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

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[stillstands]

[She's just kinda. Openly staring now.]

Oh, so they were really into accuracy with these cards. I would have suggested seeing if you could re-create them in the art room, but ancient Egyptian scripts probably aren't easy to draw from memory...

[playthedamncard]

What, just try to recreate physical copies from memory? That's...

[Time-consuming. Pointless for the number of cards there are in the game. A waste of his efforts and energies. Sentimental.]

...Something to consider, at least.

[stillstands]

[What else are you going to do here, Kaiba? Without your cards or your swishy coat (yet)?]

Right. If they can't give you a copy of your deck, make one anyway.

[playthedamncard]

I do know my decks and strategies inside and out. [He's got a really good idea about Yuugi's deck, too. You'd think he'd make an anti-Dark Magician deck one of these days.]

It just doesn't seem productive. ...Then again, neither does specifically looking for game cards, does it. [He can call himself out. On rare occasion.]

[stillstands]

[But that would be logical, Kaiba. And then would you really be beating your crush on the merit of your own skill, or because your nerfed his deck.... moral dilemmas, moral dilemmas.]

If you know they're not here, then no. Not really. But we're not exactly hurting for free time here.

[playthedamncard]

There's only so much we can do here. Before we get into wastes of time. Only so many books, only so many theories we can come up with, only so many times we can give a nasty glare into one of the cameras. Do they expect us to get so bored that we start killing each other?

[stillstands]

... Maybe? I don't know how their minds work. That, or they're relying on someone ... [Ah... right this is a little close to home.]

... losing their mind from the stress of the situation and snapping, maybe?

[playthedamncard]

I could see that happening with this group, unfortunately. For being a bunch of 'champions', few here seem particularly stable.

[stillstands]

Can you blame them? Us?

Nothing about this situation is good. Isolation, constant fear and threat of death, it all plays on your mind.

[playthedamncard]

Which is why we have to overcome those baser instincts. Be stronger than the average, weaker person.

[stillstands]

If it were that easy, everyone would do it.

And even then, what happens if you do? You get overconfident, you make mistakes -- [You rush into things because fear doesn't hold you back. You... make mistakes that can't be taken back.] Fear is terrible, but it makes you human. Not letting it rule your life is one thing, but to stamp it out entirely....?

[playthedamncard]

Apparently, as 'champions', we're hardly just anyone.

Fear holds us back from our true potential. If you live your life without it, some of the chains that tether us to the ground creak, they break! We can't let something like fear keep us from reaching for the sky and owning it for ourselves.

[stillstands]

I'm just me. I don't want to be a champion of anything, if it means it gets me kidnapped and put in situations like this.

[playthedamncard]

[wow way to be a debbie downer] Someone thinks you excel at something. And even if it isn't what you think it should be, you should take pride in what you do think you're good at.

And use it to help get out of here.

[stillstands]

[excuse she's being practical.]

At support, whatever that's supposed to be.

[She might be able to guess, but... she doesn't think she's done too well at it recently.]

You don't have to be trying to coerce people into escaping this place. Isn't that everyone's goal?