theairlock | week 4

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!round 2,
!week 4

week 4

[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!]

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Thaaaat's a very good question, and I have no idea if I should be wildly concerned right now or just let you nap off a few hundred years of sleep deprivation.

An excellent question, one I have no answer for.

Something doesn't seem right here.

I mean, if you need the sleep, I'm more than willing to let you, but uh...but that's not a thing you do. Do you...feel okay otherwise?

...Better than I have ever since this started.

[Which...was incredibly concerning, judging by the look on Ardyn's face.]

Okay. Okay, PAL did something. Like when he sort of gave people powers back and got Mikaela killed. Right? He did something because he's bored. So...so, what, did he make everyone who isn't human a human? Somehow--no, that shouldn't be physically possible...

Church, I personally witnessed you vault out of your physical body like you were trying to literally warp out of your own skin.

The baseline of what 'shouldn't be physically possible' has very clearly been moved.

Okay, but I'm saying to turn everyone human would require either extensive genetic resequencing or somehow removing everyones' consciousnesses and putting them in 3D printed bodies like mine. And I feel like that's something you'd remember happening, else you'd have a nice big gap in your memories.

...

[Ardyn suddenly looked very, very uncertain, glancing away nervously.]

Not if I'm the only one they turned human. Something like that--merely transferring a physical quality from one person to the other--that's simple magic, entirely possible.

I dunno that they have magic here, dude.

...Wait, what are you getting at? Are you saying maybe you're human, and someone else is...uh, the thing you are?

...That's about what I am suggesting, yes.

............

We're so fucked. We are so fucked right now. No offense, but I think we might just have to follow the screams if uh...if that face happens.

It took me weeks to get angry enough to set that off. We might be lucky and it won't happen.

...Who am I kidding. We're never lucky.

Shit, this means you're like...a normal person now, though. Who needs sleep. And food. You can taste things again!

And someone else is probably indifferent and physically cold and wondering why they can't taste their lunch worth a damn.

Okay, um, how do you want to handle this, because you didn't want to let anyone know...

It's a little late to be worried about secrecy, and I don't care about any of that. Right now my primary concern is making sure the others are alright and finding out if this is the extent of whatever game PAL's playing right now.

I mean, I feel fine, but I don't...know if I would feel different if I haven't been able to do my ghost thing anyway except that one week. And if it's everyone else...aw, balls. This is gonna suck. You fucking people and your fucking weird inhuman abilities.

Oh, you're one to talk about abilities, as if I won't come right to you if I find someone hopping out of their body.

Okay, that was one week, and I haven't been able to do it since! Whereas Nari can control the elements, and you've got your bullshit, and Heart has his transforming robot bug thing!

But please come to me if someone's hopping out of their body like a ghost, yes, holy shit.

...That's another thing, actually.

If you happen to see anyone teleport, you may want to let me know.

...Teleport.

...I'm guessing you don't come out with black gunk on you on the other side, huh. [It's just better if you don't ask.]

What? No, of course not. It's more like...leaving a trail of red light and occasionally an afterimage. Warping functions on line of sight, so it isn't as though someone is going to be hopping from one floor to the next.

Oh, so it's good for like a...short distance jump. That's a thing you can do?! Man, you guys are really starting to make me regret coming from a place ruled by science bullshit instead of magic bullshit.

It does get tiring used too often, but otherwise that's as simple as anything for me. That much is harmless, as long as no one tries warping down three flights of stairs and crashes into something.

I can think of a few people who would try that. [That includes him. Don't think he wouldn't.]

Okay, so we need to...man, do you remember how to take care of yourself as a plain old boring human?

[deadpan stare]

Yes, mother. I can handle that.

You haven't done the human thing in a couple thousand years, dude; I can and will shove water bottles and sandwiches at you to make sure you're hydrated and fed.

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