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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[evocationary]

[ ........ lup allows herself to get grabbed? like, it's better than drowning. she pets the kraken's tentacle. she's probably about to be eaten, but she'll try this: ]

Aww, good boy! Put me on the ship! I'll feed you all the crabs you want if you be a nice kraken and do what I say!

[reconnective]

[...well lup i guess is fine, so the skeletons seem to have stopped fighting for a second and sora just. stares at them. for being so bloody stupid.]

O...kay? Tell you what. We'll steer the boat back to the port, we'll get the treasure from the swamp, the kraken'll leave and you guys can also leave. Fair?

[he will throw skeletons overboard if he has to, but he's also guarding the wheel of the ship.]

[showyourself]

[elsa, meanwhile, is intimidating a bunch of skeletons in front of her towards the kraken, waving her sword around.]

Tell him to stop! Tell him not to eat Lup!

HEY! KRAKEN! IF YOU EAT LUP, YOU DON'T GET PAID!

[retellers]

[ ... The Kraken pauses. Whether or not it was about to eat Lup remains unknown, but apparently this monster truly does kin Rufus. What does it even do with the money. Where does it shop.

The skeletons talk amongst each other. ]

If you somehow manage to bring us our treasure within the next five minutes, we'll leave.

[evocationary]

[ well, here we are, francy, yet again with you tentacling my character

lup just waits to eventually be put down. she spits out salt water and pats the kraken. ]

[reconnective]

[...well.]

Deal. [he turns to face the kraken.]

Hey! Kraken! You want your money? Come get it! [since the skeletons have put a pause on things, sora is going to adjust the wheel of the ship and turn to immediately speed back toward the port. hold on everybody.]

[showyourself]

[WOOOOO THE SHIP IS MOVING, THE SKELETONS AREN'T ATTACKING, AND THE KRAKEN ISN'T EATING LUP! this is a serious success.

elsa points her sword over the bow, putting one foot up on the side, and yells to the kraken:]

Carve us a path to the swamp for fair compensation!

[retellers]

[ The Kraken is pat. It's also not like, letting her go. It is fine with just holding her. Taako probably has some reaction here. It is a very beautiful monologue, filled with sentences and poetry that would make Shakespeare duck his head in shame as he realizes his own failures in comparison. Wow, Taako. Wow. So enthralling, so moving.

The Kraken looks at Elsa though. There is land in the way? What path is it going to cut?? Hello???

None of the skeletons help Sora steer this ship, which now that I think about it, I have no idea how he managed to do this solo. These are large ships and absolutely no one helped him whatsoever. ]

[evocationary]

[ taako just out here letting his sister be grabbed smh ]

Are we just - uh, are we just gonna be here, with you holding me? I know I'm pretty but I'm not actually a Fantasy Barbie doll, my dude.

Put me down. Not in the water. Do you want me to say please?

[reconnective]

[sora is just good at steering boats and being a pirate i guess. we'll go with that. the skeletons have all proven to be utterly worthless and this is his boat now. mob and soo-won are somewhere vibin' and elsa's...sure trying!

and so he steers the ship closer to the port as he yells over to the kraken.]

Heeeeyyyy! Are you coming or not? We'll make a trade! Money for Lup!

[showyourself]

[the kraken looks at elsa. elsa looks at the kraken, and gives him a very frustrated shrug? she is TRYING to get in the SPIRIT of things, and DOES NOT HAVE ANY TREASURE?]

Just follow us!

[anyway. as soon as the ship gets near enough (or at least, noisily crashes into the port), elsa will launch herself off of it, and make her way immediately to the nearest group hauling a treasure chest—jeanne and izumo—to alert them tO PAY THE KRAKEN]

[retellers]

[ The Kraken... will drop Lup. Into the water. Shiro and Hua Cheng are probably in there somewhere as well? Did they ever get out of there. Ochako is bleeding in a boat. Please, someone tend to her gunshot wound.

Anyway. It wants to be paid. The swamp group has been informed. ]

[evocationary]

[ as she's falling and splashing back into the water for a second time from high up: ]

I SAID NOT IN THE WATER you asshole!

[reconnective]

[the boat is at the port. they did great. the kraken drops lup and elsa disappears to go inform the swamp gang about the kraken's money. sora's going to address lup once he spots the other people nearby.]

What--check on the others and get them out of there! [he's busy keeping a hold of this boat. taako no longer has anything to blow up. but he'll look at the skeletons while keeping a grip on the wheel.]

Well? We're here, and we're getting the money. You know the deal.

[leave. his ship now.]

[showyourself]

[elsa, meanwhile, is hoofing BACK to the harbor, waving her sword at sora—and the kraken, really.]

Jeanne and Izumo are on their way with the treasure! [the payment.

and to the skeletons, as she jumps into ochako's boat to STOP HER FROM FREEBLEEDING FOR FOUR MORE HOURS:] You heard him. Go on.

[git.]