WEEK ZERO: PIZZA PARTY

[saturations]

SURPRISE!

Sunday morning starts peacefully enough, until around noon, when alarms start going off on your phones informing you of a Pizza Party taking place in the Central Node. You can snooze the alarms at first, but they begin to get a little more insistent after a while if you aren't making progress heading down there. If you're being stubborn, you can probably hold out until right at 1 PM, when an archway opens right in front of you and pulls you in.

The central node is comfortable right now, with blankets laid out on the grass and boxes of pizza are set out. Cheese, Pepperoni, Hawaiian, Meat Lovers, Veggie, I could just keep writing types of pizza all day. A few boxes even contain very weird varieties of pizza, but if you give them a try, some of them might be good! Some are as terrible as you'd expect. Otherwise, the pizzas are all warm and delicious, and there's enough for everyone.

The Residents are all already here, waiting for you! Have a fun and cool day!

... Unless?

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[daggering]

Maybe. I was talking to one of them last night, and there was a theory like maybe the prism taps into 'echoes' of memories. Feelings. Iunno if they're ours, or someone before us, or what.

[fleshedout]

[Her expression twists to the side at that, as if reminded of something.]

Hope its not focusing on the worst ones.

[daggering]

Yeah, you can say that again.

[ fucking same!! there’s a brief eyebrow raise at hot pants expression, but he doesn’t say anything about it. ]

[fleshedout]

[haha don't perceive her actually everything is fine]

[withaswing]

[A look of slight recognition pops onto her face. She looks hurried back at the archway where Riff and Damien are.]

[daggering]

[ 0: ]

Chichi?

[withaswing]

If no one has been here before us but them...

[daggering]

[ …..

hmmm.

dislike ]

…Fuck.

[georeject]

Well, that's not reassuring.

[daggering]

[ :’) ]

Isn’t it just? [ terrible we would like a refund ]

[georeject]

[well clarte has no memories so if it's feeding off of ours then that's all on you fucks]

[pura]

[ah

she just

looks incredibly fucking concerned by that]

[daggering]

[ fucking same ]

[pura]

[yeah... yeah.............

everyone suggesting they feed it happy memories owes her $20 tbh]

[disingenuous]

[ ... ]

I don't know if it'd better or worse if it's ours or someone before us.

[daggering]

[ vax makes a little noise, quietly agreeing, watching the… whatever is happening in the archway. ]

Iunno either. Residents seemed pretty adamant we were new. [ but also, who knows ]

[disingenuous]

Then... I wonder if that's where their memories went.

[ She looks at whatever the fuck is happening, too. Things coming straight out of guns. ]

[impurities]

[ ... he twists his pendant in his hand hearing that. ]

With how many of us there are here... well, regardless of where it's coming from, if that's the case it could very well escalate if we don't figure out how it works.

[daggering]

What, not chock full of happy memories?

[ this is so dry because yeah!! same!! ]

[impurities]

[ wryly ]

Many. And they're a gift. But good or bad, some things are better left as past experience.

[classmate]

[ Why did the shit decide to hit this fan outta all of them. ]

[daggering]

[ (prism voice) hey look at these assholes ]

[countermeasures]

...

[maybe they should all start practicing meditation.

jiuqing's expression tightens a little at that, but she takes a breath and tries to force herself to calm.]

[daggering]

[ nooo doc

he reaches out to give her shoulder a little squeeze :( ]

[countermeasures]

[she glances up at him and manages a small smile]

...if it's drawing on things from the past - be they our experiences or others' - I suppose there's not much we can do to stop it from doing so.

But if it's drawing on things from the present... let's try to remain calm. That may help to keep it from escalating.