Week 2

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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.]

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

(( Don't forget to turn in your AC for Week 1, submit your memory regain, and turn in your Benefactor threads! ))

Comments

[challengesfate]

[I mean, ideally they could do this to a punching bag in the gym, but there is no gym that they know of here - just this one floor, and now a slowly dwindling population.

When Lucina notices she's not alone, she takes longer pauses between her strikes, allowing him to hit. At least this way, they can smack around a bunch of pillows and they shouldn't destroy anything or hurt anyone.]

GWAH!

[But gee Lucina why do you keep knocking this thing completely over, it's getting to be ridiculous. Time to grumble and set it right.]

Damn...

[playthedamncard]

[Well, they don't exactly have anything sturdier unless they want to put in effort to design and make something sturdier and honestly Fuck That. He's watching her her, in that his eyes are on her, but his gaze is more distant than that.]

It doesn't do much good. [Casual observation. But they're both still doing it.]

[challengesfate]

[She sets it right with a little more force than necessary, and the head with the painted angry face lolls to the side.]

No. It really doesn't.

[Urge to just push this thing back over rising.]

I prefer it to having nothing, though.

[playthedamncard]

[He's still seething from Lunafreya's ridiculous insistence, her foolhardy misguidance. Which is on top of everything that happened, with Petuu and Chloe. With the motive and Mokuba. It feels a bit like his nerve endings are raw, like he feels the anger that much more brightly.

But he is nothing if he is not in control.]

They didn't think this out very well. Or perhaps too well. Little to take our frustrations out on but each other.

[challengesfate]

It's not just that. But that does play strongly into it, I think. The motive itself...

[Her father, safe, alive and then-]

...That lights the fire of our frustrations. That's the root.

[playthedamncard]

[Everyone has someone. Everyone.]

What would you do to save them? What lengths would you go to?

[challengesfate]

...I would give my life for my father. I would give everything to save him.

[She grits her teeth and balls her fists.]

But he...would never want a life to be taken for his.

[playthedamncard]

It feels noble, doesn't it? That you'd give your life, to say that you'd give everything, but to know there is a line. [It's about as cold and lifeless a tone he's taken with anyone. Just to not let out his anger at her, to show it. He knows better than to show it when not in the heat of a duel. Most times.] He wouldn't want you to take a life, but would you?

[challengesfate]

...

[She's very quiet, her eyes closing in thought, the faces of everyone she's met in this place flitting through her mind.]

I don't know.

[playthedamncard]

And that's the most dangerous part of all of this. Not knowing what you might be capable of.

[He gives that fluffy purple face a hefty if plastic smack.]

Psychological experiments to push us. Even we aren't fully aware of ourselves in the end.

[challengesfate]

...I...think I can see what you mean. But despite what we don't know of ourselves, and of each other...would it not be safer to band together despite that?

[playthedamncard]

[He considers that for a moment. When need be, he could duel alongside Yuugi. He could work to protect others. It's not his strong suit, to work with people aside from business associates, but it's not new. Just...uncommon.]

I didn't suggest that it wasn't.

[challengesfate]

No, I know...it just seemed like it was worth noting. Even if we are our worst enemies, we can also be our best allies.

[playthedamncard]

...We can keep one another in check. In case someone thinks to do anything.

[challengesfate]

That's a way to look at it, yes.