WEEK FIVE: MINGLE

[retellers]

WEEK FIVE: MINGLE (29 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. Finally, should anyone check their PHS, Alyssa, Hikaru, and Bucky'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. On that note, if your character did not stay, please make sure to check your notifs. Once again, participants may find that they have difficulty recalling complete details of the past weeks. Finally, participants will find that they now have another pet to take care of. Small creatures (based on any animal of player choice, real or mythical) will be following them around all week. However, these creatures are emotionally tied to their participant, so whatever the person they are connected to is feeling, they will outwardly display it. Angry? They will be hostile. Happy? So are they! Even more, they will react to other participants based on how theirs feels about the other. Anyone their participant loves, they will also love. Hope you don't secretly hate anyone, that might be awkward.

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[stillnot]

I definitely don't.

[ she starts poking at the keys of a piano, though. uh. that's not a good sound??? ]

... Wait, even I know that's wrong.

[showyourself]

[elsa plucks at the string of a violin. it makes an absolutely terrible sound. she follows this with several others—bass, viola, guitar, cello...]

...They're all out of tune.

I don't know how to play anything, but we're going to have to figure out how to tune these.

[sacredchants]

[ she'll pick up a viola and give it a pluck and wow. that sounds all wrong and she doesn't have to be savvy to tell. but, uh.... ]

Don't you just adjust the strings somehow on these?

[ cue her fiddling with the knobs? ]

Like you need to tighten them or loosen them...?

[stillnot]

[ clem knows enough to heave open the top of the piano.

and then just stares at the inside because what the fuck do you with this. ]

Uhh... I guess we just experiment?

[showyourself]

I don't think we have much of a choice.

[she's plucking at the violin strings, and vocalizing each note to tune it, fiddling with the violin's pegs.

yes she's tuning the violin with her voice shes a disney princess this is probably possible]

Ah... Hmm. Maybe a little higher... ah, ah ahhh.

[sacredchants]

[ hm.

yeah, she's gonna forget about tuning for a moment because—wow. ]

You have a lovely voice, Elsa.

[stillnot]

[ clementine is also impressed, and nods in agreement with izumo.

she goes to the piano to tap a key a couple times, then wanders back around to look inside and mess with the strings. she has. no idea what she's doing. ]

[showyourself]

Oh--thank you, Izumo. That's very kind of you to say.

[she plucks the string—it's about tuned—and moves on to the next, still humming and vocalizing.]

Clementine, I think you'll need a piano key if you want to tune that. It won't be possible otherwise.

[sacredchants]

Do you sing often?

[ she must, right? with that voice...? thought as clem is messing with the piano, izumo will go back to messing with the strings as she plucks on them every so often. she has no idea if things are sounding better but they're not sounding worse. ]

[stillnot]

... A what?

[showyourself]

I do, and I don't. It's more of... whenever the mood takes me, I guess?

[she's a little more shy about it, now that izumo is paying full attention to it—but she keeps going, until the violin is fully tuned]

A tuning key—or hammer, or whatever they're called. It will tighten and loosen the strings. You'll need a tuning fork, too, if you can find one...

[sacredchants]

[ she'll let the "whenever the mood takes me" comment stay there for the moment as she focuses on getting it to sound right, especially when elsa offers help with clem and the piano.

...honestly? good luck with that.

or that would be what she would be content with if the drums (why are there drums) start going off on their own as well as a gong (no really why is that here). which, uh, doesn't so much bother izumo as more like causes her to sigh heavily. ]

I thought we were done with ghosts.

[stillnot]

[ and this time it's my turn for REAL. anyway clementine is rummaging through stuff looking for something that she won't recognize on sight anyway.

until the gong, and then she is. clasping her hands on it try to shut it up?? okay??? she calls out, to any ghosts that may or may not be present: ]

No blood this time, alright?

[showyourself]

Um--oh!

[the xylophones next to her starts playing a song—and she puts her hands on it, trying to muffle the sound out of pure shock]

Maybe they're mad we're tuning their instruments...!?

[sacredchants]

No blood.

[ flatly. she isn't sure if there are, in fact, no blood but she's putting her foot down on it. no blood, and she's gonna be real unimpressed by the xylophones. ]

But why would they get mad of us for tuning them? Isn't that what you would want?

[ says izumo who offended her thot ghosts... ]

[stillnot]

Maybe they heard that we don't know how to play and they want to stop us from even trying.

[ she tentatively... lets go of the gong..... only for it to ring again.

she claps her hands back around it. ]

[showyourself]

Oh, this isn't working. What are we doing, again? Making music? Ow!

[the xylophone is now trying to play over her hands.]

Maybe we should just... record whatever these instruments are doing?

[sacredchants]

[ h...hmm....there goes the gong and the xylophone and now the piano is starting to get in on it??? just. ]

Do you think that'd make them happy?

[ might as well...try? cue her trying to hit record and. hm.

...? ]

[stillnot]

If none of us can play, that's probably our best option. Too bad Lup's not here...

[ Lup at least knows AN instrument. but uhhh hm. what's going on with that recorder...?

clem lets go of the gong. there are now just intermittent random gongs. ]

[showyourself]

I have no idea how it would make them feel, but we've got to do something...!

[elsa gives up entirely on the xylophone. memory.midi intensifies.]

If you asked me, I could probably play a bukkehorn, but that's about it!

[sacredchants]

[ yeah that's fine and good but.

um. ]

....it doesn't seem to be working.

[stillnot]

So we have out of tune instruments that we can't play or record.

[ ....... ]

[showyourself]

Okay, well... that's fine. We can solve this.

[elsa doesn't want to be here anymore. the instruments are just. randomly playing now.

she goes over to the recorder, gives it a stern look.

and kicks it.]

There.

Now try.

[sacredchants]

[ you know?

she hadn't expected elsa to kick it but you know what? she's not going to complain especially when it looks like it's starting to record? the wheels are spinning at least. ]

...I think it's working now. We should test it to make sure.

[stillnot]

[ there is such a nightmare mix of instruments playing at random right now. a recorder starts playing my heart will go on badly. from underneath a pile of instrument cases. ]

I'm starting to think we could do better.