week 4

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[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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[scourgingstars]

...Glacian's sake, Church, I'm going to throttle you.

[Ardyn pressed a hand to his head, warding off what was probably a long overdue tension headache. And a minor heart attack, considering he'd caught sight of a conspicuously motionless body before noticing Heart himself pacing around.]

Heart, are you alright?

[myocordial]

I'm... currently trying to figure out just that.

[He's still pacing, because he doesn't know what else to do.]

But no, no I don't think "alright" is the right word to describe... [He stops and just. Stares at his body. Ha ha, thaaaaat's gonna keep being weird.] ...this.

[scourgingstars]

...You're right, that was an entirely stupid question.

[myocordial]

It's fine, this situation is...

[Super messed up? Yeah that seems right.]

I am honestly not sure how to react to this. I've been... trying to figure that out and I don't believe I'm getting anywhere. I've never been outside my own body before.

...Well, technically speaking I have seen it from the outside once, but that was... different.

[scourgingstars]

You're not the only one a bit out of their depth today, try not to be too alarmed. Should I find Church and ask him how to fix this?

[myocordial]

No, we've already spoken. He was actually the first to find me after this... happened.

Actually he realized what had happened before even I did. Initially, I didn't even really notice.

[scourgingstars]

Well...on the bright side, I at least assume that means it doesn't hurt.

[myocordial]

Hm, at least there is that. Now that I'm aware of it, it feels... wrong, but not painful. It might even be mostly in my head.

[scourgingstars]

Even if it is, I should think feeling like that entirely justified. Not all of us can just accept an out-of-body experience as being one's normal afternoon.

[myocordial]

It is a very unique experience. It seems I just keep collecting those in my time here.

[Lucky him.]

...More than that, too, it's... it shouldn't be like this. It should just be my core, not... [He vaguely gestures at himself. That is, his ghostly self. Human appearance and all.] I don't even know what to call this.

[scourgingstars]

...Oh--that's right, you aren't quite human either, are you?

[we're a goddamn menagerie here, heart.]

I wonder how that happened, then. Is it possible whatever nonsensical rules this is using simply made up and used some equivalent for you to Church's...whatever that was?

[what the hell is a ghost]

[myocordial]

Indeed. A convincing copy of one, technically, but not human at all.

[Which he's cool with, being a robot is way better.]

That must be it. Why should this make any sense when nothing else here does. Though I really wish this came with an instruction manual. [Yeah, there's Church. But also, there's Church.] I have to figure out how to properly control this...

[scourgingstars]

I don't suppose it's as easy as just phasing back into your body, then? That would be a little too convenient.

[myocordial]

Honestly, it's not getting back in that truly concerns me. It's the fact that I keep phasing out again.

It's inconvenient at best and potentially dangerous at worst.

[scourgingstars]

That...does present a problem. Gods only know what might happen if you left your body in the middle of a flight of stairs.

[myocordial]

Indeed. Which is why I came here while I... work this out.

[The nice soft rest area where he can't get too hurt.]

[scourgingstars]

Excellent idea, really. So it just...spontaneously happens?

[myocordial]

It seems to. I'm sure there must be some reason for it, but I certainly don't know what triggers it.

[scourgingstars]

The one time I saw Church do it he was fairly alarmed by the general circumstances--startled out of his own body, perhaps? It may have something to do with one's emotional state.

[myocordial]

I don't entirely remember how I was feeling the first time it happened, but... Well, I have obviously been more agitated since. Then it could be that me being so on edge is what makes this happen so often...