WEEK 6

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 6



[Fifteen X-Passes. You've finally done it. You can now go free. However, the price has been steep. Too steep.




True, you can leave. Anyone can, now. But simply leaving may be a bad idea. After all, who knows what else Zero has up its sleeve? Who knows what's outside of the HMHS Gigantic? How will they survive? How will they eat? And those are the easy questions that need to be answered. After all, the mystery of Zero, the mystery of Zack, the mystery of who is the cause of all of this and why-those things are also seemingly impossible to answer without some preparation. There's also the new area that's opened up that may yet yield more for the survivors to mull over.


Rushing is surely a bad idea. It's time to prepare. Take the time to get ready for whatever is outside. Stock up on supplies. Write what needs to be written. Say what needs to be said. Get ready for the possibility that whatever is out there, whatever the answers are-they will not be easy, and they will not be quick.


More than that, but-where are all these cuts coming from on your body? Hm. Maybe you keep bumping into things or scratching too hard. Did everyone save Roland get super clumsy or something all of a sudden?


Well. Maybe the answers to all that are just around the corner. So. Let's get ready. The end is near.


There are 8 9 strangers currently on this ship.



Wait. Nine?]

Comments

[superstylishsquid]

[The blade rebounds, and he spins it to shift into a thrust at Gai.]

[voidseeing]

[Good thing Gai has never been anything less than ambitious as hell. He's confident that he can master this no matter what it takes, so once again he isn't even going to try to dodge.

Let them try. He's going to be the one to survive once again.]

[strangerpeople]

[Confident mastery, brazen defiance. Good. The world is more malleable than people think. Metal is strong because it's malleable, too, and therein lies the key.

There's metal in this room. Robots, dumbbells, fencing rapiers. One of those dumbbells suddenly shifts and stretches out of shape, forming a long line of metal that blocks Roland's blow from ever hitting. Alastor's, once again, stings a little but doesn't do much in the way of significant damage.]

[voidseeing]

[... well, now THAT'S interesting. Now that he sees it can do this, he's going to make a conscious effort to take that dumbbell and try to mentally reform it into something resembling a shield... will it work?]

[strangerpeople]

[It will!]

[godspiousjasper]

[ With that slash blocked by some kind of metal, he couldn't help but grin a bit. He drew back, ready for another attack when he spotted the shield that formed. ]

I think you're getting the hang of it. Still need us to keep going?

[ How could he not feel proud of how well Gai's managing to tap into this? ]

[voidseeing]

Let me try one more thing.

[The shield is great and all, but how about if he tries to take some of that spare metal and fashion it into, say, gauntlets or greaves...]