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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[riegan]

Let's see... the last funeral I went to was for a great knight and my teacher's father.

After he died, we had a service for him at the Church. Everyone gathered and we prayed and listened to speeches about how great he was... but all we did was grieve. I'd never seen anything so beautiful but so miserable in my life.

(He isn't complaining. He's just sharing an observation he made.)

We grieved from the moment he died til after he was buried and we kept grieving for days after. All I could think about was if that's what he would have wanted.

[sacredchants]

Do you think it's better to celebrate his life than to mourn his passing?

[ izumo crosses her arms and tilts her head to a side as she sees the message he's really saying here. the kind of funeral that he experience is more or less what she's used to. ]

[riegan]

... I don't know.

(He actually, really doesn't know.)

I can only speak for myself. I'd never been to a funeral like that before so it was a bit of a learning experience for me. Where I'm from, it's kind of the opposite. Everyone gets together and we make all of the deceased's favorite foods and we talk and laugh about them. It makes it feel like they're still with us in spirit at least.

But that time... (At the Church?) It's like he was just gone.

[sacredchants]

It must have been a bit of a culture shock for you.

[ claude's experience of dealing with death is not entirely unusual to her but it's definitely a stark contrast to what the church held for him. still, izumo looks down for a moment.

her relationship with death is complicated at best but she tries. ]

What I'm familiar with is much like what you probably experienced at the church, but we only mourn the dead while we're there with them before they're buried. [ her mind wanders for a moment but she continues unbothered. ] After that, everyone is supposed to come together and share a meal together as a way to ward off evil spirits.

[ funny coming from her considering what she is. ]