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]

If you're going to turn this into an attempt to teach me, then yes. I totally already know how to dance.

[theoverseen]

Oh, not me, I don't know how to dance! But I'd bet Arianna could teach you how to lead!

[misanthropicprinciple]

...

I'll think about asking her.

[theoverseen]

You definitely should. It would be cute.

Ooh! Maybe I could organize a dance party! That way you can't be nervous, everyone else will be dancing too.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Psht. I wouldn't get nervous over something like that.

[Who do you think he is? Dave Strider?]

...Maybe you should, though. I think... there are people who trust you, now.

[theoverseen]

You think so? I mean, I hope Queenie and Church trust me, you know, a little.

[misanthropicprinciple]

One would hope.

[Feelings or not, don't bang people you don't trust, boys and girls.]

[theoverseen]

[Dont let them bite the shit out of you that much, either.]

...but... you really think people trust me now?

[misanthropicprinciple]

More than they did, yeah.

[theoverseen]

[Have you ever seen a grown man's eye shoujo sparkle before]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Gross.]

Dude, it's just a matter of being observably decent for a standard amount of time.

[theoverseen]

But I haven't even done anything different.

[misanthropicprinciple]

You don't have to. And you shouldn't. Humans like consistent patterns. They make us feel safe.

[theoverseen]

...unless that pattern involves Thursday nights, right?

[misanthropicprinciple]

...Okay, patterns of death don't make us feel warm and fuzzy, no.

[Though in some ways, knowing what to expect even around that is kind of helpful.]

We've only had two acts of murder here, Kip. That's not enough to establish a pattern. Is this... a holdover from previous seasons?

[theoverseen]

I- ...It seemed like it? There was always five episodes and then the, uh... two-parter.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Five. And--]

Two-parter?

[theoverseen]

The... they split up the investigation and the trial. There was a contest each week for who would be the...culprit. The winner got to send one free gift to their favorite Champion.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Are you... dodging the question, Kip?

[But his customary suspicion is shaded with concern.]

[theoverseen]

...no? The first part was the investigation and the second part was the trial.

[Your world has TV]

[misanthropicprinciple]

But they don't do that for the others. What's different about the finale?

[theoverseen]

...Nnnnoo. The finale's just the same. Except usually there's less episodes leading up to it. Like, all of this so far? Probably would have been about... eighteen episodes, maybe as many as twenty-one? Five episodes, and then the investigation and trial.

I don't remember if season one HAD a finale.

[misanthropicprinciple]

What... oh.

[His heart sinks like a stone into the pit of his stomach.]

Each week. A two-parter each week, and the five episodes leading up to it.

[Junpei lets that sink into his own ears, then puts his head in his hand, breathing out.]

Dammit... that's so...

[It's so much. At least neither of the games he was in before were for entertainment.]

[theoverseen]

...the audience really likes to get to know the Champions. There's cosplayers and artists and everything. ...Now I guess I wonder how much they got to see in the other seasons at all.

[misanthropicprinciple]

How long is each episode? An hour? I'd guess 1/24th of the truth, if that.