R4 Viewing Party - no crying til the end (if you can help it)

[serrata]

I'm sure this is fine.

WELCOME TO THE R4 LIVEWATCH: AIRLOCKED REACH EDITION

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[ratherdoweddings]

[Waiting for it all to end. That's them, too. Yurika sits down and sets a glass of water in front of Jane.]

That's the last thing you remembered, isn't it?

[cyan_maid]

...I'd put it around that time, yeah.

[The last thing she remembers is dying. She does perk up, though, at the name.]

John - John is...he survived, too?

[Not Dirk's Bro. Not Jade, not her daughter. Not Roxy's Mom. But John - her Poppop, her - son, he hadn't...he was still...]

...This isn't even...everything she'll remember yet, is it? T-there's more...if she doesn't remember dying, then...what in the world could have happened to them...?

[ratherdoweddings]

I don't know, but we're going to find out. Maybe if two people survived, they were able to escape, like we did.

[cyan_maid]

Escape Sburb? It's - it's not like stepping through a clown portrait or setting a space mansion on fire or taking over a pirate ship, it's...I don't even know how they got me out, and I would've just been a body...

[ratherdoweddings]

But if InterGal 7 can do it, then that means it's possible. So even if it doesn't look like it, there could be something there.

[cyan_maid]

I...

[She doesn't know. She doesn't know, and she hates that she has to hang on Roxy's every word when she wants to talk about what's going home instead of knowing. If their roles were reversed, of course Roxy would be able to get the whole story - Jane had been rather open about all of her memories returning, in some ways more than others. She only knows this much right now because Prompto got Roxy to open up...but what if no one had tried?]

...Maybe. I...I don't know. [God. Had she been with John when the network came for her? Where was he?]

[ratherdoweddings]

...I don't remember a John from your stories. What was he like?

[cyan_maid]

...I never...got to meet him. Not in person. But, he was supposed to be like, an alternate universe version of my Poppop? But he would've grown up in the 90's and 2000's, instead of the early 20th century. So he'd be a teen, just like me. [A pause.] Still...I would like to think he was as much of a clever jokester, or at least in the making to be one, as he was in my Dad's stories about him. He...mostly seemed like a good natured fellow. Kind of a nerd. But in a good way? So...maybe he's like that.

[ratherdoweddings]

Wow... It sounds like he must have been a nice person. I don't know how your world managed to connect two different universes, but it might be similar to how all of us are from different ones, too.

[cyan_maid]

I'm not really sure about it either - it's pretty complicated, apparently? And also part of Sburb. That's kind of how universes are supposed to be made, where I'm from? But I really hope it's not always how they're made.

[ratherdoweddings]

That's one messed-up way for space to work. I hope it's not like that. Especially if it picks kids to go through all this.

[cyan_maid]

Well what else is a video game that etches itself into the very annals of history going to appeal to?

[...]

I'm...being a touch sarcastic, since, not mincing words, Sburb is complete and utter bullcrap.

[ratherdoweddings]

I'm glad you're out of there, Jane-chan. We're still in danger, I know, but...