redactable | WEEK TWO: MINGLE

WEEK TWO: MINGLE
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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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[ oh. this is similar to what she was talking about the other day, huh... or close enough, anyway. ]

I think... we should also talk about what happened to our groups last Thursday - and the things we found. I know that knowing about all that could technically help whoever hurt Cater-san and Kreuger-san, but it helps the rest of us to know, too, doesn't it? So that way, we'll all be on even ground and know what we have to work with.

Yes, I've shared what we'd learned with a few already, but it would be wise to ensure everyone knows.

Me too, but I think it's better if we make sure no one's left out of the loop. We can't work together to fix the disturbances if we don't all know what's going on.

The thing is, I'm sure there's more going on with those two than "I want to kill someone". So writing them off as murderers and nothing more won't help.

I can share what I saw, but it's only half of the story. Alex and Sora have the other half.

...I know there's probably more to it than that. But if they don't tell us, we can't know for sure what it is.

[ she just doesn't want to believe anyone here is really a villain, but... killing people is something villains do. ]

I heart some of it from Sora. He said you guys were in a mansion?

Yeah. At first all four of us were together, but then there were two different paths to take. Blanca and I took one, and Alex and Sora took the other.

The mansion itself was old and abandoned. I found some burnt logs in the fireplace that were from months ago. And then there were bits of glowing graffiti all over the place, which I thought was written by a ghostly child.

Eventually we did find ghosts, but they were rude and took the face of someone I knew. So I didn't get to investigate that as closely as I wanted to.

Graffiti and burnt logs, huh... That's very different from what we saw.

The ghosts didn't try to attack you, though, did they?

There were traps, but I dunno if the ghosts set them or not.

...Is that why you guys were injured?

Yeah, that's why. The place had more than a few traps.

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

I'm glad that's all it was.

[Aww, Ochako. There's a smile and a feeling of gratitude there.]

You're a little worrywart, aren't you? But it all turned out alright, so it's okay.

I just wouldn't want anyone else to have to deal with the same things we did, is all.

[ but yea she worries a little too ]

That's right, you guys went through quite a bit, yeah? Did you see any ghosts over there?

Not ghosts, no. It was mostly just monsters.

[ there's obviously something more to it but pc me to find out maple ;) ]

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... there was something about a meteor falling towards all of you, right?

...huh. Is that were the fire came from?

[Old man missed a few details.]

I... Don't know. Maybe?

When I heard part of the story, it all sounded very... Disjointed. [ it could have also just been because she was fukkin high. ] So I was asking to see if your general experience might have matched theirs.

[ and a giant meteor from the sky probably was the best bet at seeing if both the places were the same or if they'd split off into their own little bubbles, or something. ]

Well I was stuck in a haunted mansion, I couldn't see outside of it. So if there was a meteor, I didn't see it.

Mmm. Since Swan said the effects might have been because we stayed out there while things were happening... They might be worth taking a closer look at.

You mean the effects on Friday morning? Don't those usually disappear by Saturday?

Yes, but... Um, well...

[ gestures at what xie lian covered downthread while I was at work

I can get away with this by pretending she just is too shy to say anything after someone else spoke up. haha! why didn't I play her sooner. ]

[ she's listening to xl also this is fine. ]

You both have a point, Homura-san! The only thing is that some of them might be easy to fake... but I think the only way around that would be to stay in town, wouldn't it?

[ gege coming in clutch downthread hallelujah ]

En, information can harm as much as it can help. [ Agreeing, and less agitated in the direction of a shoujo-adjacent that's done nothing to earn his ire. Especially this one that Xie Lian likes. ] We have to be careful how we spread information, and make it harder for whoever the culprit - or culprits - may be to falsify. But information shared too late or not at all, in some cases, is just as harmful.

[ nodding! ]

That's what I'm worried about. It's probably not worth the risk of forgetting, or losing the one person who knows something important.

And anyway, without knowing who exactly was at fault for what happened last week, they could find out what we know, anyway. It won't matter how much we try to protect the information if even one person trusts them enough to share.