Category:Despairing Vacation (DV1)

The first round of Despairing Vacation, running from August 28th, 2017 to March 15, 2018.

PREMISE
Eighteen people found themselves as the lucky winners of a special island vacation.

It can be remembered just like any other normal day, save for twenty randomly selected students, or staff members at Hopes Peak Academy. When they all checked their lockers or desks, a note with the same message was found contained inside of it. ''HELLO!  If you’re receiving this letter, then congratulations! You have been selected for a one of a kind vacation on a far off island for your entire summer vacation where you’ll be alone and don’t need to pay for anything. I know that it definitely sounds fishy, and I wouldn’t blame you if you felt you couldn’t trust this letter.  But I can promise you that this is nothing short of a scam. You’ve been such a great influence to have on campus - we felt you really needed a break from everything to just have some time off to yourself. How about it, huh?  - The administrators of H,P.A.'' Although the note seemed extremely suspicious, eventually- everyone came to terms with it and decided to head along on the vacation. Besides, it was only going to be for a month, right? So, there they were. On the larger than expected cruise ship heading straight towards the island they were to be staying at for the remainder of their vacation.

A few hours later, it seemed the cruise ship would arrive at it’s destination. Stopping at the dock on the shore, everyone began to stumble out one by one until nobody was left inside. The captain of the ship stumbled out to greet everyone - tell them that they’d be back when their vacation was over and to stay safe and have a good time. It didn’t take long for the caption to steer the cruise ship away, and out of sight.

What was left behind was a group of eighteen strangers, standing around the island looking around at their surroundings curiously.

Now that they were left alone and had an entire island to themselves… Now what? What were they supposed to do…? Well, that was all up to them!

CAST

 * Akihiko Sanada - Ultimate Boxer
 * Bendy - Ultimate Actor
 * Celica - Ultimate Priestess
 * Clive Dove - Ultimate Reporter
 * Daiki Takashita - Ultimate Superstitious
 * Goro Akechi - Ultimate Detective
 * Justin Thyme - Ultimate Punmaster
 * Lear Miyanoshita - Ultimate Cryptid
 * Lion Shinozaki - Ultimate P.I.
 * Marie - Ultimate Maid
 * Noah - Ultimate Hacker
 * Peacock - Ultimate Illusionist
 * Suki - Ultimate Test Taker
 * Tohru Sohma - Ultimate Hikikomori
 * Totoko Yowai - Ultimate Idol
 * Tougou - Ultimate Conman
 * Uta - Ultimate ???
 * Wataru Hibiki - Ultimate Magician

PROLOGUE
Sixteen students and two teachers stepped off the boat, introducing themselves and settling into the hotel on the island. With a well-stocked kitchen, a lovely beach, and even a convenience store, this vacation promised to be great.

CHAPTER 1
Until, one day that all came crashing down. Early one morning, the speakers scattered throughout the hotel blared to life, commanding everyone to come down to the lobby for a mandatory meeting. At that meeting, the vacationers were introduced to the vacation’s nineteenth member: a walking and talking stuffed bear named Monokuma. The bear’s message for everyone was that this was, in fact, not a vacation that they had been chosen for, but a killing game. No one was leaving the island until they got away with murder. Furthermore, he introduced the first motive for someone to murder: a timer started ticking, and unless a dead body turned up, something horrible would happen to everyone. The vacationers were all stunned at this, but the bear was not lying. The timer was running, counting down the hours until the horrific event occurred. However, the timer never hit zero--the body of Noah, Ultimate Hacker, was found in one of the entertainment rooms. The vacationers were then introduced to the second part of the killing game--the class trials. Standing at podiums arranged in a circle, they had to present evidence and debate the facts until they came to a conclusion about who committed the murder. If they guessed right, the murderer would be brutally executed. If they guessed wrong, everyone except the murderer was killed, and the murderer would get to leave. The trial ended with the conviction of Goro Akechi, Ultimate Detective. Everyone looked on in horror as Goro was whisked away and then buried in blood in what was essentially a giant fish tank, choking to death. They all felt some mixture of disgust, shock, horror, or even amusement. It seemed the bear was not lying about the rules of this killing game--everyone now understood what was truly at stake here. Oh, and that horrible tragic thing the bear promised? That turned out to be nothing, just an empty bluff to encourage murder.

CHAPTER 2
Most of the remaining islanders were outraged at this situation, but with the bear’s armada of weapons poised and ready, and no leads on who was pulling the strings on this, they were quite limited in what they could do. They could, however, explore the swanky new museum and planetarium that had opened up after the trial. Days after the detective’s death, everyone woke up with strange collars attached to them. The speakers crackled to life once more, and Monokuma explained the second motive for murder--nobody would be able to sleep until someone died, and these electric collars would make sure of it. With their resolve to be pacifist strengthened by the horrors of the previous week, everyone did their damndest to not murder. However, as the days stretched on, minds started fraying. One morning, the body of Daiki Takashita, Ultimate Superstitious, was found in the rooftop sauna. After another (very sleep-deprived) class trial, the culprit was discovered to be Hibiki Wataru, Ultimate Magician. After a grisly execution by impalement, aided by the unwitting Ultimate Actor Bendy, everyone’s collars disengaged, and they all crawled back to their rooms to sleep.

CHAPTER 3
The game continued. Days later, Monokuma called everyone down to the lobby for another meeting; everyone was suspicious, but the fear of punishment brought them in regardless. Without warning, handcuffs snapped around the wrists of everyone, chaining them off in pairs. Here was the third motive--the handcuffs would not come off until someone died. And before long, sure enough, an explosion was heard, and everyone’s handcuffs came undone. The planetarium had become a pile of rubble, and in the pile were the bodies of Marie Korbel, Ultimate Maid, and Lion Shinozaki, Ultimate Paranormal Investigator. Another class trial was held; the perpetrator was found to be Tougou Hajime, Ultimate Conman. His execution robbed him of his clothes, his limbs, and finally his life.

CHAPTER 4
The game went on. Days after the trial, Monokuma called yet another meeting. Under threat of punishment, the remaining survivors each drank a poison that switched their worst trait with someone else on the island, and would not get their own personality back until another body turned up. Some relished on the new facet of their personality; others struggled not to snap. They didn’t get long to enjoy the change, though, as days later they discovered the body of Celica, Ultimate Rigain. With another killing came another class trial; the culprit this time Clive Dove, Ultimate Reporter. He was summarily executed by burning building, and the killing game moved on.

CHAPTER 5
Just two days later, as the survivors’ collective will was increasingly strained, Monokuma announced the fifth motive--there was a traitor among them, someone who had secretly been on the mastermind’s side the whole time. And, if they couldn’t sniff out the rat within a week, someone would turn up dead. Or, as they found out, two people would end up dead. The bodies of the vacation’s two teachers, Uta, Ultimate Chameleon, and Justin Thyme, Ultimate Punmaster, were found in the dining hall. After a long and grueling trial, the killer and traitor was discovered to be none other than Bendy, and his true talent was not Ultimate Actor, but Ultimate Despair. His guilt at killing and desperation to not see his islandmates die here led to a nervous breakdown. But before being carried off for his execution, Bendy had a few bombshells to drop. Everyone on the island were not strangers, but had in fact attended Hope’s Peak Academy as classmates (or teachers), but had their memories of this time erased. Additionally, this entire killing game was being broadcast around the world as a highly popular TV show. However, he could not break his silence on the mastermind’s identity, and the survivor’s hopes were erased along with the traitorous cartoon. One person didn’t live long enough to see that. Even before the teacher’s bodies were discovered, Lear Miyanoshita, Ultimate Parkour, was found sleeping outside, which went against the rules of the killing game, and was shot on the spot by Monokuma, dropping their numbers even further.

CHAPTER 6
The next morning, a boat was found docked to the island. However, it was nowhere near functional. As Bendy’s recorded voice told them, the survivors would have to scour the island to find the parts needed to make it run again. Additionally, they had to find out who the mastermind of this whole show was; if they couldn’t discover that within the week, they would all die. After collecting clues scattered around, the remaining five survivors entered a very tense final trial--either they would discover the mastermind’s identity, or they would die here and now. And find the mastermind they did--even if the mastermind themself had to help them along a bit. Patricia Watson (aka Peacock), Ultimate Illusionist and resident fucking tween, revealed herself to be the mastermind, and the island’s second Ultimate Despair. Despite the shock of the other four, she stuck to her own rules, and executed herself, allowing the rest of them to go free.

EPILOGUE
Even long before the mastermind’s death announced the end of the killing game, certain groups had been trying to reach the island and evacuate everyone involved, but the mastermind’s defenses were just too strong. However, as the final trial began, one man managed to sneak onto the island--Oswald, Ultimate Mechanic, a fellow student of Hope’s Peak who hadn’t been drawn into this hell. He greeted the four survivors as they left the island’s hotel. Akihiko Sanada, Ultimate Boxer, Suki, Ultimate Test-taker; Tohru Souma, Ultimate Hikkikomori; and Totoko Yowai, Ultimate Idol. He fixed up the boat and drove the survivors off of the island. As they headed back to society, however, he shared with them something they had no way of knowing--the broadcast of their killing game had become absurdly popular, and had even split society into the hopeful versus the despairing. Their home was not how they remembered it.

And, chances were, this killing saga had only just begun.