There's been a bit of a serial... leeching.

[ So to speak. ]

I wouldn't put it past certain people to have done this on purpose.

Yeah, well, me neither.

...But wait, so something like this happened to someone else?

The book in the church was laced with leeches, apparently.

Miss Marina and some others opened it only to, you know.

[ Leech rain. ]

Oh, yikes. [ ... ] Was that the curse??

If you mean the curse mentioned in the note, no.

Taking the book off the premises eventually results in auditory hallucinations and a compulsion to return it to its original place.

I learned this the first day, and told multiple people this and advised against interacting with the book any further...

[ But then you know. Bookgate kept happening. ]

...So it probably was that little red-haired shit.

Mr. Akabane or Mr. Geto are usually my suspects for anything untowards that's been happening all over the camp, yes.

[ huffs ]

Well, I'm glad it's not just me making things up out of spite, I guess.

Geto-kun too, though, huh?

[ man japan's reputation is gonna be in the toilet here ]

[ He says Karma's name with mild distaste. He says Geto's name with outright vitriol, for the record. ]

Given he threw a rather large worm in my face upon our first meeting and claimed it to be an "accident", it doesn't seem like behaviour that would be above him.

[ cool let's make a pact to feed them to the blood god first ]

Uh, wow. Okay, fair analysis, I guess.

[ He scoffs, just. Very clearly ruffled by the mention of Geto's existence and all. ]

Anyway. It seems to be a repeating problem so I definitely recommend not touching anything that looks suspicious, and checking all clothes, blankets, doorways and the like before entering.

It's unnecessary stress, but caution is preferable to someone finally getting an infection or parasite off of these things.

[ nods.......... though even if he checks everything before he goes to sleep, it's not going to do much good if karma just fucks with his shit when he's not awake like he's now assuming happened this time. ]

Ugh. I wish I could banish him from clown purgatory but I don't want to deal with him also being vengeful on top of everything else.

Quite a pickle we're in, huh...

We've all already got enough on our plates without internal strife, especially the petty kind.

Yeah, and kind of not great that we're already dealing with that... what, four days into a two month stay?

[ it took wayyyy longer than that for everyone to go crazy and turn on each other that time they got stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash... ]

[ Just that being put like this exhausts him. ]

Maybe we're lucky and he'll exhaust himself soon.

God, I hope so.

Wouldn't want to have to resort to extremes. I think we'd all prefer to avoid that.

...

[ He points at the phone. ]

What're you looking at?

Mm...

[ yeah he wishes karma would just drop dead on his own without anyone having to feel bad about killing a middle schooler

anyway, looks down at his phone, then back ]

Oh... you don't have phones either, huh?

We do have phones... but I suspect it's similar to the difference in religions and otherworldly orders.

They're not a small tablet of... metal?

[ What kind of phone does he even have. ]

[ it is an iphone. i think it's a 7 or something. ]

Oh, so just the regular old landline ones, then?

[ you are one of the first people who's asked about his phone who's had any conception of what telephones are at all. ]

What year is it for you?

1942.

[ Someone already told him they're from 2205 and there's others who are from entirely different planets. Todomatsu could say anything and he'd just be like ok... fine... at this point. ]

[ damn he won't be born for another ten years... ]

Okay, well... toward the end of the century, they came out with these cell phones that transmitted by waves in the air or something instead of using lines, so they didn't have cords and you could take them with you anywhere. Then in the 2000s they came out with smartphones, which basically also work as a computer... and camera and music player and video game system. Like, pretty much anything involving communication or media.

Anyway, that's what this is.

Mm.

...Mmm.

[ He's got slightly furrowed brows like obviously this is kind of beyond him but Todomatsu's explanation isn't bad? ]

So a telephone, radio, and camera, all in... that.

[ Wow. ]

It's very compact. How is it powered?

[ IT HELPS THAT HE LIVED THROUGH ALL OF THESE MILESTONES AND ACTUALLY REMEMBERS USING ROTARY PHONES AND SHIT AS A KID ]

It's got a rechargeable battery inside it! You just plug it into a source of electricity to charge it again.

Unfortunately we don't... have those... so it's going to be dead for good in a few minutes here unless I can convince those cult guys to give me a generator or something.

A generator would be handy to have in general, actually... the phone alone is plenty of reason to ask for one.

Trying to tune into the radio... calling for help.

[ Granted he feels like. Maybe Todomatsu is smart enough to have tried that. So far he doesn't give off dingus energy. Still, doesn't mean they should just give up this avenue? ]

Have you tried asking any of the four we met this past Sunday yet?