WEEK 1

[bathymetric]

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...





MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY
FRIDAY | SATURDAY

[ 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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[hardnosed]

[ Jasper is not having a good time, and nobody is surprised! It's not that she's never been cooped up in a closed environment, but that's always been transport, and she's always been aware of why she was there. Here, their captivity is purposeless. The only thing that really matters is that Rose Quartz is here, but thanks to the Professor's dampening of her powers she can't even address that properly. It's not even that she doesn't think, with her customary arrogance, that she couldn't demolish her in a fair fight — but to take her out without the grand final showdown she's spent so long envisioning, in another world entirely, at the whim of some human too weak to even show his face? Even victory would leave a bad taste in her mouth. She's restless and irritable and useless right now, and she knows it. So she does what she always does when she feels helpless or angry: she reminds herself of her own physical prowess by taking her pent-up energy out on something else.

In the fitness room it appears she's attempting to lift literally everything she can find inside — not just the weights, but the racks they're on and the various machines too. Everything that proves too heavy earns a furious grunt and some manhandling, plus a dirty look at anyone who catches sight of her failure, and everything she still can manage... well, you might might come in to find a giant pyramid of various heavy junk in the middle of the room. Jasper might be spiking a medicine ball at it. She might be trying and failing to drag a rowing machine across the room with her bare hands. This is fine.

The mysterious pile of coins she finds when she returns to her room are confusing to say the least, and when she comes out into the lounge with them sandwiched in one enormous fist she's more confused than annoyed. It's confusing enough that she'll actually flag down the nearest person to growl: ]

What's the meaning of this?

[ Whenever she gets the memo, she heads on over to the vending machine room to redeem her coins — it's at least something new to do in the midst of all this maddening sameness — and roughly feeds them into the machine one by one. And out comes... what. Literally what is any of this. Whether you explained this to her initially or just happen to be here to get some rewards of your own, she'll have the same reaction to pretty much any of the items that come tumbling out, which is either a what is this? or explain this depending on how weird it is. There are only three exceptions. The rock she simply evaluates and then sets down. The uncut diamond earns a glare and an is this some kind of joke? And the sword, which appears last of all, inspires the incredibly scanlationy— ]

That's...!

[ Jasper's eyes go wide with unguarded shock. She lifts it high, examining the scabbard and the hilt before unsheathing the sword proper to test its edge. The way she handles it, compared to how she roughly cast aside literally everything else, is like night and day. It could be mistaken for reverence; the low, ominous chuckle that comes from her when she slides it back into its sheath decidedly cannot. She takes it (and the rock, and inexplicably the parkour book) back to her room with a surprising amount of quiet before returning to grab the other assorted crap.

Finally, you can find her walking the halls at virtually all times of the night and early morning, as if she's doing rounds. Or maybe she's just pacing, in a rough square, for a really, really, really long time. ]

lounge

[precognit]

[Alice is sitting on one of the sofas out in the lounge looking...perplexed. That's probably the right word. She has a small assortment of items spread on the cushion beside her, and she's frowning. The growling voice catches her attention, though, and she glances up nonchalantly.]

Oh, those. They go in that machine. Hopefully you get something a little more useful out of it than I did...

[why would she need 4000 hours of internet. they're under the ocean.]

[hardnosed]

[ Hold on a sec, Jasper's buffering! ]

Oh. That clunky thing. I was wondering what the point of it was.

[ She would absolutely have stuck her hand in there like Therion, off-camera, if it wasn't probably straight-up too big. Her eyes go to the menagerie of trifles next to Alice on the sofa. ]

This is what you got out of it?

[precognit]

Yes! Normally, a machine like that would have snacks or drinks in it...

[she holds up the bag of gummy fish.]

...which I guess this one does, too, but also just a lot of weird stuff.

[hardnosed]

[ Looks at the gummy fish... looks at the pile of coins in her hand... ]

So you put these circles in and it dispenses junk. [ Well, she's not wrong. But something else occurs to her. ] Did anyone enter my room this morning?

Fitness Room

[drladysounds]

...I guess we'll have a big pile of stuff in the middle of the gym. Nobody's going to move that.

[Hi, Jasper. Nice way of throwing that medicine ball to the pile. You bored?]

[hardnosed]

[ BALL IS LIFE, SHELLEY ]

Tch. [ It's time for the kettlebells!! ] If that's true, you're all even weaker than I thought. Maybe that's what all this is for.

[drladysounds]

Not everyone is blessed with the ability to break a dump truck over your knee, Jasper.

[Is anyone here strong enough to move even one of those things? She's pretty sure there's nobody. Jasper must be the strongest person here]

But what we don't have in strength, we compensate in...agility! Yes, that's right.

[hardnosed]

[ And then Jasper yells THINK FAST and chucks the kettlebell at her—

no, just kidding. She does look moderately unimpressed with this statement, however! ]

Do you? [ Sounds like somebody's bitter she can't do a stupid Sonic speeddash anymore. ] Let's see it.

Vending Machine

[ladygeryon]

[Oh hi Jasper. Nira looks at the scarf for a moment, but it doesn't seem like one of the ones Jake gave her-too dark for that.]

It's a scarf. People wear them around their necks.

[hardnosed]

[ Okay. A scarf. This is information she can absorb and accept. That said: ]

Why.

[ i'm so sorry ]

[ladygeryon]

Well...I don't think anyone needs one down here, since the temperature is fairly controlled. But most humans are bad at regulating their body temperature, so they use stuff like that to keep warm in the winter. It's also why we wear clothes. [Luckily for her, her husband is very warm and good for cuddling in winter.]

[hardnosed]

So you have to keep changing them all the time? [ Absolutely ridiculous. ] Why do you even settle where it's that cold, if you can't survive on your own?

Night

[bolderfell]

[Of all the people he might expect to see patrolling at night, Therion isn't expecting Jasper. As he lets himself out of Room 24 and sees her, he jumps and shrinks back a little into his room.]

...What are you doing?

[hardnosed]

[ Honestly? Extremely gratifying reaction, thank u Therion, her bully's soul is flourishing. ]

What does it look like?

[bolderfell]

[He is here to be a small and promising-looking target, friendo.]

Prowling like a beast in a cage, mostly.

fitness room

[baitless]

[...he walks into the room to maybe try... and see... what this is all about and.

...

he just. he just.]

Was... any of this necessary.

[hardnosed]

It's a training room. [ actually jasper it's a— ] I'm training.

[baitless]

And is part of your training going to be putting everything back where you found it?

[...seteth don't sound like an overstressed kindergarten teacher she could snap you in half]

night

[pimpplan]

[ Zelos is content on just ignoring Jasper for the most part as he pokes around on his tablet for what seems like the thirtieth time this week. He's actually kind of managing to figure out how to get far in snake, so he'll call that a win for now.

He happens to look up as Jasper makes what seems like the eighteenth lap around the facility. ]

Anything different come up this time?

[ He figured out pretty quick that flirting probably isn't a good idea with her. ]

[hardnosed]

[ Jasper's eyes seem to glint in the dark. ]

No.

[ Thanks for reminding her!! Without another word, she continues stomping on, evidently going for round 19.

... and then like two minutes later she's back so it's a moot point. ]

And you? Did anything happen while you were sitting still?

[pimpplan]

Yeah, you missed it, actually! There was a big fight and people got hurt. You just missed them.

[ He snickers, leaning back against the couch. ]

Managed to get a high score on the snake game, though. I think I'm getting the hang of it!

night

[blackmass]

You're out rather late. Has something left you ill at ease?

[hardnosed]

[ A derisive snort. ]

Time is meaningless down here. The artificial cycle of days they're trying to enforce is for your benefit, not mine.

[blackmass]

True as the former observation may be, it could yet benefit you to rest, for all I know.