Taking Responsibility.

[transmittable]

Despite the lack of a body this week, you've had more than enough to explore and investigate; some of it may have answered some questions, while the rest...well, the rest may have just raised more. However you feel about it, the fact remains that as soon as you all step out of that new section above the third and make your way back toward one of the primary hallways, the lights quite suddenly go out, casting the hospital into complete darkness. Several seconds pass before something seems to happen and what sound like backup generators kick back on; the lights struggle their way back to life, only to immediately flicker and die again. It happens twice more before the power seems to stay on for good - they're feeble, but they're on, and at least it's enough to see by. It seems the power is stronger in one place in particular, however, and it shouldn't be a surprise which it is; the courtroom remains just as illuminated as ever, the seats ringing the old operating theater remaining as starkly unoccupied as they always do, and the podium circle that awaits you seems to have been set up in its final configuration. Sakura Kashima's portrait has joined the ranks of the deceased, her podium draped in black cloth. A final reminder of all you've lost here. Perhaps it's upsetting. Perhaps it'll only serve to make you more determined. The public-address system remains eerily silent, even after you've found your places in the circle; once in a while the quiet is broken by soft bursts of static, by a heavy, electric-sounding humming noise. Occasionally, whispers can be heard; whatever they're saying, it's probably not for you. Regardless, however, one thing is obvious: this is the end of the line, wherever it may have taken you. Eight Patients remain. Good luck.

Comments

[journalname]

They said they did not remember specifics about their former lives. Perhaps they needed to take on a new name?

[cthulwho]

Well...couldn't that also be why they've been calling themselves the Risen? Perhaps...this is another they have withheld?

[Hmmm.]

[journalname]

The two mean rather different things. It could be that something else happened in between, and they took on "the Risen" instead.

[ossifragant]

If they were really still ghosts, would they be calling themselves "the Risen"?

It makes it sound more like they came back from the dead.

[journalname]

...is that not what human ghosts are?

[He seriously sounds unsure on this point.]

[ossifragant]

I... guess? Ghosts aren't really something that exist where I'm from; and so far as myths go, they'd still be dead, technically speaking.

[journalname]

[Shrug]

Ghost monsters have nothing to do with death at all. I am not very familiar with this, except from some books.

[ossifragant]

Human ghosts aren't alive, they're the spirits of the departed that don't move on for one reason or another.