Week 2

[airlockedmods]

[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!]

Comments

[cameupshort]

...It's not going to hurt the brewer, is it? Do we need to switch it off or something?

[Please tell him the coffee maker isn't about to explode.]

[nojohnyouare]

Probably not. I don't know.

[cameupshort]

....shit.

[Yeah, he's just gonna sort of leap over and yank the power cord out of the wall. Hopefully THAT won't damage anything either.]

Okay, okay- it's... stopped? I think.

[Very hesitantly eyeballing the brewer, ready to dive for cover if it starts sparking or something.]

[nojohnyouare]

It's safe. ...There are directions.

[cameupshort]

Yeah, I was- I was TRYING to follow them.

[There was an attempt.]

[And he's just going to dump out the pot of vaguely-bean-flavored water before flipping up the brewer's lid to examine the filter and basket. And the steamed coffee beans within.]

...These are probably no good now, right.

[nojohnyouare]

...Probably. I don't know.

[cameupshort]

Well, that's two of us. ...I'm going to dump them, just to be safe.

[And gingerly taking the beans and soaked filter and dumping them into the trash, before picking up the grinder Mai indicated and beginning to read over the directions.]

This is probably all familiar to you already, right?

[nojohnyouare]

We just use instant. It's pre-ground.

[cameupshort]

[>instant
>preground
>aka reconstituted
>aka first order rations]

...I think I'll try using the fresh beans.

[nojohnyouare]

[nod] You must like coffee.

[cameupshort]

...It's something familiar, I guess.

[Coffee is a universal constant.]

[nojohnyouare]

They grow it in space?

[cameupshort]

Uh- they grow it on other planets, if that's what you mean.

[nojohnyouare]

I thought every planet would have different things.

[cameupshort]

It's not native everywhere it's grown, no. It'd be imported by traders and colonists- I don't know how long ago.

But it's grown in lots of places, now.

[nojohnyouare]

...I wonder how close we are to any of those.

[cameupshort]

Pretty far, if Kip's telling the truth. He says we're not even in the same galaxy as I'm from.