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.]

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

Comments

[stitch_in_time]

Good description, yeah. A little island of somethin' popping out of a whole big lot of nothing.

[He can infer some basics, obviously. That he'd somehow met Rose again, and she'd changed her mind about traveling this time. Beyond that? Not much besides Sudden Surprise Dalek.]

Might've been- all that. Emotions runnin' high, chemicals surging in the brain, that kind of thing.

[cyan_maid]

But then what suppressed them in the first place? The shock of being here?

[stitch_in_time]

No, it's too neat an' tidy for that. Shock'll do a lot, I'd buy a few of us -even a lot of us- getting into some kind of fugue from the sudden transmat, but everyone? No, I think that was deliberate.

[He lets out a frustrated puff of breath, running a hand over his face.]

It'd be a hell of a lot of help if I knew exactly HOW they'd done it, but there's too many options and not enough to narrow it down. "Probably not a memory worm," is the best I've managed.

[cyan_maid]

....It sounds a lot better than what I could come up with. Can't say I've heard of a memory worm in the first place.

[stitch_in_time]

It's pretty much what it says on the tin. Big nasty-looking wriggler about yea big-

[He indicates a length slightly bigger than his hand.]

Touch it, and you lose a few minutes of memory, maybe an hour or two. Let it bite you and you could lose decades.

[cyan_maid]

[A frown.]

And here I thought it might've been something that crawls in your ear and mucks with your brain - don't know why I suspected that. Still, it sounds terribly nasty.

[stitch_in_time]

[Bit too Spock, but not a bad guess Jane.]

Pretty nasty, yeah. Useful, potentially, but nasty. Too random for what's been done to us, though. And I've never heard of the effects of a memory worm undoing themselves like this, nevermind across an entire group of over a dozen people.

[cyan_maid]

[What do you expect, she's American.]

So it'd have to be something specialized, then - specialized and specific, even if done through an accident.

[stitch_in_time]

Specialized, specific, and temporary, apparently. Maybe some kind of chemical suppressor, we don't have enough details yet.

[cyan_maid]

...Do you think it could be in our food? That's all I can think of, if they wanted to distribute it...but some people make a point to eat as little of the hot stuff as they can, don't they?

[stitch_in_time]

Could be the food, could be the water. Could be something in the air, this is a closed environment.

[He looks up at the lighting in the ceiling.]

Could be something hidden in the lighting, even. If I had so much as a screwdriver I could at least start rulin' things out.

[cyan_maid]

[She looks up, too.] In the lights? Like...actual light particles, or subliminal messages?

[Not that obey Jane would submit pick up consume those.]

[stitch_in_time]

Subliminal's not a bad thought, but it'd probably take a while for it to affect anyone. Maybe as some kind of reinforcement, but...

[VOTE SAXON VOTE SAXON VOTE SAXON]

More likely some kinda sonic wave or psychic interference hidden up with the lights. Nice clear path a' transmission, it'd be a good way to get everyone. Point is, we've got no way of knowing yet.

[cyan_maid]

[...Is psychic interference even a thing you can put in a light.]

I...see. That's certainly a shame. I'd like to see how something like that might be possible.

[stitch_in_time]

[Sort of? It's something you can make look sort of like a light fixture, at least.]

Maybe you will. There's some reason we all lost time when we got here, I'd be willing to bet if we find a way where the Overseers don't want us gettin' we'll find that that too.

[cyan_maid]

I hope so. I'd like to know just what memories I'm missing - it feels like I'm fumbling around in the dark and running into foam walls.