WEEK TWO: MINGLE

[retellers]

WEEK TWO: MINGLE (37 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, and new buildings within the town have been unlocked. Finally, should anyone check their PHS, Cater, Sharon, and Kano'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. If you break the current ninth rule, participants will get shocked. It will be a mild shock at first, but the longer they touch each other, the stronger it will get. On that note, if your character did not share a memory last week, please make sure to check your notifs! Participants may also find that their memories of the past few weeks are getting fuzzier... as though they can't recall some of the details without focusing. Finally, this week, every time a participant gets within one foot of someone, they will experience the emotions the other person is currently feeling and vice-versa. This will last for ten seconds even after they've stepped out of their personal bubble, after which the sharing itself might share, but the knowledge will not. Have fun!

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Comments

[dawnblushed]

...we have to be sure that having an arrangement like that doesn't make us feel complacent, too. I'd rather we get it right and never need to make use of an arrangement like that at all.

[heartablaze]

[she'll bristle a little at hearing that, but stays quiet

she doesn't have any place to talk here]

[supremity]

[ Poor Mob has to deal with this scary asshole who even at his most placid is intimidating, but he's not unkind when he responds so there's that. ]

One person is still someone that can account for that. If they can tell someone else, after, all the better.

[retellers]

Don't know about that. Haven't managed to avoid all of you guys yet.

[ okay, there's a slight quirk to one corner of their mouth. maybe they are lying ]

[dawnblushed]

Maybe we should all go swimming together and get used to seeing, uh, that. So no one feels shy at the end of the week.

[#helping]

[retellers]

That why you came in? Don't let me stop you.

[ ... well it's not an outright rejection ]

[supremity]

[ So, the moment that Xie Lian is present for this cluster of information back and forth? Hua Cheng's anger levels drop astronomically. Especially under that appreciative something, which sort of - catches him off guard? Watch him look a little surprised like he's the shoujo maiden before he catches himself.

And then, BOOM. DEVOTION. Sorry @ literally anybody that gets close enough to feel how much this cool and commanding bastard is devoted to one (1) trash grandpa.

(Concerned and protective, also. That's the something else under his anger.) ]

That's good to know, gege. We'll be able to better prepare for it, although that may allow the untrustworthy party to do the same. We do have to figure out a way to go about it.

[antaressnipe]

Mmm, you are not incorrect... While I believe the majority of us would not want this to come to pass, it does mean a volunteer would relieve some of the burden that would otherwise motivate us.

[infreefall]

[ ochako hesitates, but speaks up after a moment. ]

I understand what you're saying about not wanting to tip them off. But how are we supposed to know who to tell or who not to tell, or what to keep secret or not? If we're too selective, then it still won't help us. What if someone forgets something important, or if someone is targeted and only a few people - or no one - knows what they do? We'd still have lost that advantage, wouldn't we?

[dawnblushed]

"Probably"?

[infreefall]

[ she thinks about that for a second, then quietly says: ]

I'm glad that's all it was.

[dawnblushed]

Hey!

[ >T !!]

[heartablaze]

[oh

well that's a normal feeling and she's obliviously very happy for them being happy at each other but

that's a lot????]

[dawnblushed]

Mhm. That's why I don't really like the idea of it. I know we have to come up with something so that when we go in there we can use all of the time we have to find out what happened, but I can't help but be worried about getting complacent.

[dianxias]

[ this is a perfectly friendly level of devotion?

xie lian doesn't even react. business! he's nodding. ]

En - I think so too, now that this is almost certainly going to be a pattern. I think it should be very clear no matter what that no one should be sleeping alone.

[dianxias]

That is true. I think it would be best to minimize the number of people who don't sleep in town on Thursday night, no matter what.

[recrowns]

I'm afraid I can't give you advice on who to trust or not -

But I don't mean about information about the Realm or this place. If it will ultimately lead to helping us all actually stabilize the nova, or whatever it is that our tasks equate to, then I believe sharing that is fine. That's for the good of the order.

I primarily mean information regarding how we're going to conduct ourselves in trials - given the way that if we say "we're going to check inside everyone's shoes for scalpels" people will simply hide their scalpels in a place that isn't their shoes.

[a beat]

We should still check everyone's shoes for scalpels.

[he just picked a really obvious example of what they need to start doing]

[antaressnipe]

I understand. But unfortunately, it is still better than nothing. The alternative thus far -- should we not settle on a culprit -- is a wave of panicked votes.

[So basically there is no happy solution.]

[antaressnipe]

[... Yeah this seems about right.]

[chanteuser]

[ thank god can you imagine what we'd be like with a win or die mechanic? terrible. ]

Right. It's as simple as that. We have to.

paper crimes

[dianxias]

...A place called Xian Le.

[ he's glad he still remembers it. it's best to say so, while he can. ]

Why do you ask, Hikaru?

[chanteuser]

... Hm. Well, out of the stuff I've had here...?

[ ... ]

It's a bit big-headed to put waffles isn't it? I made them...

[ aha. ] I don't know what I don't like either. I haven't really come across anything yet.

[dawnblushed]

...maybe this is something we should decide after we find out what happens, but before the trial starts. If we take volunteers too far in advance, what's to stop someone who decides to kill from going after the volunteers?

[dawnblushed]

[How cute...

Legit, Yona isn't saying anything, but she's lingering nearby because it's nice to feel something positive like this instead of, you know, anger and stress?]

[antaressnipe]

[... If Yona is next to him, she's going to feel a wave of deep thought, assessment, like his mind is running in five different directions.

But in the end he just nods]

That is a fair point, Yona. I see nothing wrong with allowing everyone time to consider, so long as we do not use it later as an excuse to avoid the conversation all-together.