Week 8

[airlockedmods]

[This weekend has brought about some unusual questions about your resident robotic Overseer, but unfortunately, you've also lost two more of your own to an accidental death.

You've done your best with the star charts, but if anyone is coming to help you, there is no sign of it yet. SIS remains the only friendly face here, even as you've found that she holds her own secrets. Meanwhile, yet another new floor has opened up - the elevators are in perfect working order now, if any of you care to go and see it. That's four concourses now; one for each of your groups. There's an awful lot of dead, aren't there?]


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[motherfucking_ghost]

[Church looks like he's on a mission, and he is. When he finds Nari, he's got his arms full.

And then he sits down by her and empties his arms. He seems to have several cat plushes. And the black chocobo plush.]

You look kinda busy. Can these guys keep you company?

[everylittlesecret]

[That... is an armful of cute things. Cats and a chocobo. It's like this man is striking her where it counts and Nari is now left feeling very, very conflicted. Accept these guys or send Church away?






Curse her weakness to cute things.]

Depends. Do you come along with the company, Inky?

[motherfucking_ghost]

[The old nickname makes his mouth twitch into something of a small smile.]

Don't have to if that particular company's not wanted. I was kinda hoping it might be tolerable company, though.

[everylittlesecret]

I think... right now I'm just happy with company from somewhere familiar. [Referring to the Fantasy Sweet.] Besides, even if you don't sit anywhere near me, you have an entire concourse to sit in. Who cares if anyone thinks we're fucking ridiculous yelling at each other across a vast space. We've done way weirder.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Like slide down ice stairs in inflatable balls. Or try to blow up walls within the first couple of days of being trapped somewhere.

I know I'm the master of yelling, but if we could avoid the yelling part, that'd be super awesome. Paper airplanes? Paper airplane notes.

[everylittlesecret]

Or derailing trials so bad just because we can't keep our damn minds out of the gutter. Yeah.

[Paper airplanes? Oh! Let her tear a page out of her notepad and fold it up. Then, with a slight wave, there's a burst of air and it goes gliding.]

Like that?

[motherfucking_ghost]

I should definitely start stripping at trials again.

[The paper airplane gets him to light up, watching in fascination--and then he reaches up and plucks it out of the air before it can go crashing into anything or skidding too far for him to want to bother getting up to get it.]

Yeah! Like that! [Unfortunately bereft of elemental powers, or knowledge in paper airplane physics, when Church chucks it, it goes almost nowhere. It does a loop, though! And then poof, to the ground.] ...Aw, plane...

[everylittlesecret]

I think my girlfriend would complain if I did the same thing.

[It's delightful seeing Church be so fascinated. Nari lets out a soft laugh before using some more of her wind affinity to scoot the plane back over to them.]

Flick your wrist when you throw, don't use your whole arm.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Now here's the question, which one?

[Because they haven't seen any evidence that Cece's dead. She left with the morgue, after all. She could still be out there.]

Sadly, I think everyone but Dander left would complain if I so much as lift my shirt. Just gives me more fuel to do it deliberately, though. [He picks the plane back up, lines it up, looks like he struggles with the concept of not using his whole arm for a moment but he settles for the wrist flick. It's not perfect, but it sails a little before fluttering gently to the ground, which is better than last time, so he'll take it.]

[everylittlesecret]

Current. Cece wouldn't mind the stripping, but Pyrrha would have an issue with it.

[With how much of a mess things are and with things she's remembered.... please let Cece be alive.]

I don't know if he would complain anymore. He's remembered a badass sounding woman he's in love with, and men like that... man, once they have eyes for someone, that's all they have eyes for. [Chewing on her lip as she thinks of something rather hard.] Hey. Mind in a bit coming with me to the showers?

[Tapping her notebook to indicate there's something in it that she's gotta show him.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Man, Ceec wouldn't mind the stripping.

Bow chicka bow--wow bad enough I hear it in my head, I don't need to start saying it out loud. Sure, I can come with. I even promise to keep my shirt on while we're there.

[everylittlesecret]

Rainbow liked to look and with who was in our group? Couldn't blame her.

[CHURCH... anyways. At least he got the message?]

Oho? Are you saying that you're willing to keep clothes on around me? What's the occasion?

[motherfucking_ghost]

Well, I called your current girlfriend Wonder Woman, and I actually pretty well meant it, therefore I'm reasonably certain she could punch my face clear off my body. And I'm kind of attached to this face. Physically.

[everylittlesecret]

.... I could totally see her as Wonder Woman. Hot damn, I am dating a girl who could totes be an Amazon... So you might have a good point about keeping your clothes on. Well, come on then, lets gather these stuffed friends up and head out.

[No leaving stuffed friends behind, especially that chocobo!]

[motherfucking_ghost]

[Absolutely not, he will definitely carry as many as required.] She got all flustered about it. It was cute. Even without the Magneto bracelets, she's very much a superhero type.

You get all the good ones. You pussy magnet.

[everylittlesecret]

She's so adorable when flustered!

[....]

I really am one, aren't I. Got girls falling for me without even really trying~ Now if only guys were that easy. But nope, all the guys that catch my eye wind up with other guys... I might stick with ladies.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You know what? I was surprised, too. Like, I've only ever had one person in my life before the mansion, and I'd never really had much reason to consider dudes, cuz what was I gonna do, hit on my teammates? Fuck no. Never was against dudes, either, just, nobody asked. ...Well, Caboose thought I was a gay robot, but only because he thought Tex was a dude.

Everyone should just be glad Tucker wasn't around for any of this.

[everylittlesecret]

If your friend Tucker was around I might have committed murder from what you've told me about him.

[Stuffed friends will be set outside the showers once they are there. Like a guard. That's when Nari turns to Church, rather serious.]

You know binary, right?

[motherfucking_ghost]

Now that Heart's not here, guess I'm the brainy computer around here.

...Which is kind of depressing.

What've you got for me?

[everylittlesecret]

I spoke with PAL. There was a blinking light that I marked down that I'm pretty sure is binary. Filling it in without them seeing what I was doing was a bit of a pain, though.

[She takes a sheet and shows him the message: 01010100 01101000 01100101 01111001 00100000 01101101 01100001 01100100 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01101001 01110100]

What does it say?

[motherfucking_ghost]

[He frowns as he reads it. This is all just getting sadder and fucking sadder...] 'They made me do it.' Old PAL's still trying to get through to us.

[everylittlesecret]

There was a second message while I kept him talking.

[01001001 00100000 01000100 01001111 01001110 00100111 01010100 00100000 01010111 01000001 01001110 01010100 00100000 01010100 01001111 00100000 01000110 01001111 01010010 01000111 01000101 01010100 0001010 01010100 01001000 01000101 01011001 00100000 01001101 01000001 01000100 01000101 00100000 01001101 01000101 0001010 01010111 01001000 01001111 00100000 01001101 01000001 01000100 01000101 00100000 01001101 01000101 0001010 01001001 00100000 01000001 01001101 00100000 01010000 01000001 01001100]

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Jesus. How did you even remember and transcribe it all?

Uh, it uh. Well, it's in all caps. So. That's bad. 'I don't want to forget, they made me, who made me, I am PAL'. Poor stupid nugget.

[everylittlesecret]

He repeated himself. Went slow enough for me to realize what he was doing. Church... I think he's putting up a front to keep us safe. He doesn't want them to know that he is going rogue... And I don't know how to help him.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You're asking the wrong also-stupid AI. We don't know where he's stored, and what's more, we don't have Kip to fix it. I'm gonna see if I can't convert a phone to like...speak binary somehow back at him so we can maybe hold a conversation within a conversation, but I'm not Ardyn.

But at least we have PAL kind of on our side. Half on our side. And SIS on our side. So...whoever's in charge, they're gonna have to come here themselves for a fight at some point cuz it can't keep going like this.