WEEK SIX: MINGLE

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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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[ They all stop talking at once, but mostly so they can all just glare at each other angrily. The hostility here... is intense.

Harry the hot dog guy raises his hand. ]

Like... I had, this bottle of ketchup, for my wieners, but it's... just... and now I only have mustard. It's messed up, man. Where is my ketchup?

[ A voice calls out in the distance, ]

People like relish, you asshole!

[moondumplings]

[ good thing usagi has shoujo metabolism, huh? can't wait for her to find out it was nulled while here ]

All options are good!

[ she's still mostly just peeking out behind Chiron but that sure is a stern look on her face. ]

What if someone is allergic to one but not the other...? How terrible... Imagine having to eat a plain hot dog....... Who would do such a thing??

[ SPEAK UP CONDIMENT THIEF ]

[antaressnipe]

-- I will trust your judgment Miss Usagi and assume you are not referring to ... actual dogs.

[Anyway, Chiron is just Usagi's bouncer now, ready to throw down if anyone dares glare back at her

"Marie wasn't this supposed to be a court room" bouncer horse.]

... Let me pose a potential solution to everyone -- in order to track down the missing items, all food stalls must submit to our examinations, in order to be fair.

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[ There is some disgruntled murmuring... and then they all nod their head slowly. ]

Fiiiiiine.

[moondumplings]

[ wow look at Chiron-san go. she blinks a little that it worked so well and pops another piece of cake in her mouth. om nom. ]

... Should we each go down a side and meet at the end?

[ she's ready to Take Notes and Get Answers! yeah! get ready to be blinded by shoujo, stall owners ]

[antaressnipe]

[No one is more excited this worked than Chiron and he even turns to Usagi with a little tail wag.

Wow it's like he's good at wrangling people like they are his children. Maybe a teacher-type? A dad-type? ... Nah.]

Yes, I agree. I will take the left side, Miss Usagi. Let us check thoroughly and then compile our notes at the end.

[SO WHICH BINCHES DOES CHIRON GET TO CHECK]

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[ Chiron gets... cotton candy, pretzels, hot dogs, ice cream.

Usagi gets... popcorn, fried oreos, pizza, funnel cakes.

Let's roll, folks. ]

[moondumplings]

[ HELL YEAH, HELL YEAH.

Usagi immediately nyooms for Peggy-san, gushing about how good her popcorn is and making sure that she's all set outside of her missing bags. Fried Oreo's and Pizza-san's gets samples tasted collected for evidence gathering while Fred-san gets a bit of a stink eye for being difficult earlier. But she's here to tell him she really enjoyed the cake anyways...! and find out what he's missing too I guess. ]

[antaressnipe]

[Meanwhile, on the left side, Chiron will politely but insistently ask for everyone's recollections on what they've lost, and who they specifically have grievances with, if any.

... He's also going to try and check the stalls themselves if people allow him to.

So basically it's Trial Day, Food Stall Edition.]

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[ So here is how it all went down.

Peggy will keep Usagi at her stall for like, ten minutes, talking about how difficult it is to sell popcorn when you don't have any bags. Every day, she wakes up, and fears when she will have to ask a customer if she is okay with a plate. Who wants popcorn in a plate? It will all fall off. She's terrified.

Oscar of the fried oreos is very upset that he is missing his whole ass fryer? NOW HE ONLY HAS COOKIES. He glares over at Peggy, who has to be a fryer stealing bitch.

Fred glares back. Apparently, he is missing a lot of the batter for his cakes? He thinks Harry took it.......

Peter is over at the pizza spot. He is all out of cheese. All of it. Where can you hide all of this cheese. He thinks Inigo is a dirty thief.

Meanwhile, with Chiron. Inogo, the ice cream seller, can't find his sprinkles? And as we all know, it is impossible to eat ice cream without sprinkles, his entire life is just ruined now forever. He bursts into tears.

Harry already cried about his ketchup. He goes on another speech about it. He tells Chiron about how ketchup is valid seasoning.

Carl is on his phone near the cotton candy. Apparently, he is not even sure what he is missing. His shift ends in forty minutes.

Penelope, at the pretzels, is missing cups. She's not sure why she needed them, because they discontinued the pretzel bites, but she's offended anyway. She thinks Peter took them. ]

[moondumplings]

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this is all so much. at least usagi dutifully listens to everyone, nods appropriately and takes as many notes as she can for chiron-san? maybe he'll make heads or tails of any of this ]

Chiron-san..... I think they're all blaming the wrong person..?

[ her eyes are starting to cross trying to figure this out ]

[antaressnipe]

[After gently patting Inogo on the back in order to console him and then talking to the rest of the group, Chiron gets his notes together and...

God I hate that I wrote NOTES FOR THIS and this is the result:

Oscar blames Peggy.

Peggy blames Fred.

Fred blames Harry.

Harry blames ???

Carl does not care and is valid is unconcerned.

Penelope blames Peter.

Peter blames Inigo.

Inogo blames ???

... And after looking at this and examining the evidence, he glances up, deadeyed at the group.]

Well, there are two current theories I have, Miss Usagi.

Either they are all telling the truth, and thus each of them have likely "borrowed" an item from one another when the others were not looking...

...

Or they all just misplaced their items and are simply too stubborn to admit as such.

[B| YE WITHOUT SIN, CAST THE FIRST STONE]

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[ They all start talking at the same time again, saying very rude words. Penelope throws a pretzel down in disgust at this accusation that she's stubborn. Carl's phone lights up, and he looks excited for a moment, but then the light leaves his eyes at once.

Oscar speaks up. ]

We should have a trial, and vote for whoever is guilty!

[moondumplings]

[ even usagi's starting to wish for lightning to strike them all at this point. why are you all like this. ]

Chiron-san...................

[ what do we do ]

[antaressnipe]

... Very well.

[Smiling at them all.

He casually reaches for his bow and an arrow]

Let us have the trial, if you wish.

I will personally remove the guilty from the Realm, yes?

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[ Peggy whispers to whoever is closest to her in the next stall. ]

What's a Realm? Did they rename the boardwalk?

[ But they look around. ]

Tell us who's guilty.

[moondumplings]

[ puts a hand on her forehead ]

Oh goodness...

[ looking at this list Chiron-san put together, Usagi points to the circular effect of some of these names. ]

Not everyone is getting blamed and blaming someone...?

[ is this A Clue? ]

[antaressnipe]

Hm. Then we will interrogate them before my patience runs thin.

[They're not real and a horse (???!!) is slowly running out of shits to give]

Harry, Inogo, and Carl -- whom do you three blame for your problems, if anyone?

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[ Harry points at Carl. Inogo points at Peggy.

Carl shrugs. ]

I don't know, Satan?

[moondumplings]

[ usagi, not entirely familiar with chrisitan mythos immediately looks around for this mysterious other person.

where's Satan-san? ]

[antaressnipe]

[... Me trying to decide if Chiron knows who Satan is with his extreme memory loss, then I rolled a d20 and it gave him a 6.

:)]

Whoever this Satan is, they are currently unavailable, Carl, and your lack of enthusiasm makes you rather suspicious despite Peggy having been voted for twice.

[Is Chiron pulling this out of his horse ass? Does he believe what he's preaching? Is this Marie shitposting before she goes to bed?

Well, whatever the case, an arrow is being fitted into the bow]

State your case carefully, elsewise you might be declared the guilty party.

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[ Carl looks up from his phone. ]

You know what? Maybe you two are the ones doing this. You sure did stroll in here like you owned the place, and-- oh.

[ His phone lights up. He looks back down, looking excited, and then immediately deflating. ]

Anyway. You probably stole the ketchup.

[ everyone starts whispering loudly, which is a normal talking volume. ]

[moondumplings]

[ carl, pls. that persons just not into you ]

But I don't like ketchup.

[ clearly, this is the important part here. ]

I just wanted a snack, everyone..... But, I also want to help if you were having problems.

[ look at her big shoujo eyes...... aren't you feeling guilty yet? ]

[retellers]

Then go find Satan.

[ Carl looks back at his phone.

Fred speaks up, ]

I think Carl did it now!

[moondumplings]

[ honestly, carl is being so shady usagi really is gonna name him prime suspect at this point. ]

Carl-san, you are being very unhelpful!

[ she's got her hands on her hips now, puffing her cheeks so you know she's serious now ]

Satan-san is not here for questioning but you are. The quicker you help, the faster we can all go!