Week 2

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[Other than the reappearance of the Overseer, there's no real change in the routine. PAL still makes the morning and night time announcements through the PIP on each Champion's arm, and still the Champion unitards are freshly laundered and re-hung each morning in their closets.

No other floors unlock, but Cece and Kip will still be appearing randomly to chit-chat.

All you know is... something has to change soon.]

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 1 and submit your threads for the Benefactors!]

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Re: MOTIVE: All Aboard the Hot Mess Express

[getgood]

[This is so extreme it has to be staged. It's the first challenge that every game has to have, and she's shocked it took this long to happen. This doesn't stop her from being shocked in the moment, unsure whether to chase Cece and Kip or shout at this crazy AI. She doesn't have enough time for either.]

Don't listen to this bullshit, guys! [It's fine if they censor her at this point.]

[cameupshort]

I don't think it's bullshit- I mean, it IS, but not because it's fake or anything-

[getgood]

I don't care if it's fake or not! It's part of the game! They want to see if we'll really do it.

[cameupshort]

This isn't a game.

[Or if it is, it's a super fucked up game that not even the First Order would dream up.]

[Well. Probably not.]

[getgood]

It is. It's all a big mind game! It doesn't have to get fatal.

[cameupshort]

They're the ones calling it a game. Us treating it like one is going to get people killed.

[getgood]

Why are you guys giving it any power? This is all about us. If we turn this into a bloodbath it'll become one, they can't make us.

[cameupshort]

I trust everyone here. But we still have to take any possible threats seriously.

...I don't want to lose anyone here.

[getgood]

And if we all start freaking out, we're gonna start losing people!

[cameupshort]

...we can take things seriously without panicking.

[getgood]

If people start acting like it's real, we'll start to get suspicious. When you get people all locked up together and suspicious, it only takes one person!

[cameupshort]

People are already acting like it's real. I don't believe anyone here will do anything, but we have to be prepared in case I'm wrong.

CW: Abuse also I'm sorry Lee

[desperateprayer]

Do you still think this is some game!? That we're all acting and we weren't kidnapped to kill each other!? Do you think we were all given parts in some play!? This is real! Treat it like it's not and you put your life on the line!

[ Clarith's voice is loud and shrill, and she's clearly distressed. It's also loud enough everyone's going to hear just how awful her life was. ]

I didn't survive my childhood, didn't survive having rocks thrown at me and being threatened with being burned alive for daring to exist, just for someone whose main worry was what they wanted to wear that day to tell me it wasn't real!

[everylittlesecret]

[Well shit. That. Clarith, hope you don't mind Nari coming up to you really slowly and taking your hand. Lowering her voice enough so that someone has to be right there with them to hear]

Hey, hey. Come on. Don't let someone delusional like that make you lose your calm, okay? She's not worth the anger.

[Just going to gently pull the other woman into a hug now, like Queenie did with her.] I know what it's like to be hated for being alive, too, okay?

[desperateprayer]

[ Clarith is... Very tense. But then, the only person who's hugged her at this point is Mikaela and a few people here. So this is... Odd. But she is calming down. She's a very upset person, and it's pretty obvious now just how much bitterness she's constantly holding in. She'll just... Breathe and nod quietly. ]

[everylittlesecret]

How about later, if you need to, you can come to my room and we can talk? Or you can talk, and I'll just listen. Keeping things like that in isn't healthy.

[Says the person who hates talking about herself and tries to reveal as little as possible.] You're not alone.

[desperateprayer]

All right.

[ She's... Very tired now. Tired of just... Hiding this all and keeping it in. ]

[everylittlesecret]

Good. Now, I'll let you be the one to let go first, okay? Take your time if you need to cling longer.

[getgood]

I'm trying to help you, okay!? If we start thinking about these new rules, someone's going to try them out! You're the one who told me that games like this were real.

[also this]