week 6

[airlockedmods]

[Even with three deaths two weeks in a row, life in the Fantasy Sweet returns to some semblance of normalcy come Sunday morning. The messes are cleaned up, the bodies are safe in the morgue (or in Kip's case, still in a liquor bottle in the garden) and with this new week comes a fresh crop of returning memories.

There is no new floor this week.

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your activity for week 5, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[desperateprayer]

[ She thinks for a moment, then pauses and begins writing. ]

Does he ever actually seem to enjoy the trials? Like, he only warns us to no make him bored, but he doesn't say much. But last night, he was really chatty. It was completely different.

And... When something mechanical goes dangerously wrong back home, goes out of control, it would be taken away and replaced. Why hasn't PAL been yet, if they're keeping an eye on us? Unless this is according to plan?

[misanthropicprinciple]

[After reading her questions, Junpei looks away for a moment to consider his answers, tapping one robot finger on the table.]

I think there are two different questions here getting tangled up in each other as one. One is, how much control does PAL have over the situation, and if he would do things differently given the choice, how do we feel about the fact that this is the reality we're given?

The second question is, who is ultimately responsible for everything that's happened here?

[desperateprayer]

If it's a show, is it possible he's just another "actor?"

[ That's the main thing she's driving at, and what she's starting to suspect. ]

Plays have people who never appear on stage, who plan out things. Decide the way things will go, the actors who take which parts... Something like that. They have to exist, right?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Stagehands. Directors. Yeah.

The network--those would be the people you mentioned, the people who put together the show and package it for their audience--they stopped responding to Kip and Cece long before PAL's dramatic face-heel turn. So you might be right.

[There's a 'but' lingering in his tone.]

[desperateprayer]

It might be our only real way out. Why didn't he execute someone, anyway, despite the suicide? Wouldn't an audience want that?

[misanthropicprinciple]

No. I don't think so. If the audience just wanted a fucking bloodbath... there wouldn't be a need for all this.

There needs to be a story. A story has cause and effect, or else... it's meaningless. Executing somebody for something they had nothing to do with, there's no narrative satisfaction in that.

...It's the same as with my arm. There was no reason for that to happen, so... he "fixed" it.

[desperateprayer]

[ ...She frowns, then draws two small pictures. People around a guillotine, and people around a gallows. She then writes under it, "Family Activities." ]

People like seeing people get punished, whether they deserve it or not.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Yeah, but there must be other shows for that. There wouldn't be all these rules, all this... dramatic intrigue, if all we were was gruesome death porn.