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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[sacredchants]

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........okay. yeah, sora can do the talking here because izumo's got nothing. ]

[reconnective]

[holy shit.

he. is trying not to laugh even if he has no idea who inigo montoya is, but he sounds very tragic. anyway. well....]

Riiight...[what does he even want to know? there are many questions he could ask, but perhaps the most relevant is a simple one.]

Usually when we're told to meet on this side of the bridge, someone needs our help. So I guess what's troubling me is not knowing what to do next.

[there. nice and simple and not likely to dredge up very personal problems.]

[robopriest]

[His eyes go wide at the insult, before he murmurs, ever so maturely:]

You're an Inigo Montoya lookin' bootleg bitch.

[And then he just shakes his head, pointing at Sora.]

Whatever he said. Just tell us what to do next.

[retellers]

I do not need help. It is my job to offer guidance to--shh, Mojo, not now.

[ The cat is mewing. The fortune teller idly pats the kitty. ]

But ah! I can see it... your future... the children...

[sacredchants]

[ izumo's just. going to look at hansa and just. ]

Are you even listening to yourself?

[ suddenly she has so many questions, or well, even more questions than she had before. is this fine? who knows anymore but...

when the fortune teller mentions children, she has her attention again. unfortunately. ]

[reconnective]

Who even is--never mind. [cat...him too, cat.]

Okay. Back up. What exactly do you see then? If you know the future then you know what's troubling us, right?

[robopriest]

[He completely ignores Izumo, just letting out a sharp huff of displeasure.]

What children?

[GET TO THE POINT]

[retellers]

[ She pauses, and points at Hansa. ]

Is he always like this? Does he also ask you how movies end when you're twenty minutes into it? Fucking tourists.

[ Anyway. ]

The children are the key.

[sacredchants]

[ izumo's going to be doing damage control on hansa, apparently, which is a terrible idea. but this means that she's going to raise a hand (her only good one) into the air to answer. ]

He just woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Probably. If you let him pet the cat, I'm sure he'll be less....everything.

[ probably. again. ]

[reconnective]

Yeah. Like, uh, a therapy animal? If you let him pet Mojo he'll behave a lot better. [is this helping. but. ...the key, huh. he seems momentarily distracted then. ]

What children? You don't mean us, right? And what are they the key to?

[robopriest]

...

[Yeah, he's not going to answer. Keep going, you two. Maybe you can be more mature than the man whose brain is currently shackled to a wild horse who will not be patronized, even by the most dedicated horse girl.]

[retellers]

If he even looks at me the wrong way with his bedazzled eye, Mojo time is over.

[ She puts the cat back on the ground.

Anyway. ]

The children are the key. They're haunting you all.

[sacredchants]

[ "whose brain is currently shackled to a wild horse who will not be patronized, even by the most dedicated horse girl."

what. does that even mean. either way, izumo is glad that the catte is free but will allow hansa to have the catte since he's feral and izumo can still fawn from the distance. that said— ]

I don't feel anyone haunting me.

[reconnective]

[a cat for hansa it is. is this how babysitting works?]

Wait, is that something you can do usually? [this is to izumo, not at all thinking it could simply be just seeing ghosts like last time. but he faces the lady again.] If they're haunting us that means something is keeping them here, right? What is it?

[robopriest]

...!

[Oh, he's getting the cat? He reaches for it, happily gathering it into his lap. He is appeased...for now.]

[He pets Mojo gently, looking back and forth between the fortune teller and the others.]

...What, do we have to exorcise these kids or something?

[retellers]

[ Mojo happily settles. This cat likes attention and will probably start meowing in a few minutes as if it has never been fed in its life before, despite eating half an hour earlier. ]

They will bring you great anguish while you are here. I can see it... [ she closes her eyes. ] The pink one has already fallen due to them.

[sacredchants]

[ operation getting a cat for hansa worked out great! nice.

but, uh. to first answer sora's question. she'll just shrug her one shoulder. ]

Kind of? I feel like I might be able to but... [ memories are like swiss cheese and so what is remembering things accurately. ] Don't forget you could probably have tells if you were.

[ things moving around. spoopy shadows.... you know. ]

[reconnective]

Huh. [okay...but they can talk about that later and the nod he gives her says as much. As it is--wait. guess who's rooming with someone with pink hair?] Hold on! Is Hilda in trouble?

[FALLEN DOES NOT SOUND GREAT. he does not and will not know it is very literal.] How do we unhaunt ourselves?

[robopriest]

[Shhh, kitty, its okay. Who's a good Mojo? You are! You are!!!]

[wait they have to talk about ghosts]

Fallen like...is she dead?

[SHE'D BETTER NOT BE DEAD he likes Hilda :(]

[retellers]

She is facing the children... terrible, terrible.

[ She sighs so heavily. ]

They show no mercy.

[sacredchants]

[ i,,,

izumo really shouldn't be speaking right now but she sure is. ]

Are you going to say something actually useful?

[ WHO ARE THESE CHILDREN?? WHAT SHOULD THEY DO?? ]

[reconnective]

As long as she doesn't need her axe she should be fine...[rip to leonard and leonard only. he leans forward to tap on the crystal ball though.] Can't you use this thing to tell us their fate? And ours?

[WHAT KIND OF A FORTUNE TELLER ARE YOU.]

[robopriest]

[piping up from the feral peanut gallery]

Didn't I tell you she was a terrible lady? She's just speaking nonsense. It's not even good nonsense.

[retellers]

You know I'm doing this for free, right? You haven't paid me. You just came in and started insulting me right away? You are seriously everything that is fucking wrong with the tourist industry in this country, entitled as shit...

[ She looks at the crystal ball. ]

Whatever. Taako is about to betray Hilda over some weed I guess.

[sacredchants]

[ hmmm.

well if there's anything that izumo has learned since the last time she spoke to the ghosts is to stop while she's ahead. poor sora having to deal with the two of them and them being absolutely terrible.

...mostly hansa. ]

Would you be better at this if we paid you?

[ does anyone here have money?? ]