WEEK SIX: MINGLE

[retellers]

WEEK SIX: MINGLE (25 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, Elsa, Yona, Shigeo, and Fiora'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. Once again, participants may find that they have difficulty recalling complete details of the past weeks. Also, anyone who had been poisoned during trial will still be feeling sick! Haha! Finally, participants will find that they are now sporting a new injury. This injury is one that they received in their past, whether they remember it or not. No matter how fatal the injury is, participants won't die from it, and the pain they feel will be dulled down. However, if another participant touches someone's injury effect, even if it's covered, then they will both be hit with whatever pain that was felt when the injury was first inflicted. This pain will last ten seconds. The injury can also be as minor or major as desired.

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[supremity]

I. the inn

[ We haven't even made it out of the damn town yet before something is very clearly wrong. Hua Cheng is still dressing more loosely, his left sleeve pinned to his shoulder for his red red robes. After Wolf heals them of their poisoning, he's returning to go and actually rummage through his things - but the problem is, he's very clearly and very freely bleeding from an injury on his face.

From under his eyepatch.

He's mostly ignoring it, but he does reach up to try and brush the heel of his hand against the wet spot with a soft tch when it comes away even more red than his robes. With his 24/7 state of pain from his arm, this is just a dull background pain, so he's just. Trucking along, going towards the restrooms to maybe grab something to clean himself up with. ]

II. the boardwalk

[ Well once that's been taken care of - he's still mcfucking bleeding, but whaddya gonna do - and he's gotten some bandages and gauze pads tucked under his eyepatch, he's checking out the new location! This all reminds him of Ghost City, so he's honestly just vibing, despite the fact that he know he's going to have to change his bandages to deal with the horror show that is his (still hidden) eye.

But it's as he's checking out a stall that anyone in the area might hear a rare, startled noise coming out of Hua Cheng.

That would be because, all of a sudden, his hair? Goes from being almost six feet long to being seventy feet, taking up a huge portion of the boardwalk after it basically just - explodes everywhere from his head.

The good news is, the frayed and frazzled bits are gone, and so is the four foot chunk! The bad news is, what the fuck is he supposed to do with seventy feet of hair? ]

III. boardwalk bonus

[ Do you want to come hang out with Hua Cheng and Xie Lian? They've found a corner of the boardwalk near the shops to sit down, and Xie Lian is currently apologizing profusely as he brushes out Hua Cheng's hair. All, again, seventy feet of it. ]

I wasn't expecting it to be this long, San Lang, I'm sorry...

Gege, it's fine, really. I appreciate what you were doing.

[ Someone please have mercy on them. ]

IV. wildcard

[ do it baby I know the law

or PC me that's good too ]

III.

[chanteuser]

[ ohhhhh dear. ]

Oh they weren't kidding about it being a ridiculous amount of hair, were they? [ do you boys need a hand...? ]

[supremity]

[ He raises his hand in greeting to Alex, while Xie Lian keeps a-brushing. ]

They really weren't. It's - a lot. [ Please. Do you want to help section his hair out so they can cut it, Alex, it can be bonding time. ]

[chanteuser]

I figured it'd be a lot but... there's a lot and then there's...

[ she gestures. that hair.

but she will come and sit down next to him. ] Need a hand untangling this side?

[supremity]

It nearly took me out.

[ Like what the fuck is he supposed to do with over seven times his height worth of hair in a second? ]

Please. I think we're going to try and cut it in sections, but it's too tangled to easily get into sections.

III

[dianxias]

I. I should've known it would've been so long, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry...

[ xie lian is here, fussing over hua cheng's hair. he has a comb in one hand and uh. a pile of hair in the other?

there's a beat, and he just... slowly puts the comb down and reaches for his other tool of lianlian's hair shop -- his fucking sword!

this is fine. ] Um. Make sure you hold still, San Lang...

[ and he's going to just go ahead and take his sword about ten feet up and slice it off to test it. ]

[supremity]

Really, it's alright. It was getting kind of annoying having the shorter section come free from the rest of it.

[ A glance back out of the corner of his eye, and - Hua Cheng is completely unconcerned about seeing Xie Lian pull out his fucking sword. He just watches him, turning his head forward again that bare amount that he peeked. ]

Still as water, gege. [ And..!

It cuts!

But not much of it. Whomp. ]

[dianxias]

[ there's a long pause. xie lian lifts the sword and stares at it. ]


...That's never happened before...

[ was this poorly made? maybe it needs to be sharpened? is he getting rusty?

or, maybe it just needs more force? hm. he takes one, two, three steps back. ]

Alright, here we go again. Hold very still!

[ and this time, he leaps into the air and delivers a downward slash with some gusto. it seems like he's enjoying himself. ]

[supremity]

[ Well at least Xie Lian is enjoying himself. Hua Cheng sits obediently, only moving briefly to pull out a bit of gauze to wipe at his face when he can feel blood dribbling out from the bandages and gauze under his eyepatch.

There's a wholeass gust at his back??

But he still doesn't move. He does sound amused, though. ]

I'm glad at least that gege is enjoying himself, but don't dull your blade on my account.

[ It cuts a little more than it did before, but still not as much as Xie Lian would expect. Like his hair is super resilient or something. ]

A BONUS THING..?

[supremity]

[ A little while after all these escapades, Hua Cheng can be found in the plaza.

He holds up a familiar, metal arm. It matches the side that he's missing an arm in now, and he does not exactly look very impressed. Actually, he looks vaguely exhausted on a spiritual level, because... ]

Does anyone know how to attach one of these damn things?

[infreefall]

[ she's just

staring in mute shock. at a wuxia holding bucky's wholeass arm. ]

Did... Bucky-san send you that himself?

[ WHAT? ]

[supremity]

Yes. [ he is aged ] With no instructions. Because he doesn't remember how it works, I'm guessing.

[ "Hope this helps." He's going to beat Bucky with his own arm. ]

[uhhhmagic]

[okay um

making a motion like

putting something up to your shoulder. then wrapping something around your shoulder.]

[supremity]

... I'm not sure how effective that would be.

[ I'm glad that alli has taken on the mantle of charades from cardori and britt ]

Though stranger things have happened in here, I guess.

[robopriest]

Oh. That looks pretty cool.

[Says Hansa, quietly, from where he's just standing a few feet away. Sure wish he knew what to do with metal limbs!]

[horologia]

Even if we knew, I'm almost more concerned you might get some of your hair stuck in the joint while attaching it...

[ that's. an entire arm? ]

III

[moondumplings]

[ well isn't this a familiar sight. Usagi, she of 'i woke up one day to 20 feet of silver hair' comes over to check up on the both of them. ]

Tying them into sections might help.

[supremity]

It's a bit cumbersome to get into sections, to be honest.

[ It also is a wee bit tangled, because even if he's usually tangle-free... it's. It's 70 feet that he had to collect and move. ]

But I think we'll get there, eventually.

[moondumplings]

[ her eyes are laughing even if she’s managing to stay relatively straight faced for the moment ]

Hua Cheng-san certainly has his work cut out for him.

[ but she’s be settling next to him on the opposite side of the others. time to pull out one of those ridiculous gift shop novelty combs out of her pocket ]

If it was gold as mine, you really would be Rapunzel-san.

iii

[stillnot]

[ clementine "keep that hair short" lastname is just staring.

long hair......... ]

At least you can cut it again...?

[supremity]

[ It was already stupid long, now it's just ridiculous. ]

To some degree? [ huff ] So far, it's more... ah, resilient. I'd worry that we'd dull anything before we managed to get all of it.

[stillnot]

Long hair's dangerous, though. It's worth powering through it.

[ ... if it's dulling everything they try to use, that might not be an option? ]

ii

[antaressnipe]

[How did I miss this. unacceptable.

The llama is looking at all of this hair in its way in quiet judgment.]

[supremity]

[ I can't believe this long-necked donkey is going to throw stones in glass houses???

But it's fine, because the ghost is going to stare at all of the hair everywhere in pure "what the fuck"ery, turning to try and see how far the hairsplosion went.

He sees the llama. ] What the hell?

[antaressnipe]

[Hello, Rapunzel.

... Okay the llama is not that shady, even when it's not a llama, but it will tilt its head at the other because

yea

what the hell

the llama would also like to know]