week 2

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Week 2

[It's been about a week since the Champions woke up in their new consumerist hellscape of a temporary home and, despite a few odd goings on and the bomb incident with Church and Nari, things haven't been as bad as they could be. No one is even dead yet! But let's see how long that lasts.

Enjoy your week, Champions.]

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(( Also, don't forget to submit your AC and item rolls! You can also bother your Overseer here. ))

Comments

[motherfucking_ghost]

Okay okay okay. Walk me through it. You and your boyfriend are like side by side, doing all this healing and kingly shit. And you're boyfriends! Which means you love him and he loves you.

And at the same time, [he says with some gestures, because him gesture] you're starting to turn into a plague monster. And since people turned on you and tried to kill you and shit, I gotta assume he knew, probably before anyone else but you. And you don't stop, cuz you can't stop, cuz you're a good person who would rather do all he can how he can than to rule over a kingdom of death.

So you turn into a vicious evil hatemonster, and your brother takes over and tries to kill you. Is this the normal reaction to plague monsters? I'm unclear on the manner of the hateplague other than it's fucking sentient and also somehow blocks out the sun, which, that doesn't sound physically possible, but okay.

Which means our boyfriend, who was supposed to protect you, had to watch you try to die over and over again, because what's he gonna do, take the plague from you? He can't, unless you're gonna tell me he was a surprise magical healer too. Means he failed the guy he loved.

Like of course he went into hiding. He was fucking ashamed.

[burninglight]

I...didn't mean-

[ardyn.exe has encountered an error]

You...didn't do anything wrong. I just...don't understand why.

flavortown

[myocordial]

[Geez Pyrrha, that's quite the haul you've got there.]

There certainly is quite a... variety of items in there.

[daughterofthemark]

A computer, like the ones in "Universe"? One of those can act as though it was alive?

[burninglight]

...

[Was that...really possible? The reason Gilgamesh hadn't answered, hadn't intervened in any of countless executions of the would-be king he'd sworn to protect...was it really because he hadn't seen any choice? Had he just vanished out of shame, spending two millennia in the Tempering Grounds to eliminate any other Shield weak of either will or body that might fail as he had?]

[Ardyn didn't answer, the resulting thousand-yard stare not quite directed at Church so much as it was straight through him.]

[myocordial]

[Well, that sure is a bunch of stuff. At this rate they're all going to be hoarders. The card catches Heart's eye, what with how Ardyn is staring at it.]

Such a cheerful card, isn't it? [Real nice. Not at all ominous.] That's from a tarot deck, yes?

[burninglight]

Apparently. I'm not entirely familiar with the concept myself.

[ratherdoweddings]

A little like that, but Omoikane runs the entire ship. Ruri-chan can communicate with it like anyone, it's really amazing!

roombaville

[myocordial]

[A princess and her roombas. What a charming scene that is.]

Are you making friends?

[induality]

I know what you mean. I feel the same way. My home... is a disaster, but I'd still choose that over this. Those problems are ours. None of us chose this. Most of you haven't even had to live in a world where people who play these things exist. You... shouldn't have had to.

I'm... not good at this kind of thing either. I don't... have that much experience t-talking to people.

But it's weird... I feel like... it was okay, t-talking to you all.

[induality]

A-actually I'm... a novelist. Or was.

[myocordial]

I don't know much about it either, other than that some people put a lot of faith in those little cards.

A friend of mine was fond of using them for a time.

[ratherdoweddings]

Wow, really? I could never do that! What kinds of things do you write?

[induality]

...romance, specifically.

[myocordial]

[...How does one even react to this? Togami, really.]

Well. Your place is starting to become very... eye-catching.

[ratherdoweddings]

I should have known! You seem like the type of person who really understands love and what kinds of things appeal to people.

[induality]

[BLINKS.]

Y-you really think so? I guess... I'm used to people being surprised.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[Surprising even himself, he let the silence drag on, let Ardyn try to sort through it. Hell, it was a lot to handle, but...Ardyn hasn't been in sound mind for a couple thousand years. Maybe he literally couldn't see it that way.

The fact that Ardyn was even thinking on it so hard meant that Church hadn't entirely misread the situation. He ran his good hand through his hair, and it did not, in fact, flop back in exactly the same way. His other hand rested palm up on the table, keeping the wound from the direct hard contact.

But there's only so long he can wait around for Ardyn to spin that possible revelation in his head, and he reaches out to lay a hand on his shoulder.]

You can come back to Earth now, Ardy. Or...back to the mall, anyway.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Oh, I've got plenty experience talking to people. Most want me to stop.

But you're doing really well. You still stutter, but...not as much as you did the first day, I think. And after a couple go-rounds at this bullshit, you must be getting better all the time. And your knowledge of the game is preeetty invaluable.

around the mall

[myocordial]

Yuuri Wakasa. Of course.

[He eyes her for a moment. And while she's certainly looked better, it's much better than the mood he'd expected to see her in, after yesterday. She's good at this.]

You do bounce back quick, don't you?

[ratherdoweddings]

Really? You mean, where you lived before?

[induality]

If you think that dumb Overseer is bad i-imagine a s-stupid robotic bear with an annoying voice...

[induality]

[Fukawa nods.]

I d-don't exactly look like someone who has e-experience with love... p-people expect that writing romance novels means you're intimately familiar with it or something.

spaceglasses hut

[myocordial]

[Knock knock, Doc, someone's at the door.]

[induality]

[She does startle-- but not violently. Her eyes shoot open like she was trying to act as though she hadn't really been asleep. All the same, she's pretty sure she's not fooling anyone.]

I-I'm okay!!

[Honey, no...]