unknownseas | WEEK 1

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WEEK 1

Well, you've now met the brains of the operation, as well as the shockingly nice-looking young lady in charge of day-to-day business. Now all that's left is to get used to your accommodations - there's 24 other people in similar shoes to yours to meet in this building, you know! And who knows how much longer you might have them...

The daily routine in the facility quickly becomes obvious - the only way to tell time moment to moment is to check the strange device The Professor gave you, but at the same time every day the lights in and out of the facility go up, and at the same time every night they go down. Otherwise, it's almost maddening sometimes, how little happens in here. At least you have a few rooms with enough to hopefully keep you occupied. Who knows what secrets they might hold? And there's always that vending machine, if you can find something that fits in the coin slot...

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[ ooc: Welcome to Peace Week! Enjoy it while it lasts. Remember, office hours for The Professor's Assistant are over here if you're interested, while regains can be deposited over here! ]

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[Lif can't honestly just live in the library all day today, so it's what sees him out and about later into the evening trying to find something to do. He knows he can't just...avoid the horrible hell machines forever, so he is at least going to make one more honest attempt to deal with them and--

...Well, hi there. Lif just kind of blinks once, twice, before just kind of entering the room and looking over to Birkin.]

Found anything interesting out, or is this just a quiet place to write?

[Oh, hey Lif.]

It's one of those places people don't usually go unless they have to, and even then they usually just set things up and leave for a while. It's a good place to do things if you don't mind the machines.

[So yeah, just a quiet place to write, pretty much.]

How has this place been treating you?

[...You know, in hindsight it makes more sense that one would simply get out of the room while they were doing their laundry in one of these machines. Lif offers a brief glare to one of the machines before simply shaking his head.]

I suppose I can understand that. It's a sensible place for some privacy, outside of the rooms we've been given.

[Which...honestly, he'd rather be anywhere but, really, but that's neither here nor there. The question gets Lif to focus back on Birkin.]

Better than I've been expecting, really. The library has quite a bit of fascinating material; I've mostly been passing the time in there and reading all of the offerings on display. It's something I haven't had the opportunity to do in a long time.

[Oh, that's a mood, regarding the rooms. Why do you think he's not in there himself, my dude.]

I imagine the nature of the world itself is giving you a lot to catch up on. You don't seem exactly like you're from the same time as a few of us.

It certainly is. There's been much that I've been able to learn here, from new ways to have been able to lead life before, to entirely new concepts that would have been entirely foreign where I came from.

[Still, that does bring an excellent question to mind.]

I'm certain that not all of you come from the same year, however, but...exactly what year is it, where you're from?

[Lif would love a good baseline of just. How many years apart he is from some of these people, because even if Heroes doesn't give us a concrete year to go off of, it must be many years into the future.]

[That's a valid point, really.]

...It's 1998. September 30th, if that means anything to you.

[...

You know, it's very hard to get Lif to emote particularly hard. He thought he'd actually worked all of that out of his system after, you know, the whole deal with Hel, but here his eyes are explicitly wide and he has to cover his mouth (and mask) to make himself not sputter in response.]

Well.

[...Give him a second to get his cool back, he's an edgelord, he has a brand to maintain--]

I certainly wasn't expecting a near millenia difference in year, but I suppose that would explain quite a bit.

This place is even more advanced than the one I came from, too, though advancements are accelerating at a rate that makes gauging time between them difficult. I know I'm technologically behind, but I don't know by how much.

That's...

[Gods, that's kind of incredible and kind of weird at the same time--people have managed to progress this much in a millennia, and now they're making even more progress? It's almost too much to take in, really.]

I'm not altogether certain whether to call this incredible, or some kind of mockery of what people are capable of. The same mind that built a place like this could be doing something far better with it...

[...]

I suppose that makes us both fish out of water, in a sense.

[...even though we're...deep in the ocean...look, he wasn't intending that to be a joke, okay.]

...That was a terrible pun and I commend you for it.

[holy shit lif i'm so sorry]

Unfortunately, I won't know how far removed this world is from my own until I see more of it. I don't know if I'll get the chance to see the rest, granted, but I'll admit I'm morbidly curious.

[...You know, it says something about Lif that he's a few seconds slow on the uptake, because he turns to Birkin and then it hits him, and he winds up turning away so he can acquaint his face with his palm, groaning in response.]

Gods above--you know what I mean.

[Anyway.]

Let's--simply hope that we manage to. I can't imagine we'll be locked out of the rest of this building forever, at any rate. It all depends on how the Professor intends to let us see what's beyond them.

I don't suspect he's going to make it easy for us.

Probably not. He did say we have to meet certain conditions first and all.

[HE CAN JUST GUESS AT WHAT THOSE CONDITIONS ARE.]

But even beyond the building itself - I want to know what the outside is like. Probably a mess, if it created someone like that guy to begin with, but still.

[...Yeah, you're not the only one, honestly.]

I wouldn't be surprised. If this man was able to get an experiment like this off the ground, it's likely corrupt beyond all belief at best. At worst...

Well, there could be a reason that this is taking place down here, rather than on land itself. But that's just conjecture, and a worst case scenario at that.

I'll admit that was my first thought, but it's likely obvious why that is.

[Says the man from the world with zombies everywhere.]

[He was trying to be a touch more optimistic, but honestly...yeah.]

I can understand why, all things considered. I can't say I'll be surprised if that is actually the case. It'd certainly make a little too much sense.

Even where I'm from, it's not nearly that bad. The spread started in a pretty remote area, so we're doing what we can to contain it for the time being. Trying to keep it from getting too out of hand. It's just difficult given the circumstances.

[Unkillable things be like that.]

I'm not really wishing ruin on this guy's world or anything, but I won't be surprised if it's not great out there. I guess I'll have to wait and see.

I suppose we will.

[...]

Hopefully your world is able to keep on top of things while you're gone, for however long he intends to keep us here.

[...Sir.]

It'll be fine. It's not like I'm on the front lines of it or anything; they'll figure stuff out if I'm gone for a while.

[...Oh, that. Actually makes a little more sense, and Lif turns away at that.]

My mistake, then. I had thought otherwise, but I suppose this war that you're fighting is something different than I thought it would be.

[It certainly seems like someone in his field would be pretty important to dealing with that stuff, at the very least.]

[Yeah, it's...Complicated.]

I'm pretty important to a lot of things, but... Trust me, it'll be fine if I'm not there right now.

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