week 2

[airlockedmods]

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

Mods please, investigating the music room

[stitch_in_time]

[In the morning, after scrubbing out the showers, the Doctor can be found in the music room. He's carefully looking over the instruments, scribbling a series of circular characters on a notepad. He's looking, as usual, for anything out of place, but more specifically to see if there are any electronic instruments available or if everything is acoustic.]

[Later in the morning he can be found in there experimenting with some of the instruments, playing a few simple tunes on one of the recorders before shaking his head and putting it back.]

Nope, still doesn't feel right anymore.

[Later on, he can be found in the diner enjoying something besides the cafeteria food and MREs. It's a simple burger and fries chips, but it's some actual food for once. He does seem to be paying a lot of attention to the little model rockets that are bringing out the food, tracking them around the restaurant and back into the 'kitchen' area.]

How the hell they're cookin' all this on demand is what I'd like to know.

diner

[refusedtoleave]

Didn't we have the packaged food in the kitchen because you can't have normal food in space? I know they had the scheduled meals but...

[Look who's finally looking around here. She's staring grumpily at her plate of burger and chips, not even touching it.]

[stitch_in_time]

On older space-flights, yeah. Flights where you had to worry about storage space an' weight and power.

[Have a deep-fried potato, Natsuhi. They taste like salt and delicious regret.]

Place like this, there's power for refrigeration and freezing, and that's assuming they're not just teleporting in stuff fresh as-needed.

[refusedtoleave]

They had books on space farming too.

[She's learning all these things she's never even thought of before. Her husband would have been so jealous about this.]

Is it bad that I hope it's a teleported? Then we'd have a way of getting out of here...

[stitch_in_time]

Yeah, farming's more for new planetary colonies, or generational ships that'd be much bigger than this place.

[Well, probably. But that'd mean a LOT of floors they haven't found yet.]

And no, a teleporter that actually left this place'd be damn useful, if we could get to it.

[refusedtoleave]

They did say that staying here was an option... And we don't know if White and Fell are the only ones from this place yet.

Would you know how to use one? A teleporter, I mean, if they really do exist.

[stitch_in_time]

If I didn't, I'll eat my jumpsuit.

[Doctor please don't tempt fate like that.]

No matter how advanced it might be, the base tech's gonna be the same.

[refusedtoleave]

[It earns him a wry smile.]

Is that why there's so many things that are the same for us?

[stitch_in_time]

Yeah, parallel development of technologies. Even across disparate timelines, people tend to discover things in sort of the same order, unless there's some really major difference in the base conditions.

[refusedtoleave]

Does that mean the things mentioned in the library will happen where I'm from?

music room

[ratherdoweddings]

You play it too? Did everyone learn the recorder back home?

[stitch_in_time]

Used to carry one of these things around with me all the time. More or less.

[He inspects the recorder a bit more before replacing it on the rack.]

I was a different person, back then. Just doesn't quite feel right anymore, y'know?

[ratherdoweddings]

I guess everybody outgrows something sooner or later! I wet the bed until grade five!

[stitch_in_time]

[Yurika, why do you sound so cheerful about that.]

...I'll keep that between us.

[ratherdoweddings]

I think it's a good thing to be honest with your crew! After all, I don't do it anymore, so there's no problem!

[stitch_in_time]

Are we your crew now, then?

[ratherdoweddings]

As long as we're here, we should be unified, right?

[stitch_in_time]

Should be, yeah. Hopefully will be. Just a question of whether everyone'll stick with that.

[If the worst they had to deal with was shower duty, he might have more hope. If Bolton has another incentive like the one from last week, though...]

[ratherdoweddings]

Some people might not, but I hope what we've seen is the worst of it.

[stitch_in_time]

I dunno if it could get much worse than that.

[He gets somber for a second, remembering the crime scene.]

...She wanted to see the stars. Chitanda. More of them, anyway. She tell you that at all? Kidnapped into space an' it just made her want to explore.

[ratherdoweddings]

Eru-chan... None of this is fair. We should have been able to escape.

Investigation

[airlockedmods]

[The instruments are lined up perfectly in order. They all look brand-new and shiny!

There are, however, no electronic instruments.]

[stitch_in_time]

[Yeah, that'd be too easy. Nothing to scavenge for parts, even if he had any kind of proper tools.]

[And more suspiciously new things. Whoever's funding all this really must have deep pockets.]

[Anything else that might be unusual, while he's here?]