week 4

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Week 4

[Four weeks in and almost half the Champions' original numbers are gone. Eight people in the span of a month and, even with the Overseers seeming increase in empathy for the remaining Champions, there is no end in sight for the Champion Excellence Program.

And again at 7 am on Sunday the mechanical woman's voice chimes to awaken the remaining champions on Sunday morning. After the initial wake-up call the message tacked on:]

Congratulations, Champions! By surviving your third trial, you have unlocked the fourth floor of the ship. A new mini map has been added to your P.I.P.! To access the fourth floor please stand on the teleporter and select the floor you wish to be teleported to.

[And again the Champions are awakened they have regained one new memory from the ones they've lost. Starting again on Sunday, as well, Jamie and Bolton will be back to their usual office hours in their usual locations.]

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday


[ooc: welcome to week 4, everyone! Check-in has begun and don't forget to submit your memory regains!]

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WEDNESDAY

[airlockedmods]

Mods needed in the Diner

[cyan_maid]

[Well, yesterday had certainly been its own thing, hadn't it? Complete with a new coded message from the mysterious Temerity. For how down in the dumps Jane had been at the beginning of the week, her outburst of energy on Sunday had made way for a lot of room for better, more positive feelings. And getting a box of red velvet cake mix out of the dumbwaiter? Gosh darn but she can't help smiling just a little bit.

She takes the cake mix with her to the diner in the morning, rapping on the wall with her knuckles.] Excuse me, Mister or Miss Robot? Do you mind if I give you a little something? I thought, you've been so kind to humor all my weird orders, and I really should give something back...

[Will it take the mix? That remains to be seen.

Any other part of the day after her lovely sabotage, you can find Jane pretty much anywhere in the space station, as if she's actively looking for people - and if she sees you, she'll come up to speak to you. Gosh, those oven mitts look lovely on her.]

Hey! So, Mister Xander said he wouldn't mind teaching people to do some ballroom dancing today - er, though, considering...things, it'd probably be better to postpone it for the future. Either way, would you like to come? I think it'll be a nice, fun thing to do.

Pretty Much Anywhere

[imnotfat]

No.

[What other response did you expect? After a moment Togami shrugs]

I already know how to dance. I have no need to go watch everyone twirl like amateurs.

Post sabotage

[kingshaming]

Ah... Jane.

[He doesn't wanna talk to anyone while in this state, but he has something folded in his hands for her]

Do you have a moment?

and by anywhere we mean the bar

[damnfourthemerald]

[He had done cursory exploring of the floor with Ricky, but his mood had been...super shitty for being thorough. While he's still very distracted, he's at least trying to make up for his earlier lack of care. The bar's. interesting. and full of interesting bottles. and he's interested-ly picking them up and reading the labels.

But honestly Jane's distracting from the distraction is welcome. Even if the topic is ??? to him.]

...He knows how to dance? Well enough to teach?

[airlockedmods]

[After a moment, one of the robots emerges from the wall.

Give the robot the cake mix? Y / N]

SABOTAGED!!!!!!

[theoverseers]

[Bolton has recovered from the incredibly off day that he had the day before, and in fact he has another cart today that's loaded up with various items. Perhaps most conspicuously, there is a small stage set up complete with a music stand, a trumpet case, and an... inflatable pool full of gelatin cubes?

On the cart itself he has: a large jack-o-lantern helmet with jagged eyeholes and teeth, two oven mitts, a pair of rollerskates, a large metal bar with handcuffs at each end, and a...black speedo with gold thread and a tasteful magenta stripe down the ass.

Alright, will the real Togami, Jane, Lightning, and Xander, please stand up and claim your fabulous prizes.]

oh my god

[cyan_maid]

[...What the fuck assortment is she looking at here, she was just having a lovely time with the diner robot and now this? Pull her in Bolton, what did she win?]

[bylight]

[...... Well let's get this over with. Lightning is here.]

[kingshaming]

...

[He is worried about that jello]

Dusk Dragon take the reins from my hands.

[imnotfat]

[When Togami enters the cafeteria he freezes up]

This has got to be a joke.

[voltrounds]

[Wednesday morning, Ricky can be found trying to accomplish something useful. Something that will hopefully deter further murders, or at least make them easier to solve. Something that has a 100% chance of backfiring hilariously. Specifically, she is over at the incinerator again, attempting to rig a glitter round to go off when the door is opened. Definitely try to stop her if you want to prevent a disaster!

The disaster cannot actually be prevented, and an unusually sparkly Frederica Irving will later be found variously in the sewing room making another attempt to repair that doll (she's getting better), in the arcade killing more pixelly zombies (someone tell her to stop these hate crimes), and in the greenhouse collecting feathers (getting some useless use out of that Take skill).

She'll also be briefly seen in front of her door painting one of those little red flowers, because of course.]

sewing room

[curdle]

What are you mending?

[ Now that she's got her clothes back, she doesn't really need to make anything else for herself, but she can still sew for others! Also now there are patterns. She's squinting at the doll, trying to get an idea of what it is. Hey, it looks kind of like... ]

There are more of those?

incinerator

[refusedtoleave]

[Natsuhi's finally left her room and decided to look at the new rooms. She'd only given the incinerator a glance before leaving. Until she's on her way back to the teleport, that's when she notices Ricky.]

You!

[She's over there in a shot, grabbing the girl by the arm and pulling her away.]

Stay away from that!

[kingshaming]

[Well, that was a thing, wasn't it?

Xander SHOULD just hide in his room for the next two days. That would be the easier thing. But that would be letting Bolton win. So instead he is out and about in his speedo and armcuffs/spreader, refusing to acknowledge that his royal goods are on display- including a huge nasty scar across his belly.

He starts in the diner doing his damnedest to eat lunch. He can bring food to his mouth as long as he's careful. But it's awkward. Eventually he just sits there with a milkshake under his chin and sucking the straw with his hands hanging in his lap. He looks like a cat that just fell in a tub- pissed, shamed, and refusing to dignify anything with any emotion other then disdain while looking like a damned fool. His expression would be terrifying if it wasn't so goddamn hilarious.

After that he wanders the halls- all his usual activities mostly blocked by his bound hands. He can't really read or use the art room. He can't use the game room or arcade. He can't attempt to learn to swim like he planned unless he wanted to die hilariously. He's very mad and very bored.

By evening his composure has snapped, and he stomps around gathering... stuff. First his trash basket from his room. Then some pencils and twine from the art room, and his sketchbook. All in the basket so he can carry them up to the... arcade?. If followed or stumbled upon he can be found crouching off in a corner of the room using his teeth and the one hand he can use at a time to jab pencils into each other and split erasers and tie knots and tear paper until...

Well

Though the twine is tied to one of the folded over pieces of torn paper he's using as bait, instead of off to be pulled. Time to catch a robot. Or lose his goddamned mind- though man, blessed be anyone to catch him squatting to do all this tbh]

Hallway

[refusedtoleave]

[All she wanted to do was get some paper from the art room. She'd even brought her new 'pet' with, it was whizzing aroung at her heels quite happily, at least she thought so... Though she had taken the knife off of it.

She hadn't wanted this.

Whatever this is.

Good god.

She just stares, holding her paper.]

diner because why not

[bylight]

[Lightning had meant to avoid Xander for the next 36 hours. Which... is pretty impossible here unless she hung out in the gym, but who wants to go in there. Maybe she would get lucky and the diner was a safe place.

Which... it isn't.

That is a very unique sight to say the least.

Suffice to say that Lightning has moments were she's far from graceful, and having not quite figured out how to go backwards on these skate... The ceiling is a much better thing to focus on at the moment as she slips and lands with a thud on the floor.

Way to escape...]

arcade

[tasteslikesurvival]

[She just wanted to shoot some zombies. What the hell was he doing?]

...Did you go crazy?

[airlockedmods]

[You're gonna lose your goddamned mind, buddy, because there ain't no robots coming anytime soon.]

[bylight]

[After being sabotaged with rollerskates, Lightning knows she has to head to a place to practice. So the dance studio it is. The mirrors make it easier to see what she should be doing, and after an hour or so, it's much easier to move. She's mostly practicing how to stop and still remain on her feet. Anyone who has worn these before... maybe you have some advice?

Being as stubborn as she is, Lightning is in the cafeteria with her haul of items ready to be traded or given away. How she managed to get everything here? Well, Light will not let wheels on her feet bring her down.

Otherwise she's cruising around everywhere. She'll talk to anyone who stops her. Except Xander because awkward.]

YARD SARD

[cyan_maid]

[...You know you can't really see super great when you have a foam pumpkin on your head, but Jane doesn't seem to be letting that bother her. On the contrary, her oven mitt-clad hands are very adept at helping her feel her way around so she doesn't knock into something that would normally be in her peripheral vision. So don't mind her, Lightning, as she gravitates towards the red, spoon-like shape amongst your offered wares.]

...Hey, hold on a second! That's - that's my Bowlbuster! Did it come up in your dumbwaiter?

dance studio

[damnfourthemerald]

[Shadow is trying not to get murderated by Togami. So. Avoiding Togami is probably the number one goal. The dance studio/ballroom/weird room that is super out of place on a station seems like a decent idea, especially when the sound of skates catches his ears.

He's totally not at all jealous that she got skates but he hasn't gotten back his god damn shoes yet. Not...not at all. Nope.]

You need to redistribute your weight differently. It won't be the fastest stop, but you'll keep your balance.

YARD SARD

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika's set up a ton of stuff in the cafeteria to yard-sale it away! Enough that she's taken up an entire table and has stacked the rest all over the Christine Junior she brought in. You can find her there pretty much all afternoon, munching away at a box of chocolates and waving absolutely everybody down to swap stuff.]

Oh, hey, I'm sure you'd like something like this!

Mods to the storage room, por favor

[stitch_in_time]

[The Doctor's pilfered one of the first aid kits already, but now he's back to look through the storage room more closely. It's mostly snacks and the medical kits, but he's carefully shifting everything around as much as possible, looking for anything that might be hidden.]

[Later in the day he can be found in the hallway outside his room. He's apparently decided to join Yurika's station beautification project, because he's got some supplies from the art room and is painting on his door. Some of the other champions might have exercised a little restraint in their messages to Temerity, but where would the fun in that be? Most of the Doctor's door is currently taken up by a large, stylized rose and a long, trailing swirl of vines.]

[It's. Pretty stylized, putting it politely.]

[More precisely painted is a long series of the same runes he left at the memorial in the diner, arranged in a few uneven columns on one side of the door. There's quite a lot of them.]

[refusedtoleave]

[Before the end of the day, Natsuhi can be found hanging out in the library. Not really doing anything, to be honest.

She wasn't making cranes or reading like she normally would, she does pick a book off the shelves at random, flips through a few pages before putting it back.]