❋ memory 019.

[notsuperman]

Memory regained: Significant Negative - I’VE BEEN ON THE MOON (phi, end)
Date: Day 109
Game won: jo's game

Memory:

[ the gang (minus dio) is all standing in front of the number 9 door ]

Sigma: Everybody ready? I’m gonna open it.
Alice: Yes! Just get on with it!

[ Sigma pulls the lever ]

Announcer: The number nine door has been opened.
Announcer: It will remain open for 9 seconds.

Sigma: All right everybody! Let’s move!

[ they all run into a room that looks like a loading elevator, and step on the center of the plate to watch the door close ]

Announcer: Two...One...Zero.
Announcer: The number nine door is closing.

[ the door closes ]

Announcer: The number nine door has closed.
Announcer: This ends the Nonary Game.
Announcer: Thank you for your participation.
Announcer: As the game is over, all doors other than the number nine door have been unlocked.

[ the lift they are on takes them up to the next floor, and they see an open door in front of them ]

Tenmyouji: Looks like we did it.
Luna: Yes. We should keep moving.

[ they go through the door to enter a pressure exchange chamber ]

Sigma: The pressure exchange chamber…
Alice: You know what this place is?
Sigma: Y-Yeah, sort of.
Sigma: This whole facility is pressurized, apparently.
Sigma: I think the idea is to keep the air outside, and consequently the virus, from getting inside.
Sigma: That means that if we want to go out, we have to decompress so we match the outside air pressure.
Sigma: This room here is where you prepare for going into the actual pressure exchange room.
Sigma: You see all those suits along the wall?
Sigma: I figure we need to put those on and head to the decompression room downstairs.
Clover: W-Whoa! Hold on a minute!
Clover: You’re saying the air outside is full of that horrible virus?!
Sigma: Yeah… That’s what it seems like.
Alice: Why..? How did this all happen…?
Clover: Did...did they…?
Alice: No! That’s not possible!
K: We’ve come this far, we can’t turn back now.
K: Let’s go outside.
K: There’s no way to know what’s really going on until we do.
Alice: All right.

[ everyone puts on the suits and heads down to the decompression room, where the decompression takes place. they then repeat the process twice more before leaving the facility…

...where they found themselves on a dead, bleak landscape with what appears to be a giant red moon clearly visible in the sky ]

Alice: Where the hell are we?!
Clover: The...desert, I guess…?
Alice: I figured that out! I mean, which one?!
Clover: I donno, but…
Clover: I think I know what day it is.
Alice: …?
Clover: Look at the moon. It’s red, right?
Clover: That means today’s the total lunar eclipse.
Alice: So…?
Clover: Remember that astronomy magazine in the lounge? Well, the next eclipse like this was gonna be on December 31st, 2028.
Clover: So…
Alice: W-Wait a minute… Let me get this straight…
Alice: Are you suggesting we were sleeping for a week after we were abducted?
Clover: I think so…

[ suddenly, a black spot seems to ‘pass’ over the giant red “moon” ]

Sigma: Wh-What’s that?
Tenmyouji: The moon. Well, the moon’s shadow, actually.
Sigma: The moon’s shadow?
Tenmyouji: Zero told me to stay quiet.
Tenmyouji: I think he was worried I’d spill the beans on his operation.
Tenmyouji: He said if I didn’t toe the line, he wouldn’t kill just me, he’d kill Quark too.
Tenmyouji: And I agreed, like an idiot, and brought Quark with me.
Tenmyouji: Just...just so I could see her… Such an idiot...
Sigma: …
Tenmyouji: So, that being the case…
Tenmyouji: Might as well start with this.
Tenmyouji: I meant what I said before: That up there is the Moon’s shadow.
Sigma: What the hell are you saying?
Tenmyouji: Think about it.
Tenmyouji: If that’s the Moon’s shadow, then what’s it falling on?
Phi: That’s...Earth?
Tenmyouji: Yeah.
Tenmyouji: It’s not the red moon you get from a lunar eclipse.
Tenmyouji: Then again, this isn’t a lunar eclipse. It’s a solar eclipse.
Tenmyouji: Anybody in the black spot down there is looking up at the moon covering the sun.
Sigma: What…?
Sigma: No! No way!
Sigma: If that’s the Earth, then where the hell are we?!
Quark: The Moon, of course.
Quark: This is the lunar surface!
Quark: We were just inside a moonbase.
Clover: No way… No, you’ve gotta be lying.
Clover: How do you expect us to believe that?!
Clover: This can’t be the Moon…
Alice: Yeah.
Alice: That’s pretty ridiculous.
Alice: Besides, if this was the Moon, how do you explain the gravity?
Alice: The Moon only has one sixth of the Earth’s gravity.
Alice: So what’s this?

[ Alice picks up a rock and drops it, which looks normal ]

Alice: See?
Alice: That looked perfectly normal.
Luna: Yes, it looked that way.
Sigma: Luna…?
Luna: You were right about the gravity, in a way.
Luna: I was one of the people who knew this wasn’t Earth…
Luna: Well, I suppose I’m not “people,” if we’re being honest, but…
Alice: Excuse me, what?
Luna: Please, just listen.
Luna: Alice, you were infected with Radical-6.
Luna: Then we gave you the Axelavir, which cured you.
Luna: The Radical-6 isn’t completely gone, though. Some of its symptoms stick around for a while.
Alice: What symptoms?
Luna: Um, well…
Luna: Radical-6 can slow down your brain’s processing speed by the root of one sixth.
Luna: It can take a while for your brain to get back up to speed.
Luna: Every one of us has been infected.
Luna: In other words, all of our brains have been processing information at a much lower speed.
Luna: If you evaluated the root of one sixth, you’ll get a number close to 0.408.
Luna: That means that our brains are running at something slightly less than half speed…
Luna: As you said before, the Moon’s gravity is about one sixth that of Earth’s.
Luna: The time that it takes for an object to fall is inversely proportional to the square root of the gravitational acceleration.
Luna: Since the gravity is lower on the Moon, that means the time increases.
Luna: ...I guess that’s a little technical.
Luna: Let me give you an example.
Luna: Say you drop an apple from a height of 4.9 meters.
Luna: It will take approximately 1 second to hit the ground.
Luna: On the Moon, however, that time would be 1 second times root 6… Which would be approximately 2.45 seconds.
Luna: I used 4.9 meters because it matches up with the acceleration of gravity nicely, but it could be anything.
Luna: The gravity constant is, well, a constant.
Luna: You could drop something from 10 centimeters or 10 meters and it would be the same.
Luna: Does that make sense? So, now we’ve established that on the Moon, things fall root 6 times slower than they do on Earth.
Luna: That being the case, what would happen if someone’s brain slowed down by root one sixth?
Luna: To them, 2.45 seconds would feel like 1 second. 4.9 seconds would feel like 2.
Luna: But it’s not hypothetical.
Luna: That’s what’s been happening to every one of us.
Clover: Wait…
Clover: You’re saying that’s the reason we didn’t notice the weaker gravity?!
Luna: Are you sure you didn’t notice anything? Think back…
Clover: Huh?
Luna: You and Sigma and [ name redacted ] said something about it in the lounge.
Luna: About how you felt weird…

[ sigma, clover, and phi start to realize that luna’s right. ]

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