Say it in Red | Episode 53: Raging Loop (Part 2 of 2)

Say It In Red

If you should ever find yourself trapped in a time looping phenomenon, there are a few tried and true strategies you can employ to survive, maintain your grasp on reality, and single out the mastermind(s???) behind the loop. First: Stock up! The mastermind of this loop will not expect you to be well hydrated, full of electrolytes, and properly equipped for mountaineering. Second: Get to know your surroundings! You've got plenty of time to study up on the most minute details of local history and you never know what obscure newspaper clipping might give you a huge advantage. Finally: Just die. Die. Die until you find the key to your escape. It's that easy!
This month, Sara and Runa finish Raging Loop as they pick up with the third main route and read all the way through to the end (and a bit further)! Haruaki Fusaishi has learned about the people of Yasumizu, he's found himself entangled in romances with two of its citizens, he's died and survived as both an outsider and a participant of the feast of the Yomi-Purge, and now... he'll take on the role of a Wolf. Despite struggling to find a scenario in which everyone could survive the first night of the werewolf game, Haruaki immediately finds himself designated as a murderer who must lie, kill, manipulate, and betray the people he's come to know so well. Despite his experience with the game and his looping abilities, he finds himself cornered and quickly at his wit's end. The wolf's side, it seems, is not as powerful and privileged as it might first seem. Beyond even that, what awaits him at the end of the wolves' victory is something more terrible than he ever considered, and more catastrophic than anyone expected.
If you're playing along, for this first part we read all the way up to the acquisition of Key 16. This episode covers all the events up to that point, roughly the first two main Routes of the game with their brief tributaries, and our next episode coming out in May will cover the remainder of the game.
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Content Warnings for this Episode:
Discussions of Genocide, Sexual Assault (including sexual assault of minors), and Native American Burial Ground tropes.