WEEK 3

[bathymetric]

Well, the tail end of Week 2 could have gone better. That's the first thing to note.

The second thing is... hang on, should it be Week 3 yet? You've all gone to sleep (or... not, in the case of anyone who doesn't), but when you wake up (and you do all wake up), the calendar and clock on your device informs you that it's Sunday. In-character, all characters explicitly have absolutely no memory of Saturday.

Your sense of time isn't the only thing that's changed - a new branch of the facility has opened and become active overnight, giving you new resources and places to investigate, should you so choose. There's also a new channel on the television, though whether it's an improvement over the last one is questionable.

Otherwise, though, things have mostly settled into normalcy again, or at close to normal as you can find in this place. How long that peace will last, though... that's becoming increasingly uncertain, moving forward.



SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[ ooc: Welcome to Week 3! Turn in last week's AC over here, and regains remain over this way! And for the sake of consistency, Angel's office hours remain over yonder! ]

Comments

[fivestagegod]

My employer had a lot of them. They were something of a project of his; he had a favorite and everything. I could never tell them apart reliably, though; I'd just go help him with them once in a while. Either running tests or just observing them for a while. It was pretty calm, actually, even if I guess most people would consider it sort of gross.

[lovelikeyou]

Humans think so many things are gross. I've never really understood that. Everything on Earth is marvelous in its own way!

[Rose would probably learn to tell the leeches apart.]

[fivestagegod]

To be fair, I think infectious diseases are fascinating, and I've built my whole career around them. So I get where you're coming from, at least.

[lovelikeyou]

I've always just healed people with my tears.

[because you're studying diseases to be able to cure them, right]

But it's probably better to understand things like that.

[fivestagegod]

I don't know if I'd say it's better - if we had some way to solve the problems of the world through magic and tears, we'd definitely use that. Unfortunately, I've got to do it all by hand. My life's work actually revolves around altering and enhancing humans' natural healing abilities - ensuring that we can repair parts of their bodies that would normally have to be removed or would otherwise no longer work due to injury, or fight off illnesses that we can't isolate well enough to create a cure for.

[so like...actually and literally, yeah.]

It's rewarding, figuring out things like that. I've always thought so.

[lovelikeyou]

But I'm the only person who can do that. And now that my powers are gone, I'm useless. At least if I knew a little more about healing like humans do, I could still do something.

[Not that William's methods are incredibly pertinent here, but it feels different.]

[fivestagegod]

...I don't think you're useless, Rose.

[Just saying?]

You're not able to do stuff the way you normally would, sure. But your morale is great and you seem to like everyone and everything, which is definitely something we could use more of in this sort of situation, you know?

[lovelikeyou]

[> her morale is good

> well better keep on keeping that one up forever]

...right. Of course. Thank you for saying so.

[fivestagegod]

[...i mean

mood, albeit for different reasons]

Don't mention it. We're going to make it through this one way or another, I'm sure.

[lovelikeyou]

[Rose smiles.]

I'm sure we will, too.