theairlock | Week 4

Entry tags:

!round 5,
!week 4

Week 4

[After everything that this case was, you probably don't want to deal with anything else. But you wake up on Sunday, just like before, with some new memories, and some new stores to check out.

Let's see what this week brings.]

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

(( Don't forget to check in, and check your memory regains! You can also stop by the gacha machine and Xander's office hours. ))

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I wonder why everything from the prize machine costs one coin, anyway? If it were like a normal arcade, from what I've read about them, wouldn't there be different tiers of prizes?

Perhaps. But it's all random in there, right? You could get some useless junk, or something important to you or someone else...or something gross. I guess the factor of chance is what makes it all even out.

So it's more like gambling or those gacha phone games.

I guess so. What's a gacha?

It's based on toy capsule vending machines, but the phone games let you draw for characters to add to your teams or clothes for them to wear. Some people spend way too much money on them.

[/looks guiltily at Fire Emblem Heroes]

On your phone, though? It's not like they're physical things you can hold in your hand...

It makes sense when you think of how attached people get to fictional characters.

...Well...if you put it like that, then I guess...I'd totally be guilty of trying to win all of the Ron Swansons.

Oh, is that from a show where you're from? I'll admit I'm not up on all the past entertainment.

It's a character from the absolute best comedy show ever.

Really? What's it like? You do seem to know a lot about comedy.

Well, it's about a small town in America and the people who work in its government offices to manage the parks and recreational areas, and all the shenanigans they get into as they work together and get to know one another. Everyone's quirky and unique and different, and they cause a lot of silly friction with each other, but deep down they all care about each other, even when they don't say so.

[giggle] That sounds a little familiar. Groups of somewhat strange people who are still the best at what they do, I mean.

Is that so?

It sounds a little like us here, for one. And the Nadesico, too.

...I suppose it does sound like us.

[But they didn't have to kill each other in Parks and Rec!]

It'd be nice if we could just live happily. All of us.

...

[Maybe there's a timeline where the survivors of these space games live in peace. But that's not this timeline.]

Yeah.

...I still won't give up on a way. Even if we've gotten some awful motives.

[every single one has come for her life?????]

...No. We've clearly come to far to just...all give up. You're right.

I'm glad you're here, you know that? All of you. I feel like we could all be happy once we get through this.

...How?

If I knew how we could escape, we already would. I just think we ought to keep on trying, though, and we'll find a way. We always do!

...Yeah. Even...if we don't remember, we must have found some way.

And we figure out the trials, too... even if we wish we hadn't sometimes.

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