continuance;;

[uncoincidental]

Near the Base.
2 months after Craven Castle.

[Step one of the plan calls for getting access to the place where those who escaped from season 47 and season 50 are hiding. It is also, perhaps, the most difficult step; even avoiding anyone who would be sent out to recapture them is simple enough, given their abilities. But the producers have given those survivors so many reasons to be suspicious of new faces - particularly new faces that have played in the game before - that Sheba is not entirely certain how to go about gaining their trust.

She would like to think that they wouldn't immediately distrust someone who also seemed to be on the run, but her forays into the human mind have taught her that while people can be kind, those who have been backed into a corner are often paranoid. These survivors have achieved great victories against the producers, but they're still stuck here - as they all are - so they are in the unique position of being successful but also being backed into a corner.

If only some of them were from Weyard. That sort of familiarity would be very welcome.]

What do you think? [Her voice is quiet as she glances at her fellow escapee.] Do you think they'll... be willing to help us?

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[dethroning]

[Hao, on the other hand, seems perfectly at ease - jovial as he's always been (with a scant few exceptions) despite the enormity of the task that lies before them. he's never really been one to worry about things like this, though. not in as reckless a way as Yoh, but similar nonetheless.]

It's a group of good people.

[so, "yes", in short... it's not something he seems too concerned about, anyway, even though HE PROBABLY SHOULD BE considering they're walking into a group of like 60 OP individuals.

but he wouldn't be Hao if he wasn't brimming with cult leaderish confidence, so here he is, ready to amble into the great beyond.]

[uncoincidental]

"Good people," huh...

[Sheba wonders about that. The last group of "good people" she had dealt with had been sorely misguided and would have doomed everyone they were trying to save if they'd had their way; it was only a stroke of luck that their group's leader had a thing for a member of her own group that gave them the chance to set things right.

Even good people can be stubborn. Still, good people are easier to deal with than bad people, and she smiles and rests her chin on her hands as she thinks about it.] There should be some familiar faces there, at least. I wonder if Klavier's as much of a ladykiller now as he pretended to be back then? What about you - are you looking forward to seeing the person they picked from your season?