redactable | WEEK ONE: MINGLE

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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locations ₓ˚. statuses *+:｡ ic profiles :ₓo ic rules ･ﾟﾟ･｡ audience requests
murder proposals ｡✧o private conversations ･ﾟo｡ curfew ･ﾟ✧ memories

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they put it in their cloak. ]

[a nod of solidarity.]

...that's all I've got on me. Sorry.

Eh. I'll take it.

[ they did. ]

Okay. [thanks tiger.] Question for you. Who decided to split you guys in half so that we only get to see three of you at a time?

I don't know. One of us? I tuned out like, half of that meeting.

How was that helpful? [for them. how was that helpful for tiger.]

It's helpful for us. It would be way more annoying if we didn't split it up.

I meant tuning out halfway. [he says. as if he wouldn't do the same.]

All we were doing was deciding how to handle you all when you arrived--gift baskets, who would greet you, blah blah blah.

...none of you thought about trying to figure out if you even knew each other already?

No, it didn't occur to us at all.

[ they give him a flat look. ]

Of course we tried. But the thing about very quickly learning how the Realm worked was also realizing just how different other worlds can work, too. Even if there was something that some of us knew the name of and others didn't, we still couldn't completely erase certain possibilities.

And focusing too much on what we don't remember isn't helpful.

[a flat look back.]

The Realm really isn't making any of this easy on anybody. I dunno. I guess maybe I thought remembering the things you gave up could help with the nova problem. But that sounds like a no.

We're not going to remember anything like that.

[ they sound a little annoyed. ]

So you'll just have to deal with being stuck with the reject versions of ourselves.

I didn't say you were reject versions. [:\] ...sorry if that's what it sounded like.

You guys keep assuming that we didn't try to find loopholes in all of this either. Trust me, we did. And now we just have to deal with this.

[he just stares at the ceiling.] It's not assuming you didn't try, it's asking what you remember trying and what you want to try next.

[no, this is just sora saying things without entirely thinking about how they sound despite the intentions.]

I mean in general, not just you.

[ but also sora. he tries so much to be helpful and tiger is just prickly by nature. ]

But the only way to remember anything is by getting the nova back.

Right...[well...that's something.] Do we know of any other ways yet besides things like the scavenger hunt last week? Like any definite ways. I know we've been collecting it without knowing, but I guess I don't understand how to do it on purpose.