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

[horologia]

There are creatures where I'm from that warp the world around them, based on the nature and feelings of the curse they hold... Really, the places they affect look much more, um, surreal than all this, but maybe the idea isn't so different?

[ curses and resentful energy, and places where each has left their mark. ]

[dianxias]

In mine, it can be much of the same. [ nodding!! ]

I do think you're onto something, Miss Homura. Perhaps that is why were are brought to these places each week - even if these bad memories have been forgotten by the original person, the Realm may yet need to hold onto them.

[horologia]

... things have to always balance out, right? You ... have to take the good and the bad both.

Eventually some things might fade, but that doesn't mean they never happened. Do you think we're collecting nova because of something like that?

[dianxias]

...perhaps so.

I think memories are more complicated, than sometimes they have been described, or how the Realm seems to take them at first glance. Just like you say, when we lose something, it never really disappears.

[ he pauses, brow furrowing. ] ...I think I told someone here in the Realm last week about someone from my past, and now... I don't remember who it was. [ ... ] But, because I told someone here about them, whoever that person is... they aren't gone from existence, forever. Merely just from my head, for now. So, maybe by collecting nova, we're holding onto these things, so they never truly fade from existence.

...I think you're right, too, that things most certainly do have to balance. Maybe that's why this place has such a beautiful ocean, and such delicious food. [ slowly, that frown evens out a little, to a smaller, more peaceful smile, if a little far away. this close, his emotions are just barely present; they're lingering, nostalgic, but a little sad, ultimately smoothed over with something closer to hopeful. ]

[horologia]

You... told someone, but you don't remember anymore. So, if you hadn't told them, they might have... just been gone, without anyone to be able to keep their memory alive. Because the past doesn't exist without memories...

[ that last part sounds like she's either repeating or paraphrasing something she learned from someone else, but. as she more or less repeats and paraphrases him, something in her expression grows more and more blank.

before she flinches, and takes a step back towards the doorway.

sisi i'm so sorry check your dms later ]

I... I'm sorry, Xie Lian-san. I... I have to go.