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.]

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday



[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

[myocordial]

Oh, I'm a ghost now. Yes, thank you, that clears this all up!

[He'll... find his chill again eventually. Probably. He's entitled to a little freaking out, okay.]

How do-- What does this mean, I... Should I be concerned about my body? How do I undo this?

[motherfucking_ghost]

I don't know! When PAL made me able to do it again, it was with a lot of restrictions. Like normally I'd be able to just phase through solid objects, and possess people, and shit like that, but I couldn't before. Just do...that. Thing that you're doing now. And since our bodies are still alive, it's...I mean it's not like you're actually dead. Maybe it's more like you're projecting your consciousness? Kinda like a hologram for your brain?

But you should be able to just...go back into your body.

[myocordial]

That... okay, that makes sense. If my body were dead, it wouldn't look like that. Okay. Alright.

[This is not okay but maybe if he says it enough...]

Go back. Do I just... touch it, or...

[motherfucking_ghost]

You sorta like...just...go in? Like...into your own headspace? I mean you go into the body, but--man, I've never had to describe how to do it before, it just kinda...happens.

[myocordial]

So I simply... let my body absorb me, so to speak?

[That... sort of makes sense? Okay. He looks at his body and... wow...]

This is a very surreal experience. I never thought I would see this from the outside again...

[motherfucking_ghost]

Kkkkkiiiiiinda? You just...become yourself, with your senses. [Yeah let him move aside there so he's not weirdly sprawled across your body. Okay. Good.]

Again, like...did you see this before your core was loaded in or something?

[myocordial]

An interesting way of describing it. Vague, but... I think... I understand.

[Sort of? He can. Try. At least. He gets closer to his body, crouching down next to it. Shit's weird, wow...]

No, not exactly. But I had to copy this appearance from a human first. That's when I saw it from the outside. Though that was fifteen years ago, so it has been... some time.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Why? I mean, like, you copied a human to, what, pass as one, I'm guessing? Did you just like run into a human and go 'oh shit I should be like him'?

[myocordial]

[He freezes up at that. Well, as much as one can freeze up without a proper body. But this is... the first time someone has asked him this, directly.]

No.

He was... chosen for me.

[motherfucking_ghost]

......Putting aside for just two seconds that, for you, this whole situation must be creepy--

--do you get how creepy that sounds?

[myocordial]

I'm aware. And you're not wrong for thinking so.

What I mean is that he was specifically chosen by my creator, Banno. They were... well, even calling them acquaintances is going too far. He was a businessman. Banno tried to convince him to invest in his research. The man declined.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Oh my god, are you wearing a dead man's face?!

[myocordial]

No, not at all. As far as I'm aware, he's still alive and well.

[motherfucking_ghost]

God...damn, dude, okay, that's...okay, I was worried for a second. Why take his face, then? [hey do you wanna have this conversation twice]

[myocordial]

[Well he's had it once it's out there now anyway so why the hell not. If anything he's a bit more prepared now since it's not in the heat of the moment.]

...You have to understand that my creator is a very... arrogant man. He doesn't take even minor slights well. [Even if they're... literally not at all personal.] So after he didn't get what he wanted from that businessman, he was enraged.

So he decided he wanted someone with the man's appearance to... satisfy his need for revenge. An easy target to take his anger out on.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...He hurt you. [There's a slightly stronger word for--] He tortured you. [There we go.]

That--what--I...the fuck...

[myocordial]

...Yes.

As I have said, my creator is... not a good person.

[Which honestly might as well be the understatement of the millennium.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

You don't fucking say.

...Maybe you should get back in your body now while I recover from the massive unholy fuck of a mental blow you gave me.

[myocordial]

...Certainly. [Sorry about just dumping that on you, Church.] Let's see if I've understood the theory of this right.

[It does turn out to be fairly simple. A simple matter of... phasing back in. It's a strange feeling, but he may be focusing on it too much. Maybe it's all just mental.

Either way, he's back in his body and he sits up, looking perfectly fine, outside of being a little dazed. He briefly rubs his face. Hm. All good.]

Ah. There we are.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[Just enough focus, not hyperfocused, not distracted. How do you explain breathing, or blinking, or your own heart beating when those things come naturally?]

Good. Good. Being stuck outside your body is real shitty, let me tell you. You don't even have all the fun stuff you can do with it.

...Unless you do, and PAL's being a fucker. Huh. Also could be.

[myocordial]

I can imagine. I'd much rather not repeat the experience if at all possible, honestly...

[But. Wait, though.]

...Fun stuff?

[You can't just say that and not elaborate, Church.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Y'know, ghost stuff. Walk through solid objects, sometimes become invisible...possess people... Typical ghost stuff.