FINAL WEEK

[akudamods]

Starting Saturday, the layer of clouds in the sky is more solid than ever. Overcast, reflecting the neon light of the city. By Sunday, you'll see more colors than ever, as several new areas are added to the span of your probation. And some areas aren't, but might see an approach anyway. Do the pods containing six weeks of treatment daunt you in the slightest now that judgment awaits at the end of the fourth week? Though faithful treatment participants only experience flashes on the upper third of their bodies now, their counterparts will experience occasional waves of isolating existential coldness. Does your physically present overseer have anything to say for herself? Just remember one thing: Kanto is watching and waiting.

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[conways_retribution]

Just what exactly does these new treatment options entail?

_{[Somehow, his heart was sinking. He didn't know why but he didn't feel too good about it.]}

[cantwaittowatch]

If I had details, I'd share them.

[Promising.]

Two categories, though. New materials being brought into Kansai, or you guys being invited out into Kanto.

[conways_retribution]

<sub>[Trapped between a rock and a hard place in his eyes.

Though any treatment is better than none.]</sub>

Pod Time

[conways_retribution]

<sub>[Still... while Saturday still isn't here, he'll enter the pod for this week.

And close his eyes...]</sub>

[akudamods]

Hey, Jake.

[It's a vision of Mikey. Oh boy.]

You know, I didn't think you'd come back here at first. But it's really peaceful, huh?

[conways_retribution]

_{[His eyes squinted... This was just an illusion. It had to be... right?]}

Yeah... it is... sorry it took this long for me to get back. <sub>[He said that, but only so he didn't come off weirdly.

Before the last bit of lucidity fades and he's fully immersed, where is he in this vision? Was he at Dead End? The inner city? Or... somewhere else, perhaps?

And what of Mikey? Sure, he's still a tall sack of shit, but is anything off?]</sub>

[akudamods]

[He's in the diner where it all began, sitting across from Mikey. It's impossibly clean, though, probably more than it ever was at any point in real life, let alone by the time Jake visited. Mikey looks natural at least, a teenage boy with a healthy appetite who never heard of an iron or conditioner, but his clothes are subtly bright, like he just bought them fresh from the store.]

It's all good. I thought you might be too strong. That you wouldn't put your piece down ever again. But you were always trying to do the right thing!

[He offers a high five. So bizarrely validating of Jake's morals and decisions.]

[conways_retribution]

Yeah...

<sub>[This should have been the point the dream broke for him. His brother, alive, knowing everything he did...

But Jake didn't want to snap out of it. Despite his expression, he reciprocated that high five.]</sub>

Too strong, huh?

...when did I even become this strong, I wonder...?

[akudamods]

Maybe in 'Nam. Or maybe since you got here. It could even be everyone here is just more normal.

[That's something to think hard about.]

Anyway, if you do get to take some rest, I think you've earned it.

[conways_retribution]

Maybe in 'Nam...

<sub>[That's right... he never properly remembered everything from then.

But then he heard "since you got here" and that got him thinking too...

Where is "here" anymore...?]</sub>

Yeah... I feel like shit after all that.