WEEK 4

[bathymetric]

Another trial, another week, and still you're probably running lower on answers than you'd like. And on people - you lost three since last Sunday. By the end of this week, you'll have been here for nearly a full month, yet still the days crawl on.

You wake up Sunday, again with no memory of Saturday, but this time with a simple message on your devices: You may resume requesting items, if you like. Enjoy. Guess it really was just a stealth motive after all, but at least it's being communicated that it's over! That's something, at least.

And when you leave your rooms on Sunday, there's another new area to explore! This one is... certainly more ambitious in its construction than the last one, to say the least. But hey, you have a pretty neat place to host parties, if you feel so inclined! That's... fun...

Hey, you gotta find the fun in situations like this where you can! Silver linings, right?



SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[ ooc: Welcome to Week 4! Remember to turn in AC here, threads for regain coins here, and if you feel so inclined you can visit Angel's office hours over here! ]

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[bolderfell]

[In lieu of popcorn, Therion takes a nibble of the donut as she vents.]

If it's food, I don't mind taking it off your hands for good. Promise you'll never see it again.

[nothingcanstop]

[ Finally, it seems, she returns to the world of verbal communication and grumbles: ] I never, neeeever want to see this stupid, life-saving gum ever again.

[ ...has anyone explained to therion what gum is. ]

[bolderfell]

[Nopers. He draws it away from her anyway to inspect it once more.]

"Life-saving"?

[nothingcanstop]

[ Della heaves a very mighty sigh. ] Ugh! Yeah, it's... You chew it, and you keep chewing it, and woohoo! Everything you need to survive! You've got food, water, and oxygen, all there!

[ But she sounds still very affronted. ]

And the taste never runs out. Neeeevvver.

[bolderfell]

[His eyebrows rise higher and higher.]

...For how long? Does it keep you fed, I mean.

[Flavor is irrelevant.]

[nothingcanstop]

Oh, as long as you're chewing the damn thing.

[bolderfell]

--!

[Fuck putting these back in the wastebasket. Therion shoves the box directly into his shirt. Oxy-chew is just as valuable as the dragonstone, if not more.]

[nothingcanstop]

...Wow. Holding on to it, huh. You can take it. Any you see!

[bolderfell]

[!!!]

That a promise?

[nothingcanstop]

[ Even with her intense dislike of this whole situation, she does notice his excitement. It's honestly a bit adorable? ]

Ye- yes, yes. I don't want it, I don't need it. I'll stick to actual-real-food, water, and oxygen, thank you very much.

[bolderfell]

Don't know what that oxy-stuff is, but it has to beat scrounging for dinner any day.

[nothingcanstop]

[ He doesn't....... ]

...Therion, that's the stuff you breathe. The stuff that makes sure you can live.

[bolderfell]

Oh. Air? I know what that is.

[nothingcanstop]

Yes, air. But it's the- oh, jeez, I was never good at this stuff, it's the part of the air that's good for you. Without the...smoke or all the bad particles. Putting that in the stupid gum is why it was made.

[bolderfell]

There are bad things in air? Just... normal air?

[nothingcanstop]

It's... There's some kind of breakdown of it, look, full disclosure this isn't my specialty. All you gotta know is oxygen good, no oxygen bad.

[bolderfell]

...Right...

[Too bad his scholar friend back home never simplified things for him like this.]

So, let me get this straight. This would also keep me from drowning? Or suffocating?

[nothingcanstop]

Yerp. That's the primary purpose. ...The suffocating part, specifically, you'd need to have like...a helmet, 'cause if you don't the water's still gonna get in your mouth.

[bolderfell]

[His eyes are practically shining as he imagines the possibilities. The heists he could pull with this chewing gum and a big enough box...]

If you brought something like this to Orsterra... I'm no merchant, but it's easily worth ten or twenty times its weight in gold.

[nothingcanstop]

[ Briefly thinking of ethical- ah, fuck it, whatever. ]

Listen. Dr. Gearloose can just make this stuff. I'm not hurting for Oxy-Chew. Take it.

[bolderfell]

Already did.