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

[cyan_maid]

[A sigh and a roll of the eyes. Men really never change, do they?]

That sounds nice, though. I mean, if you're always around friends, you always have people you can rely on.

[tasteslikesurvival]

[He said it better than she could but... God. She laughs a little.]

Yeah... I mean. I wish we got to see other people a bit more but I wouldn't trade 'em for anything.

[cyan_maid]

Oh? Is your club tricky to get into?

[Jane you have no idea.]

[tasteslikesurvival]

S...something like that.

[Oh right. Jane doesn't know yet.]

[cyan_maid]

Golly, well, I hope it's more alike to just...you know, silly tests of worthiness and not like hazing or anything.

[JANE............]

[tasteslikesurvival]

Well...more like there just wasn't a lot of people available to join.

[Because fuck zombies.]

[cyan_maid]

Oh, I see.

[High criteria, hm.]

Well, your club is made of those friends of yours, right? So you all must be close. And to get to interact in person so much...that's got to be really nice. All of my friends are limited to the internet.

[tasteslikesurvival]

I mean, I won't say that we're not close. It's just... Well. What do you think a School Living Club does?

[cyan_maid]

Well...I suppose you'd be in charge of a lot of little things that make the student body's life at school a bit easier. Helping redirect hallway traffic in the event of renovations, making sure folks do their part keeping things clean, that sort of stuff.

[tasteslikesurvival]

Honestly? I wish it was like that. A teacher made it up when... I don't know if you'll believe me but I told a few people already.

[She takes a breath.]

She made it up so we could keep our wits after the zombies came since we were stuck in the school.

[cyan_maid]

[Before the revelation's dropped?] Golly, after this place? Try me.

[And then, after it...]

...The...the what?

[tasteslikesurvival]

The zombie apocalypse happened. [There is no easy way to put that.]

[cyan_maid]

...

[She's just. Going to sit down on the floor of the shower and pat the floor gently for Kurumi to sit with her.]

I think...you're going to have to try explaining it to me from the start. I-I believe you, but...um...that sort of thing demands context.

[tasteslikesurvival]

[She flops down next to her.]

I can't really give you much other than I experienced. It was probably a terrorist attack or something but it was just a normal day. We all went to school. I had practice with the track team after school. There were news reports of riots but no one thought anything of it other than it being weird. In the middle of practice, though...

[Yeah. It.]

Things got crazy and I just ran to the roof to get away. Two other students were up there and a teacher, too. It happened so fast.

[cyan_maid]

[That's...really terrifying, actually. And the way Kurumi talks about it...]

How long ago did it happen, for you?

[tasteslikesurvival]

A few months. Nearly a year now, I think.

[cyan_maid]

[...Yeah, that makes sense. No wonder Kurumi's numb to it.]

...I'm sorry. None of that should have happened, it...it can't be easy.

[What do you even say? Sorry the zombie apocalypse happened to your homeworld?]

You and your friends...you've been keeping yourself safe in the school all this time?

[tasteslikesurvival]

No...you don't have to be sorry. It's just. It's like a flood or earthquake, it's no one's fault.

[Except the people who made it but she couldn't find them.]

We were, yeah. We found Miki on a trip outside the school but.. Well. We had to leave it about a week or so before I woke up here. Now it's just the four of us.

[Wait. Shouldn't that be five?]

[cyan_maid]

[...Yeah, it should.]

Four? But...you, Miki, the two girls on the roof, the teacher...that's five, isn't it?

Gakkou Gurashi spoilers ahoy

[tasteslikesurvival]

Megu-nee--I mean, Miss Sakura, she.

[Kurumi slouches down against the wall, eyes drifting closed. She hadn't mentioned the teacher before to anyone here. She slipped.]

A few months before we met Miki, she got bit.

As if I didn't spoil my darn self already :B

[cyan_maid]

[...Jane looks down at her lap.]

I'm sorry.

[Shit. Damn. Damn shit. Part of Jane is...a little relieved that this isn't her own life, but...the other part can't help but feel a bit hurt on the inside. Kurumi was a nice girl, a loyal person. She shouldn't have such a world to go back to, no one should. But it must be difficult for her to be here, Jane thinks, with holes in everyone's memories and no way of knowing if her friends are safe.]

It's more that I know a certain person is probably stalking this and isn't spoiled

[tasteslikesurvival]

[Kurumi gives a long sigh then shakes her head.]

Yeah. It's... It's okay. Things like it happen.

[Some part of her is envious that others live in a relatively zombie-free world. That the club, a group of normal teenagers, had to suffer like that for almost no reason at all. She shakes her head again and stretches.]

Life's full of goodbyes and hellos, I guess.

[She definitely sounds sad, though. Megumi Sakura was a good person. She didn't deserve that.]

oh gosh okay :P

[cyan_maid]

["Things like it happen." But they shouldn't. Whatever caused this for Kurumi's home, it must be something awful. If it happened so quickly, then it's not something anyone expected as a possibility. But then again, you could say the same for this space station, and for the people who have already died here and who have yet to die.

Jane reaches out to put a gentle hand on Kurumi's shoulder. The non-injured one, miraculously.] That doesn't mean we have to like it.

[tasteslikesurvival]

[They definitely shouldn't. She wishes she could say more than that, that there shouldn't be this. That they all shouldn't be in a place where this is needed. She wishes she could say that but Kurumi knows that there was no point in trying to think like that.

She pats Jane's arm.] No, we definitely don't.

[cyan_maid]

[She'll withdraw her hand after a moment, folding it with the other one in her lap.]

You know...you know what I think would be a great idea? If we could all get out of here somehow, and just...if people's homes aren't safe, we could...I don't know...relocate them and their friends. I think that wouldn't be out of the question.

[Can we end the teenage suffering? Can we please?]