All these wet noodles, good lord.

[velocirainbow]

[ So sometime late into Sunday, right before sunset, Cielo can be seen running through camp, soaked, and bleeding profusely from one of his arms. He's just screaming like an idiot, out of breath, making hand gestures at anyone in the cabins or the lodge. He doesn't stay long in one area, looking for help wherever he can.

He is also, incidentally, looking for Stan if he can find him. ]

Help--de clearin'--everybody real badly hurt, we need first-aid, I can only do so much, bandages...! Anythin' you got! An' pain medicine! We gwon need a lot!

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[trashmouthtozier]

.... holy shit.

[that doesn't even occur to him right now, after all that commotion.
he's just concerned on all fronts]

Usagi, I ... how'd you find out?

[lovebun]

Ren took us somewhere. Into it... Its heart. We met it there, and... It was a child. You look older than it.

[ A small child. Who doesn't want to die. Who doesn't know what anyone wants from it. ]

...The shack... That's connected to it, right? ...Maybe they'll feel better if we pretty it up.

[trashmouthtozier]

So the stone god the lake cat told us about is just ... just a kid? Even though it's so old?

[that takes a moment to process. and then she mentions the shack]

And I put graffiti all over it. ... Shit.

... We could paint it orange the rest of the way. Cover it up. And ... and there's construction paper in the Rec Room. Maybe paper chains?

[lovebun]

...Yeah. I think it might like that. Maybe, if we show them we don't mean them any harm...

[ ...A child scared of death. She can't shake that, the image of a child curled up in the middle of a bunch of coral. ]

...We'll do it together, okay?

[trashmouthtozier]

... Stan said Red wants to destroy it.

[he makes a face.]

Usagi... do you really think we can get everyone back and save the rock god kid, too? Stan made it sound like ... we had to hurt it to save them. ... But if it's just a kid ...

[CONFLICT]

[lovebun]

...I'm not sure they're getting the full picture, Richie. If their bosses are experimenting on it, making it do horrible things... Why would they tell them the truth instead of a lie to make it seem like for the greater good?

[ That makes sense, right? ]

[trashmouthtozier]

[Richie takes a deep breath]

It does, except ...

Last week. When Ren tried to burn the shack. Red said something would start screaming. ... Do you think ... that's what she meant?

[lovebun]

Maybe. I just don't think she realizes what's really going on. Those videos--does it look like they're working for some greater good? Can you see Red going along if they were, without a doubt, looking to use this for immortality instead?

[ So many lives, thrown away to achieve immortality... ]

[trashmouthtozier]

You're right. ... I didn't think about the fact that that stuff we keep finding on those weird tiny computers is stuff they don't know. I mean - she said the campers aren't part of it, but ... it sure as shit is starting to look like they are.

It sucks, because she said she has to confiscate stuff if she hears about it. ... I wish we could just find this stuff as notes, or papers. Then we could make copies of it, and she could just take it and learn about it for herself, but we'd still have our own.

[lovebun]

...They're not going to let her destroy it. The stone god's too valuable. We're more likely to go than them.

[ No one just gives up like that. ]

[trashmouthtozier]

That's bullshit. And you're right. We DO need to try and help as many people as possible. There's gotta be a way. ... We need to all talk about this. But if we all talk about it, they'll know.

[he sighs]

We need to find a way to share stuff in secret, like Mitsuru's notebook.