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Originally Posted by Skyfall
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Originally Posted by TinyRedLeaf
If the Other isn't even believed to be in the class — because they somehow got the numbers just right, for once — what's the problem? It doesn't "exist", as far as the students are concerned, and there is therefore no need for them to go through the stress of implementing the counter-measure.
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The one issue I see with this though is the very first case when this happened - it's not like anyone would have suddenly assumed they have a dead person in the class, with no prior incident, yet that didn't stop the phenomenon from firing itself up anyway. |
True, but the Class of 73 (or whichever was the first class to suffer deaths) would have to have been
aware of an anomaly, that it somehow had one unaccounted student in the roster. That would be how the student body gradually put two and two together over time. The students must first be
aware of the anomaly, otherwise the deaths over the year would just seem like a run of very bad luck with no supernatural cause, ergo, there is nothing that needs to be "countered".