week 7

[airlockedmods]

[For the first time in several weeks there is no new memorial in the garden. No new body in the morgue, no bloody mess for the roombas to clean. Choromatsu is still in need of time to heal and constant vigilance but he's alive. They're all alive for once on a Sunday and, even with the terrible realizations their returning memories may bring, there's a sense of hope for the first time in a long time.

There is no new floor this week.

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your activity for week 6, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[motherfucking_ghost]

Well, then he went right back to his pod after, if it was him, since nobody else has seen him and he's still in the morgue...

[shikosuki]

He is?!

[ Oh good someone checked. He was going to ask if anyone did ]

It's... the nobody else seeing him part that bugs me the most I think.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Stealthy. Quiet. Quick. Dead body if you weren't hallucinating. Someone knew you...were...

...Aw dicks. Shit! Fuck!

[shikosuki]

Wh-What?! What is it?!

[motherfucking_ghost]

PAL. If our bodies are just...empty vessels where our personalities can be downloaded in--oh god it's my worst fear come to life, can PAL hijack our dead bodies?

[misanthropicprinciple]

...There's--there's another possibility. Though I'm not familiar enough with the technology to say for sure...

But it could be a hardlight projection. Like what Cece uses. Right?

[motherfucking_ghost]

So, what, Cece did it but didn't want anyone to know?

[desperateprayer]

...Or PAL can do the same thing.

[misanthropicprinciple]

I don't think so. She seemed--really distraught when she found out. But there's no reason to think there's only one of those projectors around, is there? Kip probably had one.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I mean, I'd be distraught too knowing that PAL could hijack the dead bodies, even if it was...for good?

But even if you're saying someone else had one, presumably one of us? Then how could they get in the locked rooms?

[desperateprayer]

...

[ Clarith says nothing. She just gets up and leaves the room. She has someone to talk to. ]

[misanthropicprinciple]

I meant when she found out about Choromatsu, but yeah, reanimated robot zombie corpses would be pretty distressing, yeah. And also explain some things.

But I was thinking... PAL's dextrous enough to bake. Why couldn't he use something like that to disguise himself as someone Choromatsu trusts? We know he's got--or is--the master key around here.

[motherfucking_ghost]

He'd still need a body, though.

[misanthropicprinciple]

He's got something. If that was him that let me out of the kitchen, anyway.

[shikosuki]

[ Oh god he doesn't want to think of the possibility that PAL of all things saved him, fuck that's disturbing and not something he's ready to actually think about ]

...is PAL even capable of giving hugs.

Because "Takumi" hugged me.

Hugs don't seem like a concept in PAL's programming.

[shikosuki]

WHAT?!

[ Oh hey haven't heard Choromatsu yell like that in weeks, well then. welcome back to form muppet ]

[motherfucking_ghost]

MAYBE! PROBABLY! I DUNNO!

[shikosuki]

THAT'S TERRIFYING!!! THAT'S WAY WORSE THAN WHATEVER TAKUMI'S ZOMBIE THING BACK HOME WAS!!

[myocordial]

...

[...]

...What.

[motherfucking_ghost]

What!

[myocordial]

That is really the conclusion you're coming to?

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Yes?

Body-jumping AI are. definitely not unheard of in my parts.

[myocordial]

...Well. Technically speaking it isn't where I'm from either...

[Now that he... thinks about it.]

Still, there are many ways of looking like someone else.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...I mean, maybe? But they'd also have to be someone who can get past locked doors and also have left before you could find Choro. So.

Wait, is the argument here whether it was PAL, or is the argument whether it was Takumi's body?

[serrata]

... that-- that's not possible. Is it? He can't just stick himself inside someone and take them for a walk!

[ THIS IS IN NO WAY TRIGGERING TO THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE SURVIVOR, OF COURSE ]