letsplayamurder | Week seven

After that particularly hectic trial, if it could even be called that, you were free to go your own way. The sun had set on Ferdinand and Omega's attempt to enact vengeance upon Typhon, and while your combined efforts were clearly enough to damage him, he managed to slink off with both of your former companions. No doubt, probably licking his wounds, or whatever the Titan plans to do in his refuge between the realms.

It's another new week on the island. Outside, things have continued to change - standing by the cliffs will reveal that not only has the water against the rocks receded further, but the entire ocean has as well. You hear birdsong in the distance, and even the plants have turned greener despite the drawbacks from Typhon's trickery. No matter the horrors everyone's experienced, it seems the island continues to grow healthier.

There's still time to enjoy the benefits that provides. Down on the deepest level, the stairs to... How odd. The stairs still refuse you passage. Looks like there's no new floor to investigate this week!

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Quark's Bar & Cafe

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[Vanity spends most of the day Sunday in her room, recuperating from the last week. And her chat with Quark afterwards. When she finally steps out, she's greeted by- a small, skeletal bird. Bearing a holographic missive.]

What.

[beta probably had to wait so long for her to come out of her room i'm so sorry]

[But as Vanity settles in to open the cafe in the eatery, she takes a moment to play the message Omega's left for her.]

...asshole can't even die without being weird about it.

[But then she gets to the last part, and her eyes light up. She flicks through the other data available on the disc, skimming over schematics and designs.]

[So later in the day she's dragged the holodisk and the remains of the Egg Chaser down to the forge.]

[Vanity might be far from a mechanic or engineer, but she has a disk full of plans and the ability to read, she's trying to see if she can get this thing even somewhere approaching functional.]

[Later still, successful or not, she's back at it again in the training grounds, once again in her combat uniform but now armed with the twin-fists she showed off after the trial. The training dummies are mostly intact- one unfortunate individual has been pummeled and shredded- but she mostly using the fists to flip and parkour around the obstacle course as quickly as she can, skipping around it in unintended ways.]

[speedrun strats, or something]

[The part where she whiffs a jump and has to jam the claws into the edge of the next platform probably isn't intentional, especially judging by the way she hangs there for a second before tugging herself free and dropping to the ground. And then notices whoever saw that.]

...Meant to do that.

[It will take a bit of elbow grease and some makeshift efforts, but you should have what you need to get it operational.]

[Both Vanity the character and I the player definitely expected this to work exactly this well.]

[What kind of timeline are we looking at for getting this little rhino dude operational?]

[Depending on how hard you work at it, anywhere from Wednesday to Thursday would see it at least mainly working.]

[Good morning, Vanity. Aoi is here to have some breakfast, when she overhears the message.]

Omega left Vanity one too?

Yeah.

[She sighs a little, not yet looking up and scrubbing back in the timeline a little.]

-TRADING OF BARBS AND INSULTS. I HAVE ENJOYED IT IMMENSELY. YOU WERE A WORTHY OPPONENT.

YOU AND I WERE ALSO MORE ALIKE THAN WE WERE DIFFERENT. BUT-

[Stop. Rewind.]

-SO MORE ALIKE THAN WE WERE DIFFERENT.
-MORE ALIKE THAN WE WERE DIFFERENT-
-MORE ALIKE THAN WE WERE DIFF-
-MORE ALIKE TH-

[~~TRAITOROUS CLOD, TRAITOROUS CLOD, TRAITOROUS CLOD~~ Vanity shuts off the playback, finally looking at Aoi.]

...what do you think. Anything to that?

...Omega did say he was made to destroy and defied his creator. He must have thought you were cool for doing the same thing.

He said Aoi was a rock here. So...Omega had a lot of faith in all of us.

Maybe. ...He also said I REMAIN SHACKLED TO THE COMPANY THAT DESIGNED YOU, EVEN WHILE CLAIMING TO BE THEIR MASTER.

[There's a significant hesitation before sharing that second part.]

[And then a short moment of blinking confusion.]

Wh- ...oh, like a rock to cling to. Thought you meant he says "you rock," which. I mean it's true, but it'd be a little weird coming from him.

Week seven

Monday

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Cafe

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