WEEK 5

[bathymetric]

That's three murders now - and this last trial got more than slightly out of hand. It looks like you might be in for another tough week... or at least, maybe that's just the refusal of this place to change too much. You lose Saturday again, but maybe six-day weeks are starting to feel normal by now. Who knows? The cycle of day and night continues apace, changing so little.

Speaking of change, though, there's a new area to look through, the biggest and most complex yet. And the end of one wing of the facility, from the looks of it - though you can probably guess where more areas might start to open up.

And speaking of opening up (segues!), this week if you're out particularly late, you might sometimes see Angel out and about! So hey, maybe change is on the horizon.

Just gotta hope it's a change for the better, don't you?



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[ ooc: Welcome to Week 5! 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! Or, if you want Angel to come to you, that's now an option! Simply put a prompt after lights-out into your toplevel and indicate you want Angel in the subject line, same as investigations! ]

Comments

[lovelikeyou]

No, not at all. Gems have dabbled in time-travel technology a little, but it never went anywhere that I know of - I guess maybe it was too risky.

[And too costly; of course she did hear some things. There's old hourglasses stored away on Earth. But disrupting time was impossible according to the Sapphires, and strangely the test runs against the Rebellion never seemed to work!]

I'm sure they haven't advanced in that since, or I'd have been shattered thousands of years ago.

[mouflon]

Yeah, that's not really the same thing. Parallel worlds are timelines that have branched off from one another on their own. So, say, maybe there's a version of your world where Gems have mastered time travel technology, and exactly that happened. That kind of stuff.

[ Of course, doing that itself might create a new timeline rather than just altering the one it occurred in... Well, whatever, they don't need to think about that. ]

[lovelikeyou]

Oh. That's interesting.

[Bit of a rough example there, but she gets it .It sounds like a story.]

[mouflon]

[ Look, it... It was what they were talking about, so. ]

It just makes me wonder if your relationship to Jasper isn't something like that, if what she says seems so weird to you. You're thousands of years old, how much could change in a decade and a half?

[lovelikeyou]

Do you really think so?

[That's not a thought she'd considered.]

I...I had thought it seemed like too little time. She said she saw me fuse with a human. That isn't even possible - I've had thousands of years to try.

[mouflon]

Like I said before, you'd obviously know more than I would. But it's what came to mind, given that it seems like you two are out-of-sync somehow. [ Other than the obvious ways. ] So, either you managed some kind of huge breakthrough in that time, or...

[lovelikeyou]

Right...

[Rose nods thoughtfully. That's definitely something to think about; of course she'd still investigate all the Cluster stuff, when she gets home, but it's nice to maybe have a little hope that Jasper and whatever team she was with won't be incoming.]

That's an interesting thought. Thank you for telling me.

[mouflon]

H-hey, no problem, right? The idea just popped into my head, and it's no skin off my back to pass it along.