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theairlock2017-10-22 12:03 pm
airlockedmods) wrote in theairlock2017-10-22 12:03 pm
Week 2
[The Champions have now been here for one week, and while the dud of a first incentive didn't tempt anybody, the fact remains obvious: a lack of murder isn't going to be the thing that gets you out of here.
Blaze Dudely and Rox have not made a reappearance since Tuesday, leaving you to your own devices for the moment. That door they entered and exited through remains locked, and there is no new area to access this week. Are you sure they're even still back there? Despite their absence, you all wake up on Sunday morning from strange dreams. What to make of it?
You can only hope it's not a bad omen for the rest of the week.]
(( Don't forget to turn in your AC for Week 1, submit your memory regain, and turn in your Benefactor threads! ))
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[...]
It's nice, having people out there that mean that much to you.
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She means the world to me. The world and more. I... I'm gonna miss her.
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We may still make it out of here. I'd say it'd be better to stay positive and not drown in negativity, but that would be kind of ... hypocritical of me.
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It's not that. I've no doubt we'll bust our way out of here. But I still... I can't go back to her.
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Did something happen?
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But she doesn't flee. Chloe doesn't look any different, and hasn't acted any differently from how she did initially. She's ready to run, if she has to, but for the moment Miki is at least able to give her the benefit of the doubt.]
-- N-not like......?
[It's sort of an unspoken secret now, after that album.]
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[ Oops. She's not used to zombies... ]
I mean- I'm dead, I- I shouldn't even exist right now, not like the shambling-- things.
[ ...quick to reassure she just. gets it out there, it's fine, see, it's fine! ]
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... ... Y-yeah... you look too normal to be undead.
[Deep breath, Miki. Enough of your fears, there's someone here who just admitted they're dead back home. Isn't that more important?]
But you do. Surely that counts for something...?
[What, she's not sure. But life is life, as long as you have it here and now.]
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You don't- no. I can't... Miki. Did you remember something Sunday morning?
[ Maybe...if she tries it this way. ]
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... Yes. Yes, I-- remembered something. I'm not sure I feel any better for it, though.
[She exhales, slow and heavy. Calm down.]
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Well... So did I. I remembered telling my [ there's a pause as she tries to figure out how to refer to her ] my Max to keep herself from ever saving my life.
[ It's easier than saying letting her die. ]
She could do that. It's- complicated, but...me being alive was... It would've meant a lot more people died. ...People who...had a lot more in their lives than me.
[ A pit sits in her stomach. ]
So...it doesn't mean anything. Not...to me.
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[That gets her to stop. Completely, almost like she actually froze for a second.]
What?
[... how... does someone know that? Know that them being alive comes at the cost of a more people dying?]
...
... [She can't comment on how hard it must be to tell someone you love to, literally, let you go. Or to make that choice of you versus everyone else. But--
That's heartbreaking.]
... I'd miss you. If you weren't here. If that means anything, in the grand scale of things. [She looks down.] But you are here, right now. Even if the situation sucks, maybe there's a way out through it? If you're here and not back home, would it change anything...?
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...it's something to think about. It gives her pause, as she's glancing from the girl to the screen and back. ]
No, I... That's the problem. Me not...being dead. I guess maybe there's a way around it, 'cause- if I wasn't, I would've just been wiped out. Probably. I don't know how the fuckin' multiverse works. But...what had to happen was, she had to let me die. Or else...time and space would shit itself and cause a storm to wipe out our town.
[ Our. All those people. Her mom... ]
I'm...not really supposed to be anything but...dead in a school bathroom.
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Time and space collapsing on itself...?]
Then... what does it mean that you're here? Is... [does she want to ask this?] everything going to be okay?
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I think so. It's... Max was going to make sure the me from Monday...wasn't saved. But, I still remember the week. I'm...from Friday. I think- somehow, instead of blinking out like a fuckin' light-bulb, I ended up here.
...Who even knows, maybe they grabbed me from the...inky black nothing. I don't know what happens when time changes.
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Miki folds her legs down so they're crossed rather than tucked up to her chest.]
Maybe... when your girlfriend went back to change things, the you that told her to do this didn't... vanish but stopped existing in a context that could influence things?
[IS SHE... MAKING SENSE...?]
If they timed when they grabbed you, before the choice that... [let you die] that choice was made, maybe you're... there but not?
[congratulations, you're Schrodinger's Chloe.]
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She had one beautiful, horrible week... She wants to remember more of it. She wants to remember doing things with Max, before it was all snatched away.
...Miki was saying something. Ah. Right. Something about... ]
So, uh... You're saying I exist...but I don't exist?
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[Um.]
When you put it like that it sounds really stupid. But you're here right now, so you do exist.
So where you decided it was okay to... not be saved to keep all those people safe, you don't exist. [God she sounds like the ramblings of all the madmen rolled into one.] But to wherever your Max had to go back to, you still... exist?
[... pls understand.]
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No, oh, I get you, but- see, that me. The...me that Max went back to. See, any time Max went back and changed something, I...didn't remember what she changed. Whatever the last result was, that's my reality. If I was her, I wouldn't remember...any of that week.
[ Oh. Oh, that...actually sinks in for the first time and she gets an odd look on her face.]
I...wouldn't even remember meeting her again, at all...
[ ...She's supposed to die without knowing Max still cares about her. That... Well, Chloe's going to put a pin in that thought because it's too fucking upsetting. ]
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... Dying alone. The last thought terrifies her deeply - after her time trapped in the mall with no one but herself for company, she never wants to feel that alone again.]
... But you do remember her. [Aggg. She's definitely going off her original point.] You're here now, having made that decision, and you still remember everything.
[Maybe it'd be easier to just... simplify things.] Do you think these other timelines just stop? Or do they just keep going. If the first one's true, then you wouldn't be here, would you?
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I'd have to ask Max about that, but...I don't really know if she knows, even if I could. ...Those last minutes...she was starting to lose it. Like everything was breaking down around her, I know...if she tried to use her powers much more, it...
[ It would've been too much for her. She wouldn't have been able to come back. ]
...it's something I'm fine not knowing.
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... I don't know anything about time travel, but maybe you could even change things there. Anything can happen, right?
[y'know provided you don't get headshot by a shark-bitch.]
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Universe has made it pretty clear Arcadia Bay can't stand with me living there...but maybe. I also don't know shit about time travel, really.
...Thanks for listening. Must seem hella weird.
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It's fine. I've... known some weird things too.
And maybe if something's trying to tell you you shouldn't be there, then you just need to leave. Maybe it's that simple, sometimes.
...
But this place might be a bit extreme.
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