third loop

[cancrymods]

SUPERBIA

On midnight of the fourteenth day, it happens again. Time rewinds itself back to the Executors' starting point, putting them right back at the beginning of the loop. This is now their third time experiencing the events of the two-week Superbia loop and while they've made some good progress on the investigation, they still have a ways to go in bringing it to and end and escaping. Use this log to investigate during this two-week time period and drop a comment down to the Investigation Request subheader if you'd like to explore. If you're continuing or building off of a previous loop's investigation results, please link to it in your comment. If you need a refresher on the loop mechanics, check out this post. Good luck, Executors.

Comments

[alcahest]

No... Neither Esme nor Greta seemed to be very attached to the lives they had. [ but: ] It couldn't be from her life, could it? None of us have any possessions from life.

[ she leans in to peer at the photo. her expression as she considers it is— pained. Esme was cruel; Greta was selfish. but the person that Miss President looks to be in this picture... doesn't look like a bad person. she knows that the hand she extended to Esme only got rejected, but—

... she sighs. ]

In Avaritia, the Authority passed around to the richest without anyone even knowing it. So... Maybe here, whoever is the current student council president holds the Authority? That might be the previous Authority-holder.

[etincelledefierte]

I think that’s plausible. What’s more, after meeting Miss President, I got the feeling that she was trying a little bit too hard to make people happy. If something happened to the former student council president sometime after the photo was taken, I have to wonder if she wants to do something that would make her friend proud of her. That would explain why she’s so determined to make other people happy.

The question is still what exactly happened, though.

[mementomoritz]

I can't be completely certain if she is the Authority, but our Miss President is definitely very powerful- it almost felt like her power was feeding back into itself. If she's not the Authority, then she sure is something!

Without knowing... [Medic frowns deeply, a sudden thought striking her.] We're in a time loop.

If someone became an Authority, and then time reversed to before they became the Authority... would they still hold that power?

What if... [She speaks slowly, putting the idea together piece by piece.] What if whatever happened in the gym involved the previous Authority, maybe the president before this one, losing their grip on the power? They became a Revenant and the power went to Miss President, time went back, and she had all the power of an Authority without ever even knowing it.

[etincelledefierte]

Etoile flips to the photo of the back of the picture, running her finger over the words. She’s thinking carefully about Medic’s theory. Eventually, she flips to the original photo.]

I think that’s definitely a possibility. If something happened with the previous president, where she lost control, and her power passed on to Miss President…

[She goes quiet again, thinking things over.]

Do you think she could be using that power without realizing it? As if she’s half asleep? If she’s trying to forget what happened to her, or trying on some level to prevent it?