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

[cyan_maid]

[This is the first time Jane turns to look at Yurika properly. She's...definitely tired, that's noticeable right off the bat, eyes a little red. It might be from crying, it might not be.]

There's...only so much to tell, Miss Yurika.

[ratherdoweddings]

That's okay. We've all been having bad weeks, or at least most of us have.

[cyan_maid]

[Jane turns back, and after a moment, pats the ground next to her. Come sit!]

...Okay. But...mm, where to begin...I suppose with the name. This planet is called the Land of Crypts and Helium.

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika sits down and looks over at her.] And that's why there are all those graves and balloons. Is there a reason for it?

[cyan_maid]

Exactly.

[She shrugs half-heartedly.] I have an idea why it might be, and it's fairly probable. The inhabitants left records that they were waiting for my friends and I for many generations, and knew they wouldn't be alive to greet us, so they dug their own graves. And...well, this one is a little reaching.

[She shifts a bit, adjusting the sheet around her.] When the inhabitants learned they'd never see us, and...they had some sort of prophecy that we wouldn't be able to win the game without outside help? Something like that - but once they got that memo, they started calling us "the Four Nobles". And I'm not well-versed in the elements, but I think Helium is one of the noble gases. I think it's a far reach on that one, but it's all I can think of.

[ratherdoweddings]

Oh, that makes sense! Helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon. Plus oganesson, which I think used to be called ununoctium back when you're from, but it comes from a lab, not from nature. Does that sound familiar?

[cyan_maid]

Mm...well...I don't actually know what my friends' planets are called, but if they follow a theme...

[LOPAN, LOTAK, LOMAX...]

It's likely that they've got neon, krypton, and xenon. The other element might be something to do with burials or graves, too, if everyone else got shafted in the "inhabited worlds" department.

[Speculating is actually giving Jane a bit of liveliness in her movements and expression. It's nice to focus on a puzzle.]

[ratherdoweddings]

Oh, right! Like maybe M is for mausoleum!

[cyan_maid]

Possibly. The others have to enter the game for their planets to be generated, and then we can...get to work on waiting for other people, apparently. [She props her elbow on her knee, her chin in her palm.] Maybe it has to do with Jake's project. He was so certain his Grandma, but as a teen, was exchanging letters with him and would be coming to visit us all someday, and bring my teen Poppop, too. It's silly and weird and makes no sense, but...gosh, it'd be something if they were the "Gods" we're supposed to wait for.

[ratherdoweddings]

Well, time travel is no less weird than anything else right now... I mean, we're all from different times and worlds.

[cyan_maid]

That's true. But...then again, I'm always inclined to take a step back and consider what's truth and what's a joke at my expense - or something dangerous. Or just a flat out lie. I believed that Jake believed his project was worth working on, but I didn't believe in the project itself.

[ratherdoweddings]

I can see why. It is a little weird, and you aren't used to any of this.

[cyan_maid]

All of my friends have that sort of weirdness to them. [A huff of laughter.] But I guess, if I can go back home, I should apologize to them. All the things they've told me are tame compared to this place.

[ratherdoweddings]

At least now we've learned something, though, right?

[cyan_maid]

Mm. I suppose we have.