And Then... [Epilegg]
-Article Pulled from Official News Source-
Classes in the main building of Hope’s Peak Academy had just resumed at the beginning of this month following the terrorist attack upon the school in November. 40 students who had been attending classes near the labs, the target of the attack, mysteriously disappeared-- they were not found among the survivors nor the dead. Today, however, in the middle of the school day, 12 of them have reappeared.
Hope’s Peak Faculty working in the labs at the time, as well as several senior students working on projects with the staff, rushed the students to the medical facilities on campus, equivalent to the best hospitals in the area. The students were examined thoroughly and treated for their injuries-- which several of them had sustained. According to the reports by world class Hope’s Peak examiners, the children were also deeply traumatized and delusional, speaking nonsense that seemed straight out of a fairy tale. Psychologists at the school have vowed to look into the matter, and are attempting to glean what they can of the true course of events.
The most pressing question on everyone’s minds, however, especially those at Hope’s Peak, is where are the other 28 missing students? Kirigiri, the headmaster, has said only that it appears grim. While the recovered students’ stories are fantastical and don’t match up, they all seem to agree on one thing: that the other missing students are all dead.
-Excerpt of a Blog Post/Mass Email Alert Created by a Known Alias of Bennett Jones-
Hello there to any and all readers that have gotten a hold of this article. If you do not know who I am, that’s probably better for you. All that you have to know is that I was one of the 40 students who disappeared from Hope’s Peak Academy and then ‘reappeared.’ Does it matter which of them I am? Hope’s Peak Academy considers us all equally dangerous.
They’ve tried to quiet us. I’ve been on media blackout since the moment I arrived back here. I can’t claim to know exactly what the purpose of their equipment and experiments were at the school, but I know that they fear us. The picture they have painted of us, the survivors, is one of illness and madness. But it isn’t true. At this point, I’ve abandoned any hope that I’ll be believed--but I know what I went through, I know what is right. Even if it is disbelieved, I have to put the truth into words.
There were 40 of us who were transported from this world into another world, a place called Marchen. Some of us were in Nechram, a mirror version, for a short time. But it does not change what happened. The birds, our guides, ordered us to kill each other. We were given incentives to kill--and many of us succumbed to it. It was the worst that could ever be brought out in someone. People changed in there, my reader. I changed, so did every survivor. Every person who died, they are never coming back. They aren’t missing, they are dead. I remember finding those bodies with my own eyes, I remember watching people go to their deaths.
Hope’s Peak has manufactured a gigantic coverup for all of their wrongdoing. Because we all know what we saw, we can’t erase it from our memories as desperately hard as we might try. I beg you, I implore you--ask yourself, why are they hiding this? What is it that we discovered there that they don’t want us to know about, and more importantly, that they don’t want you to know about?
The school has worked hard to silence us and they have succeeded. Most of us have been put into medical care, kept away from media and billed insane. It takes a lot to get away from Hope’s Peak and they aren’t making it easy on any of the survivors.
I am lucky that I got a hold of a way to put this letter out there. If you’re reading this--believe in us. They are lying to you all, and it bodes nothing but danger for everyone in the country and maybe in other countries as well. I don’t even know, but it runs deep. Please, please, fight them. Help us, we can’t do anything with the hawk eyes of the school watching us.
Tell everyone you can, do everything you can. Please. Don’t be idle, the world needs to believe us and the world needs to hear that you believe in us too. My partner knew that there was something running deeper in Hope’s Peak academy and I am absolutely assured of it now. Help us. They need to be brought down. It could be your life next.
Please help us, reader. Please do something, anything, in your power. We’re trapped. But you are not.
-Internal Coded Memo, HPA Senior Faculty-
Authorization is in effect to expunge all records and evidence relating to the Marchen Incident, pertinent data has been stored at [LOCATION CENSORED] with Max Level Classification in effect. Indefinite suspension of parallel universe studies/experimentation is mandatory. Resources have been redirected towards focus on the study and development of SHSL Hope.










