week one

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Week 1

[After the initial introduction of the Overseers, 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 Blaze Dudely and Rox came through are locked tight and cannot be unlocked via PIP.

On Wednesday morning, the same voice that awakened them the previous morning chirps at them again from their PIPs at 7 am on the dot.



Enjoy your week, Champions.]

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Comments

[hellahighwater]

...I guess it's fitting, too. [ Considering. ] Give them some...culture, or whatever.

[theundertaken]

Probably one of the things we're gonna be referencing a lot, it'd be nice if we weren't just talking around them. Star Trek's gonna have to be some other time.

[hellahighwater]

It's gonna be the whole original trilogy, right?

[theundertaken]

Eventually, but probably not tonight unless everyone wants to stay up that late. Whiiiiiich, it's not like we're doing anything in the morning either...

[hellahighwater]

...No one'll kill someone for a stupid trip to Space Vegas. [ That's a positive, right? ]

[theundertaken]

Nah, that was pretty much the dumbest thing I've ever heard. It was like Wheel of Fortune or some shit.

[hellahighwater]

Kidnapping us was bad enough. Like they're trying to spit in our faces.

[theundertaken]

What kind of people do they think we are? "Oh, sure, two days in Vegas is definitely worth an actual human life"?

[hellahighwater]

Psychopaths? Oh, wait, that's them.

[theundertaken]

Man, you can just see the blackness in Rox's heart. What the fuck is wrong with her face?

[hellahighwater]

She's like a grown-up version of the heartless witches from Blackhell.

[theundertaken]

Blackhell?

[hellahighwater]

Oh- Blackwell. That school I told you about. Bunch of rich bitches and entitled pricks.

[theundertaken]

Ah. Yeah, I can see it. She definitely seems like the country-club type. Probably doing this for shits and giggles, watch the rabble fight amongst themselves...

[hellahighwater]

Throw out a catty remark and let everyone tear each other apart. So glad I don't go to that place anymore.

[theundertaken]

You used to?

[hellahighwater]

Back a million years ago, before they hiked the tuition and I...failed out.

[ Says so on the PIP in...not so many words, so. ]

Better off this way, it's become a real trashpit.

[theundertaken]

.....well, yeah. Probably shouldn't be telling you this as an adult or whatever, but I know a lotta people who dropped out and were fine. It's not really the end of the world.

So, were you going there just for normal high school stuff, or are you an artist too?

[hellahighwater]

...ha. If only my mom or step-douche heard that.

I was going for just normal school stuff. The science program there was pretty good, but...eh. I just didn't care in the end.

[theundertaken]

You can always get your GED later if you need it. I didn't do that, but it sounds a lot quicker than going through all four years. And if you need to go do other things to take care of yourself or whatever, then -

[Shrug. God, he is a wildly irresponsible adult. But also it seems like a dick move to lecture a kid about staying in school while they're kidnap victims in a spaceship and also he barely knows her.]

Got any idea of what you wanna do now? I mean, in a hypothetical where we aren't in fucking space jail.

[hellahighwater]

[ ...Isn't that just the question? Chloe hesitates and leans against the wall. She looks off into...space, actually. Literal space. ]

Fuck, man. I don't know. I've just been satisfied living day-to-day, but...maybe if I could get through the weird, unreal week of my life I left? I always liked inking things. It'd be fun to try doing it again, marking up the world with my pen.

Or, shit. Just a roadtrip. See something other than the shitty streets of my town.

[theundertaken]

Art's one of those things, you could probably make some cash on the road if you needed to. Wouldn't go on a roadtrip by myself, but. [Shrug. That's one thing he definitely can't advise, teenage girl wandering around on her own.]

What was going on when you left?

[hellahighwater]

I wouldn't be alone. I'd have one of my best girls by my side. [ Or both. If they can just find Rachel... ]

...A whole bunch of wild shit was happening. Kidnappings, an...imminent storm. Me and- well, my Max, we were trying to fix it.

[theundertaken]

...shit, just you two? I mean, no offense, but that's a lot.

[hellahighwater]

Why would I take offense to the fact that shit's fucked? ...Max seemed to realize how screwed we were from the start. It's taken me a trip to space to understand just...what we're up against.