week 3

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Week 3

[Come week 3 of the Champion Excellence Program the high-flying feelings that came with the dodgeball game last week has dissipated, especially after the...everything that was that trial. Satan Mask sure was a thing that happened.

Just like last week, right on the dot at 7 am, the mechanical woman's voice chimes to awaken the remaining champions on Sunday morning. After the initial wake-up call though there's a new message tacked on:]

Congratulations, Champions! By surviving your second trial, you have unlocked the third floor of the ship. A new mini map has been added to your P.I.P.! To access the second floor please stand on the teleporter and select the floor you wish to be teleported to.

[And again the Champions are awakened they have regained one new memory from the ones they've lost. Starting again on Sunday, as well, Jamie and Bolton will be back to their usual office hours in their usual locations.]

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[ooc: welcome to week 3, everyone! Check-in has begun and don't forget to submit your memory regains!]

Comments

[curdle]

You know naught of me! Caleb is dead! And I -- I am--

[bylight]

[Caleb? Why does that... Oh! Lightning walks over, putting herself between Jane and Thomasin. She narrows her eyes at Jane.]

Back off.

[She turns to Thomasin with a frown, her voice hard.] You're still here. With us. I know it hurts right now, but do you think he'd want you to die for something like this? Would you want your brother to do this if he was in your shoes?

[curdle]

[ Would he? He was barely himself once he came back from the wood, just a convulsing vessel for the witch's torture, and then... that horrible ending. Was it heaven he saw? Or was it a final cruelty from his tormentors?

But before that -- before the wood-- ]

No. No, he...

[ Wanted to protect her despite being younger. Believed her, even though he could not understand her darker thoughts. Died in the pursuit of keeping her on the farm. Thomasin does not know what she would do if the situation were reversed, but she knows what he would want. ]

He never would. He was better than I.

[bylight]

[She lets Thomasin finish before taking one of her hands, voice softer.]

Don't let them get to you. Keep your faith, both in your god and yourself, strong. Alright? I'll pray with you if you'd like, even if we don't share the same gods.

[At least one of them might hear them.]

Being angry at them isn't worth the pain.

[curdle]

[ This is the first time any of them have made such an offer, though Margulis has spoken with her on the matter. It stops her cold. ]

You would?

[ Moisture gleams in the corners of her eyes. ]

Forgive me. I would... it would be a great kindness. I forget that I am not alone.

[bylight]

[She nods, giving the now much calmer girl a small smile.]

Yes. Just let me know when.

[Even if all it winds up being is joining Thomasin in a nighttime prayer before bed.]

And you're never alone as long as you don't push your friends away.

[cyan_maid]

[Jane stills at that, and, startlingly enough? Does what she's told. Thomasin's emotions and the flipflop the motive had done to her insides are a strong inhibitor to Jane's usual insistence.]