week 2

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Week 2

[The second week in the Champion Excellence Program kicks off on a somber note. Chitanda, Toby, the Griffin- all three of them gone, two of them in one fell swoop. If anyone thinks to check the profiles on their P.I.P.s they will find that the dearly departed Champions' profile photos have been greyed out.

Right on the dot at 7 am the mechanical woman's voice chimes to awaken the remaining champions on Sunday morning, as she has for the past week. After the initial wake-up call though there's a new message tacked on:]

Congratulations, Champions! By surviving your first trial, you have unlocked the second floor of the ship. A new mini map has been added to your P.I.P.! To access the second floor please stand on the teleporter and select the floor you wish to be teleported to.

[The new floor isn't the only thing floating around the ship though, at least metaphorically. When the Champions are awakened they have regained one new memory from the ones they've lost. Starting again on Sunday, as well, Jamie and Bolton will be back to their usual office hours in their usual locations.]

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday


[ooc: welcome to week 2, everyone! Check-in has begun and don't forget to submit your memory regains!]

Comments

[imnotfat]

[What, you don't make businesses in Russia with balalaikas playing in the background? What kind of heiress are you, Jane?]

Russian businessmen can be rather...eccentric. The point is that the songs don't matter.

[cyan_maid]

[She's not getting the company reigns until she's under permanent mind control eighteen, of course she hasn't been to Russia to make weird business deals.]

Next you'll tell me they had the Tetris theme played to appease them. [A roll of the eyes.] Of course songs matter! Why play at all without a song?

[imnotfat]

Tell me one time knowing how to play a specific song has been of help to anyone.

[cyan_maid]

[...Shit she's going to have to do some reaching for this one. Movies don't count, she's sure of that...]

Ah - well, there was...there's plenty of songs that have inspired morale and strength in protests and movements. Knowing them and singing or playing them while people fight for their causes has always been an incredible motivator. And there's...the alphabet song? Yes - how else would we all know our letters without such a simple tune?

[Man Togami's going to sneer at all of this, isn't he.]

[imnotfat]

[Sneer at this? How did you know, Jane? Wow, Jane, you are a detective!]

You chose the alphabet song as an example. This discussion is over.

[He's taking this as a win. Score one point for the Togami]

This is a decent room, unlike the rest of places in this floor. With some luck any new locations will be as worthwhile as this one, instead of places like a diner and a zero-gravity room.

[cyan_maid]

I'd like to see you come up with something better on the spot.

[Frowny frown. Fine, you win this battle, Togami, but the war is far from over. It will never be over.]

...That's actually something I don't understand. When we have a cafeteria that provides us with food and a kitchen full of things that are technically edible, why do we need a retro diner? I mean, don't get me wrong, I'll be looking around there soon enough, but why?

[imnotfat]

I already checked that place. There's nothing worthwhile other than the cherry pie.

[...that cherry pie was actually damn fine]

There's no reason why we'd need a diner. It must be for the Overseers' own satisfaction. Once another reason why it's useless.

[cyan_maid]

And I'm sure if there's anything resembling a kitchen attached, we can't get into it.

[She could make a cherry pie that's 100x damn finer, you can bet on it.]

So it's annoying as well as useless - but I think I'd like to see it for myself anyway. Did it have anything else besides food? Maybe kitschy decorations, or music?

[imnotfat]

It has a jukebox. It's filled with ancient pop music and some singer called Tom Jones.

[Said with the same tone one would tell other people they saw something gross in the bathroom. Who the hell is Tom Jones?]

No one serves the food. It's automatic, press a button and it'll get to you via rocketships on rails. It's rather effective and a better method than expected, I can admit that much.

[cyan_maid]

[...Tom Jones, huh.

Filing that bit of information away for later.]

Oh, now I've got to see this, even if it's just to get a peek into where it comes out from. If they're going through such an elaborate way to serve us, then they must have something they don't want us to see.