WEEK 3

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 3

[As Marie said: so much for trust and resolve. Two people are dead, and there is very little anyone can do about it now, no matter how much they would have wanted to sacrifice themselves.

In particular, with Marie's words during the trial, it's clear that time is limited. Or is it? Marie is also capable of omitting the truth when it serves her needs, especially when it comes towards the Strangers and their still-missing memories. In any case, one can only hope they don't fall for her tricks again, even though getting away with murder would - apparently - save at least one life.

There is something else, as well. When everyone wakes up the morning, they will find that information on their wristwatches has been updated to reflect their new number - and something new about their powers. Not only that, but a new floor has opened up above Floor 1 for everyone to explore. Maybe more can be found on just what, exactly, is going on.

Is Marie telling the truth? Is the universe really ending? Or is it just another means of getting what she wants? Whatever is happening, people will need to be more careful around her - and one another. Who knows what Marie will offer next - or what your roommate or new friend is now capable of as a result. Especially since it's now known, thanks to Marie's actions during the trial, that everyone has definitely lost some memories. And unfortunately, no one seems to have regained any of them so far - or if anyone has, they haven't said a word.

If trust and resolve was ever needed, it feels like now is the time to try and find all that.

There are thirteen people in this place.]


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Comments

[backuphero]

Please, God, no....

[He doesn't want to be proven right about this. He doesn't want to be any kind of right about this!]

[stealsyourduelist]

[in the alternate universe where the TDM was real, we had laundry folding...]

It seems likely at this rate. Well, at least she'll laugh at your jokes, Jonathan.

[Better you than him is what he's saying]

[backuphero]

[And he was bad at it! Really really bad! Okay, only at the fitted sheet, but...]

I - th-there's somebody else who did that, you know!

[More than one somebody, actually, and he's not sure which of them he's thinking about to almost yell that...

...and he's still basically cuddling the egg. It seems to be an instinctive response.]

[stealsyourduelist]

Your partner?

[He remembers him mentioning someone when they were looking at the WW2 book.]

If you're already betrothed...

[He pauses to just give the egg a look, and then Jonathan, and decides to say nothing about how obviously paternal he's being right now.]

[fashionfever]

Don't tease him, she's just "like his sister".

[and ANGELA HAS A BRIDGE IN BROOKLYN TO SELL]

[backuphero]

[Oh God. Oh God. He knows they took stuff out of his head when he got here could he have - did she seriously - he remembers a lot of her trying to flirt and him gently dodging it with deliberate obtuseness and joking, but had they - did this mean that if he'd actually done anything with Vita he would've been -

Seto's going to see quite the face journey happening as all of this runs through Jonathan's mind, and quite the bright blush.]

I - oh, man, if we are and I forgot that too she'll kill me... I mean, yeah, we're kinda young, really young, but there's a war on, you know? And she's... I mean, I know she's pretty stuck on me, I'm just - I - I - I don't really think about that stuff much? Didn't?

[vividsins]

I dunno, you're thinking about it quite a bit right now. And the last week or so.

[ SIPS HIS TEA WITH EVA SITTING THERE LOOKING CUTE ]

[backuphero]

[He is the very picture of mortified embarrassment. The very picture, the narration would like to add, that Okina Qruse has drawn, and if her circle's doujinshi weren't printed and bound so they're impossible to scan there might be an icon - but that's out of character grousing, and so irrelevant. Blushing, frozen, mouth opening and closing like he'd like to say something in answer to that but can't quite find language at the moment -

He does, finally.]

Look, it's been a weird couple of weeks, all right? I'm not usually afraid to die, either, but here we are....

[It appears that he found sarcasm along with his words!]

[vividsins]

I'm just teasing, Jonathan.

[ No, he really is. You make amusing faces. ]

It's healthy for a boy your age to have thoughts like that.

[backuphero]

D -

Don't call me "boy!"

[oh dear, the blush isn't leaving. and that might've been more intimidating if his voice hadn't cracked so....]

[vividsins]

Jonathan, I remember into the 1600s. You're a small child to me. That's all.

[ OH GODS JONATHAN IS ADORABLE AND BAKU HAS FOUND A NEW TOY. ]

[losergod]

[ Oh hi, here's the other ponytail ribbon wearing not!Len weirdo. ]

He's right, it IS normal. That's nothing to be ashamed about. Better to have concerns with the heart or perhaps the body than your temper, anyway.

[theserpentsmiles]

[I AM FIFTEEN AND WHAT IS THIS]

[backuphero]

[LOOK, BUDDY, I'M EIGHTEEN AND I DON'T KNOW EITHER]