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.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday



[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]

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.