#hvdcheckpoint

"A body has been discovered! Following a brief period of investigation, we will commence our school trial! You can check your Electronic Student ID Cards, in the Media folder, for the Monobear File. Good luck you bastards!"

The Monobear File read:

It was quiet, far too quiet lately. It was as if even the very air was mourning the two deaths that had happened… what? Days, weeks, months ago? It was hard to tell with time blurring into one watery, sloppy mess and with them not having any clear indication of date and time.

Even Monobear was far too quiet lately.

But that all changed soon enough.

“Oi, you bastards! Did you miss me? You better have!” the thing’s voice echoed throughout the islands, tone amused with a hint of cruelty. “But don’t worry; you will all be graced with my awesome presence right away! Please gather at the hospital conference room or suffer the consequences!”

As you all arrive, Monobear is gleefully standing by the window. It’s a bit crowded in the room but he doesn’t take notice. “Do you like the new area? You bastards need to read more anyway, upu. But what’s this? Some of you don’t look too good,” he says with a mock worried tone.

Indeed, four of you look a little red faced and weak, maybe some of you have a hard time breathing. There are students burning up with a fever and don’t act like they usually do.

“Oh no!” The bear looks distressed and starts to wiggle his hips. “Don’t tell me, you have the Despair Disease! Has someone been loitering around in places they shouldn’t be in? This is bad, beary bad!” He continues and he panics about symptoms and fatalities and death that the disease might bring upon you. He explains that the Despair Disease will grow worst if left untreated and will kill those afflicted with it while they are stripped of their identity.

But then he smiles again. “Oh, it’s a good thing I know the cure! Don’t panic ebearybody! Doctor Monobear is in the house, upu! There is just one thing: Doctor Monobear charges greatly for house calls.”

He stops dramatically and laughs: “The cost for a cure is death: the death of one of your classmates.”

Certain players are informed to have been afflicted with the Despair Disease! Symptoms are high fever and uncharacteristic personalities. It can become fatal the longer they have it, eventually leading to death. Upu! There are 4 sick students in total! Be careful, it can be contagious! I will inform a player if they get the sickness too!

What day was it; day three maybe? Definitely less than a week and definitely not more. It was seven in the morning too when Monobear made his reappearance since their abrupt awakening at the beach.

“It’s seven in the morning you lazy bastards! Time to wake up! The Headmaster needs all students at the airport now! Anyone who doesn’t attend will be severely punished, so hurry up!” his robotic voice rang throughout the entire area so he could be heard whether a person was in their room still sleeping or anywhere on the two islands available for their exploring needs!

The tone is threatening so, whether you’d like to or not, you haul off your ass to the designated meeting place.

When everyone finally arrives, perhaps all in different states of attire whether they were ready for the day or still in their pajamas, Monobear pops up, front and center and calls for your attention.

His expression looks sweet and it looks like he’s blushing too as he gazes at all of you fondly. “I’m so glad to see such youthful individuals like you all up and early and ready for a beautiful day. Isn’t it nice to live out your life while you’re young? Don’t you think the potential you could all have is wasted on this island?” he started off in an almost dreamy tone until his face contorted into a comical expression of rage. “Which is why I’m wondering why bastards haven’t killed each other off yet!? You must want to get off this island?!”

“Why won’t any of you kill someone? It’s easy! Clubbing, beating, drowning, hanging, cutting, I don’t care! There are many ways to off one of you losers!” he continues in an angered rant but suddenly calms down with the same dreamy expression from before. “But I am a kind Headmaster so I’ll make it worth your while to become the killers all humans are born to be

. If you would all take out your Electronic Student Identification Cards and check the menu, a new option under Media should be there. Each of you bastards has a different video that I think you will be all interested in, upupupu!”

The tone and message is ominous and, whether it is out of sheer curiosity, fear or some other reason, you follow anyway. A new item has indeed appeared on your ID menu. Below Rules, Map and Bio is the word Media and, inside the folder, is a video file with the file name ‘Red Eye Watches‘ followed by a name. A name of someone important to you, whether it is  your parents, a family member or a friend, a significant other or a mentor or just about any important connection you have, their name is there.

With a click, it plays although there is no sound. On the small screen, you see that important person living out their normal, everyday lives without you and the angles seem to be from a security camera… No biggie, security cameras could have been hacked or tapes could have been stolen, right? The video that is supposed to be day’s worth of video are shortened down to minutes as they are played in fast forward. It seems harmless enough…

Until that is, a few minutes, perhaps fifteen minutes or so into the video, the footage starts to play at normal speed. That important person stands up and goes to the front door and there is a delivery man there. The angle changes to show you what the delivery man is holding… a toy Monobear.

Then it stops before you see what happens next.

It has probably been silent for the past few minutes with everyone watching their video. Suddenly, Monobear breaks that silence with his laugh. “If you’re too stupid to understand, I’ll explain it to you! Your loved ones are being watched and if none of you bastards don’t do anything interesting in the next 24 hours, I can’t guarantee their safety! So whatever morally driven, emotion based dilemma you may be dealing with right now, you have my sympathy. But for the sake of time and sanity, let’s break this down into a little fact based logic. One simple murder will save their lives and will get you off the island too! Doesn’t that sound good to all you bastards?”

Easy to understand checkpoint: react! Show your videos to your fellow classmates if you are willing. This is a good chance to find out more about our characters and who are so important to them in the outside world. Cry, rage, cringe, Monobear wants to see it all.

Is the loved one their parent? A sibling? A best friend who's always been there for them? The old grump down the street that treats you like a granddaughter? Despair all around, their lives are in trouble if Monobear gets bored! Perhaps people start to get murderous thoughts? What are strangers compared to your loved ones?!

The sounds of gulls and the smell of the ocean start to rouse you gently until cold water splashes you in the face, making your awakening more violent. In a panic, you sit up and find yourself on a sunny beach. Aside from the fact that you don’t remember arriving in such a place or even falling asleep, the scene is somewhat beautiful and peaceful. The last thing you remember is being on a boat, well on your way to your exclusive island campus.

Shaking off the sand from your hair, clothes, footwear and just about every place they managed to get into, you quickly realize you are not alone.

Along with you are several other high school aged students, all also waking up from their slumber. You might recognize some of them – they being other new students of Hope’s Peak, the so called Super High School Level students, and the hope of Japan. They also happen to be your classmates because you happen to be one of them!

Some of the others start to introduce themselves (maybe even approach those who they knew, either from earlier history or because the person was someone whose name they knew through fame). You could introduce yourself too if you wanted, that’s completely up to you.

It’s all confusing but you don’t really have time to process it and delve too deep into the situation all when a voice pipes up. Hooked up precariously to a palm tree on one side of the beach is a monitor. A strange looking bear with a cocktail is displayed on the screen and greets you all.

“Is this thing on, hello? Hello you bastards! Finally awake eh?”

“What’s with all the long faces? Cheer up, your Headmaster commands it!” he continues with a laugh. “Oh yes, I am the Headmaster of the prestigious Hope’s Peak Academy, Monobear. So welcome to Jabberwock Island, you bastards! You have been selected to be enrolled here because you are the best of the best! Isn’t this campus nice? I think so anyway. You better think so too because, starting from now on, you will all live a communal lifestyle with each other on these islands for the rest of your lives.”

Being told by what seems to be a stuffed toy that you’re stuck here might be disconcerting. Some of you will probably think its all one big joke too. But the bear continues on; “Don’t worry! You will be provided with the basic necessities and more. Just know that you are all now dead to the outside world. You are also provided a Student Electronic Card I have taken the liberty on placing on your person. You can see the school rules along with some other interesting stuff there such as a map of the campus and your personal information… although I guess that’s only useful if one of you bastards get amnesia. It’s not like you’re a gamer learning about your player character for the first time, upupu.” 

His words must be sinking into your heads now and he lets out a cruel laugh. “If you don’t like it, well tough luck! There is only one way and one way alone off this rock! And that is GRADUATION!” Whether someone asks what graduation is or not, the bear explains anyway. “How do you graduate you ask? Well, you have to pass a test; easy peasy. And that test is… to break the peace, kill a fellow student and get away with it!”

“I know that this is all too much for your heads so I’ll leave you all alone to do as you please for now. You may consult your Student Electronic Cards for the other rules. Oh, don’t worry, you’ll all be seeing more of me in the near future…” he informs you all in a patronizing voice, a wide grin on his face, before waving at what must be the camera. “Monobear OUT!”

The monitor turns dark and it is silent once more.

The game of despair has begun.

[ Yuuma got out of bed, because he was rudely awakened. He threw on his jacket and combed his bangs to the side before rushing out of the cottage-- but he realized that he forgot one thing. And that was shoes, but he can't run late. What would that crazy bear do if he did? Probably unspeakable, unimaginable things, such as killing him and using his insides as a pot roast.

Once he got to the airport, he shivered. Ugh, he's cold without his shoes, but there's nothing he can do about i-- Oh, look, Monobear.. Or at least he thought it was monobear-- shit! He forgot his glasses, too. He's just one big mess right now, and he's about to become even more of a mess.

The Comedian listened to what monobear had to say.. What's the meaning of this? He  reluctantly pulled out his student ID card from his jacket pocket, and opened the Media folder to see a file called "The Red Eye Watches". His hands shook as he opened it, and he saw his sweet, sweet old Grandma. She never thought he was a failure at all, and honestly liked her more than his parents.

Wait, where they SPYING ON HIS GRANDMA? Why would they do that to her? She's innocent! She's done nothing. He watched, that is until he saw a delivery man at her door. He paused to take all of this in, and played again. The delivery man handed her a box, and inside was a monobear toy. Tears streamed out of his eyes. 

Why did this happen? He can't take it all in. And what monobear just said made it even worse. He's not gonna drive to killing just to save her.. ]

"What's the big idea? Why's he spying on my grandma? She's done nothing! Ugh."

Nanami didn't even bother changing out of her pajamas, a tank top and shorts, before heading out to the airport. Because, if anything, she was a good student. Her mind drifted as Monobear went on about the killing, and she stifled a yawn as best she could before he mentioned the card. Slipping the card out from a small pocket, an interesting filename caught her eye. With mild curiosity, she selected it and let it play.

There wasn't just one video feed, but four. Four mundane video feeds, and it didn't take her all that long to realize she was watching the inside of just a few of the houses that she had been a part of when she was younger. Just what was this? Time passes, and almost simultaneously each building gets a knock at the door. One by one the doors open, and the delivery man in each screen hands them a Monobear doll. Some of the adults are confused, while others give the stuffed toy to small children to play with.  The Birdwatcher studies it with disinterest as the feed cuts out, at which point she waves the card around with burgundy eyes staring at the two toned bear. 

" I can’t guarantee their safety! So whatever morally driven, emotion based dilemma you may be dealing with right now, you have my sympathy. But for the sake of time and sanity, let’s break this down into a little fact based logic. One simple murder will save their lives and will get you off the island too! Doesn’t that sound good to all you bastards?”

The sounds of gulls and the smell of the ocean start to rouse you gently until cold water splashes you in the face, making your awakening more violent. In a panic, you sit up and find yourself on a sunny beach. Aside from the fact that you don’t remember arriving in such a place or even falling asleep, the scene is somewhat beautiful and peaceful. The last thing you remember is being on a boat, well on your way to your exclusive island campus.

Shaking off the sand from your hair, shorts and shoes and just about every place they managed to get into, you quickly realize you are not alone.

Along with you are several other high school aged students, all also waking up from their slumber. You might recognize some of them – they being other new students of Hope’s Peak, the so called Super High School Level students, and the hope of Japan. They also happen to be your classmates because you happen to be one of them!

Some of the others start to introduce themselves (maybe even approach those who they knew, either from earlier history or because the person was someone whose name they knew through fame). You could introduce yourself too if you wanted, that’s completely up to you.

It’s all confusing but you don’t really have time to process it and delve too deep into the situation all when a voice pipes up. Hooked up precariously to a palm tree on one side of the beach is a monitor. A strange looking bear with a cocktail is displayed on the screen and greets you all.

“Is this thing on, hello? Hello you bastards! Finally awake eh?”

“What’s with all the long faces? Cheer up, your Headmaster commands it!” he continues with a laugh. “Oh yes, I am the Headmaster of the prestigious Hope’s Peak Academy, Monobear. So welcome to Jabberwock Island, you bastards! You have been selected to be enrolled here because you are the best of the best! Isn’t this campus nice? I think so anyway. You better think so too because, starting from now on, you will all live a communal lifestyle with each other on these islands for the rest of your lives.”

Being told by what seems to be a stuffed toy that you’re stuck here might be disconcerting, some of you will probably think its all one big joke too. But the bear continues on; “Don’t worry! You will be provided with the basic necessities and more. Just know that you are all now dead to the outside world. You are also provided a Student Electronic Card I’ve taken the liberty on placing on your person. You can see the school rules along with some other interesting stuff there such as a map of the campus and your personal information... although I guess that’s only useful if one of you bastards get amnesia. It’s not like you’re a gamer learning about your player character for the first time, upupu.” 

His words must be sinking into your heads now and he lets out a cruel laugh. “If you don’t like it, well tough luck! There is only one way and one way alone off this rock! And that is GRADUATION!” Whether someone asks what graduation is or not, the bear explains anyway. “How do you graduate you ask? Well, you have to pass a test; easy peasy. And that test is... to break the peace, kill a fellow student and get away with it!”

“I know that this is all too much for your heads so I’ll leave you all alone to do as you please for now. You may consult your Student Electronic Cards for the other rules. Oh, don’t worry, you’ll all be seeing more of me in the near future...” he informs you all in a patronizing voice, a wide grin on his face, before waving at what must be the camera. “Monobear OUT!”

The monitor turns dark and it is silent once more.