the final investigation

[airlockedmods]

[It's been a few days since more than one of the Champions have heard from PAL and by Wednesday afternoon this is still the case. The day starts off like the rest but around midday Cece is calling a meeting in the foyer.

Whatever it's about it seems important.]

Comments

[theundertaker]

[When everyone is gathered in the foyer, Cece is already waiting for them. Her hair is back to the default purple it was the day they first met her and some of them might even recognize the nebula-patterned skirt she's wearing from the second week.]

Everybody here? Okay good, good. [She looks antsy to say the least, holding her tablet under her arm and shifting from foot to foot in her heels.] So I...have been mulling over something for a little while and it's a long shot. Like a long, long shot but...I think I know a way I can help our friends if we can just get out of here.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Our friends--our dead friends?

[scourgingstars]

Wh--really? What do we have to do?

[theundertaker]

Yes.

[serrata]

Help? How-- how can we help them, unless...?

[ ... Cece can't be suggesting what it sounds like she's suggesting, can she...? ]

[motherfucking_ghost]

...So they were never really dead?

[everylittlesecret]

.... unless you're a necromancer, I doubt you can bring back the dead. That's not... that's not theoretically possible.

[daughterofthemark]

You mean they can still be revived?!

[She is immediately getting all of her hopes up.]

[shikosuki]

What...?!

How?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Weeeeellllllllll...

[daughterofthemark]

Actually...

[scourgingstars]

Actually--if they're only in a deathlike state or something to that effect, it could be done.

[everylittlesecret]

[............ OH MY FUCKING GOD PEOPLE SHE CANNOT EVEN]

Why do your guyses worlds not follow the basic premise that dead is dead and should stay dead?

[theundertaker]

Oh gosh, no. None of that.

[THIS PLAN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ZOMBIES, SHE SWEARS.]

[scourgingstars]

I said 'deathlike state', not actual death. We can't cure that, but bringing one back from the edge of it is as simple as having a phoenix down on hand.

[desperateprayer]

What!? R-Really!?

[ WELL SHIT, THIS IS GONNA GET AWKWARD IF MIKAELA COMES BACK TO LIFE. ]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Time travel is... complicated.

[serrata]

Oh thank god.

[ CAN SHE GO LIKE A WEEK WITHOUT ZOMBIES COMING UP!!! HONESTLY!!! ]

[everylittlesecret]

Dude... the people who died here are far from a deathlike state. Their bodies were cold, dead, gone, nada, there's nothing left. Something that sounds like it's from a video game won't help.

[daughterofthemark]

...they will keep their same forms?

[she's still getting used to her full set of memories but this was Kind Of An Issue]

[everylittlesecret]

....... This is all starting to sound like some badly written Doctor Who episode.

[theundertaker]

I've told a few of you about my dad, [You know, the jellyfish in the picture she keeps by her bed like a good daughter.] But I never got to talk about what he does. He's a scientist and his main field of study is, well, death.

Death and the use of technology to...fix isn't exactly the right word but prolong life I guess?

[motherfucking_ghost]

I don't...like where this is going, does anyone else get the feeling of bad shit? This sounds like bad shit to me. Sci-fi horror.

[scourgingstars]

...

[OH FUCK HIM IT'S THE DEATHLESS PROJECT ALL OVER AGAIN]

C-Cece, dear...where I'm from that leads to very, very, very undesirable things.

[myocordial]

This does sound at least a little worrying, yes.