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You awaken to blackness. Frightening, although familiar--this is the same terrible thing you narrowly avoided during your first trip into Lebensbaum. The pain of your death is still real, echoes of the wounds you suffered appearing on your skin. Inspecting your surroundings will tell you that you've woken up inside of the cooled, empty bonfire pit....and the town as it was is nowhere to be seen.

The sky is a whirlwind of blank, dark void. What previously acted as roadblocks on either side of the town seems to have moved upward, blocking out most of the sun's light. The street is barren, filled with piles of broken concrete, shattered glass, and smoking craters where many of the buildings used to be. Old bloodstains dot the pavement, mixing in with overturned cars and crumbling brick walls. Lebensbaum is a dead town, in more ways than one.

Except for the hotel. It stands, as dusty and abandoned as it ever was, but no worse for the wear. Scorch marks can be seen on the ground around it in a clear border, as though it had a barrier protecting it from whatever destroyed the village. If you venture inside, everything is in its place, as though the outside wasn't completely obliterated.

The living can be seen walking around, going about their daily lives, and if you concentrate, you can even see the buildings as they once were--in working order, clean, and in one piece.

As of Monday on Week 10, however, there is a door, seemingly pasted into the middle of the street. As the days tick by, the doors will increase in number, one for each victim.

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[Well. MIGHT AS WELL.] Trying to ensure the dead return to life after all of this. [So. Everyone here.]

And what does that mean, pray tell? [This just sounds stupid. How did they keep this going for nearly three months.]

Securing the items you brought and gathering things that would be needed to bring everyone back, mostly. [Also arguing and trying to stop Inaba from blowing their cover.]

So your little group found a way to bring us back? Why-

[Vegeta actually takes a moment to think before he speaks now because huh. Katerina and the sinparents are their real enemies and would have to be kept in the dark.] I understand keeping it secret once it started- some of those fools absolutely would have run their mouths. But how did you come together in the first place?

[Well, Rhys has just out and said it, so hey.] Miata. That's why we're moles. [Moles against Katerina.]

[Huh. So Miata was on their side too. Damn, his intuition has just gone to shit lately, hasn't it?]

Tch. So I suppose we had just better hope those two girls are given the opportunity to speak before they're sent to join us here, hm? Unless you have a way of completing whatever your plan is from here.

Honestly, if they're killed, it's not immediately game over. If Miata dies, then it is.

[Except if he listens to Rhys, Miata is not a reliable ally.]

So, we're counting on her, are we? I'd sooner put my faith in the adolescents at this point.

Rhys is upset. He's biased one way, and I'm biased the other. [She's not going to lie. ...Well, not now.] Either way, Miata has managed to bring someone unrelated to all of this back to life--you can understand why she wouldn't want to practice that on one of us--so she's our best bet.

I know you're really good at hiding things, but where the hell did you park the entire rickshaw?

[By this time he's calmed down significantly. The rickshaw not being where it belongs. That's a concern common in his everyday life. He's one step closer to home by having to ask about it.]

We took it apart and carried it into the basement. [It was a wild night.]

Shin-chan is gonna literally kill me if we don't get that thing back in one piece...

[It's actually a good sign that he's able to say literally in this informal, figurative manner after the time he was literally killed. Does Rhys or anybody know how to do that? He knows it's probably not too complicated for an engineer, but do they even have bikes in the future? Well, Lithuania seems to have gathered a lot of knowledge over the course of her crazy nation life too.]

[. . . . . sans comes back from sloth bullshit to deal with this bullshit. great. but he has one question before anything else.]

do none of you know what a mole is? it's not just the cute animal.

[BECAUSE THE WHOLE GAME WAS TALKING ABOUT SAVING GHOSTS FOR A WHILE, SO???]

We're not moles from your perspective, of course. [That would be silly.]

[YES... SILLY...]

yeah, i figure... but that's not gonna help your kids outside.

[WHY CALL YOURSELVES MOLES ON A CHALKBOARD, WHAT THE FUCK, AT LEAST WRITE 'ANIME CLUB"]

[Listen, Rhys wrote that.] No, it's not. None of this is exactly an ideal circumstance for us.

[AND HE IS JUDGING THE FUCK OUT OF RHYS, TOO]

because any of the stuff outside of this was ideal? you guys might've wanted to coordinate better.

[#bitterasfuck]

None of anything from the beginning was ideal. Himeko continuously almost giving us away wasn't ideal. Miata's plan being the only option wasn't ideal. Being brought here to play some awful killing game is the opposite of ideal. [This is all a mess and all she has left is belief in Miata, okay.]

[this is all a mess and sans believes in nothing, that's what he was getting at]

... look. i'm sure you guys did as well as you could with the stuff you were given. but i dunno if the best you could's gonna end up enough.

I don't know, either, but I have to believe it will be. [Her other option is to accept death, which, no.]

[something about that phrase gets him to remember he's still got a brother involved in this shit and he can't just throw in the towel. dang it.

believing in stuff is so hard, liet??? it is so hard???]

...welp. at least now you got everybody workin' together.

[if they don't kill each other.]

I wish we could have just told everyone from the beginning. [Lithuania wishes a lot of things didn't happen or did happen.] Maybe we can do something from here. And maybe Buddy won't kill Himeko and Roxy.

i dunno if tellin' some of 'em would've been a great idea. [sans loves his brother but papyrus would've spilled the beans to katerina in about. .02 seconds flat. also bill existed.] i think we're hopin' less on a lack of murder on her part and more on someone restrainin' her.

...Alright, maybe not everyone. [But more people!] Restrained and kept away from the weapons. Unless one of the demons is around, I suppose.

there's no point in what ifs right now. ... eleven weeks isn't a heck of a long time to figure out who to trust or not, anyway. lot of you had even less. but--

how'd miata pick? she ever tell you?

[that's been bugging him, if it was just random or just people she thought she could trust, or... because if it was random That's Kind Of Fucking Risky]