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

[voltrounds]

[Wednesday morning, Ricky can be found trying to accomplish something useful. Something that will hopefully deter further murders, or at least make them easier to solve. Something that has a 100% chance of backfiring hilariously. Specifically, she is over at the incinerator again, attempting to rig a glitter round to go off when the door is opened. Definitely try to stop her if you want to prevent a disaster!

The disaster cannot actually be prevented, and an unusually sparkly Frederica Irving will later be found variously in the sewing room making another attempt to repair that doll (she's getting better), in the arcade killing more pixelly zombies (someone tell her to stop these hate crimes), and in the greenhouse collecting feathers (getting some useless use out of that Take skill).

She'll also be briefly seen in front of her door painting one of those little red flowers, because of course.]

sewing room

[curdle]

What are you mending?

[ Now that she's got her clothes back, she doesn't really need to make anything else for herself, but she can still sew for others! Also now there are patterns. She's squinting at the doll, trying to get an idea of what it is. Hey, it looks kind of like... ]

There are more of those?

[voltrounds]

[Thomasin please get Ricky to wear some normal clothes. You don't even have to make her anything. She has some fairly generic clothes she got as a regain early on and she just kind of put them in a corner and forgot about them.]

Oh, this... it turned up in my room after the second trial. I've been trying to fix it.

[...wait.]

What do you mean, "more"?

[curdle]

Well, it looks not the same, but... it is a bear?

[ seriously though she doesn't know for sure ]

[voltrounds]

Yeah. Well, probably. I guess I could be putting it together wrong.

[curdle]

Nay, I think your work is fine. One was left afore my door, a week past. It was... strange.

[ She makes a weird, sweeping gesture, trying to somehow convey what a beartaur looks like! It doesn't work. ]

Like a bear in its front, but on the body of a horse.

[voltrounds]

[...okay, that's really weird.]

Like a horse with a bear head, or more like a bear centaur? [OH! SO CLOSE TO THE RIGHT NAME!]

[curdle]

[ What is... a centaur... she's going to just extrapolate, though! ]

The second. It has six limbs. 'Twasn't ripped like yours, but it could be someone sewed two dolls together.

[voltrounds]

[Doesn't everyone know what a centaur is? Surely?]

On the other hand, it could be that someone's world really does have creatures like that.

[curdle]

Maybe. Lightning did say her world was full of monsters, and I'd not wish to meet one the size of a real horse.

... has your world any skunks?

[voltrounds]

I don't know if there are any skunks now. There used to be.

...there are definitely some pretty big monsters, though, so maybe you should stay away.

[curdle]

Your world, too?

[ That's right, she's on some kind of mission. That doesn't necessarily imply monsters, but whatever, she's just accepting things at this point. ]

Nay, I think I'd not last long. You and Lightning must be well-armamented to survive such wilderness.

[voltrounds]

Yeah, we're always improving our equipment. But even then, there are some that we just have to try to avoid.

incinerator

[refusedtoleave]

[Natsuhi's finally left her room and decided to look at the new rooms. She'd only given the incinerator a glance before leaving. Until she's on her way back to the teleport, that's when she notices Ricky.]

You!

[She's over there in a shot, grabbing the girl by the arm and pulling her away.]

Stay away from that!

[voltrounds]

Aah!

[OH SHIT SHE DROPPED ONE OF THE GLITTER REFILLS LOOK OUT]

[refusedtoleave]

[The scream wasn't unexpected. The sparkles everywhere were.

...Eww, it's in her mouth. Just ignore that hacking cough that escapes before she can cover her mouth.]

[voltrounds]

[That's gonna be easy to ignore, since it got in Ricky's mouth too and she's occupied trying to spit it out. It's not working. Hopefully this is non-toxic...]

[refusedtoleave]

[--This is how it ends!--

She's just going to lean against the wall and cough her lungs out.]

Wha-

[Yeah, she's not speaking properly for a while.]

[voltrounds]

[OH GOD IS SHE DYING? IS RICKY BECOMING THE NEXT CULPRIT?]

Miss Ushiromiya! Um... hang in there!

[WHAT CAN SHE DO?!?!?!]

[refusedtoleave]

[And Natsuhi can add another strange death to her tally.





After a few more coughs,she stops. The waves her hand, tossing some of the glitter. The rest sticks to her hand.

...

Okay then. This is her life now.]

[voltrounds]

[If she wants an idea of how she looks, she can just look at Ricky. Her hair is sparkly now. So is her face.]

Sorry about that. [--wait.] But what were you doing?

[refusedtoleave]

Don't play near-- [When does the coughing end? She can't even wipe the tears out of her eyes.]

Don't play near that!

[voltrounds]

I wasn't playing. [Honestly, you think she's going to act like a little kid, just because she looks like one and kind of does act like one?] I was trying to set up a glitter trap for anyone who tried to use it.

[refusedtoleave]

[She's had enough teenage maids to know what teens are like. Still can't talk to them]

...I see. You'd better do that to the compactor downstairs as well.

[voltrounds]

Yeah. If I can get it to work.

[Which isn't even a remotely sure thing.]