problem-solving on the Plane

[realitymods]

[Meredith appears. She makes her announcement without stalling.]

Your friends have changed. There is one certain way to save them. Those who die will return to what they were.

[Does that make you angry? Too bad. The hooded figure has already vanished.]

Comments

[onperfectlips.livejournal.com]

No! There must be another way!

[promisedsomeone.livejournal.com]

[Guess who else is here. As usual, there's that splash of crimson on his arm.]

Even an uncertain way is still a chance. I'm going to the shop. [He turns away sharply.] Don't do anything stupid.

[onperfectlips.livejournal.com]

They're telling us to murder our friends.

I'm coming with you. [He needed a voice of reason.]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Gwen-san ...

Someone you know?

[onperfectlips.livejournal.com]

Morgana. Morgana has been ... [She shook her head, sickened by the thought.] We have to save her!

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Morgana --

[The girl in the woods -- her clothes were something like Gwen's?]

Tall, black haired, using magic to destroy the forest?

[onperfectlips.livejournal.com]

That isn't her. Not really. She would never behave like that.

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

[Just as he'd thought.]

She's not the only one changed. I've seen three others.

[onperfectlips.livejournal.com]

We can't just kill them.

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Definitely not.

Inspector Menzies and I think this happened because the people effected ate candy from this place. If that's the cause, this might not be permanent or there should be some other solution.

[onperfectlips.livejournal.com]

We have to stop anyone else eating from the kitchen.

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

It's got nothing to do with the kitchen, Gwen-san. I found candy in my pockets in my world. Inspector Menzies found it on a colleagues desk. Hiccup-kun found it -- Hiccup-kun! I don't know if he's okay ...

[onperfectlips.livejournal.com]

Then we can't stop it. We can only warn people.

... Hiccup has been affected as well. I'm sorry.

[anoblesavage.livejournal.com]

I would rather kill the one who has changed our friends in the first place.

[grip_on_reality]

[Menzies scowls] That would be the answer, wouldn't it? But dead isn't exactly "what they were," is it? Like death is some sort of temporary inconvenience. [she scoffs]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

You've heard about the machine oil blood?

[Look who is back in the Plane.]

[grip_on_reality]

[she raises an eyebrow] I've heard the machine "runs on blood," whatever that means. What's this oil blood, then?

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

I got told that people who've died here end up with blood that smells and looks like machine oil by two different people.

[grip_on_reality]

...people who've died? Come back? [well, that explains Meredith's offer, at least]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Death's not supposed to work like that, is it?

[grip_on_reality]

Not in my experience, no. This is starting to sound like something right out of a zombie film! So if one of us dies, we come back with oil blood, but nobody wants to destroy everything around them anymore. [she sneers] Doesn't sound like much of an offer to me. [it sounds manipulative, more than anything]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

[Conan was hoping he was making the right decision telling Menzies that.]

I don't think it's an offer at all.

[grip_on_reality]

[she nods. the pieces are starting to fall together now] They get something out of us dying. Otherwise, why set this up?

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

That seems like a theme. That's how it happened to one of the people I talked to. The people in charge made everyone fight.

And then there's the deaths in our worlds too.

[sosweet]

[He just stays silent, clenching his fists. His Cosmo is a a big turmoil.]