Week 5

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Week 5

[It's been five weeks (since you looked at me) and with the deaths of Shadow and Rukia, the group that was initially 20 strong has dwindled down to ten. Ten 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 there is no new floor announcement this week.

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 5, everyone! Check-in has begun and don't forget to submit your memory regains!]

Comments

[ratherdoweddings]

["Why did they have to get rid of all the records concerning them?"
"To cover up their own role in fermenting the rebellion."

"You were spying on us!? What kind of captain are you?"
"One who cares about her crew! One who believes that they have the right to know why they're really fighting! How dare you keep something like this a secret?"
"It won't make a difference! We're still at war!"
"You really believe that? How can you sit there and watch people go into battle, knowing that everything the UEAF has told us for the last hundred years has been a lie?"

The War for Lunar Autonomy, bombs on Mars, VHS tapes. All a hundred years ago, and now this.

Yurika gets up and gets to work. She leaves the vitamin bottle on her bed again, the same note on it asking about nearby planets, and heads to the sewing room with a note tucked into her sleeve and a doofy plush toy in her arms. She'll spend some time in there, then go down to the media room to watch some movies. You might find her crying over Deep Impact.]

Whyyyyyyyyyyy?

[After that, she totes the Gekiganger plush up to the roomba cafe and lets it sit on top of one of the roomba cats, zooming around the room.]

The station seems smaller like this, doesn't it?

roomba cafe

[refusedtoleave]

Smaller? How? If anything I'd say it feels larger...[Less people, it's a morbid thought so she won't say that though. Instead she watches defense roomba bump into the cats.]

[ratherdoweddings]

There's no new floor, and everything we've been assuming, waiting for, might not even be real. On top of that, we're all thinking about our own problems.

[refusedtoleave]

It wasn't like there'd been a infinite amount of space for us here...[Wait.] What do you mean 'not real'?

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika shakes her head and laughs.]

Oh, don't mind me! I'm just thinking too much after that trial.

[She does slide a small note out of her sleeve and slip it down the table, though. Cargo hold is empty. They must be getting their supplies from somewhere else.]

[refusedtoleave]

...Right...

[She's just going to glance down at the note and squint at it...That writing really is tiny.] ...What is it?

[ratherdoweddings]

I'm not sure! Just everything, I guess. I think a lot of people might be worried about the same thing, especially since we haven't gotten out.

[refusedtoleave]

Our memories...[That was probably her biggest concern right now.] At this point it can't get worse. Just remember that.

[ratherdoweddings]

Are you sure about that? Everyone's remembering worse things!

[refusedtoleave]

[She just hangs her head. She doesn't have an answer.]

[ratherdoweddings]

...I hope you're right, though. Even in my memories, things were starting to look up.

[refusedtoleave]

After a point, they can't get worse...

[ratherdoweddings]

And that just means they'll get better, right? You're so smart, Ushiromiya-san! Thank you for always supporting us!

[refusedtoleave]

[Mun dying of laughter.]

It's the only things can go if they can't get worse. We just have to remember that.

[ratherdoweddings]

So even if horrible things have happened, we can all just keep going on! I've got to make sure everyone else knows that, too!

Media Room

[stitch_in_time]

Uh-

[Is this a mourning ritual. Emotional catharsis through terrible movies.]

You doin' all right there?

[ratherdoweddings]

He tried to save her family, so they got married, but that still only got her a spot in the shelter! And -- and now they're trying to find someplace safe! It's so sad, Doctor!

[stitch_in_time]

[He almost followed all of that. Enough to get the gist, anyway.]

[He's just gonna take a seat a space or two away from Yurika.]

Sounds pretty bad, yeah. That's the kind of thing that brings out the best an' worst in humanity, these situations.

[ratherdoweddings]

That's true, I think... [wipes her eyes with her sleeve] Disasters and things like we've had to deal with might hurt all of us, but we've still made it this far through all of them.

[stitch_in_time]

That's the human way.

[Just a bit of a sad smile, even if it's a sad one.]

How much do you know about history, Yurika? World War Two?

[ratherdoweddings]

I've heard some things about it, but in 2195, it's pretty far off. We barely even covered the War for Lunar Autonomy, and that was just a hundred years ago.

[She seems distant at that last part, though, like she's thinking it over.]

[stitch_in_time]

Ah, the education system.

[He spots that tone, though, and files it away for later.]

Big old fascist war machine rolling across Europe, countries falling like dominoes, and then it gets to this tiny little collection of islands in the Atlantic, the UK. And that's where they say no, not here. Stops the Axis powers in Europe in their tracks, more or less.

[ratherdoweddings]

So you're saying that, even if we're just a few people and we're losing more and more, we can still stop them!

[stitch_in_time]

I think we can, yeah. Sooner or later they'll trip up.

[Just. Don't ask him how. Exactly.]

[ratherdoweddings]

You're right! And we'll find out how to change everything, something that helps us understand why we're here.