Week 5

[airlockedmods]

[As with the weeks before, life in the Fantasy Sweet returns to something resembling normalcy with shocking efficiency. The second floor rest area and Adventure Zone Death Orb Room are spotless again, the demon glitter has been vacuumed, the deflated orbs have been replaced. It's like none of it ever happened, like three more friends aren't dead and stored away in the guest house morgue.

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 activity for week 4, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[scourgingstars]

I haven't done anything needing forgiveness.

[Except a murder he remembers and a lot he doesn't, but who's keeping track.]

...I just want to get out of here. And it's more convenient for me to do that with the rest of you than play along with this game. [So, for just a brief second or two, he took Angel's hand with one that felt more like a walking corpse than anything warm enough to be human.]

[brokencode]

[His touch was a startling one, an uncomfortable one, and she had no doubt that it showed on her face. However, she did not flinch or shy away from him. No matter what, he was Ardyn, the man who cared, if not for her, than for those she cared about.]

We will find a way out. I can promise you that much.

[scourgingstars]

[there is a very good reason he's wearing two scarves and six thousand layers]

I can say one thing with certainty, and that's the fact I'm far more dangerous than PAL. And I think I'm willing to wager that I'm a good deal smarter. All that's missing is a bit of good fortune, and I might yet be able to hold to my word of getting us out of this mess.

[brokencode]

I... have never had particularly good luck or fortune. But I think between the bulk of us... we may be able to manage something.

Whatever you need from me, then, I will gladly give it if it means getting out of here.

[scourgingstars]

He's outnumbered, we have that to our advantage. What all of us do with those numbers and such limited powers against him is the difficult part.

[brokencode]

I... have a few ideas, actually. I do not know how successful they will prove to be but... Junpei picked up a stone at some point. It is purple and honestly... probably doesn't mean much to anyone.

It is a substance known as eridium, and it comes from my world. Fragmented as the piece was, it will not hold much power. But perhaps if ther were more pieces, I could use them.

It might be enough to bypass the PIPs, at least long enough for me to temporarily disable PAL.

[scourgingstars]

...interesting. I'll keep that in mind and see if any more shards of it should turn up. For now, just keep that as quiet as you're able in case he plans against that.

[brokencode]

Yes that... is a wise move, Ardyn. In the meantime, though. Do you... have any other ideas?

[scourgingstars]

Nothing concrete--more half-formed contingency plans at the moment, all of them played a bit close to the chest. It's difficult to plan ahead when even I can't predict PAL's next potential move.

[brokencode]

It is... odd, if you ask me. For an artificial intelligence, his moves are incredibly erratic. Even those that reach a level of sentience still maintain some level of predictability, in my experience.

[A CL4P-TP unit would always want to do untoward things to a female human's leg, after all.]