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

[heartablaze]

regarding mistakes

[Twice a day, Hikaru can be found at the shrine now located in the inn lobby, her sword brought with her and laid at her knees, perfectly quiet for a long while. Might not be a good time to interrupt her, but if you do come close... well, get ready to be hit with a speeding train's worth of regret and deep, complicated anger.]

oh god what happened here

[Who lets the children dress themselves... yes she has the cat tail too I don't make the rules. Anyway, Hikaru has apparently yanked some paper from the inn and can be found anywhere that has a table, counter, or writeable surface in general with a pile of paper and multiple pens stolen from the Emporium, at least one of the pastries from the inn stuffed in her mouth. Most of it is blank, but a couple have lists of the names of the dead, surnames replaced with question marks. One page just has SHUUYA KANO written about fifty times, over and over until the paper started to break, folded up and off to the side. That seems fine!

Whatever paper is in front of her doesn't have a whole lot on it at all, Hikaru's face tight with a very subtle confusion, but she'll perk up when she sees literally anyone else nearby, waving them down. Yes even if you are only three feet from her at the tavern (what is she doing in here).]

Hey, come over here for a sec. I wanna try something, okay?

Tell me where you're from.

[chanteuser]

[ ... if hikaru is looking for a good burst of confusion on this fine day, she's going to get it. ]

Me? Ergastulum.

Why?

[heartablaze]

Hi, Alex-san!

[hello confusion, meet exhaustion and regret underneath a very sincere happiness when she walks over, which is probably a little jarring but here we are]

Erga... stu...lum... [huh... anyway, she pulls out an extra pen from somewhere in the nightmare that is her current dress, holding it out to Alex.] Could you write it down? That, and your name, and, ummmm...

Your favorite thing to eat, if you could have anything at all. I'd ask for ice cream flavor, but I know not everybody knows what that is.

[horologia]

Mitakihara, Miyagi prefecture...?

[ ... ]

Are you trying to compile a list of whether we might be from different worlds or not?

[heartablaze]

[That is a lot of syllables. But she'll still nod, pulling out an extra pen from her Magical Girl Getup. There's a visible hesitation at Homura's question, though.]

Sort of. I think we figured out that we're all from really different places? I mean, Rufus-san is a demon, and Sensei is a faun-- no, wait, um... a centaur! Anyway, not everybody is used to those, right? I don't think they are, anyway.

But, um... this is for something different. Like... remembering stuff, different.

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?

[heartablaze]

Mm! That's the village you told me about when we first met, isn't it? Here, um, write it down-- [where the fuck did she get so many pens HERE'S ANOTHER ONE from her mystery dress

And the second question just

well haha how close is XL standing

her smile tries to reach her eyes, at least!]

...I'm just curious, I guess. Nobody really talks a lot just about who they are and where they're from, things they like, anything like that. Maybe because we're all really stressed about what's going on. But...

It's... a little easier to remember somebody this way, right?

[stillnot]

Uhh... Georgia.

What's up? [ what's this about? ]

[heartablaze]

I'm just trying something! Like... a memory thing, sorta. [Where did she get that pen from? Who knows. It's here, it's being held out to you.]

Can you write that down, Clem-chan? With your name?

And, um... something you really like to eat, if you could have anything in the world.

[showyourself]

Hum? Hello, Hikaru. What are you... doing?

[apart from apparently losing your goddamn mind??? she keeps smiling, though.]

I'm from Arendelle.

[heartablaze]

I'm just trying something, Elsa-san. I know it's kind of a mess, but I'll keep it out of everybody's way.

[producing: a mystery pen! where the fuck did she get that from, who knows.]

Arendelle, right? Um... could you write it down on one of the papers, so I can read it? And your name, too.

1/3

[tensecondsahead]

You're collecting information on everyone? That's a good plan, I wrote some stuff down in my PHS last week.

I'm from--

2/3

[tensecondsahead]

[...

Wait.

Where is he from?]

mistakes :')

[supremity]

[ I wasn't going to tag this one but then I realized the best thing I could do to personally injure you so here we are.

Hua Cheng's steps are easy and measured, as they always are, even when he gets close enough to feel the force of her emotions. There's an answering, stewing anger - but regret, too, and soft concern that seems like it's trying to be buried underneath the rest.

It utterly fails, considering he comes to kneel next to her. There aren't any words, but instead...

... he rolls out that same roll of wrapping paper from the trial, plucking out the same pen, and he leans forward over it to begin doing - something. ]

[heartablaze]

[Something indeed...]

mistakes

[arcsplainist]

[ Alphinaud hasn't missed the new shrine within the inn, but he isn't familiar with what it could be, at first. It isn't until he spots Hikaru knelt in front of it that he makes the connection, and opts to, from afar, watch how she does her prayers—perhaps around when she's just about done? ]

[heartablaze]

[There doesn't seem to be any true, extravagant ceremony to it - she sets out a paper with a list of names in front of the kamidana with her sword laid flat in front of her on the floor, kneeling behind it. After a moment, she placing her hands flat in front of the blade and bows her body low, her head touching the ground, before rising up at the waist to put her fists to her knees and sit, very calmly, very quietly, for a long few minutes.

He'll know when she's done when her posture finally relaxes, quietly moving to pick the sword up and retrieve the slip of paper.

On seeing him, she'll start slightly, before giving a please smile and a nod of her head.]

Alphinaud-kun... ah, hi, good morning!

I'm just finishing, I promise. You haven't been waiting there for a while, have you?

[antaressnipe]

Myself?

[Well, hm]

Greece. Specifically, the base of Mt. Pelion is where I made my home.

[heartablaze]

Goor morning, Sensei.

[she brightens immediately on him coming over, fishing out another pen]

Is where you live a pretty place, Chiron-sensei?

paper

[discernments]

[ The Shuuya Kano page is a little concerning, but Jeanne genuinely isn't judging.

She is a little concerned, though. ]

I'm from France. Will you explain what you're trying to do?

[heartablaze]

[i'm sure it's fine!

Hikaru is genuinely happy to see Jeanne, though she will absolutely feel the wave of something pained and regretful when she walks over.]

Something for memories. I... want us to try to help each other, but we need to start with what we remember about ourselves.

[She will produce a Mystery Pen from her outfit and hand it out.]

Ruler-san, can you write that down with your name?

what happened here...

[siblingless]

[She shuffles over when prompted, letting her eyes slide over the chaos as she does. Hikaru, you okay? Wyd?]

Me? I'm from Tokyo.

[heartablaze]

[There's a lot of papers with everybody's names at this point! Assorted Info. This looks normal and fine.]

Yoshizawa-chan! Aah, hey, did you know that's where Usagi-chan is from, too? You should go say hi to her sometime!

Oh, uh, write that place name down with your actual name, okay?? I wanna keep track.

regarding mistakes

[riegan]

(Claude isn't stupid so he's definitely keeping a bit of distance away from Hikaru, not quite ready to step into her space because whatever is happening seems to be... deep. Whatever she's feeling, he wants to let her have her moment for now.

But whenever she's finished, he'll call out from where he is,)

Was that some sort of meditation?

(Or prayer? He isn't really sure. He's never seen anything like this before! Maybe. What's FE Lore.)

This may go into pc territory very fast just a heads up

[heartablaze]

[She'll start a little, swivelling enough at the waist to try and figure out where his voice came from. But once she spots him, her smile is immediate, sincere even if it's weighted.]

Mm, just prayers. It's to pay respects.

[There's a folded paper she's placed at the base of the kamidana with a whole bunch of writing, though if he is 8000 feet away there is no way on earth he is seeing what's on it.]