week 6

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Week 6

[Six weeks. Twenty-three Champions whittled down to just seven. Where the halls of the station once felt crowded and loud now they're empty and echo when someone speaks too loudly. Again, the Champions will find themselves experiencing strange dreams on Sunday night but outside of the usual wake-up call there is no new floor announcement from CECE.

Like the trash compactor last week, the infirmary is pristine and sterile once again. As if nothing had ever happened.]


Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday



(( Welcome to Week 6! Don't forget to submit your memory regains and turn in your benefactor threads for sweet loot, too! There's going to be no AC this week.))

Comments

[le_mat]

[While the pan heats he turns, lightly touching Kaiba's arm]

It's still something we can pursue, too. Though if you wanna wreak stuff go for it- just make sure no one thinks someone is getting murdered in here.

[playthedamncard]

I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm in control. [Is he?] It's just not the most pleasantly plausible idea anyone's had.

[le_mat]

...

[He adds the garlic to the pan]

...does the idea of being stolen out of your body bother you?

[After their talk about the afterlife, he wonders. Their minds/souls being made into puppets is a terrifying thought, even if it's one they can't prove.

....the ghosts showing up later won't make this better]

[playthedamncard]

I've already been trapped in virtual worlds, had people try to steal my body out from under me, and my soul stolen away several times. [all because of children's card games] So yes. It bothers me. Willingly uploading your consciousness, or willingly adding your mindset, your soul, to a network- that's different. That has consent to it, at any rate.

[le_mat]

[He stares down at the skillet, at the garlic slowly browning and starting to smell nice, brow furrowed]

There's something about even doing it willingly that scares the shit outta me.

[playthedamncard]

...I think that's only logical. Sane, even.

Having it taken away from you, all your physical agency, being reduced to nothing more than a thoughts in a void, it's not pleasant. And being trapped in a virtual world for years can warp what's left of your mind. Experienced the former, witnessed the latter.

At least if you remove 'you' from 'yourself' willingly, you have the option to go back whenever you want.

[le_mat]

I guess so. Still, I think I'll stay rolling around in the dirt for awhile longer.

How do you take your meat?

[playthedamncard]

[Even if it's true, even if they've unraveled the 'plot' of this little game, there's nothing they've been able to do about it. Even if the anger's still there, and he's eyeing another glass to throw, it's exhausting to run around in circles changing nothing.] Medium's fine. ...Thanks for cooking.