Honor Society + Whatever-The-Hell-Nier-Is Picnic

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[Sometime on Monday, Nier will get a text informing him that they're having a picnic, as well as the time and place.

When they do get together, somewhere on the campus grounds, there's a large picnic blanket spread out over the grass. There's also a pitcher of iced tea and some cups. Kon and Yamato have been encouraged to bring food.]

Good; everyone's here. We've got a lot to talk about, so let's get started.

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... So it's not just our memories of each other, but they think we could lose ourselves, too...?

[that's some ominous shit.]

The lizard wrote that we should "keep stuff to remember"... [glancing up at nier] Uh, if you wanna see. [she'll show the letter for anyone who wants to see.]

[ghoststrums]

Like what happens to the Dorm Heads, maybe? Speaking of-- Riku and Iris both reverted back to Luke and Viola for a time, yesterday.

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[... rita nods grimly.]

I heard. Lucretia caught wind of it and stopped us before we could buy the hint from Hugo. It sounded like that was what triggered it.

[ghoststrums]

You might as well buy the hint, because it wasn't that. Riku was Luke the moment I stepped in to talk to him. I didn't notice right away, but he was wearing his stupid baseball jersey.

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... Seriously?

Did we just not notice with Hugo, or was there some other trigger...? [The guy barely talks, anyway...]

[amain]

Annie was still herself when I bought the hint from her, but when Claude talked to her later in the day, she regressed.

[ More accounts! ]

[ghoststrums]

So our only clue right now is trying to figure out if Hugo's changed at all...? At least we know it had nothing to do with points.

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[rita's pulling out her phone and texting...]

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[... and after a bit, she gives the rest of them kind of a bewildered shrug?]

Lucretia was going out of her way to use his name a bunch yesterday, and he never reacted weirdly to it. Sakyou talked to him this morning, too, and he was still normal.

So... I don't know, if he reverted, it would've had to be while none of us were talking to him...? Or... maybe he was actually fine.

[ghoststrums]

I snapped Riku out of it, but Kon said Iris snapped herself out. What happened with Annie? It's possible no one noticed Hugo slipping...

[ he frowns ]

Or did Riku switch when I asked about the info before I went to see him?

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What did you ask, exactly?

Once we got the news, we all quietly agreed to shut up about the hint and not mention what happened to Iris in front of Hugo.

[amain]

I'm not sure exactly. Claude just dragged her down, told us that she's Sally again, and she reacted to all of the things we said about her past as being really weird.

You'd need to ask Claude the details... We were scrambling to figure out how to get her back.

[ghoststrums]

I texted Riku to tell him I was going to buy the info this week and he invited me to his room. He was already in his Luke outfit when I showed up. [ he frowns a little ] I snapped him out of it by mentioning stuff and people from his actual life.

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Hm... so were all of these one-on-one meetings?

Hugo was down in the common room with all of us on Sunday -- the others were trying to strongarm him into having dinner with the group, and they didn't let him go off on his own.

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I set up a thing to make sure we can keep watch on Riku during the week in Fall Dorm in case it only triggers when they're on their own. He remembered everything up until the end of expulsion, so...

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[...

a baby monitor?

thanks molly, for helping us non-moderns learn that those exist.]

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laughing ]

I offered, but he said no. No, uh, we'll be taking turns keeping an eye on him and sleeping in his suite this week.

[refate]

Iris was herself. I even called her by name, while we were talking, and there was no reaction or difference until after I'd bought the clue. It was immediately afterwards that she reverted to Viola - but subsequently fought her way back out to warn me to "prepare for the worst."

All I'd said to her was that it'd been a long day, I was worried about the dorm, and that I was going to check on Beau. No mention of Iris, just "we'll be here with you" before she kicked Viola out.