week 1

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Week 1

[After the initial introduction of the Overseers on Sunday, the Champions were left to their own devices in investigating the part of the ship they have access to to their hearts' content. However, the doors that Jamie and Bolton came through are locked tight and cannot be unlocked via PIP.

On Monday morning, the same voice that awakened them the previous morning chirps at them again from their PIPs at 7 am on the dot. There's also a pop-up message waiting for them: a notice announcing "office hours" for Bolton in the library and Jamie in the art room every day from here on out.

Enjoy your week, Champions.]

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Comments

[cyan_maid]

I know my Dad must be worried sick...and, coincidentally, punching walls to find the people who did this. He doesn't cut corners when he has something to do.

Either that, or my friends might be trying to build a rocket to get to us, if they think we're in space for certain.

[ratherdoweddings]

Really? Can your friends build a rocket?

[cyan_maid]

With their talents combined, I do believe they could!
Dirk is absolutely impeccably skilled with robotics. Roxy's quite well versed in computers. And Jake...well, he's rather good at cobbling things together and learning new tasks, so I'm sure if the three of them were able to get together and work on it, they'd have a workable rocket ready and raring to go!

[ratherdoweddings]

That's amazing! I mean, we'd still have to deal with the fact that we're in some kind of alternate universe, but three kids building their own ship? They must be dedicated to everything they do.

[cyan_maid]

They really are. I'm quite lucky to have friends like them.
They always make me smile when I'm down, and I do what I can for them in turn, but we all live quite far from each other, and can only talk to each other online.
Still, we send each other packages, and when one of your friends sends you a fully autonomous robotic rabbit as a present, you can't deny that they have some incredible technological knowhow.

[ratherdoweddings]

Wow, really? A robot that does everything on its own?

[cyan_maid]

Yes indeed! That's my Lil' Sebastian!
He has a penchant for getting in trouble sometimes, but he's programmed to protect me and help me out.
He has his own little sword, and he's quick on his little feet and incredibly clever!
I only wish he would stop sleeping in my Poppop's effigy - he racks up a fortune in taxidermy repair!

[ratherdoweddings]

...That last bit is slightly concerning!

[cyan_maid]

Yeah, I never said it wasn't.
We...kind of have my Poppop's corpse taxidermized and stuffed and displayed in our living room?
It's incredibly creepy and apparently a tradition, since his father was stuffed and displayed in the living room of his house while he was growing up. I've asked my Dad if we could put him in the attic, but he just won't do it.
And, of course, Lil' Sebastian ends up making a burrow in there. At least it's all fluff and not gross stuff.

[ratherdoweddings]

I don't know why anyone would do that, but once I had to do a funeral for a crew member who wanted their ashes mixed into ink and printed on the company newsletter, so...

[cyan_maid]

I suppose if that's part of their final request, it'd be rude not to give it to them.
Still...I don't know why it'd be made into a tradition, myself. It's terribly unsettling!

[ratherdoweddings]

I'm so glad nobody requested that on their employment forms. ...I mean, I really hope nobody requested it.

[cyan_maid]

Er...
Fingers crossed?

[ratherdoweddings]

I hope so. I didn't even realize it was in my contract to do all those funerals for a while.

[cyan_maid]

Do you...happen to know WHY it's in your work contract?

[ratherdoweddings]

Well, I am the captain of a battleship, even if it was a civilian one before we ended up absorbed into the military anyway...

[cyan_maid]

Er...even so, were you really out traveling so long and in such dangerous places that such a thing was necessary?

[ratherdoweddings]

A war's on, and the Jovians really don't like it when you try to go somewhere they've taken over. We were trying to save stranded civilians there.

[cyan_maid]

Oh.
Well...gosh, then, why not have specialists on board for people passing away?

[ratherdoweddings]

Budget constraints, apparently.

[cyan_maid]

But even as a captain, they can't expect you to do everything...

[ratherdoweddings]

It's a lot of work. At least it made me more determined...?

[cyan_maid]

At least there's that. You can't ever have enough determination.

[ratherdoweddings]

I hope everyone's okay back there. Thanks a lot for sharing, Jane-chan! Even if we are taking up the whole wall by now.

[cyan_maid]

[Oh gosh yeah they just have a whole length of notes back and forth taped up together don't they]

No problem! Sorry we veered so off the topic. I'm used to communicating with everyone through text a lot, anyway. :B