the final week

[airlockedmods]

[Eight weeks. Eight weeks of friendship and love, death and loss, hope and despair all muddled together in a cocktail that's too sweet on the tongue and leaves an acid-y pit in the stomach. With nine of them left (ten counting their dear but lone surviving host), things look darker than ever. Come Sunday morning the last of the Champions missing memories will be returned to them while they sleep. For some of them this will reveal answers, for others it might just be a fate worse than death. They could even be death.

But how does the song go? "It's always darkest before the dawn"?

There are no announcements from PAL this week. Not even morning and evening announcements.

Sunday Monday Tuesday



[ooc: Welcome to endgame, everyone! We're all very proud of you for making it all the way to the end. As you can see this is going to be a short IC week but we promise things will not be going down until this weekend (7/7-7/9). On Tuesday we'll be unveiling the OOC post for what to expect during the final investigation. There is no official AC this week, just a check-in and as mentioned above characters will be at their true canon points on Sunday morning.

Buckle up, kids, the ride's not over yet.]

Comments

[theundertaker]

[Hell yeah, hug pain!!! Hug it out!!!

...but only for a little while because after a few minutes of silent, intense hugging she makes a tiny choking sound.]

We might need to loosen this up a little, Church.

[She is small and crushable and his arms are strong and meaty.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Oh! Sorry, I-- [Yeah, no, he lets go, holding her at arms length just to give her MORE SPACE.] You okay?

[theundertaker]

Fine, I'm fine. [She takes a few deep breaths, just to catch it...and then dives back in for one more bear hug.] Asari still need to breathe you know.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[He's much gentler this time around. Mostly just...with his arms barely-there around her.] Yeah yeah, I don't know anything about your weird alien biologies.

[theundertaker]

[She laughs a little under her breath, pressing her cheek a little harder against his chest.] Don't forget you guys are the weird aliens to me.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Eh, some of us aren't exactly human anyway. 's not a big deal.

...Hey, um--hey. Did you...know about Queenie?

[theundertaker]

That PAL saved her? [Cece presses her face just a little harder against his chest and shakes her head.] No. I went down to...to get her like I usually do but PAL stopped me on the stairs and said not to bother. I just figured he did something to her like he did to Kip.

I should've kept going but... [She swallows hard and Church might feel her start to tremble a little.] I've been dragging my friends in here for weeks and after you guys saved Choromatsu I thought I was done. But then Nishitani happened and Queenie didn't come back.

When PAL sent me away I just left and the only thing I could think was how grateful I was that I didn't have to bring up another friend from that hellhole.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Son of a bitch. [It's breathed out, almost not there.] That fucking bastard. I can't wait to ditch his glowing ass and get the hell out of here. Maybe break every god damn camera before we go.

[theundertaker]

Say when and I'll get a stepladder.