theairlock | Week 7

Entry tags:

!round 5,
!week 7

Week 7

[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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The paint is still staying on my rope.

[It is not. In fact, it's very much rubbed off on a lot of things in here.]

...You didn't need to come in. I'm okay.

You don't sound okay. You sound like you got an awful sabotage, is what you sound like.

...

[She just. Finally emerges from the blanket, and Yurika can see that the rope is casually coiled and then on her shoulder - why she keeps the damned thing around is a mystery. What isn't a mystery, though, is that there's a whistle on a rope around her neck, and it looks like it could have been hidden under her shirt if the length of the string hadn't gotten so small. Jane reaches up at it...she can still slip her thumb under the string, but not much else, and she doesn't say anything, just...looks at Yurika sadly.

Everything that comes out of her mouth is a lie, but maybe, at least, she can be honest in her gestures and expressions.]

[Yurika nods slowly. She lifts the key to the Nadesico out of her shirt, on a string around her neck that you could still very easily grab.

She knows.]

[She nods, makes a little face, and gestures further down her chest. The string was longer before. It was longer and now it is not.]

...So no one could get you? [She hesitates and drops the key, letting it hang.] I think... it might have been the opposite for me, why I put it on a string after Ricky-chan.

[And... and who? Lightning-san didn't kill her. Some blank face.]

[She nods, but her expression shifts between confusion - why was it important? - and distress. She doesn't want to do this, but...Jane mimes being choked and then points to the string.]

[Yurika nods slowly.]

I thought I deserved it, if someone tried.

[She...sighs. This is not conveying what she wants.]

I...shit...I didn't give this...to myself. I wanted...someone else to be hurt by it? It doesn't get smaller over time - ugh, what the hell...

...It's making you lie. The lasso never did that for me. They're -- that's it, they know we've noticed their plan is to take our hope by ruining everything we hold onto, so they're giving a painful side to their own boons. And the whistle is choking you all on its own instead of you shortening it so someone doesn't sneak up on you!