Initiative.

[trustmods]

The Conductor - Solf J Kimblee - is dead. You've won. You have three new keys, a philosopher's stone, and twenty-three mysterious potions at your disposal. You've had enough of people leading you around, haven't you? So now it's your turn to take initiative. What will you do now?

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[icysemblance]

[WE'RE GONNA GO GET OUR FRIENDS - AND OUR FRENEMIES - THAT'S WHAT.

But no, does one of those keys unlock the vending machine? If not, it's still good.]

[trustmods]

[Unfortunately, those keys will not unlock the vending machine. You've got enough potions to revive everyone, however, so you don't need to get into it.]

[icysemblance]

[In that case, gonna run up to the morgue.]

[sunsong]

[ As the person carrying the keys, Sol's going to head to the floor she remembers Susan going to, where the morgue is supposed to be.

SURELY ONE OF THESE WILL OPEN THE DEAD PEOPLE BOXES. Let's try them all in order.

...She's not sure she's up to seeing Luna's dead body and shoving a potion down her sister's throat immediately so she's going to try to unlock the thing and then open Morty's box. She's pretty sure everyone can at least agree on that one - trying to revive Asuka first (her other option...) would probably get protests. ...OF COURSE, THIS IS ONLY IF HER KEYS WORK... ]

[trustmods]

[Well, unlocking the specific boxes isn't going to work. There is some sort of contraption off to the side with a key hole, however... Maybe you should start there.]

[sunsong]

[ SHE'LL TRY HER KEYS THERE. ]

Stupid fucking keys, I'm bannin' them at home...

[trustmods]

[YOU UNLOCKED A BOX WITH ANOTHER KEY--

that joke is not going to get old any time soon, okay.

The contraption seems to connect to the morgue and inside are thirty open slots. It looks like you could fit something in here, maybe.]

[sunsong]

[ ....??? are they key slots? will a room key work? she has luna's, yuuri's, kaneki's and her own on hand. or the key she used or one of the other two she got? OR A POTION?

TRIES ALL THOSE THINGS. ]

[trustmods]

[Nope, not key slots! They're definitely not key-shaped at all. They're circular, actually.

...So you might be onto something with the potions there.]

[sunsong]

[ OKAY. SHE'LL START PUTTING THEIR POTIONS IN THERE. ...Though she'll check to see if there's a way to tell which slots connect to which boxes in the morgue since they have 23 potions and 30 slots and she doesn't want to waste them. :|a ]

[trustmods]

[They aren't numbered, but it seems pretty straight forward, since the contraption is lined up in the exact same way as the morgue drawers.]

[sunsong]

[ All right, cool. She knows who all the dead people are, so she'll slot them into the appropriate places! ...Does anything happen when that's done, or does there seem to be an activation button, or... ]

[trustmods]

[...Well, it seems like nothing is happening. You might want to go for the button on the side.]

[sunsong]

[ SLAMS THAT BUTTON DOWN WITH THE FORCE OF SOMEONE WHO REALLY WANTS HER SISTER AND EVERYONE ELSE BACK

and the incaution of one of the teen asshole squad tbh...what is the concept of thinking before hitting buttons ]

[trustmods]

[THROUGH THE POWER OF BULLSHIT MAGICAL SCIENCE AND LOVE OR SOMETHING... the contraption glows, the potion bottles crack open and the liquid disappears into the machine. It's all very sciencey and shit, trust me.

Then there's a massive flash of light.

You might want to turn around, Sol. There are twenty-two bodies on the ground behind you.]

[sunsong]

[ okay, there's really only one reaction to this: ]

Holy fucking shit, what the HELL?!

[ But, wait. Twenty-two bodies (twenty-three potions, she thinks) but that's literally as far as she gets before she registers what just happened. ]

[forcegalactic]

[Mordecai was expecting this. There was going to be a warping of reality around him and then he'd wake up in a morgue. Or something. Wherever Solf "silly name" Kimblee kept the bodies. It was nice of everyone to take him out whatever box he was in and lay him on the floor.

A horizontal scar is visible on his forehead to anyone seeing him lie on his back. Wow, it feels weird to be able to sense things again. Like discomfort. He pushes himself up, and runs his hand across his chest, expecting a giant rip in the fabric. Nope, it's all good, despite the huge scar where Tabby sliced him open.]

Did that thing fix my clothes? [nice priorities from the potion makers, but really unexpected. But more importantly:

Mordecai Benmont Jiminy is alive]

[midnightsea]

[Did you really think, even for a second, that it would be that easy to get rid of him?]

[Of course not. Dio was a force of nature.An unstoppable evil, a would-be monarch to reign over time and the universe itself-]

[-and he was on the floor in a disheveled shirtless mess, with a vertical scar slicing down his left eye and another larger horizontal one on the right side of his head.]

WRYYYYYYYYYY--?!

[With thatalarmed and distressed screech he sat up immediately, hands going to his throat and the back of his left shoulder to take inventory of things; yes, this was still Jonathan's body. And that...]

...

[...was everyone else?]

[DIO is (unfortunately) alive.]

[ninehundredlives]

Do we know if we actually have to make them drink it? Some of them weren't...exactly in the best condition.

[Some of them are probably literally just piles of dust in there. Certainly, in Undyne's case.]

[icysemblance]

Only one way to find out, at this point.

[sunsong]

Let's...see if it works on someone before we start worryin' about the hard ones. Well, if we get them open, we can just divvy corpses up and start doin' them...I'll handle Luna an' Morty an' Asuka myself at the very least.

[withabigsmile]

Did Logan drink one?

[ninehundredlives]

I have no idea.

I'm not sure it would be smart to chug random substances he found in the machine, but it obviously worked out for him. If briefly...

A SECOND AFTER HER LAST STATEMENT.

[sunsong]

Uh, looks like drinkin' may not be a worry.

[clearasmud]

[ you know

after a certain point

not even being brought back to life can replenish your deeply lacking supply of fucks ]

...Hey guys.

[ how ya doin'

youko's doing pretty well herself! even the new scar that cuts from her jawline onto to cheek doesn't look... too bad? the one over her heart, beneath her kimono might be a different story, but nobody's seeing that any time soon. ]