theairlock | week 1

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!round 2,
!week 1

week 1

Week 1

[With the introduction to the relationship experiment and their overseeing hosts done with, the Champions are left to their own devices to explore the first floor of the mansion as they please. Cece and Kip will pop-up every once in a while to chit-chat but for the most part they're somewhere inaccessible.

Each morning the Champions are awakened promptly at 7 am by PAL's even, almost laid back voice announcing the time and each evening at 10 pm to announce when the kitchen is closing for the night. Unlike the Overseers, he doesn't seem to be one much for conversation.

Enjoy your week, Champions.]

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

[ooc: welcome to week 1, everyone! This first week is a peace week which means there will be no murder this weekend! Feel free to start submitting threads for the benefactors]

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...Yeah. That's what I think, too.

[Junpei's seen it. He knows the monstrosities humans are capable of.]

What worries me is the way they've phrased rule one. Specifically, the addition to it. "The purpose of the experiment is to explore the bonds and loyalty that form between participants in high-stress environments."

[He taps the mahogany table.]

Does this seem high-stress to you so far?

[ Plenty of ways to make people fight to the death back home, some of it is even run by the yakuza, duh. ]

I've seen high-stress, and this sure as shit ain't it.

[ He shrugs. They've got food and nice beds and showers, things aren't even that bad, even if his roommate is a literal demon. ]

They're settin' us up ta get used to this shit. One of these days, the other shoe's gonna drop and we'll be on a fast track ta hell in a hand basket.

It's as if...

[If Nishitani's latched onto the entertainment aspect of their situation, Junpei's stuck on the experiment.]

They're so sure people form bonds under pressure. But from what I've seen of humanity... that only happens five, ten percent of the time. If they were to run this program ten times, it'd fail at least nine.

[Is that peer-reviewed science, Junpei? Well, whatever.]

You don't expend this much money and effort on anything with a low chance of success. If it was just entertainment, that's one thing; but they called it an experiment. So... what are they going to do to us to get the results they want?

[ We stick to what we know, what can ya do. ]

Well, they sure seem ta know what they're doin', judging by how they called this a season. Means it's serialized, yeah?

Maybe they won't air the other nine, or maybe they found some fool-proof way of makin' us all chummy with each other. If I had ta guess, all they need to do for that is find somebody everyone hates and bam, everybody's friendly.

[ He's been that bad guy plenty of times and killed a lot of people. He knows. ]

Someone like, say, a killer.

[That's fair, and Junpei nods, but when he thinks of someone everyone here hates:]

...Or like the host.

[Smarmy smiling hypocritical two-tone bastard.]

Do any of us like Larimer?

[ Nishitani nods. It's as good a theory as any. He's sure not Larimer's fan, considering his stupid fucking door. ]

Well, he's hot. That means idiots'll wanna trust 'im.

Is... he?

[Junpei hasn't noticed.]

[ Junpei, you useless heterosexual. ]

Shit, yeah! He's got a great voice, nice hair... he ain't my type but he's not bad on the eyes neither.

[Hey now, no need for name-calling. Just saying, Kip's no sexy firefighter.]

He definitely wants us to trust him, too. Are people really that dumb, though--ah. Well. ...Not counting Arianna.

[ Fair, I guess, we can't all be as horny as Nishitani. Nor should we want to. ]

Yeah, I ain't surprised. People are generally pretty fuckin' dumb.

Just as likely, someone's gonna make friends with Larimer and he'll start handin' out bribes and pretty soon everybody who ain't friends with him is a bad guy. I know how ta play that game, see.

Ugh. Factions are such a pain. When everyone thinks someone's such a great guy... fuck.

[Blarrgghh. Stupid nice-guy charismatic leaders.]

We're in a weak enough position already. We don't need doe-eyed devotees splitting us up over a sleazeball.

Edited 2017-05-18 22:29 (UTC)