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]

...Oh, the whole...thing with Rose. Yeah, she told me about that.

[hardnosed]

That thing she's responsible for was the most catastrophic failure in the history of Gemkind. But you can't see her pulling this kind of stunt, can you?

[fivestagegod]

This doesn't really seem her style, no. Don't get me wrong, if you say what she did was a screwup then I believe you. But this specific thing I'd have a harder time believing.

[hardnosed]

Because it's not. She's a war criminal, but there was still some honor in the war she started. She was honest about the twisted things she wanted. She fought well.

[ yeah, the extremely twisted cause of "not wanting the earth to die" that we all revile so much ]

This is all... remote. Cowardly. And if there's any purpose in it, he's keeping it to himself.

[fivestagegod]

That's the problem with humans not having any sort of defined purpose, I guess. Some of us figure one out for ourselves and we're reasonable people about it. Others decide their sole purpose in life is to mess with people.

Bluntly put, sometimes humans just suck.

[hardnosed]

No wonder your lives are so short. It sounds like chaos.

[fivestagegod]

Sure. We're also just comparatively short-lived, but we definitely don't help our own chances.

[hardnosed]

[ Oh, hey, that reminds her... ]

What is your life expectancy, anyway?

[ She's never had to interact with humans at length before, and most of what she's seen from them was in the middle of a war, which tends to skew matters. In general, she just doesn't question it. But two weeks in, especially after Della explained children to her, it's finally starting to sink in that maybe someone with a listed age of 45 shouldn't look older than someone who's 99. ]

[fivestagegod]

On average? Around eighty years or so. Why?

[hardnosed]

Just curious about something.

Anyway. If the day we lost wasn't because of the new areas, what was it?