week 1

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Week 1

[After the reveal of their handsome and well-dressed but stern-looking Overseer on Sunday, the Champions were left to their own devices in investigating the mall to their hearts' content. At around 10 pm every night the lights in all the shops will go down and the sturdy metal grates over the doors of the restaurants will go down. The stores will remain unlocked, though.

On Monday morning, a buzzing alarm chirps at them again from their PIPs at 7 am on the dot. There's also a pop-up message waiting for them: a notice announcing Xander will be holding office hours

Enjoy your week, Champions.]

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Comments

[misanthropicprinciple]

Yeah, but I've never seen anything like this before in my life. God dammit, this is starting to feel downright cultish...

[Cults: never a good thing, not even once.]

[serrata]

Me either. It's so...

[ She casts around for a word but can't settle on one that gets across the sentiment she's trying to convey so eventually she just shakes her head. ]

But if if it's a symbol of something we were both tied up in, that might explain my profile. Maybe we were... working together, or something like that?

[ anything that makes it sound like she has more agency than CULT is as good a theory as any. ]

[burninglight]

It's not a blasted cult, you idiots. That's the symbol worn by the most elite soldiers sworn in protection to the crown of the Lucian kingdom.

Why a pair of children have tattoos of it is well beyond me, however.

[serrata]

... The Lucian what? There's nothing like that where I'm from. Nothing at all.

[ It sounds like something out of a video game, honestly? ]

But if you know what it is, do you have any idea how it might have ended up... um, on the two of us?

[scourgingstars]

Kingdom, yes. Do try to keep up, I don't care for repeating myself.

As to the question, I can not say I'd know.That particular symbol and the organization it represents were only properly established somewhat recently.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Just--wait. Hold on a second.

[Junpei rubs hard at the inner corners of his eyes.]

Where is this Kingdom of Lucis, exactly?

[burninglight]

'On a planet you've likely never even seen' isn't going to clear up the issue, I'm sure.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...Well, it answers the question.

Doesn't really explain how two unrelated Japanese people ended up with what would come across as gang signs where we're from, though, if it's from another world.