★ WEEK TWO: FORWARD MOVEMENT ★

[modaphor]

[A lot has happened in a few short days.

Arche has grown a great deal from her interactions with the assembled agents of the facility; thanks to their influence, her chamber has taken on a few new additions, including a rapidly filling curio cabinet and, more recently, an orange and black Maine Coon kitten has come to stay in the facility as well. Thanks to Ginti's advice, he is no longer confined to his transparent tank in Arche's Chamber; in fact, you may see him wandering around during the week. Please be kind to the local wildlife!

On a more serious note, Arche has located one of her missing memory cores, which comes with some...vaguely unsettling information surrounding it. But, since the general consensus seemed to be "yes, we'll help", she is now hard at work securing the gateway to the pocket dimension; if asked, she will approximate that it will take her until late Thursday night to get everything up to scratch.

In the meantime, she's helpfully provided some recommendations for people to work on this week, in preparation for this week. If you need something to think about, you might try working on one of those?

Otherwise, the facility is still available to you, as is Arche. Have a good week, everyone!]


SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[OOC: As with last week, if you want to talk to Arche, please use the subheadered comments! Also, we had some agents looking around for clues last week, so as a way of encouraging and streamlining that —

If you intend to look for clues, please explicitly mention what sort of thing you're looking for and approximately where you are looking, and consider asking for mod attention in the comment header so I can find it easier! Thanks, everybody!]

Comments

[nekromanteia]

[Boy, that is a good question.]

Who, me? Not a thing at all, Shijima.

[liven]

...You've very clearly got a purpose. And you were trying to make sure none of us were around, weren't you? Do you plan to break something?

[ she...doesn't sound like she cares if he does, actually. ]

[nekromanteia]

Not in the slightest!

[A pause.]

Not irreparably.

[liven]

...That implies you plan to break it reparably. Why? Are you trying to cause problems for the others?

[ ...SHE STILL DOESN'T SOUND AS THOUGH SHE THINKS THIS IS HER PROBLEM AT ALL... ]

[nekromanteia]

I wouldn't dream of it.

[you know what shijima. you're okay with him.]

[liven]

So why do you plan to break it reparably, then?

[ it sounds like so much effort........... ]

[nekromanteia]

I'm bored and curious. It's a dangerous combination.

[jade no.]

[liven]

...Curious about the VCR? Oh, I suppose you must not have them at your home, then.

[ Shijima........doesn't really know how they work beyond how to use them either, but in the sense that she never cared to learn, not that they never existed. ]

[nekromanteia]

I'm afraid not.

[GOT IT IN ONE, though.]

Dismantling technology usually isn't my kind of pastime, but it's difficult not to wonder about its inner mechanisms.

[liven]

Is that really so...? I don't really care one way or the other.

[ Flops onto the couch. ]

But by all means, do not let me stop you.

[nekromanteia]

...You don't seem to care very much.

[uh oh. he found something more interesting than the VCR.]

Why is that, exactly?

[liven]

...Why should I? I have no interest in what happens to that VCR. We only have that one film anyway...

[ no skin off her nose... ]

[nekromanteia]

Oh--forgive me, I wasn't clear.

I meant to say 'you don't seem to care about much of anything at all'.

[liven]

That's because most things have nothing to do with me...I have no interest in sticking my nose in where it doesn't belong.

[ SHIJIMA, THAT'S A DAMN LIE...but it is true she just doesn't give many fucks. ]

[nekromanteia]

What an admirable perspective to take.

[Yulia save us, they're kind of bonding.]

Most people fail to realize how troublesome it is, involving oneself in matters that have nothing to do with them.

[liven]

[ has jade bonded with anyone else even kind of... ]

I don't have such problems. Kouichi, for all he can be polite, doesn't really either. ...For the most part.

[ He cares about dumb samurais, but he'll still do what he has to do. ]

[nekromanteia]

[It's hard to bond with people when you're a huge douche.]

Is that so? I'm afraid I haven't spoken with him very much yet. I take it that you two are from the same place.

[liven]

[ JADE...HE LOOKS VERY LIKE HER...

which makes sense since they're basically siblings. ]

We're allies.