Week 7

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[Well that weekend sucked. The Champions are down a dad and a bean and shrinking their numbers smaller and smaller, less and less.

There's no sign of life in the spaceport aside from PAL's omnipresent voice and SIS, the helpful asSIStant who has some control over certain heres and theres in the spaceport. She (and PAL) are available at all times and can appear anywhere if called. There is, however, a new floor to explore. Just hop in the elevator and pchoo.]


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Comments

[misanthropicprinciple]

...Sure. That's... fine, yeah. Sounds like fun.

[helladoptera]

C'mon. I'll pick the place, you just gotta get yourself there and be ready to yell like there's no tomorrow.

[ holds her hand out to him! ]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[What? Oh. The hand is surprising, and Junpei looks like he doesn't know what to do with it for a second.

But he takes it.]

I'm always ready to yell.

[helladoptera]

[ She laughs a little. ]

Good.

[ SMASH CUT TO THEM AT THE HOLODECK! Max looks it over. ]

Alright, I'm gonna head in and set it up, just give me a sec. Any kind of location I should avoid?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Uh, no early twentieth century passenger ships. Or underground murder bunkers. ...Deserts suck, too, let's skip those.

[helladoptera]

[ haha,, ]

Trust me, an underground bunker is the last place I'd take anyone. But no boats or deserts, roger that.

[ She heads in for a few seconds to set something up and... ]

Come on in!

[ And when he does, welcome to the very top of the Space Needle, Junpei! ]

I can take us lower to the ground if you want, but... might as well yell at the universe from somewhere with a view, right?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Damn, girl.

[He doesn't do a yell just yet, instead wandering around and looking over the edge and, generally, being a tourist.]

Reminds me of the top of Tokyo Tower. Let me guess, you had school trips up here?

[helladoptera]

Just the one. But there's a great museum nearby I've been hella missing since I went back to Arcadia Bay, that's where I usually try to go when I'm in this neighborhood.

cw: kiiiiinda suicidal ideation

[misanthropicprinciple]

What kind of museum?

[Also, if you jump from the top of the Space Needle in the holodeck, do you feel the rush in real life? Questions Junpei is considering.]

[helladoptera]

A music museum. Very cool, very... Seattle.

[misanthropicprinciple]

I've never been. I spent most of my time stateside around Nevada.

[He crosses his arms, then finally leans back from the edge to stare at the sky instead.]

You wanna protect your ears or something? I don't have Church's pipes, but I do keep up with him.

[helladoptera]

Nevada, huh? You'll have to tell me why sometime.

[ She lifts her hands towards them. ]

At the ready if I need to.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He nods, waits, takes another breath, and--wow okay that is some lung capacity he's applying to just fucking screaming.]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

[Junpei empties his whole chest out, as loud as he can, as long as he can, until he actually drops to his knees to catch his breath, arms wrapped around himself, shoulders heaving.]

[helladoptera]

[ fUCKING YIKES, OKAY YEAH, HANDS ARE NEEDED, SORRY BUDDY.

But when he's done, she walks over to kneel next to him. ]

You weren't kidding.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Hehheh. I've had a lot of practice. [You know, screaming. He pants a second more, chin angled away, then looks out at the sky again.] Good idea, Max. Feels a little better to get that off my chest.

[helladoptera]

One of Chloe Price's best lessons: when you can't beat something up, screaming helps. Arcadia Bay doesn't have a lot of good screaming places, unless you want to hike out into the woods.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Hmm. Sounds... naturey.

[helladoptera]

Very naturey. Which can be cool, or can be... well, the kids in Stand By Me found a dead body, and that freaked tiny Max out of going into the woods much for a couple years.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Ah. Yeah. That would, uh, do it.

[He remembers his first body. Lol!1 Good times!!!]

[helladoptera]

[ so does she!! ]

I didn't even have to go out of town to find one, when I did.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...I ended up on the other side of the world. But I didn't know that at the time.

[helladoptera]

... Behind the town junkyard. That- she was the first one I didn't... watch die in front of me.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...We all heard him explode. Behind the numbered door. He was so desperate, and there was nothing anyone could do. We didn't even know what to do. In every history, that's how the game started.

cw assisted suicide mention

[helladoptera]

You got me there, I've never seen or heard someone... [ She swallows. ] I watched Chloe die a few times. Mostly by bullets, once by- [ She visibly winces. ] ... by me, but. That was complicated.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...I'm sorry. I never had to...

[He's never been asked even to hurt that most important person in his life. Junpei reaches over to rub her shoulder, then draws his hand away again.]

I've... killed, but never directly. There was always a layer of remove between my action and the result. Like the way we vote, here--just like that.