week 4

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Week 4

[Four weeks in and almost half the Champions' original numbers are gone. Eight people in the span of a month and, even with the Overseers seeming increase in empathy for the remaining Champions, there is no end in sight for the Champion Excellence Program.

And again at 7 am on Sunday the mechanical woman's voice chimes to awaken the remaining champions on Sunday morning. After the initial wake-up call the message tacked on:]

Congratulations, Champions! By surviving your third trial, you have unlocked the fourth floor of the ship. A new mini map has been added to your P.I.P.! To access the fourth 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.]

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday


[ooc: welcome to week 4, everyone! Check-in has begun and don't forget to submit your memory regains!]

Comments

[damnfourthemerald]

Mm. Some might want to close the gym down for how often things seem to happen there. [It's...kind of a joke??] But apart from that, I suppose any other dangerous rooms might be on this floor.

[He turns and starts heading in the direction of the soon to be discovered bar and/or dance studio, gets a few paces, then awkwardly stops. Hmmmmm is he being overly rude or just overly distant?] Would you like company?

[voltrounds]

[...oh. That other thing that happened in the gym the previous Friday.]

...I wouldn't mind.

[Hopefully she hasn't retreated too far into downer territory!]

[damnfourthemerald]

[They can go down downer lane together! Those that get depression together...something something together? Give him a second to really take this in.]

...I apologize. If I've upset you.

[Bc she looks pretty bummed and she wasn't before ssssso he can put two and two together.] I shouldn't speculate on potential death traps. [Really not helping.]

[voltrounds]

[Down downer... downest? She shakes her head.]

No, I'm fine. Let's find those deathtraps. It's better if we know about them early.

[damnfourthemerald]

[He inclines his head and continues down the hall. He sure is super chatty this morning. What other death traps await?

There doesn't seem to be anything death-trap-y about this here strange barren mirrored room. Except for that giant chandelier, though.] We might mark the floor where that might fall.

...Is this some kind of fancy dining room without any tables? [??? what is it why is it]

[voltrounds]

[Ricky's making a note in her map/sketchbook already. But yeah, marking the floor might be good too.]

It's...

Hm. A place for holding formal events, maybe? Like a ballroom.

[damnfourthemerald]

[You do your map-making layouting thing, Ricky, you do you!]

A ballroom... Like for dancing? [He peers at himself in one of the mirrors, frowning, and tries to rub a little more glitter lodged in his fur. It's gonna be stuck in there for a long time, buddy...] It's out of place on a station.

[voltrounds]

Well, sometimes that's just what places call big open spaces for events... but actually, yes, this looks like it would be good for dancing.

[The unexpected fanciness makes sense now!]

[damnfourthemerald]

Even with the mirrors? The chandelier? I guess...over there could be like a little stage. The Benefactors definitely spared no expense in tacking pointless rooms on. Wonder how high it goes, what other nonsense we might find...

[voltrounds]

Maybe there's a theme. Like, there was some other space station where there were murders, and it had these types of rooms.

[Not that that explains why anyone would ever need a dedicated dodgeball room, but they haven't been there yet.]

[damnfourthemerald]

...I shudder to think that there's more than one of these, with the same setup and a group of twenty other Champions going through what we are.

[voltrounds]

It might not have been intentional that time. Maybe there was just a series of murders, and whoever set this up took inspiration from that.

[damnfourthemerald]

The Benefactors have put in a lot of money and effort into this place. I don't know that they'd want to blatantly copy something else room for room. But who knows what the Benefactors are really after.

[He walks around where the chandelier hangs, seeing how it's attached, if it seems sturdy enough. And when he seems to be satisfied, dares to walk under it on his way back to Ricky.]

Not enough answers on every front. As usual.

[voltrounds]

[Well if it has Shadow's seal of approval then Ricky needs not fear walking under the chandelier in the future. Spoiler: Ricky gets crushed by a falling chandelier on Wednesday.]

Of course they have every reason to keep us in the dark. The more we know, the more likely we'll find our way out.

[damnfourthemerald]

[The Shaaaaaadow of the Opera is--wait wrong themed game.]

Lab rats in a maze. I don't think I care to be experimented on.

[voltrounds]

[Pay no attention to the shoutout behind the Curtains.]

From one maze to another...

[damnfourthemerald]

At some point, there might be a lapse in murders. I wonder if there would be a lapse in floors then, or if we will keep getting them for surviving each week.

[voltrounds]

The announcements have made it sound like we get access to a new floor after a trial. So if there's no trial, I guess we'd just have the same ones for a while.