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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[cyan_maid]

...Hi, Mister Noctis.

[She shifts - or more like rolls over, so he can't see how red her face turns. Jane is pretty mortified about her reaction last night, to be quite honest.

Muffled,] Plenty of room...that's the point...

[nightcure]

Mind if I join you? I did bring you a couple blankets, if that sweetens the deal.

[cyan_maid]

...You didn't have to do that just to join.

[She means yes.]

[nightcure]

Haha, well... I thought you might appreciate them, anyway.

[ He puts 'em on the pile, then joins her. ]

How are you doing?

[cyan_maid]

...

[She rolls a little more so she can look at Noctis, because not looking at someone when you're talking is rude. In this position, she's kind of...curled up, and pulling the edge of one of the blankets on top of her.]

Not as bad as last night. But...not the best, either. I don't know. It's...really confusing.

[nightcure]

... After something like that, I don't really blame you. You were really scared, weren't you?

[cyan_maid]

[She...nods, reluctantly.]

I shouldn't have...it was so stupid of me to scream like that, I'm not a child, but something just...whenever it involves her, even if it's through a tangent, I just...can't take it.

[nightcure]

I didn't think it was stupid. Seeing something like that in a place like this? It would've terrified anyone. You're not weak or silly or anything for how you reacted.

[cyan_maid]

...But they were just...everything got all...it connected in places that it probably shouldn't have, you know? In my head? A-And now I'll never not think about those guys whenever I have to go to the bathroom in the dark, and it...it was so foolish. She can't be here.

[nightcure]

... It's easy to jump to conclusions when you're terrified and something blindsides you.

The... Condesce, right?

[cyan_maid]

...Yes. That's her. She's got a lot of other names, too, but...that's the main one that isn't a mouthful, or...that people would laugh at.

[nightcure]

... Do you wanna talk about it? I mean, I have a few questions, but I won't ask them if it'll make things worse for you.

[cyan_maid]

...

[She pulls the blanket a little closer.]

I can try to answer your questions. But...you've got to understand, I...would like to keep some of it to myself.

[If Noctis hadn't been there for her the night before, she would have said no. But he was there. And if he needed some things clarified, Jane owed him that much.]

[nightcure]

Well, yeah. I won't hold that against you. And you can pinch me or something if I hit a really sore spot.

Deal?

[cyan_maid]

...Deal.

[Alright Noct, go for it.]

[nightcure]

So this Condesce... What's her deal? Is she just evil because it's fun?

[cyan_maid]

[Jane swallows thickly, and actually gives that some considerate thought.]

...Maybe partly. The juggalos, and some of the other stuff...that was all for her own pleasure, but it was also all part of the grander scheme. It's just what she always did for eons. Conquer planets and people...bleed them dry...stab a fork into what's hers and use it up until it doesn't work, and then toss it away.

[nightcure]

And when she turned to your planet... That's what she was gonna do?

[cyan_maid]

That's what she did.

[Another swallow. This is where things start to get muddy.]

Back home...for me, the year was 2011. Right near the end of it. And the day I left home - the day she arrived, my friends and I were going to get together to play a game. They had to leave their homes, too, and...two of them...I didn't believe them until after we were all together, but they were from my world, but over four hundred years in the future from me.

[nightcure]

[ He holds out her hand, if she wants to take it to have something to hold onto. ]

... Over four hundred years? How does that work?

[cyan_maid]

[She doesn't take it. It's...this isn't something that holding a hand will help with.]

I can't explain it - I honestly don't know. There's...a lot about the game we played that I still don't understand, but that was...the game was at the root of everything.

[nightcure]

[ Yeah, he understands that. He curls his hand into a loose fist. ]

So... what's this game?

[cyan_maid]

[nnnnnnnnnnnnNNNNNNNN]

...Sburb. It's...it presents itself as a video game, but it's more than that. You can literally change the world around you with it - get sucked into another reality entirely, and...the point of it is, you and whoever you're playing with...it's your job to make an entirely new universe. And the only way out, the real only way out, is to do that. To win.

[Her voice is pretty hushed in case other people are around, but it is loud enough for Noctis to hear - and she keeps talking, more than she even meant to say, as if everything has been a plugged up fountain just waiting to burst.]

But our session of the game was void. We completely bungled a lot of huge, starting steps, and we couldn't do anything. We were waiting for...more players. Ones from another session. [Her Poppop, as a teen. Jake's Grandma, Roxy's Mom, Dirk's Bro. All as teenagers.] There was no way to progress without them, but once they came, everything started falling apart. That's when the Condesce made her move on us.