week 4

[airlockedmods]

[Just like the previous week the status quo is restored with frighteningly quick efficiency. PAL still makes the morning and night time announcements through the PIP on each Champion's arm, and still the Champion unitards are freshly laundered and re-hung each morning in their closets. Even the glass roses Choromatsu and Takumi broke after the trial in their fit of anger have been replaced with fresh ones. All signs that there was anything amiss this weekend are completely gone.

There's a new floor to explore, their "reward" for a job well done.]

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 3, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He pushes down harder on his orb to see how much pressure it can take.]

And we have to stick ourselves in these? What if we can't get out?

[everylittlesecret]

I'll pop them if that happens. There's still enough water where I can make some spikes with it.

[They can take a lot. She tested them by throwing herself against a wall with them earlier.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[After considering this, he nods, but holds up one finger.]

If I die, Church gets all my crap. Except the vodka. Vodka goes to Nishitani.

[everylittlesecret]

Got it. I'll make sure Church keeps his hands off of your girl, though.

[Don't think she hasn't noticed the past few weeks.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

--!

[Gives her an open-mouthed look like oh no, and then. Just. Stuffs himself into an orb as if he didn't hear her, face completely red, LA LA LA WHAT GIRL HAHAHA.]

R-ready when you are.

[everylittlesecret]

[CONGRATS, JUNPEI, SHE'S CRACKING A SMALL SMILE.]

Wanna push then? Which side?

[She'll push you gently. Maybe.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Ice side. My life is in your hands, Reno.

[The only thing better than throwing yourself headlong down the stairs in a death orb is letting someone else fucking kill you.]

[everylittlesecret]

Alright! [She'll just gently guide him to a good spot.] Try and get as much of your body in it as possible.

[As soon as that's done, Nari gives the death orb a nice, strong push.

ROLL, JUNPEI, ROLL]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He makes it about halfway down before the exhilaration gets to him and he lets out a very manly "EeeEEYAGH!"

Roll rollrolltumbleROLL... He picks up speed and then shoots right off the edge into the far wall, bounces, spins slowly--and tumbles right down the next set of stairs down.]

Waaaaah!

[bumbumbumbumTHWUMP.]












...ha. Hahaha. HahahahaHAHAHAHA...!!

[everylittlesecret]

[At first there's laughter on her part. THIS WAS GREAT

And then... and then Junpei suddenly goes down the other set of stairs.

She runs down the stairs till she reaches where the young man is, a slight look of panic.]

Dude! Everything in one piece?

[misanthropicprinciple]

I'm fine, I'm fine. Hahahaha.

[He kicks his feet as much as he can, suspended as he is in a safety bubble and laughing his head off. That was fucking terrifying and he feels alive.]

Gimme--hahaha--gimme a minute and I'll be good to go again. Whoo.

[everylittlesecret]

[That earns Junpei a grin.]

Good. I'm glad I could get you to enjoy yourself. I'll help you upstairs unless you wanna take the bubble off.

[misanthropicprinciple]

H--hang on, hang on. Down is one thing, up is another. Dunno how good you are at Katamari Damyouji.

[With some effort and wiggling and breathless laughter, Junpei manages to extract himself from the death orb, though he promptly sits down bonelessly on the floor.]

Heheheheh. Jesus, Nari. Have you tried that yet yourself?

[everylittlesecret]

Pretty decent, but sadly these death orbs won't pick things up as well as a katamari.

[She loves We Love Katamari the most out of all the titles.

With a snort, she shrugs.]

Only throwing myself against a wall. Haven't done the stairs thing yet.

[misanthropicprinciple]

I tell you, it's one way to feel alive. My heart's still pounding. Also, I don't think my legs work anymore.

[They do, or he wouldn't have been able to wiggle out. They are just temporarily jelly.]

Haven't felt a rush like that since--I don't know, probably since I went on that cult raid. Man, that was awesome.

[everylittlesecret]

Just don't fall asleep down here. If you need a literal jolt, I can provide.

[..........]

Cult raid.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[No, no more jolts. He filled his jolt quota within two seconds of appearing on screen in this hellhole.]

Hazard of the profession.

[Junpei, normal private detectives don't... go raid cults...]

[everylittlesecret]

[Good. Because she's not exactly mentally stable enough not to make it hurt like hell.]

Sounds more like something Indiana Jones would do to get an artifact back.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Indiana Jones is supposed to preserve the surrounding architecture, right? You know, if he were actually being good at his job.

[Okay. He's feeling solid enough to get back on his feet.]

No such restriction on private eyes.

[Is that right, Junpei???]

[everylittlesecret]

Hey, he's from an age before they went all hardcore on the rules and stuff. What's a few broken ruins?

[Just going to make sure to be ready if he falls.]

Really? Japan must be pretty different rules wise than America then.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He's fine.]

More like... what I do doesn't tend to endanger anything worth saving.

[...Sssso fine.]

[everylittlesecret]

Still sounds a tad reckless if you ask me. But hey. You haven't been arrested.

[misanthropicprinciple]

And that is exactly where I want the bar to be. Achievement unlocked: Not Technically Illegal.

[everylittlesecret]

That sounds like a good goal to have. I'd live life like that if I could.

[misanthropicprinciple]

I'm telling you, come work with me. It sucks and I hate it, but we could always use someone smart.

...Is what I would say, but actually I guess maybe it'd be better for me to go to your world. Do you remember being a librarian yet? Is it nice? Boring? I could go for boring.