Week 7

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Week 7

[Seven weeks. Seven weeks of friendship and death and bonds between total strangers forming, bending, breaking, and mending. As of Friday the experiment has officially ended as it crowned it's Ultimate Champion, albeit with quite a few more hangers on than the mysterious EP or the Benefactors anticipated. However all of their PIPs are still active and there have been no attempts on their lives from CECE over the weekend.

There are no announcements on Monday.

The surviving Champions (including Xander, the Ultimate Paladin) awaken on Monday they'll find have regained the remainder of their memories from the ones they've lost.

Welcome to the end, Champions.]

Monday Tuesday


[ooc: welcome to the final week, everyone! There is no AC this week but please make sure you read and comment on the endgame announcement if you haven't already. At this point in the game everyone should be at their true canon point if they weren't already. Hold onto your butts, kids, it's gonna be a bumpy ride out.]

Comments

[kingshaming]

Gods... Jane, were you run right through?!

[he takes a deep breath]

I've seen wounds like this before- VERY much like this. The thinness in fact recalls a Hoshidan silver sword or something similar. Just below the breast... well, it is POSSIBLE it could have gone straight through with nothing but blood loss. Assuming it avoided lungs and spine. Your heart should be too far up from the looks of this. But it would hit the path to your gut almost for sure, which could go quickly foul.

Survivable with immediate healing... but that is far from assured. I'm sorry- all I can say is it might not have been instant.

[cyan_maid]

I-

[Her throat feels dry all of a sudden. The pain. The blackness. The nothing, it all rushes back.]

I don't...know. I was knocked out, and then...made to move around in my sleep, I think...and then there was pain, right there, and I never even thought that I might've been - not even when Ricky saw my back, because - it's not demanding of your attention, right? And there's been nothing but chaos in this place, so I didn't - but then I wake up today, and...and it's all there, in my head. Everything. If...if this is what I think it is...[She breathes deep, shuddering, pulling her shirt back down with a little more force than necessary.] Then it stuck. At that point, I...had done too much wrong to be allowed another chance.

[It's remarkable that she can say that and only have her voice crack at the end.]

[kingshaming]

[Oh Jane... He puts his hands on her shoulders]

Still, somehow beyond all reason you are alive now.

[cyan_maid]

[She's breathing really hard. It. Would explain a lot of things, if it's the case - why the Batterwitch isn't coming. Why her friends never turned up to save her.]

...So are you.

[kingshaming]

I am... I remembered the rest last night as well. It is done.

[He pats his belly in a way that would be almost affectionate in a strange way. He's accepted it]

But we're both alive, and so there are things we can still do.

[cyan_maid]

[At least he's had time to prepare himself, come to terms with it. Jane...hadn't known what to think. She's been scared of dying here more than focusing on if she survived at home. It'd been a given to her, even when she'd decided she couldn't go back if all it would do is put her friends in peril.]

...Yeah. I'm just...rattled. And...a little bitter, I think. I couldn't even control myself at the end, I was just...that witch's mouthpiece. [She shakes her head.] But I did some truly terrible things and I was aware of everything. That's what made it Just.

[kingshaming]

[He rubs her back firmly, just Being there]

... if nothing else, with the Doctor's and Yurika's ships... we could always go and blast her a bit, if that would help?

[...he might be joking to lighten the mood. He MIGHT be legit suggesting they go fight the Condesce herself.]

[cyan_maid]

[This is unfortunately a time where Jane is taking such an offer seriously. She shakes her head.]

I'm not letting a single one of you step foot into the Medium if I can help it - she can rot while her plans lay around her in the shapes of dead teenagers.

[She's not going back. She's not giving the Condesce any chance at success. Jane is holding herself hostage.]

[kingshaming]

Very well. Then we will go as far away as needed. Between this place and the Doctor's knowledge there is no limit- where we can never be found again, if that's what's needed.

[cyan_maid]

...Thank you.

[She hugs him, suddenly - very tightly too. Sorry Xander she is all about the hugs where she doesn't let any of you go.]

[kingshaming]

[He doesn't mind it, and gives her a careful squeeze back]

[cyan_maid]

[Damn Xander, you really are a great dad.

After a moment she lets go, eyes a bit damp, but she's not crying. Strangely enough, she's smiling.]

Really. Thank you...I. I hadn't thought I'd get a chance to ask you about it until later, when...more people were around. And, I didn't want to do that.

[It's hard enough telling one person about it.]