theairlock | week 4

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!]

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Alchemy... doesn't usually work like that.

[Light listens and compares that to what she was told.]

I think I like your version better.

[A shrug.] It literally runs on ridiculous video game logic. Very little of Sburb dynamics makes logical sense.

[Jane smiles a little.] It's a very nice little holiday, but I hope we don't stay here long enough to celebrate it in space.

Sburb...?

[Serah would want to make it a thing when Lightning goes back home.] I don't even know the dates.

That's what it's called. It's a video game that enables the players to enter another reality altogether, and within it, you're supposed to be able to create a totally new universe. But our session is a complete mess - a "void" one. We can't do anything but wait around for the real heroes to show up.

[Well it's not like they have a calendar here either.] Christmas Eve is December 24th, and Christmas Day is December 25th.

[....] Sounds... did you at least have fun?

[Looking confused.] December?

No. We were having the complete opposite of fun, honestly.

[Blink.] Yes, December - the last month of the year.

Then why keep playing?

[Still confused.] ... we don't have a month by that name.

Because we're literally stuck there. We can't leave - I shouldn't have been able to come here at all. The only way out is if you win, and we were a long way away from even getting on the right track to that.

[Huh! Well that's less weird than magic, at least.] What are your months, then?

Your world is sounding worse and worse...

[She sighs.] It's complicated. I'm not even sure myself anymore.

Yeah...I've been realizing that the more I remember.

[...Oh no that sucks. Jane frowns.] Well, we'll just have to show you what Christmas is all about so you can bring it back home with you.

Can you fix it?

[Eh. They only had 13 days till the world ended anyways.] I think Serah and the others would love it.

I...I don't know.

[Obviously this means you get to celebrate 13 days of Christmas in a row.] Then I'll have to see if I can tell you all about it! I only know about American Christmas, so it might not be as rich and interesting as if you took a bunch of versions of it to make it your own, but it'll be something.

All you can do it try, right?

[This isn't some weird other-world Hanukkah.] I'll hold you to it, you know.

I know - ooh, we could do something in that holodeck room, right? It'd be perfect! I could make everything just right!

Alright. Then let's do it. [Show her Christmas!]

It's a deal!

Just let me know when.

[Probably Week 6, if they both make it that far.]

Sure!

[Woo! Christmas time! Christmas time! They better make it then.]

Just don't expect any presents.

It'll be a present enough to show it all to you, I promise.

Yurika might want to impose some of her own memories on it. Will you be fine with that?

Mm...I suppose that'd be fine. It would make for a very interesting comparison.

I wonder if you can make a person in the holodeck. All I've managed was people talking.

...Oh, golly, I don't know. But...wow, if I could, I...

[She'd make her Dad. And her friends. All together, on earth, for a nice Christmas. That's like the makings of a gen fluff friendship fic right there.]

I could show everyone Serah, Snow, Vanille and the others...

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