You follow Zombie Chick out into the woods, curious as to what she wants.
You have to admit -- without the face and body paint, and dressed in the normal school uniform, she looks strikingly normal.
Which makes her periodic muscle spasms all the more unnerving.
Eventually, she leads you to a clearing, far enough away from the campus that you should be free of would-be eavesdroppers, but still within line of sight.
"It's easier for me to speak this way... if you don't mind?"
Despite Zombie Chick being in front of you, the voice came from behind you.
Pivoting on your heel, you turn to face the direction of the sound, and find yourself face-to-face with an albino little girl in a dark blue, Victorian-style dress. Taking a hold of her skirt, she dips into a curtsy. "My name is Rebecca Atsuno. For reasons I'm sure you can guess, I'm speaking through my Stand, [Decay]."
...right, because she died as a human and someone later stuffed her soul back into the reanimated corpse, without being able to -- or perhaps just not caring -- to fully reverse the decomposition it had already suffered. You imagine that speaking probably isn't exactly fun for her.
Of course, you doubt she's interested in talking about that. Turning back to face the Revenant girl, you ask the obvious question. "So what did you need?"
Atsuno turns to look at you, and she takes a few seconds to visibly force her expression the way she wants it -- one of complete and utter seriousness. "There was something bizarre about our match yesterday."
Looking you dead in the eyes, she makes it a point to say this with her own voice instead of speaking through her Stand, and that 'homeless serial killer' vibe comes right back with it. "You need. To see. The tape."
Well. If she's that vehement....
"I don't have anything else going on today," you say with a shrug. Might as well...
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Atsuno leads you to an Audio-Visual equipment room behind the school gym, and after powering on a TV and the VCR hooked up to it, pops in a video tape. "The school's cameras are magic," she says through her Stand. "I don't know the details of how it works, but the important thing is that they can detect and record spiritual phenomena."
Indeed, as the video Atsuno enters the ring, you can see an aura around her hand as she grips one of the ropes, causing it to start visibly withering until she lets go.
Come to think of it.... "You never used that ability in the actual match, did you?"
Glancing at Atsuno, she looks nothing less than offended by the notion. "I wanted to kick your ass legitimately," her Stand snarls, "and one of these days I'm going to."
At that time, the video footage shows Atsuno effortlessly deadlifting your body over her head and flinging you across and beyond the ring. "Pretty sure you already kicked my ass."
Atsuno raises an eyebrow. "You think I can't recognize a half-assed effort when I see one?"
You know damn well that she's right as she calls you out on your pitiful showing, and you're embarrassed enough over the experience as it is. Rather than mull over the topic any further, you decide it's time to get to the point. "If you went to all this trouble just to pick another fight..."
"Watch," she hisses, as she throws you into the guard rail... and then the video glitches out with static, and you feel a RED stabbing sensation in your brain. You can't help but cry out at the suddenness of the pain!
After what in your agony seems like an eternity, but was likely only a handful of seconds, the video stops spazzing out and goes back to normal, showing the both of you staggering into the ring, Atsuno seemingly-disinterestedly popping her shoulder back into its socket. The you on the tape looks only vaguely discomfited, you note with pride; that evidently nobody realized you wanted to puke your brain out saves you a certain amount of embarrassment.
Even as you fight off the needles stabbing your brain, you can feel the pain start to subside as the tape pauses. "What the fuck?!"
Atsuno, when you can turn your gaze to her, is quite clearly freaked out herself. "I don't know what just happened, that's the point of why we're here!" her Stand hisses.
But for the magic-augmented footage to spazz out and skip over like that... what the hell happened? How did you get from outside the ring to inside it? And how the hell did you dislocate Atsuno's shoulder like that?
....after several seconds, you finally manage to calm the fuck back down, and you keep staring at the paused tape recording, trying to solve the mystery of what happened.
Come to think of it, you had a second nausea attack in the match as well, didn't you?
[]Have Atsuno rewind the tape, so you can experience that special kind of stabbing agony yet again.
[]Play the tape forward, see if the same thing happens in the second instance.
[]Nope, fuck it, you're out. Scooby-Doo over here can solve this mystery on her own.
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VIEW ACTIVE TIME EVENT?
[]YES! YES! YES!
[]Like hell I will!
