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]

I guess we both agree God is a psycho.

[ That's what it's sounding like?? ]

Picking and choosing who lives and who dies... Then why do I still have to be alive? He doesn't make sense.

[robopriest]

Mmm, I'm not saying that...

[DON'T CALL GOD A PSYCHOPATH thinks Hansa even though he's also like "God is super ruthless and cruel when He wants to be, yeah]

[He frowns at the other's statement, though.]

Why exactly do you feel like you need to die?

[suddenlybees]

[ gestures vaguely at himself ]

What's the point? How come I'm "Noah"?

[ When so many other people he knows have had to die. ]

[robopriest]

...

[Ah. Something flickers over Hansa's face, and he stares down at his champagne glass for a while.]

You know...I was "Noah", too. And I asked myself that question a lot over the years. And I guess, in the end...personally, I just didn't want their deaths to be in vain. I still carry them with me to this day.

[suddenlybees]

[ That's... spiteful. Absolutely spiteful, the way Kano's been living all these years: in spite of everything. ]

...Noah must've hated it too. All the people he had to leave behind. Man, imagine the survivor's guilt.

[robopriest]

We don't really get a sense of Noah's internal thoughts in the Bible, but...you're right. Any ordinary man, told he's special, and then he has to watch as thousands die? Even if he thought it was justified to kill the evil in the world, it would weigh so heavily on his soul that I would be surprised if he didn't consider just jumping off the Ark at some points to join the rest at times.

[But its only assumptions. Maybe Noah was fine with it all. Somehow.]

[suddenlybees]

Noah was a psycho too.

[ Maybe that's why Kano and Hansa are Noahs. They're all psychos, the only sort of people who would see exactly what God is doing and just bear it. ]

[robopriest]

You really need to stop simplifying things to just "psychos" or not...things are more complicated than that.

[Tsk, tsk. But its true. God is a paradoxical existence. Hansa himself, he knows, is paradoxical. With the role he plays, he carries out terrible things all in the name of the Lord, and he's fine with it. Its just how it is. That paradox he has eternal faith in.]

[suddenlybees]

[ Kano scoffs. ]

Nutcase, then.

[ Both Noah and God and everybody else in this whole damned world. Incomprehensible— complicated, like Hansa said— and everybody has too many faces. ]

[robopriest]

"We're all mad here", said the Cheshire Cat, to Alice. "I'm mad. You're mad."

[Quotes Hansa. He's smiling like a Cheshire Cat himself.]

[suddenlybees]

[ Ha. The scoff this time comes with a grin of his own, lips curling. ]

That's how it is, isn't it? Gotta be a little mad, to survive.

[robopriest]

Indeed.

[He finishes off the rest of his champagne glass.]

Besides, the world's boring if its just black and white.