PEACE WEEKEND

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[It's your first week here, and you've been offered a fantastic prize for killing someone: an all-expense paid vacation! It's a pretty standard prize as far as reality game shows go.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), this isn't exactly a game show.

It seems that no one has died this weekend, and the deadline for the prize is now expired. There's no announcement from the Overseers to that effect; in fact, none of you have seen either of them since Tuesday. Maybe they'll make a reappearance soon, but for now, it seems that you've got a moment of peace.

Hopefully nothing happens to it.]

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[quadjumps]

It's better you didn't.

[ korra and miki were enough. ]

...I'm going running in a bit. [ pause. ] Wanna come?

[photoshooter]

[Yuri, Miki, Prompto... Blond Team's gotta go fast.]

In the hall? Yeah, I'm always game for a run.

[quadjumps]

[ hell ye ]

Alright.

[ he's gonna step out into the hallway, then. ] Let's go. [ yuri will get a teeny bit of a head start. ]

[photoshooter]

[Prompto doesn't mind. They're running, not racing, and it's easy enough to keep pace at Yuri's shoulder so they don't take up the whole hall.

After a minute, he pipes up.]

You run a lot, Yuri?

[He's got good form, yo.]

[quadjumps]

Yeah. I have to as part of my training.

[ keep up his endurance and all. ]

You?

[photoshooter]

I used to every day, before or after school. It's... a little harder to find time lately.

[What with the being on the run thing and all.]

[quadjumps]

Well now's your chance. Just don't go alone.

[ is he worried...? ]

[photoshooter]

...Aw. You worried about me?

[Do you have bro dokis, Yuri? Broki broki panic?]

[quadjumps]

What? Hell no!

[ he is totally worried. bro dokis are a go. ]

I'm--just telling you how to survive around here. That's it.

[photoshooter]

Hehe. Okay, if you say so, dude.

[Either way, he's happy.]

It's more fun to run with someone, anyway. ...Also this way people have a better chance of hearing us and not getting run over.

[quadjumps]

[ he doesn't say anything to that, instead turning his focus back to the "road" ahead. it's not quite a road, but if prompto looks over, he'll notice it's more like yuri's zoning out instead of focusing on the run.

finally, he'll turn to prompto in between breaths: ]

What's it like, where you're from?

[photoshooter]

Huh? [Prompto'd started spacing out, too.] What do you mean?

[quadjumps]

It sounds a lot like earth to me. You're sure you're not from there, right?

[photoshooter]

Oh. Yeah, totally sure. [As if their first conversation wasn't enough to prove that much.] All your countries are different, and I think you guys have different animals, too... And no magic.

No daemons, either, right? You guys are safe at night?

[quadjumps]

For the most part? Unless there's an axe murderer nearby, then yeah, there's no demons.

So do you have powers? You're not a zombie like that zombie chick, right?

[photoshooter]

O-of course I'm not a zombie!

[Dude!]

I'm human, same as you! I don't even really have powers, not on my own. [He shakes his head and resettles into his running rhythm.] Noct--my friend--the way his magic works is that he can give some of it to other people to help him fight. So I could do things like summon my weapons, or shoot a ball of light into the air... little things.

[quadjumps]

Hey, I have to double-check. After seeing Zombina, I'm willing to believe anything.

[ that is just. oh boy. ]

Damn, so you at least know what it's like to have powers? Pretty crazy. That's not even possible back where I'm from.

[photoshooter]

Yeah, I'm getting the sense it's not that common where most people come from.

[This Earth place sounds mad boring, yo.]

Then again, that Earth place sounds a lot more peaceful than Eos. I think I'd give up magic and daemons for that.

[quadjumps]

Probably. But it's got its fair share of shit, too. War and crime still exist, you know.

[photoshooter]

...Yeah. I guess that's just human nature.

[He quiets for a moment, then tilts his head at Yuri as he runs.]

Huh. What do you guys use to make electricity?

[quadjumps]

...Wires? I don't know that stuff works.

[ yuri... ]

[photoshooter]

No, I just meant... the power plant in Lestallum uses the energy from the Meteor that fell to Eos thousands of years ago. I think it's at least partially magic? So I was just wondering where yours comes from.

[quadjumps]

Nope. No magic, just science.

[ or something like that, anyway. ]

I know that for a fact.

[photoshooter]

Hey, they're not mutually exclusive. At least, not where I come from. There's lots of technology that uses magic and vice-versa. That's why hearing about all these worlds with no magic is so weird to me, it's such a normal part of life on Eos.