Week 5

[airlockedmods]

[Five weeks in, and suddenly your numbers have been reduced by a lot. All evidence of Oda's methodical slaughter has been wiped away by the robots, but getting rid of the memories isn't going to be so easy. Not to mention the emotional scars.

Again on Sunday morning, you'll find yourselves with some new memories and some new items. Today, however, there are no new rooms.]

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday


(( ooc: Don't forget to turn in your AC for Week 4, submit your memory regains, and put in your Benefactor threads! ))

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[nightcure]

[ He hesitates. It's... a complicated question, and Noctis isn't sure he has the right answer. ]

I don't know. She asked you to do it, right? So she had a reason.

All you ever wanted to do was help her. You saved her from getting shot. Tried to make things better by saving her dad.

But it's not really my place to decide if you should've. That's for you to decide, hard as it is.

HEY FUKAWA

[toomanybaseballs]

[... That doesn't sound like it helped at all.]

[Crap.]

[Sorry, pal, Leon's gonna go find your girlfriend and tell her everything. You clearly need help.]

[tokencanadian]

...Is it that obvious?

[She just simply isn't in the mood to hide things anymore. It was just the dream, it was the whole of yesterday, and the terrible trial where they had to send someone who couldn't feel anything to his death.

She gives a sheepish sigh. It's not all that embarrassing to her right now.]

[induality]

I'll... try to do that.

[Having worried about that for a week without being able to bring herself to ask-- she's really glad to hear that.]

Good. Now that I'm one for one, my success rating is far superior to that idiot Hagakure's.

[Look at her. She told one (1) joke.]

[tokencanadian]

[She isn't stuttering, she's speaking quite clearly, as a matter of fact. As a matter of fact, Pyrrha's thought of a lot of people here as her friends, for better or worse. She misses some of them.]

...[She lets out a sigh, that turns into a deep breath. A sort of, confidence-inspiring trick she learned a long time ago. Here we go.]

It was... a dream of myself at the Vytal festival. [She leans back.] That's... it's a festival where all the Hunters academies come together in one place to fight for a championship. It's an end-of-the-year activity.

[induality]

[She was trying to pick herself up a little, taking some extra paper from the closet to maybe do some writing. Seeing nearly everyone in a terrible state like this-- she felt like she should try to be strong.

To bad it's not destined to last.]

What's the matter with you?!

[She talked to him earlier and he was fine. Why does he look like he's in a panic now?!]

[induality]

[Fukawa curls in and just lets her take it at her own pace. Gives her some time to absorb the stuff she's not familiar with anyway.]

So let me get this straight... at the end of the year schools have this sort of battle royal to see who's the strongest?

[Considering their goal is to be some kind of heroes that's not such a strange concept. It's amazing how much she can accept now as opposed to some three weeks ago.]

[toomanybaseballs]

GAH!

[Okay, calm down! You'll only rile her up more!]

[Not that the news is gonna be very good.]

Oh- Uh... Hey, have you checked on Soma lately?

[tokencanadian]

It's... part of it. It's actually a tournament that's part of a larger festival. There was a great war in Remnant, between all the kingdoms centuries before my time, but it all ended on the island of Vytal, and since then the festival was created to celebrate world peace.

[She's... rambling, and she's definitely aware of that. Given how much she's learned from everyone else, a little history isn't bad. It helps to get this out first.]

Every two years, a kingdom was chosen to host the festival, and the tournament was created to test the strengths of warriors from all the kingdoms. It was meant to be safe, and for people to strive to be the best they could be.

[There's a brief pause on the word 'safe']

[toomanybaseballs]

Towa city...

You mean that place that was on the map a few weeks ago? For that "I'll blow your hometown up if you don't kill someone" motive?

[He was gonna call the place a dump, but after seeing what Junko did to the school and everything around it, he wasn't in a position to judge.]

[induality]

EEK!

[Why are we yelling?!


...


That's not even real news and her stomach drops. It was just... it hadn't even been a day since she saw him. No... no. Noooooo no no no.]

What are you talking about? What's going on?! Out with it now!!

[Sorry she. Doesn't want this dragged out.]

[toomanybaseballs]

[Oh crap she's panicking! HOW DOES HE EXPLAIN THIS!]

Uh...!!!

It's- Well!

... Soma's turning into a vampire.

[induality]

I see. So it's an important tradition to you.

[Fukawa is particularly grateful for the history lesson, considering how different it is from everything she's used to. But that... gives her a bad feeling. A purpose like promoting peace and striving for self improvement... she knows that can't be what really happened, considering Pyrrha's attitude now.]

So... what happened?

[induality]

Yeah... that's the one.

[Her... well, she guesses it really is her home for right now.]

...it's funny. I didn't even recognize the place back then.

[Only the Monokuma everywhere.]

[induality]

[Shit. Fuck. Dammit, not now... Not just after... Urghhhh...

She has to...

Do.

Something.]

...where is he?!

[toomanybaseballs]

In his room. I put some protective charms under the door but I don't know if it's helping.

[Leon, they're not really helping at all.]

You might wanna be careful. He's not taking it well.

[He can lead you to the vampire's lair if you're feeling like Mina Harker today, Touko.]

[induality]

[Guess who's not stopping to listen to your warnings, Leon? This girl. As soon as he tells her where she takes off running.

...


FEEL LIKE FOLLOWING SO SHE MAYBE DOESN'T GET HERSELF KILLED?]

[toomanybaseballs]

[Why not?]

Hey! Wait!

[Ultimate Baseball Star should be able to catch up with Literary Prodigy, but given the girl's been running around a lot lately...]

[tokencanadian]

It's an important tradition to everyone. [It's televised across the world. Everyone watches it. It's just about one of the most important parts of the year, in Pyrrha's mind and many others.

That makes what she saw that much worse.]

Someone... got hurt. [She shakes her head.] More then hurt, they... were killed.

[nightcure]

Hagakure, huh? Is that another one of your friends?

[toomanybaseballs]

Yeah, I know how ya feel...

[He recognized the school... But not the world AROUND it. It all makes sense now, though.]

... I don't get it, though. Everyone's lost memories and they get them back in little chunks each week? Doesn't that sound weird to you?

[helladoptera]

She said... the doctors said her lungs were failing. And her parents were in debt keeping her... alive. So...

[ She had even abandoned the timeline right after. She remembers now, in the haze of last week's memory, mentioning it to Chloe. Her Chloe.

But if that timeline still exists, then...

She's the one who robbed it of Chloe Price. ]

... did you have a nicer memory, Noctis?

[nightcure]

Pretty obvious, yeah.

[ He crosses his arms, but it's weirdly enough a relaxed stance. ]

Do you want to sit and talk? I can bring you some tea.

[induality]

[More death... she was worried about that. It seems as they've been here everyone's remembered people they've lost. Even her. The people she worried about the most were okay for now but-- even she had to remember what happened to Yuta...]

Was... it someone you knew?

[induality]

Hurry up!

[She won't run too far ahead, but she's still totally focused on the hallway until she reaches Soma's door, which stands out extra well now with the charms on it.

But then she... freezes.

What is she supposed to do? What can she do?]