

Eve:<I agreed with Lilith.>

Astarte replied inaudibly to Tirea and dropped her view even lower. Eduj covertly looked around at everybody else in the room after Nero's suggestion, wondering how he could ever tell.

Azuma: "Bad things will happen regardless of whether or not anyone checks their mystery message."

E"You know, I'm trying to be supportive, but if we hadn't watched that DVD, we wouldn't know about Ira right now. We can't afford to ignore things we don't like. It's not going to make them go away, & it could be the only warning that you'll ever get!"

"That's right, so let's move on," Eduj spoke up, trying to match Euryale's volume. "Wasting time arguing about this is just as bad. We should just agree not to keep secrets or waste time and get on with it."

Taiyo: "Sorry...."

L"That seemed like entirely too much arguing to reach 2 obvious conclusions, but alright."

*She hits play again.*

S"(Was it the Shadow that cut the power, or someone else? And why is it that only Sabroma's dorm didn't have a struggle? Was it the Shadow, or was someone they knew at the door? Several people were attacked tonight. Why so suddenly? Maybe there are answers somewhere nearby?)"

*A large figure looms in front of 1 of the doors & begins scrabbling with the handle. Senthose walks briskly to the window, unlocking it & pushing it open with his off-hand. After he climbs out, he turns around & shuts the window. Seeing the door open, he turns. The camera records him running across the sidewalk & into the grass before it shuts off.*

"Someone they knew? Well, probably Roa- Ira, then," Eduj said. "Assuming he is the only possessed human being. The others were probably attacked by creatures."
"A struggle..." Astarte muttered.

Eve:<My bet is on Ira. They are just the ones he would attack too.>

"Why them? I wasn't aware of any antagonism between that pair and... anybody," Eduj asked.

E"Probably because they're gay women."

*Euryale scowls & draws Taiyo closer to her.*

N"And they were harmless, which makes them easy targets. He's tried attacking them before, hasn't he?"

"Probably. If he- or they- follow this pattern of attack, I suppose it isn't hard to guess who the next targets will be," Eduj looked pointedly at Euryale.

Eve:<Or we "heathens.">

This doesn't make Taiyo any less frightened.

*Euryale looks over to see Lilith writing things down on a piece of paper.*

E"What are you doing?"

L"Taking notes on everything we know about Ira. Senthose said that some guy appeared at a frat party & inspired the 1st attack on Sab, Aroma, Noctis, Mortal, & Gabe. So that person was probably Roatha."

Azuma: "At a frat party? What better people to recruit than those who won't remember anything the next day."

"What about that nosey priest?" Eduj asked. "Did anybody ever hear anything more from him, or about him? He might know something."

T"I still have his contact information."

*She wedges herself rather forcefully between Euryale & Lilith & begins looking something up on her phone, cross-referencing with the map that she'd pulled out of her backpack.*

L"Ira said something about how we were going to find an ally. He talked like it was inevitable."

*Euryale points to her.*

E"Ally with a question mark."