the doctor is in

[whathedoves]

Who: Yuuya and volunteers.
What: I think there might be a nightmare plot going on right now? There are some logs...
When: Nightmare Plot
Where: The doctor's office at St. PigeoNation's
Rating: PG-13...? Gore, blood, dead bodies

Spoilers for a pigeon dating sim.

There's no mistaking the sterile, tidy white room Yuuya has stumbled into, though the power of dreaming makes it feel both infinite and infinitely small, a claustrophobic space that still stretches on nearly forever.

The curtains are drawn around the cots, obscuring whatever carnage is there. But Yuuya knows - and any glance around the curtain will confirm - that every cot is occupied. Someone is dead in each of these beds.

Outfitted with tools of the medical trade and some less legal equipment (Dr. Iwamine's cleaver has been sterilized and sterilized, but it still looks bloody), Yuuya is equipped for the grisly task of turning lifeless stock into meat. At the other end of the office, the door is locked. The desk is stacked with files, full of the unspoken threat to his only brother's life and future.

It's the same as before, when he'd had to lift the human girl from the floor and turn her into pieces. The poor thing, the poor thing ... but she had just been one human, right?

The place on his wing where the doctor cut him is open and inflamed. Maybe the toxin will kill him before he can get through all the bodies.

It's worth hoping.

Are you another one of the doctor's volunteers? Did he blackmail you, too?

No matter your level of participation, Yuuya isn't likely to be happy to see you.

Comments

[dupable]

[ John looks up from the piles of body parts, there's a bird there... is he the one that's been cutting up everyone here? That's sort of disturbing to think about.

Hitchcock had nothing on this.

John takes a step back, but there's not really anywhere to go, unless he wants to make a dash by the bird. ]

I don't actually know?

[ He looks down there's surgical equipment on a table next to him though. What's up with that? ]

[whathedoves]

... Yeah. I didn't think Iwamine would work with a human unless it suited him.

You're probably with the human opposition, right? I'm pretty impressed that you managed to get in here.

[dupable]

The human opposition?

[ Against... bird murder? Well he's definitely opposed to it! But he doesn't know if that really makes him part of some sort of organized group. ]

Are there more of you guys outside?

[ He's moving forward, trying to find a window to look out of. He doesn't want to fight his way through a army of giant pigeons. ]

[whathedoves]

[He might find a couple, but they're indestructible - at least they were when Yuuya tried to get out through them.]

I have absolutely no idea where the doctor is. Other than that...the school might be empty. Who knows?

[He rubs his wounded wing now.] So you're pretty lost, huh? Hope he doesn't expect me to do anything rash.

[dupable]

[ That's definitely not a comforting thought, because he doesn't particularly want to stay here any longer than he has to. Especially since it looks like he was too late to actually do anyone here any good.

John's attention snaps back to the bird, because... something rash? For a guy surrounded by corpses "rash" can't mean anything good. ]

I guess so... Who's the doctor and what kind of rash things are you talking about? Because I know how to fight. Just saying.

[whathedoves]

He should be taken care of by his own, really. He's hurt birdkind more than humans.

...But, since you're here, I thought you'd know he's been behind this from the start.

[He puts his wings up as if in surrender.] Guess you should probably come after me, too, friend!

[For a split second, Yuuya appears to be confused. They're in the school, but wasn't there someplace else?] Do I know you, my like executioner?

[dupable]

[ John starts at that slightly. He gets this guy is like some kind of birdy mass murderer, and whoever the doctor is must be even worse, since it sounds like this guy works for him... but John didn't actually come to revenge kill anyone.

Isn't there a bird jail he can take this guy to in order to put him on bird trial?

Or maybe not, considering he doesn't even know if he's going to be able to get past the guards. ]

I don't think so. But I didn't actually come to kill you!

[whathedoves]

[This is just getting fishier by the minute. Yuuya looks, well ... confused. Very confused. And not at all like he's about to come after John.] Is that so?

Listen, I've made my choices and there's really no going back, here.

There's nothing quite like getting bitten in the ass by somebody who's not even here to kill you, really.


But the door's probably locked behind you, you should know.

[dupable]

[ Not about to come after him or not, John tries to make sure he stands in a way so he can watch Yuuya and the door at the same time. The guy still hacked up a bunch of other birds, and is pretty open and upfront about the fact to boot, so he's not really someone John wants to turn his back on. ]

I could always knock it down though.

[whathedoves]

[He just looks so confused. If he were human right now, his cowlick would probably be standing on end. As it is, even as a bird one of his feathers is popping up into some sort of bird ahoge.]

... Do you really think you could do that?

[dupable]

[ He's studying the door now, and it doesn't look like some weird, super door where there are like five layers of reinforced steel or anything, so... ]

Sure! No problem.