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[A week has gone and past, as has the first of your number. The Researcher revealing himself, more or less, by punishing Patches, the Trusty, for pushing an unclear boundary.]

[And yet, routine seems to have returned. The Researcher makes morning and evening announcements as if nothing has happened. Meals are served in the dining hall. The copies of Oregon Trail in the computer lab now have a text-only mode for some reason? Penny has not been seen since Friday, and attempts to access the Security Room have been fruitless.]

[But overall, life in the Facility has remained unchanged. But the atmosphere is getting tenser - sooner or later something is going to break.]

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From:

in4apounding

Movie Night!!

8pm in the Media Room

Snacks & Drinks Provided!

[Even if Penny hadn't mentioned the movie night at the motive announcement, it's pretty obvious who the fliers all over the facility are from. Especially since she also tracks down and personally invites everyone as eight o'clock approaches.]

[The media room is now playing host to an actual popcorn machine, with bags of warm popcorn already scooped and waiting. A cooler of canned soft drinks and bottled water sits on a table along with a small selection of packaged snacks from the vending machines.]

[And. There's just one of the vending machines from the dining area in a corner now. It wasn't there before.]

[And Sonia hasn't been forgotten; a few warmed blood bags rest at the end of the snack table, next to a "vampires only" sign in Penny's writing.]

Good evening, everyone! I hope you'll be able to enjoy this- um. In spite of everything. Please let me know if you need anything else.

[And as everyone finishes filing in and finding their seats, the lights dim and the movie begins.]

From:

aragona

[Sonia arrives with an empty wine bottle. She heard there was warm blood - which is not the same as fresh blood but it's still food - takes a bag, pours the contents in, and tosses the empty bag into the trash.

And heads out the door. Fuck this socialization thing.]

From:

in4apounding

Oh, Miss Sonia! Salu-

[Oh. And she's leaving.]

...tations. ....Enjoy it anyway, you're welcome!

From:

eudaimonikos

In spite of your employer blackmailing people into murder, you mean.

[He says helpfully, as if reminding her.]

Oh, come on, this movie's so old.

From:

in4apounding

..in spite of that, yes.

[She's. Definitely aware. She deflates just a little, before the movie starts.]

Is it? I wasn't even sure if it was from any of your worlds, it just seemed like a good movie. ...I liked it anyway, when I watched it.

From:

eudaimonikos

Yeah, it's old.

[Is there popcorn here? He'll...eat some, that's a thing that's done.]

I've never seen it in full. It's considered too good to be aired in Hell, I think...but once something gets popular enough, you kinda get the gist.

From:

in4apounding

At least now you'll get the chance to see it and make up your own mind about it?

[It's probably pretty wholesome for Hell, but play it enough and it'd probably be at least one person's personal Bad Place.]

From:

eudaimonikos

Gotta be worth a shot, if people have held onto it for this long.

[It's probably gonna be too glurge-y for his tastes, but doubtless he can find something to enjoy.]

From:

in4apounding

I thought it might be sort of- you know, uplifting. A little bit.

[It is almost certainly too glurgey for at least half the people here.]

From:

eudaimonikos

No offense, but I think you're overestimating it. Or underestimating everything else, one of those.

[Though he hasn't seemed all that upset himself by any of this]

From:

in4apounding

...maybe, yeah.

[With the Researcher actively trying to initiate rule 7, this is suddenly all way above her pay grade.]

...I want- no, I need to at least try, though.

From:

eudaimonikos

[He looks sidelong at her, gaze sharp and speculative.]

I'm a little surprised you still remember that happening at all.

From:

in4apounding

What?

[Now she looks a little confused.]

The- blackmail and- that was just this morning, why would I not remember that?

From:

eudaimonikos

[Michael snorts.]

Oh, I'm sure I don't know. Is this whole movie just going to be this girl whining about her dog?

From:

in4apounding

Noooot the whole thing? A little ways in there's a tornado.

From:

eudaimonikos

Guess that'll be exciting.

[He takes out one of those little notepads and starts to idly doodle.]

I kicked a dog into the sun once. Little dog, lot like that, but white. And also not real.

From:

in4apounding

[She looked scandalized and ready to protest until that last part, honestly.]

...Into the sun from where?

[Details.]

From:

eudaimonikos

The earth...? I mean, that wasn't real either, it was all a reality me and Janet made.

[He looks up to watch Mrs. Gulch do stuff, drumming his pen on the pad idly. It's angled so that it isn't at all hard to see.

Weirdly, it seems like somewhere in the doodles, he's written We've seen your memory get overwritten several times already. It can be done remotely.]

From:

maxout

[Electro looks around a little hesitantly as he's standing in the room and just... moves over to a corner.]

Think I'll just... stay over here. Just in case.

[Listen he doesn't want to break anything by existing.]

From:

in4apounding

[Penny looks between the main seating area and Electro's corner for a second.]

[Then she gets up, picks up one of the large, comfy chairs like it's nothing, and sets it down next to Electro.]

Here! This way you can still sit if you want.

From:

maxout

Oh, you don't gotta--

[Electro cuts his own sentence off because never mind, she's already here anyway. Just picking up that chair like it's light as a feather.]

Right. Robot. [He hesitates a second, but...] ...Thanks, Pen.