Peace Week

[mockmods]

[So, with introductions made, you're all left to your own devices for the time being. Explore, make friends, try not to go insane in your new surroundings. Maybe organize a game of that Trailseeker thing? Your time is your own.]

[You are woken every day at 7:30 AM by the same robotic voice that woke you on day one. At 11pm each night, a similar message plays reminding everyone about the start of quiet hours and dimming the lights.]

[If you want to talk to Penny, she can be found in the Security Office if she's not anywhere else in the Facility. Office hours appear to be whenever.]

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday

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5/4, I lied. AND WE'RE OPEN

[mockmods]

[The nozzle retracts, and the ceiling panel slides closed. The voice continues in the same pleasant tones.]

I believe that should sufficiently discourage any further attempts at lock picking. Assistant?

Ah-?

[Penny looks up from the aftermath of the fireball, eyes blank.]

Report to the Security Office immediately. We need to have a lengthy discussion.

I- yes. Sorry. I'll- yes.

[And wordlessly she pushes past any gathered Participants and numbly returns to Security.]

[mightdoriya]

[Mercifully, Izuku isn't there when the explosion goes off. He'd been in the Common Room, but definitely close enough to hear and feel the way it rocks the entire building. His notebook tumbles from his lap as he moves without thinking, running towards the direction of the sound of the blast only to just round the corner as the smoke from it is beginning to clear.] What ha-!? [He starts, but he's caught off guard by Penny suddenly shoving past him, causing him to falter and stumble to a stop. Only then is he able to look past her and onto the scene, his eyes falling on the silhouette that's so...strange for his eyes to comprehend that he can't quite suss out what exactly just happened here. What...just happened here?]

[mockmods]

[You know how in cartoons, when someone sets off a stick of dynamite and it leaves a little outline of them against a wall or whatever?]

[This isn't really anything like that, but it might be kind of similar if you squint, and ignore the smell of burned human.]

The Trusty overstepped his boundaries. The Assistant failed to effectively dissuade him from future transgressions, so I stepped in personally. Is that sufficient explanation for you, Shounen?

[mightdoriya]

[Izuku listens to the voice as it explains to him what happened, but only...sort of. He doesn't come any closer to the site of the blast, because he doesn't really have to to see that someone just died and he will not be going any closer than this, thank you. Actually...the one thing keeping him anchored is the fact he's being spoken to, and he has someone to answer. So he does, quickly, his voice clipped and his feet rooted to the floor.] What did he...do to overstep boundaries? [What on earth did he do to deserve being blown up on the spot, basically. Adreniline is also a hell of a thing for Izuku, as it tends to be, so it's likely the full gravity of what just happened isn't going to hit him until he's coming down from that.]

[mockmods]

[Please, Izuku. Incinerated, not blown up. Possibly vaporized. ...By a very large explosive fireball.]

He was attempting to force access to a locked area of the Facility.

[All this still in the same pleasant tones that have informed everyone of the start and end of the day in your time here, like the Researcher is just discussing the weather.]

[hyaku]

[Shigeo himself had missed everything entirely, having been in his room until he decided to go out and walk around for a little bit. That's when he sees Penny pushing Izuku aside, and out of curiosity he walks over to the other teen to see what's happened.]

Is something wrong, Midoriya-ku--

[And he looks over in the direction that Izuku is looking, and stops in his tracks.]

...i-is that... a person?

[It's asked with a lot of hesitation, and trembling in his voice.]

[mockmods]

That is a matter for philosophical or religious debate, 100%. Scientifically, the past tense is now entirely applicable, if it was not before.

[hyaku]

H-huh?

[No don't throw that kind of stuff at him he's stupid..]

The past tense...?

[His eyes are stuck on the body, while he talks to their lovely scientist friend. And he can just feel the stress starting to rise from getting a lesson in the middle of his brain trying to process what he's seeing and smelling.

36%]

[mightdoriya]

[Izuku stiffens when he hears Shigeo's voice, glancing over at him as he comes up to his side. And for a moment he's...stuck, unsure how to handle this situation. From what he'd learned at UA, he'd be immediately trying to keep any civilians from walking up on the scene unawares, but...he doesn't think they're in immediate danger? So long as they don't break any "rules"... That, and Shigeo is his age. He doesn't feel right trying to tell him what to do, even if the sight before them is pretty grisly.] Y-yeah.

[hyaku]

Why...?

[Is all he can really get out at that. Why is there a burnt body here? What happened? Who was it? Was it a bad guy? Did someone get in a fight?

Did this have to do with that "termination" rule...?]

[aragona]

[Sonia was waiting for the bloody execution once the Researcher spoke up. Standing on the opposite side of the room in quiet contemplation until she could finally eat. And then the fireball pops out.

...Yeah, vampires and fire don't mix well and she hightails it out of the room.]

[scratchitti]

[Neku has seen death up close and personal- it never gets easier. He had been running to investigate the alarm but... it's too late.

He wants to scream at the voice but... no, they might not get another chance to speak to the Researcher]

... easy enough, getting rid of 'fleshbags', right?

[It's a shot in the dark, but if he's wrong at least he's able to cross it off the list]

[mockmods]

[There's a moment of silence.]

"Fleshbags." A crude term, I suppose, but accurate. And yes, quite easily disposed of.

[scratchitti]

[Not enough to say for sure, and Neku doesn't want to press too hard and become a target. But it's enough to think about]

Penny. She didn't do anything wrong- so don't you dare take this out on her too.

[SHe tried to let Patches off... so Neku has to step up for her too.]

[mockmods]

That she did nothing is precisely the issue.

But all that is required at the moment is a thorough review of what her duties as a part of this study demand, and an assessment of her commitment to those duties. I can hardly consider that to be "harm".

Besides, she is far more resilient than the Trusty and is heavily lacking in the necessary nerve endings to feel pain. You may spare your worry.

[thisass]

[ whistles lowly, though she definitely isn't as cocky as usual ]

Damn, and here I thought maybe you'd keep any pretense of being a proper "man of science."

[mockmods]

My science is impeccable, if not limited by human constraints.

And I have never claimed to be a man, Dickhead.

[thisass]

I'm pretty sure your results aren't going to turn up new data. Kidnapping and burning have both been done, dear.

And I never claimed to be a dickhead, Researcher, so perhaps we can both lay off the name-calling. Or are you going to retort with "I never claimed to not be a first-grader?"

[mockmods]

Dickhead is the title you were assigned, Dickhead. This is hardly name-calling.

[windowsexplorer]

[Meredith arrives just in time for AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! You know, she likes learning new things, but that doesn't mean she has to learn every possible thing, and she really would have been fine going the rest of her life not knowing what a body being vaporized by a fireball looks like.

Fortunately other people are asking the most important questions, so she has time to calm down, stop shaking, and, upon seeing the updated rules, come up with a way to annoy their captor. That last part seems really important for some reason. Green and Indigo must have rubbed off on her.]

Mr. Researcher! I have a question.

[mockmods]

I have many answers, Wiki-Reader.

[windowsexplorer]

This says "make all possible efforts to control or ameliorate your organic stupidities." Does that mean Miss Kara and I can be as stupid as we want?

[deathroadtocanada]

[Kara didn't see what transpired before the fiery storm overtakes Patches, but she manages to catch the aftermath.

The sight of the scorch marks on the ground, and the voice overhead talking to Penny... it only barely snaps her attention away. It's almost difficult, wrapping her mind around the process of events.

Almost numbly, she lets Penny push past her, only turning and holding a hand out as she's on her way.]

Pen... [Should she? What can she say here?]

[in4apounding]

[Penny freezes, for just a second, as Kara calls out to her.]

Miss Kara, I'm- ...I need to go, I'm sorry.

[Said without turning or meeting Kara's face.]

[deathroadtocanada]

...I know.

[That's how it is for Androids, isn't it?]

Will we see you again?