WEEK ZERO: MINGLE

[retellers]

WEEK ZERO: MINGLE (43 remain) Rise and shine, gremlins. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and it's the start of a new week. Speaking of new, if participants turn on their PHS, they'll notice another section available. There's also an alert for a new message, titled TEAM ASSIGNMENT. Opening it will reveal which Leader they have been assigned to. Furthermore, at the corner of the PHS screen is an icon of an animal, depending on who their Leader is. It is visible only to them and no one else. That's not the only change, though. Participants may not notice at first—or perhaps they will?—but sooner or later, they may realize that they're... missing something? Strange. Three Leaders can be found around the area, open (?) to approach. If participants want to speak to them more privately, or to an absent Leader, it looks like they'll have to go through another channel. Which is to say, the Planetarium is now open! Finally, for the rest of the week, the participants will inexplicably have the urge to be physically affectionate. That person you just met days ago? Time to cuddle! This complete stranger you ran into? It sure is tempting to hold their hand. This urge can range anywhere from minor to impossible to ignore, depending on the situation. Enjoy your bonding!

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Comments

[suddenlybees]

Um, hm. Yona's pretty particular? Miss Maid and miss Alex too...

[ None of those three wanted blood tea /: Anyways, they've cleared out all of the tea... ]

Pot's gonna take some time to boil, so how 'bout we move onto the next one on the list and come back when the tea's done?

[pulsecannon]

Wouldn't putting them all in there make it super high-quality?

[ A tea lover is crying tea-rs some where. ]

Okay, so we have a taser and a text book. Think we'll find those around here?

[tensecondsahead]

[This is an extremely cursèd pot of tea.]

Probably not in the kitchen. Do you think they're things we could find in the shop? [He's going to... direct the kids a little bit without completely taking charge.]

[suddenlybees]

[ Today I learned that Laine is actually technically an adult. ]

A taser and textbook in the shop? One would run out too quickly, and the other would never sell!

[ A taser feels like something he would snoop around in other people's bedrooms for, in all honestly, but, hm. ]

There's a bunch of papers and pens and stuff in the lobby, right? Maybe somebody had a textbook they were taking notes on in there, before they got spirited away?

[pulsecannon]

[ it's going to be qualitea! ]

Then maybe the taser was dropped in a common area or by the train? Let's check the lobby first.

[ Time to boogey to the lobby to see papers fluttering in the wind outside of the Inn ] ]

[tensecondsahead]

[Yeah, he's like 25. A Real Adult™.]

Oh, hold on a second. [Those fluttering papers have caught his attention, and anything weird is worth catching right now. He'll run out to grab some of those.]

[suddenlybees]

Oh, um.

[ Kano does not go chasing after flying papers......... he is a lazy bum and goes easy mode of picking the ones off the floor closest to his feet.

Anything fun written on these pages...................... looks too technical for his not a real adult brain. ]

[pulsecannon]

[ 25 is ancient to Cater

She will go chasing after those papers and even leaping up to try to snatch any flying high. ]

Are they part of the textbook?

[ Squinting at the pages. Who opens textbooks these days anyways ]

[tensecondsahead]

Maybe? [Laine has never seen an actual textbook in his life but it... looks like it's probably educational materials.

He grabs a couple more pages as they blow past.]

They look like it.

[suddenlybees]

Text is small, there are no pictures. It's a textbook!

[ Kano, who has literally never gone to school in his entire life,,,

No, he knows what a textbook would look like. If there's no story, it's a textbook. ]

[pulsecannon]

[ She has gone to school.

And ignored her books. ]

Arg. Does that mean we probably have to find hundreds of pages?

[ Running to catch another one trying to get away ]

[tensecondsahead]

[... hundreds...]

Well, let's see how many we can find.

[suddenlybees]

[ Kano has four pages. He stares out into the distance where there are a hundred and seventy two more pages to find. ]

Can I, like, leave this one to you two while I find the taser? Divide and conquer, or whatever, right?

[pulsecannon]

Who's to say you wouldn't just slack off some where pretending to look for the taser? Get over here and help.

[ Hopping up to try to reach for another page. She's too short for this ]

[tensecondsahead]

How about this. We'll collect the papers and bring them to you, and you can follow us around and hold them so they don't blow away again.

[suddenlybees]

[ Terrible how Cater knows him after talking to him just once or twice. Laine too... he feels very seen, suddenly...

But he will take Laine's proposal. ]

Okay, okay, I'll be paper storage~ Gonna need both hands to snatch up all those pages, right?

[pulsecannon]

[ She has brothers. Hopping in place before finally catching the corner. ]

There.

[ Time to hand the pages she grabbed so far over to him then. ]

Here you go, storage. Don't drop them!

[ She spots some tangled in some of the bushes. ]

There's more over here.

[tensecondsahead]

[Laine grabs one that... smacked him in the face. He's got some limited visibility going on with that eyepatch, unfortunately.]

Good find, that's a pretty big stack of pages.

[suddenlybees]

[ Storage is having a hard time getting all these pages in order? As in, they're all crumpled and not at all in page order and good luck to the student who's going to use this next because Kano just sort of straightens the pages out as best he can and smashes down the rest so it's somewhat compact.

Who's getting zapped? ]

[pulsecannon]

[ They can stuff them into his shirt or hoodie too.

Should we roll a dice? ]

[tensecondsahead]

[[Rolling a d20

Kano: 11
Laine: 1
Cater: 18

rip laine]]

Here's another on-- [Laine cuts off, with a yelp of pain.]

[suddenlybees]

[ Kano, turning around with handfuls of paper shoved into the back of his shirt, ]

Hm? What's up?

[ The taser vanishes in a small shower of sparks and they will never realize they checked it off the list, nor what shocked Laine. ]

Did you get bit by a snake or something. Hey- hey, Cater! Mister Laine's gonna die!