WEEK 1

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 1

[Well, this is...happening. This is a thing. This is your life now. The Commander is expecting you to just up and kill one another, and then try to get away with it. No big deal, right? You guys can handle this. You won't fall for what she has. She's clearly an idiot. A loud idiot, but still an idiot. She's not going to get one over you.

...Right?

In any case, the Commander's quarters are now open for anyone who decides they can actually stand to be in the same room as her, but beware - any favor you might ask of her is going to come at a price, and who knows what she'll ask you to do if you decide to gain a boon from her. Unless you're a suck-up like Baku - then she'll apparently be flattered. Maybe that's a good tactic to use?


Whatever you do, try not to murder the bread again. The Bread Did Nothing Wrong.


There are fifteen strangers in this place.]



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Comments

[backuphero]

I just figured "why make a deal with the she-devil if you can avoid it", right?

[It is perfectly normal to talk casually about your jailer whilst standing bent over a sink lathering soap in your hair, wearing boxers which have obviously been put through the laundry with something bright red more than once. Perfectly. Normal.

If he pretends it's not weird, it won't be weird, right?]

Dunno if you've got that cut up already, but if not, my knife's on the suit.

[It's crumpled against the wall, looking rather like some alien's shed skin, but the knife in its sheath sits on top.]

[theserpentsmiles]

I'm not sure I'd call her a devil, but I agree it's best to avoid contact...

[You know what. This isn't at all weird if we just don't acknowledge that there's anything remotely weird and just carry on as normal. Nagisa's pretty good at that. So instead he'll just...go borrow that knife to get a less unwieldy piece of fabric.]

Thanks.

[backuphero]

You're welcome.

[And he pauses, long enough to rinse the soap out of his hair.]

Think you might be right... she's less "devil", more "banshee".

[theserpentsmiles]

[A small laugh!] That's more accurate. I wonder what she sounds like whispering?

[backuphero]

[He snorts, then laughs himself imagining that.]

Minnie Mouse, but only after twenty years of whiskey and cigarettes....

[theserpentsmiles]

[A little harmless mockery is fine, right?] How many libraries do you think she's been kicked out of?

[backuphero]

Given how she talks? I don't know there's ever been one as let her stay.

[theserpentsmiles]

Then maybe we should question how many she's entered in the first place.

[backuphero]

Maybe she's blacklisted. Maybe it only took one or two, and then word went out among librarians....

[theserpentsmiles]

Do you think that's why she's in space? Because she got banned from every library on Earth?

[backuphero]

[He can't help but snicker at that.]

She was launched into space by the combined fury of thousands of librarians!

[theserpentsmiles]

She must have gotten all the books in the library here off of the black market.

[Getting outlandish? Maybe, but... Playing is important, too.]

[backuphero]

[It absolutely is. Especially when you're one of the kids stuck here. Why are there kids stuck here?]

Probably had to barter six stockings and a gallon of gas for every last one of 'em. We should have more respect for somebody so dedicated.

[...except, y'know, for how he's snickering about that.]

[theserpentsmiles]

Maybe some of them were donations. You could probably hear her from Earth if she god bored enough... [Well, sound doesn't travel in a vaccuum, but Nagisa gets the feeling she would find a way.]

[backuphero]

Let's hope she doesn't get that bored again. Something tells me that's a level of sound humans can't survive....

[Is his horror sincere? Perhaps surprisingly: yes.

Look, he got mind-controlled by an evil ancient Egyptian maybe-goddess inside an oil painting not too long ago, his ideas of "what's possible" and "what's impossible" are a little bit broader than they should be.]

[theserpentsmiles]

Maybe that's what killed the dinosaurs.

[Of course he knows better. But things feel just a bit closer to normal when ordinary conversation goes somewhere weird.]

[backuphero]

She went back in time, just to make sure it'd happen... what a monster.

[Why yes, this is his best "telling scary stories at a campout" voice. However could you tell?]

[theserpentsmiles]

Those poor dinosaurs never did anything to anybody.... Humans didn't even start evolving until later.