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]

...well, don't tell anyone until I can catch him. All his powers are from Gem energy, so if I can't use mine...

[Her hopes aren't high and she doesn't want to get everyone else's up!]

[bolderfell]

All right. But... might keep some from doing anything too hasty, too. Knowing there's another way out, I mean, if we can just get past whatever the Professor did to us.

[lovelikeyou]

...maybe.

[That's a point she hadn't considered.]

Well, do whatever you think is best.

[bolderfell]

It'd make a lot more sense coming from you. Probably sound more trustworthy, too.

[lovelikeyou]

I suppose. I'll just tell a few people, maybe.

[not jasper]

[bolderfell]

So... how did you tame a lion, anyway?

[lovelikeyou]

Oh, I've known him since he was little. His pride lives in a desert I visit sometimes.

[bolderfell]

Ah. So you got him used to your scent and all that.

[lovelikeyou]

I guess so? We've spent a lot of time together.

[bolderfell]

The other lions... let you?

[lovelikeyou]

I know them, too. He's just the one I'm closest with.

[considering, well]

[bolderfell]

Guess you two are something of a matching set.

[Maybe lions are just pink on Rose's Earth, he doesn't know.]

And I guess you wouldn't have anything to fear from even a pack of them. Must be nice.

[lovelikeyou]

I think they can tell I'm just made of light.

[Not like she'd smell like a human and/or flesh being.]

I usually get along well with animals, anyway.

[bolderfell]

Hmm.

[Easy enough to accept. Plenty of people like that, especially around here, it seems.]

So are you made of starlight?

[lovelikeyou]

Just - just regular light, really.

[That seems to have thrown her off for a second, before she realizes:]

I think the title is because of this. [She gestures at the star-shaped cutout in her dress.] The star was the emblem of the Crystal Gems. We all wear one.

[bolderfell]

Huh. Like a coat of arms.

[You know, no one's actually explained this to him yet.]

The Crystal Gems are different from other Gems?

[lovelikeyou]

We're...rebels against Homeworld.

[she's actually a little surprised he hasn't heard Jasper shout about this?]

[bolderfell]

[He's heard about Diamonds and shattering and how stupid and soft Rose is, but people don't typically offer glossaries of key words in their conversations with him. Least of all Jasper.]

That's the only distinction, huh?

[lovelikeyou]

I guess. We aren't any different physically, if that's what you mean.

[well, maybe she should go more basic then?]

I started a rebellion to save the Earth, and its life, and all the Gems Homeworld casts aside.

[bolderfell]

...And yourself? You were cast aside, too?

[lovelikeyou]

...no. Not until I started trying to protect Earth.

[bolderfell]

Wait. Then why would you? You just... for people you didn't even know?

[Why are so many of you LIKE this?]

[lovelikeyou]

I couldn't just let everything on Earth die.

[She sounds more firm than surprised. By now, she's already met a couple organic people who are nonetheless weirdly willing to stan for the Diamonds and their destruction of Earth, so it's not really a shock to be questioned anymore.]

[bolderfell]

[He's not gonna stan the Diamonds, he just--how do people just own up to unselfish motivations?]

But Earth wasn't even your world. Why... What did you think you owed them?

[lovelikeyou]

They...they were alive. They deserved to go on living, not just be destroyed because Gems don't care about anything else.

[is that the same thing as owing?]