Good Morning

[airlockedmods]

[...You wake up.

The room you wake up in is only full of as many pods as there are surviving Champions. The Doctor is already gone. Xander is not with you.

The pods aren't claustrophobic, they're clear, bullet-shaped glass pods. You wake up with an oxygen mask over your face, and your PIP monitoring your vital signs. The bed you're lying on is as plush and comfortable as the inside of a coffin looks, and when you wake the glass over top of you rises.

Instead of a feeding tube, there's a white square patch on each Champion's stomach. There's no intravenous fluids and no medical tubes to detach aside from the oxygen mask. You're free to get up as soon as you're awake. You'll be a little wobbly at first, but otherwise experience no ill effect.

Feel free to explore, Champions.

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[burninglight]

[What.]

[WHAT.]

WHAT?!

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika winces and looks over.]

Ardyn-san, you're not hurt, are you?

[cyan_maid]

[Jane wakes up with a start.

She's shaky, sure, and tears off the oxygen mask as soon as she realizes it's on her, gulping in - real air, this is real air, it was - it wasn't real, the mall wasn't real? What is...]

...What the hell...?

[ratherdoweddings]

Jane-chan, are you okay?

[Yurika pulls herself up and staggers over.]

[ratherdoweddings]

No!

[Yurika's arm shoots up out of the pod. She catches her breath, looks around, and carefully takes off the mask. She sits up slowly...]

Where... are we?

[tokencanadian]

[Everything just happens so fast. Pyrrha was set on watching the Doctor die a death he didn't deserve, as he deserved someone to watch it happen. But then he raises that item, and the screen flickers and things begin to change.

And suddenly she's in a pod.

And she just fucking falls right out of it, flailing limbs and all.]

Gah! Wha- What...?!

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna freaks the fuck out. That mask is getting thrown across the room.]

[myocordial]

[Heart tears off the oxygen mask as soon as he comes to. Any shakiness he may be feeling is ignored, because there are more pressing concerns.]

What...

[He blinks a few more times.]

What the hell?!

[burninglight]

Heart--

[goddammit fuck this whole day you're getting hugged because he is having like his fifth panic attack in the past hour.]

[nightcure]

Wh--

Hey, is everyone here?!

[burninglight]

I--yeah, I'm here. Wherever the hell 'here' is.

[tokencanadian]

I-I'm here, Noctis!

[on the floor. Oh geeze...]

[cyan_maid]

H-Here...!

[daughterofthemark]

I--I--

[everylittlesecret]

[.... you put someone who is claustrophobic inside what is basically a coffin.

Thank god it opens before the starts freaking out. Even if she's gonna lay there for a bit and hyperventilate. It's fine.]

[tokencanadian]

H-hey, hey, It's me. It's me.

[Here's your Gf, coming to find you. This is Fine.]

I'm here... I'm here, Nari.

[induality]

[Sure this is fine. It's great, actually-- in that Fukawa is immediately freaked out by all of this; throwing off the oxygen mask and testing out her ability to move. She bumps her head on the rising panel in her struggle to get the hell out of there as fast as her body will allow her.

Which isn't cooperating fully yet, but she's forcing it the best she can.]

What the hell?! What the fuck just happened?

[helladoptera]

[ HI WOW MAX IS UP AND OUT OF HER POD LIKE A SHOT, DO NOT LIKE, and she immediately falls to the ground right on her face, rip. ]

Ow... what the hell?

[ratherdoweddings]

Some kind of stasis pod... crossed with a bed, I guess.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[...You know what?

You know what?

This might as well happen.

Church rips off the oxygen mask, and the patch, and he's moving. Because it's that or never leaving the pod.

He's in a bit of a panic, but, also, fuck you, fuck this place, fuck fuck fuck.

You want exploring? You've got it. He runs, frantically, into all the rooms. All of them! He's not stopping for nothing and nobody right now. Grabs a pilot hat (and nothing else) from laundry, grabs some nibble from storage, a water bottle from the restaurant, the music player from security, makes it to information--

...makes it to information and sees a lot of buttons.

He drops everything he's gathered to scamper up over the desk, wide-eyed, manic, and now surrounded by buttons. Who let Church get near buttons? The mods did.

PUSH THE GREEN BUTTON.]

[burninglight]

Leonard are you fucking insane DONTPRESSTHAT-

[shikosuki]

[ ... ... ... ] What the fuck?!

[ratherdoweddings]

I think that's what everyone here would like to know!

[burninglight]

[alright fine y'all have fun with the AI ardyn kind of...needs a minute. So he's gonna poke around a little, mostly the security office and storage.]

[Then he's gonna try the locked door to Room 12, and then step back with a very troublesome smile on his face.]

Well. Can't have that, can we?

[shikosuki]

...Think we could bust it down?

[daughterofthemark]

[Well, now that Arianna has had a chance to calm down, she'll do some exploring. Is there anything of interest in the restaurant, perchance?]

Good Morning, Xanax

[kingshaming]

[After taking a few minutes to gather his wits, Xander finally sits up- but keeps Jane close to his side]

...I'm sure you all have many questions. There's much I still don't know but... Anything I know is now yours.

[burninglight]

I've got several. One, where are we and how do we get out of here.

Two, how do we get back everyone that's died. All of them, not just this miserable game.

Most importantly, will I be executed if I punch you in the face.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Once Junpei shakes the post-VR grogginess enough to understand what's going on, he knows a brief moment of triumph and points at the ceiling.]

Called it.

[And then he abruptly remembers everything that just happened, with the frame job and the Doctor and everything, and feels abruptly unwell. He quietly ditches the group to wander around for a little, exploring, and then sticks his head under the shower for a while.

Anyone looking for him can follow the trail of dripping water from the bathrooms to the chapel, afterward, where he's lying on one of the pews with his arm thrown over his face. If approached, he speaks:]

I'm not sleeping. You can't punish me.

chapel

[burninglight]

[he's just gonna...sit next to you.]

I don't plan on it.

[induality]

[God. This is just... she's tired. Fukawa picks the first door, opens it and holes herself up inside room 1. She was still hungry but she doesn't feel like bothering to eat. Not after all that. Instead she just balls up in the corner of her bed and lets herself catch up with all the feelings she's been surpressing throughout the trial; crying until her eyes dry up.

Clarith was gone.

Because of something so stupid. Arianna was distraught... and she didn't have the right to match those feelings. She couldn't even manage to console her, only... fight her.

She's tired of losing the people she loves. She just wants to go back to when nothing mattered. Alone.]

[helladoptera]

[ Eventually, Max does... wander into Room 1 too. ]

Oh shit- Hey, Fukawa.

Restaurant

[shikosuki]

[ Well this has been... a lot. If one were to speak in only understatements at least. This whole day has been a mess. So Choromatsu is getting on stepping into that Team Mom role and also giving himself an outlet.

He's exploring the restaurant and getting to cooking. Once he figures out what he has to work with and what he can even do with it at least. Eventually he just settles for making sandwiches and putting on some rice. May as well get some tea going too.

Even if you don't stop by the restaurant he'll probably find you and shove some food your way at some point. ]

[nightcure]

Need a hand?

[ Because bless you, Choromatsu, but you shouldn't have to do this alone. ]