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

[misanthropicprinciple]

On a giant... super-ostrich.

[Hehe. Hehehehe.

Junpei covers his mouth as he laughs, but it's still pretty loud. At least it's not mean-spirited, though. It's just such a funny image.]

No Air Force One, huh?

[scourgingstars]

What's so funny about that? Chocobos are perfectly dignified creatures, I'll have you know.

[what the hell is an air force one]

They also vary wildly in color; yellow is the most common. My Philomela is black, and my retainer's Sialia is dark blue.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Mmm. Do the colors have different meanings? Or, I dunno, is it like dogs, where different breeds have different temperaments?

[scourgingstars]

Not that I'm aware of. I'm no expert, so I believe they're simply different colors for no real reason.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Like lovebirds, then.

[Sure, Junpei. Enormous, warking lovebirds.]

They sound cute.

[scourgingstars]

They're charming in their own way. Affable creatures, and faster than they look.

[he loves his chocobo okay]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Maybe they'll send us some through the dumbwaiters. We can race in the garden.

[He's kidding. ...He's probably kidding.]

[scourgingstars]

I'd be more tempted to bet on who would fall off of one first.

[is it church]

[(it's church)]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Church.

[Mm-hm.]

...Or Rhys. But Church would be louder.

[scourgingstars]

I'd give Rhys the slightest edge in that regard, he's less likely to annoy one enough to throw him off.

[misanthropicprinciple]

He doesn't strike me as the type who's good with animals, though. Like... has he ever been outside?

[scourgingstars]

...He must have been, right?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Ehhh, you never know with those hacker types.

[scourgingstars]

...I am about to ask a question I know is idiotic, so make the slightest attempt not to laugh outright.

What does that actually mean?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Wait. All that with PAL and nobody explained the computer thing to you yet?

[scourgingstars]

...It is possible I may not have asked.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Uh... okay. I guess I'm not too buzzed to explain this. I'm gonna take it from the top.

Computers are highly advanced machines that, in my time, people rely on heavily for everyday things like work, communication, streamlining traffic, just about everything. It's not really important to understand how they work--like I don't need to understand magic to accept some people here have it. Fair?

[scourgingstars]

Clear enough, yes.

[he still doesn't 100% get cameras yet, but he'll go along with it]

[misanthropicprinciple]

A hacker is someone who can, uh... I guess sort of "break into" computers and manipulate their inner workings to get information, or do something they weren't originally intended to do, so on. Like... if you changed the wording of a contract so that it did something else. The computer's bound by the contract, even though it's been tampered with.

[scourgingstars]

...So theoretically he should be capable of altering our dear murderous disembodied voice. Is that the end of this particular line of thought?

[misanthropicprinciple]

If he could get at its code, yeah. If PAL were stupid enough to give him access, anyway.

[scourgingstars]

So all that we have to do is be fortunate enough that it would show a blatant and glaring weakness. Delightful.

[SIGH]

[misanthropicprinciple]

...You think it's really the one who took over, or...?

[scourgingstars]

The only options I've heard presented are that or the idea that someone else is controlling it. Clearly, I lack the knowledge to determine which is more likely.

[misanthropicprinciple]

It's not a question you have to be a computer expert to answer.

[After all, Junpei sure isn't. He rubs the back of his head and crosses his arms.]

Who benefits most from this turn of events?