Week 5

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[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

[myocordial]

You fight or you submit. That could be death. Or something else.

[Even here, who knows. Because they don't know what the intended end might be.]

And fighting might lead to death just as much. But it's the one real choice there is. Because if you don't fight, then... what sort of person are you really...

[serrata]

I don't intend to die, fighting or otherwise.

[ It's not defiant. Just a simple statement of fact. ]

I made a promise to Mai-chan. I told her I was going to live. I don't intend on breaking it any time soon. After what I did to her and what I've carried on doing every week, I need to. Giving up now and letting myself die would be as good as throwing away their lives. Like they weren't worth a thing.

[myocordial]

Good. That's the mindset you'll need.

[Intending to die fighting... it's not something he can't see the merit of. But in this situation, it'd be pointless. Because...]

The one goal we have is survival, after all. [The one goal that truly matters right now.] Mai Kawasumi... I know we didn't know her for that long. But I'd like to think that she'll be happy with your resolve to keep that promise.

We all have promises to keep, don't we...

[serrata]

[ A little quickly: ]

Not survival. Living.

[ the distinction is important. ]

Just 'surviving' by itself is what we're doing now. All that means is not dying. I... I want all of us to be able to leave here in one piece and find something for ourselves after it. I want us to be able to live again.