week 9

[airlockedmods]

[Nine weeks, seven cases, eight Champions remaining. Something has to give and it's bound to be soon.

There is no new floor opened this time but SIS and PAL still seem to be active and ready to interact.]


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((Since this is the final week, there's no AC this week! But don't forget to check your memory regains, and submit for regains! The final rolls will be Sunday night (4/1)! We will also be posting the official endgame announcement later today!))

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[airlockedmods]

[Today is another quiet day. Well. Unless you're on the second floor, that is. If you are, it'll be pretty hard to ignore a flash of orange light from the Spacebucks, followed by a crash and a startled yelp.

Careful, there's some kind of slippery sludge pooling on the floor of the Spacebucks.]

[tokencanadian]

[OH FUCK WELL crashing and yelping are hardly good together.

time to check this out!]

[cyan_maid]

[Eh, you know, it's a given that people go to the Spacebucks for coffee, but Jane does catch the orange flash out of the corner of her eye, and the yelp makes her nearly jump out of her skin before she's running over and skidding to a stop just before the sludge's edge. What does she see?]

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[airlockedmods]

[There are two things to be seen: a broken terrarium laying on it's side, which is where the leaking brown sludge is coming from and-]

[everylittlesecret]

[A girl covered in sludge and looking rather disoriented.

Who a moment later squeaks and rushes to grab a trenta cup to start shoving sludge and something squishy looking into the cup. Then Nari holds it close and seems to be talking to it soothingly.]

[tokencanadian]

[...There's a great many things that Pyrrha expected to see as she came rushing towards the Spacebucks. Another body, or at least a huge mess. She wasn't expecting a person to be alive in here... let alone the person that had just gone off to their death not a few days ago.

She's speechless... almost. Until she manages to squeak out-]

N...Nari?

[everylittlesecret]

[Hey there have a sheepish smile.]

H-Hi.

[tokencanadian]

..Y-you... B-but I... I was...

[She points to... nothing? Back to the elevator? To the trial room?]

You were... B-but I heard a shot, and...

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika runs in, paint roller in hand like a weapon, and stops.]

Nari-san!?

[everylittlesecret]

Sup?

[Where you guys expecting trouble?]

[ratherdoweddings]

You've been gone for days, Nari-san! And now you... have a pet?

[cyan_maid]

...N...

[Nari

It's

It's Nari

Jane's hands fly to her mouth, and she's trembling and she skitters forward, almost going in for a hug, but no - no, right, she had to get the okay from Nari to hug her and that just starts her crying again because it's really Nari]

Nari!!!

[everylittlesecret]

[JANE YOU'RE GONNA GET COVERED IN SLUDGE BUT hey Jane will get pulled into a one armed hug because cup.]

Hey Janey.

[cyan_maid]

[





She called her Janey.

And that's what does it. That's what gets Jane crying today, and she hugs Nari back and presses her face into her shoulder despite all the sludge.]

Nari...oh my God, you - whatever he did worked, you - Nari!!!

[daughterofthemark]

Dame Nari!

[HI NARI I HOPE YOU'RE READY FOR ARIANNA RUNNING AT YOU

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DO A QUEENIE]

[everylittlesecret]

[REALLY GLAD SHE JUST HANDED THAT CUP OVER]

Hey there, Ari. Guess ya missed me?

[daughterofthemark]

[CLINGHUG.]

I--I believed you were gone...

[kingshaming]

What... Nari....

[He was so sure, so sure he had gotten her killed. He freezes, shocked]

[everylittlesecret]

[Staring. Then she grabs the nearest object (a bag of beans) and throws it hard at Xander.]

THAT'S FOR THROWING THAT THING AT ME!

[kingshaming]

[he yelps, and the bag bursts against his beef chest. But fuck it he's laughing. And crying too, rubbing at his face]

I... Gods I deserve that... I'm so... So happy.

[for once, just once, he saved someone.]

[induality]

...you did it after all.

[She knew she wasn't wrong to thank him for what he did.]

[induality]

Wh--

[Her heart stops for a second. And the next it's going 'we're flying into a gas giant and might die' fast.]

N...Nari?!

[everylittlesecret]

[Little wave] H-Hi Touko.

[induality]

[With a little choked sob she hugs Nari tight.]

...y-you're all right... I'm so... so glad...

[daughterofthemark]

[Well, if the crash and the yelp hadn't gotten Arianna's attention, the teenage girls rushing to investigate sure would have. Better follow them!]