Cosmic (Parafacility)

Matchstick wakes up with no memories in the parafacility. Her intake is handled by Dr Hawthorn. Matchstick's powers are difficult for her to control and she keeps bursting into flame.

During lunch, Matchstick makes a friend with a new intake, Fae! Fae is a alien soldier from a very technologically advanced space-faring civilisation which Matchstick is ENTHRALLED by. Albert Rainsford is also there, but he's extremely disinterested in the conversation. Matchstick finds him boring.

Mathstick leaves the cafeteria with Fae and they go to the rec room where they play checkers with Regginald Hickinbottom. Fae then gets the bright idea to run to the cafeteria and try to learn to cook! Matchstick follows as Fae "negotiates" with the cafeteria staff. Match is eventually a bit worn out by Fae's antics and returns to her room.

Matchstick and Fae's rec room game is interrupted by Phillip and Walter teleporting into the rec room. They mention a top secret message they must deliver which immediately piques Fae and Matchstick's interest. The two girls trail Phillip as he makes his way to the staff lounge. They overhear him talking to the facility manager Gladiator about needing to deliver jury summons to certain facility patients - they were just in the mindpalace of a patient named Chelsie and need these people to be present there in order to progress. They mention four names - Aristaphne, Belb, Albert, and Argos.

However, nobody seems to know who the name Argos refers to (that's because he's only been going by his inmate number 47605 since arriving). For some reason, however, Matchstick seems to recognise it, though the details escape her in the moment. She recognises the name from Greek myths, of a giant with a hundred eyes, but she KNOWS that this is not who she is thinking of. She decides to leave it for now and let Fae teach her spritesign.

Matchstick runs into Fae again, this time accompanied by André Rousseau. Apparently the two were in the middle of some sort of scheme involving smuggling food from the cafeteria to make smores! Match has a little competition with André to see who can produce the bigger breath of fire, however Matchstick's powers have been acting up since this morning so she cannot compete much and André wins. For now.

She admits to André and Fae that she could not stop thinking about this Argos person because she KNOWS she has heard the name before but just doesn't know where from. It ended up giving her a nightmare which has made her stressed and thus caused her powers to become unstable. She also briefly brings up Albert, who André knows (kind of, it's complicated) and he gets a little irritated at her thinking that he's not interesting.

It turns out, Fae met Chelsie the other day and brings her to the group! Eventually they connect the dots that Argos is a basement dweller, a violent possessed prison inmate with eyes on his limbs who tried to kill Chelsie at some point. This information ALARMS Matchstick, but no matter, because it's MURAL TIME!

Chelsie had been planning to make a mural of Dr Hawthorn in order to spruce up the walls, as well as make Hawthorn - his possessor in particular - seem less intimidating to newcomers to the facility. Hawthorn himself even shows up and is incredibly touched by their gesture and joins in on the painting. As they work on the mural, André gets more worked up and annoyed, and Matchstick teasing him about Albert just causes him to storm off to his room. Fae follows him. However, eventually André runs back to the mural gang and... he has bad news.

Matchstick and the others find Fae in the middle of succumbing to an infection after a scuffle with a virus-carrying dragon named Scribble. Matchstick can only watch as Fae drifts more and more out of conciousness until she becomes just a mindless zombie; she can follow people and obey simple direct orders, but nothing else. Match feels that this is her fault, since she was the one who pushed André and make him storm off. Chelsie leaves with Fae's sword and tells André and Matchstick to meet her tomorrow morning at the mural. Matchstick gets frustrated and accidentally yells as Hawthorn and storms off embarrassed.

Matchstick has an even worse nightmare than the one the night prior. Amongst the other chaos of the dream, she bumps into a figure that she recognises as Argos - or, rather, him as a doctor before he arrived at the parafacility. ■■■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■

Matchstick shows up at the mural to meet up with Chelsie and André, expecting to just work on a mural of Fae to commemorate her, however they surprise her with the plan of going into Fae's mindpalace to find the infection in there and defeat it to cure Fae. They trek through the basement to reach the windwarp, running into many threats along the way. Chelsie, André, and the newly befriended Wolf take care of these threats, while Matchstick is unable to really do anything.

It turns out that whatever was originally possessing Fae was attached to her sword, which Chelsie now had, so she was under its influence for some time. During one fight, Chelsie is downed and returns to her dormant orb form. André then takes the sword, and the creature that was attached to it then goes into André instead. Matchstick is fascinated by all of this and is secretly very jealous that the creature did not choose to possess her - she thinks it'd make her powerful enough to finally be able to do something.

They make their way to the mindwarp and into Fae's mindpalace. Matchstick initially goes unconcious, before she wakes up in... A SPACESHIP! YES! SHE KNEW THAT FAE WOULD HAVE SPACESHIPS IN HER MINDPALACE! Now the three are on a SPACE ADVENTURE to find Fae's missing pieces and find the zombie infection and get rid of it to save their friend!