WEEK ONE: MINGLE

[retellers]

WEEK ONE: MINGLE (40 remain) Rise and shine, gremlins. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and it's the start of a new week. To the participants, yesterday's events may seem distant now—albeit not as distant as their life before this. Whether or not they notice, they will have lost a memory upon waking up. The barrier to the north is down, and beyond the bridge lies new areas to explore. Strangely, what was there last week seems to have been replaced overnight. That's not the only thing that's different, either. The participants will find that their lodgings have changed. Finally, should anyone check their PHS, Hajime, Pikachu, and Virid's profiles have been removed. 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. Furthermore, it looks as though the rules have updated. Finally, this week, the participants will find themselves drawn to one person in particular. Whoever that is, they will find themselves compelled to be close to them physically. The longer they attempt to resist this, the more compelled they will be... and the closer they will want to be, to the point that it might be emotionally and physically draining to not be holding hands or hugging them for several hours because you've ignored them too long. That's fun.

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[papasha]

How about you bring it to the tech lab for me, and I will get the rotor out of it for you?

I believe there are some people here would be very cross if you destroyed the kitchen more than it's already been tampered with. The lab has tools I can use.

[suddenlybees]

I wouldn't destroy the kitchen! Just, like, a li'l bit of countertop, maybe. But anyways, why don't we nab that blender and you show me where this tech lab is?

[papasha]

We'll see.

[He doesn't trust.

But he will go with Kano to get the blender from the kitchen.]

[suddenlybees]

[ Kano has done nothing wrong in this game yet, wow.

Anyways, they're going to the kitchen. Out the space station, across the bridge, to the inn... and then they're going to have to go all the way back to the lab, all while Kano carries his saw with him and walks with a little skip in his step so that the saw swings around and if Blanca gets too close he might find himself missing fingers. ]

[papasha]

[Not to worry, Blanca is definitely not getting close to Kano. He already had his glasses stolen. :\

But this is fine. It's ridiculously out of the way, and yet, it does not seem to bother Blanca in the slightest. Haha.]

Are you planning to make something when you get the rotor?

[suddenlybees]

[ Did he ever get his glasses back......... ]

Chainsaw.

[papasha]

[He absolutely did not, KANO.]

My. What do you need a chainsaw for exactly...?

[suddenlybees]

[ delightedly adds Blanca's glasses to Kano's inventory ]

Secret~ It's, like, a surprise gift for someone? Very hush hush.

[papasha]

[STOP HIS GLASSES]

A surprise gift to someone, or a surprise gift for someone?

[suddenlybees]

Both...?

[ What's the difference? ]

[papasha]

[He hates this.]

I see. And what do you plan to compensate me with if I help you to retrieve it?

[suddenlybees]

I didn't.

[ haha ]

I'll give you an IOU? You'd be, like, last in line behind three other people, though.

[papasha]

[smh]

I suppose I'll have to hold onto the rotor then until you have something to give me in return.

[suddenlybees]

It's not yours to keep!

[ The blender is public property! He insists as he was going to take it for himself anyways. ]

Can't you just, like, I dunno, trade a favor for a favor? I don't own anything useful, but I can at least be useful. Just give me a job.

[papasha]

[Heh heh.]

Favors don't hold up very well where I'm from. [He is thoughtful for a bit.] All right. I'll give you a job in return.

On one day of my choosing, you have to do whatever I say.

[suddenlybees]

Okay.

[ He agrees very very easily, hand extended, pinky out. Being at the whims of another person? Not unfamiliar. ]

Only a calendar day, though, so you better come find me at midnight sharp to get your time's worth!

[papasha]

[He really did agree way too easily.]

Only a calendar day. No tricks. So long as you promise no tricks of your own.

[He extends his offering of the pinky promise.]

Now, I believe we can get you that rotor.

[suddenlybees]

[ He makes that pinky promise, but he says nothing about no tricks. Tricks are subjective! Kano is a good boy who never plays any tricks ever. ]

Yeah, alright~! You said we got everything we need in the lab? Let's go back!

[papasha]

[This is the biggest, boldest lie I have ever in my life seen written on the Internet.]

We should, yes. All right then, let's go back. After you.

[suddenlybees]

[ timeskips all the way back to the lab bc it's that sort of day--

Presumably Blanca tells him where to go once they're back at the station and they make it to the lab, though the door is heavy enough that Kano's got to wedge part of the blender in there and squeeze himself through instead of trying to open the door up any further. ]

Maybe you can, like, dismantle those hinges while you're at it...

[papasha]

[Kano..........

Blanca is by no means a mechanic, but he seems to be pretty handing with getting the blender apart with some tools. He takes his time, though, being "careful," which is simply a means to make Kano be patient.]

You mean the one with the operating room?

[suddenlybees]

[ Blanca is a terrible mechanic and he's going to ask Al to smash blenders for him next time. ]

All the hinges! Can't lock us in if there aren't any doors, right?

[papasha]

[This is so rude. He's taking this apart just for Kano, even when Kano claimed to have nothing in return. Out of the goodness of his heart. That's just so rude!!]

I think you're right, in theory. But perhaps you should worry more about what the doors won't keep in than what they keep out.

[suddenlybees]

[ Kano can be rude and Blanca can be stupid, it's not mutually exclusive ]

Oh... You're right. We gotta keep at least one door so we can lock Hikaru inside.

[papasha]

[STOP

He sounds amused when he says,] I beg your pardon? [but doesn't stop what he's doing with the blender.]

Do you and Miss Shidou not get along?