Shockwave (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=201275.msg9833736#msg9833736)<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/65/1278207809618.jpg)</div><br/><br/>The sudden news about the Merry Prankster was shocking, and yet not completely unexpected.  Drugs, though?  That was much less likely.  Feasible?  Perhaps.  But then, with all the cameras, they were likely to know.<br/><br/>A much more likely scenario occurred to Shockwave: someone wanted to win badly enough to kill off the other contestants.  Furthermore, the organization didn't want to step in and figure out the culprit themselves.  They wanted this crew to do so, to figure things out on their own without causing a panic or having any major effect on the show.<br/><br/>Alternatively, this was all part of the test, and advertised loudly to everyone else.  She didn't believe that the death would be deliberately caused by the Olympians, but they could turn it to their advantage.<br/><br/>Other possibilities existed.  The Merry Prankster might not actually be dead, and it might not be a conspiracy even if she was.  However, she couldn't let any of it distract her from the task at hand.  She could put her full attention to the considerations later.<br/><br/>She silently walked along with Gale, giving her a nod of acceptance for the plan to move ahead.  Stepping next to her partner in the elevator, Shockwave put her arms akimbo in heroic pose for the cameras.  Only after the doors closed did she force a smile to Gale, putting everything but the immediate plan out of her mind.  "We got this."