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

[frostythehitman]

...are you telling me that you've only been on a boat while it's sailing, but not when it's docked?

[dawnblushed]

No, I've been on both. But they're very different experiences, so just going on a boat once doesn't necessarily mean you've experienced everything there is about being on a boat.

[frostythehitman]

Not everything. But most of it, probably. Unless every boat trip you take has some new disaster happening.

[dawnblushed]

I guess it would depend on where you're sailing, and what the weather was like. ...and if there were pirates.

[frostythehitman]

Did you ever encounter any pirates?

[dawnblushed]

Yes, but they were good ones.

[frostythehitman]

Huh. Good...how?

[dawnblushed]

They became pirates to save people that had been kidnapped and were being sent to another country to be sold into slavery.

[frostythehitman]

...so they were the ones who helped you out of [ rubs at his wrists in a miming motion ] then, not the ones who put you in them.

[dawnblushed]

...oh... no.

[haha.]

I met those pirates a long, long time before that happened. ...that's a good guess, though!

[frostythehitman]

So how did you meet them, then?

[dawnblushed]

We were searching for someone, and our search led us to a port town that was... kind of similar to this one, but not exactly. Things were really bad, and one thing led to another, and it turned out that the person we were looking for was a part of the pirate crew.

...so, while we were there, we decided to help them. [she shrugs] I think that's why my profile on the PHS says I'm good at pretending to be a pirate.

[frostythehitman]

...Huh.

What do you do, anyway, that you get in situations like that?

[dawnblushed]

...I travel to a lot of places, so I guess I happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time a lot.

[frostythehitman]

[ well that's a dodge if he's ever heard one. That's fine, Yona, he won't press. ]

And is that by coincidence, or otherwise?

[dawnblushed]

[She actually has to think about it.]

...I guess a little of both, because when I hear people are in trouble I want to go help them, but sometimes trouble just finds me.

[frostythehitman]

[ is that...a chuckle? ]

That sounds familiar. Except when I did it, it was in a warzone.

[ so. y'know. finding trouble was kind of expected. ]

[dawnblushed]

[That's right, his profile had said something about being a soldier, hadn't it? It makes sense that he'd be familiar with war.]

...maybe we're a little more alike than I thought. I didn't think I'd have things like that in common with so many people here.

[frostythehitman]

I guess all the people who ended up here tend to be in similar lines of work.

[dawnblushed]

Maybe that's why the Realm brought us here. It needed help, so it reached out for people who like helping.

[frostythehitman]

Hmm. Maybe.

Although I can think of some people here who're perfectly happy not being helpful at all.

[dawnblushed]

...

[She makes a face at that, but nods.]

...well, I guess that's true. But most of us want to help, I think.

[frostythehitman]

Hmm. Somebody ought to tell the murderers that, then, huh?

[dawnblushed]

They really should.

[(looks at timing)

and then shima murdered and said he was helping.]