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]

So you got that out of the dumbwaiter?

[daughterofthemark]

No, it was already in my closet.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Huh. Just--suddenly there without it having been there last night? I wonder how they could have gotten it in there without waking you up.

[daughterofthemark]

Perhaps Sir PAL did it. He seems to have access to most parts of the mansion.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Oh, I guess he does have arms that can come out of the ceiling and walls. Uggh. Thinking about that happening while we sleep? Creepy.

[daughterofthemark]

It does seem a bit off-putting.

[And that's before she remembers the creepy eye-hand grabbers from Ginnungagap B5F.]

But I can see no alternative, save perhaps for some absurdly precise application of geomagnetic energy.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Blink.]

Geomagnetic...?

[Wait, he thought she was some kind of medieval princess, what the...?]

[daughterofthemark]

It's an unusual energy field found in certain types of places, such as Yggdrasil. It can instantly move people from one place to another. I believe it's the basis for Ariadne Threads.

[Which are obviously a thing you know about, right?]

[misanthropicprinciple]

H-hold on. Geomagnetic... that's Earth's magnetic field, isn't it? You're saying you can use the magnetic field to teleport?

[daughterofthemark]

...what does "teleport" mean?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Uh, disappear and then reappear somewhere else.

[daughterofthemark]

Oh. Then I suppose so.

[misanthropicprinciple]

And that's... common, for you?

[daughterofthemark]

Not especially. I had never even seen a working Geomagnetic Pole until recently.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Huh. That's... huh.

[Magnets. How do they even work?]

I thought your world was more magicky than sciencey. With the monsters and all.

[daughterofthemark]

I've never entirely understood the difference.

[She doesn't know this, but apparently you can also point a Geomagnetic Pole to a specific location by chanting a spell. Etrian logic...]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Uh, I guess that makes sense, if what I'd consider magic is just, you know, some kind of commonplace energy for you. Harnessing the magnetic field to teleport, though... that sounds more like the kind of technology I'd expect in my future rather than a time with monsters and princesses.

[daughterofthemark]

I suppose that's just how it is. Things like the microwave seem like magic to me, after--

[Wait.]

Sir Junpei, your time doesn't have princesses?

[misanthropicprinciple]

I guess some countries still do, sort of, but they're mostly figureheads. You know, they do ceremonial and social things. Japan's imperial family--uh, Japan is where I live--they haven't had political power for a very long time.

[daughterofthemark]

But they are still present to inspire the people.

[This is a sigh of relief. Arianna is relieved.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

...I suppose so, yeah.

[Aww, Arianna.]

It's really important to you, huh?

[daughterofthemark]

Perhaps it's silly. There are lands in my world that have no royalty of their own. Even in High Lagaard, the Duke is largely a figurehead, as you said.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Still, you take the role seriously. I can see why they gave you the title of Champion Sovereign, even with other royals here.

[daughterofthemark]

Oh? Thank you!

[WELL THAT BRIGHTENED HER UP FAST]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Man. She's so... refreshing. Junpei smiles, pats her on the shoulder, and offers her a thumbs-up.]

Keep up the good work, Princess.