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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[axecessory]

[ this is chaos. Hilda looks exhausted enough by the children that she doesn't really run after them, just flicking the loud mouthed kid on the forehead. though speaking of robin williams, is there a leader of the pack? a rufio, so to speak. ]

Where did that come from?

[ whose weed are they stealing. ]

[retellers]

[ It's one of those massive buckets too. There's enough weed here to last Taako for months? And it was free? What a day.

The loud mouthed kid flips them off before running off to break something. Anyway, if they're looking for the kingpin of these children, they'll find him lounging sideways on a big fancy chair, smoking a cigar with a baseball cap pulled down to hide his face as he relaxes. There are empty bottles of beer next to him. Other children are bringing him stuff to break and/or telling him stories of them being terrible to try and impress him. ]

[uhhhmagic]

Oh, they gave it to me for free because I'm cool and not a terrible Boomer.

[Of any of them, Hilda is by far the least close to being a boomer, but that's fine. WHAT A DAY these kids rule actually

Taako will keep his bucket in his arms and go over to where the King Child is?]

Hey thug, what's up with you? We got like a quest item or something here?

[evocationary]

Oh, I don't know about that. You're the oldest, so that definitely makes you a Boomer?

[ lup: only the oldest when it benefits her

anyway she takes hilda by the hand because why not and leads her to join taako over to the King Child. she makes faces at any children who try to step up to her, do not mess

dryly, to hilda: ] It's like he wants us to get wrapped up in a fetch quest.

[axecessory]

[ Hilda does not know what a boomer is, but she is insulted all of the same. Taako is now a boomer. She has no problem holding Lup's hand because she is the cool twin, sighing. ]

All it took to win him over is a bucket of grass... Taako, I'm going to tell everyone you're nice to kids.

[retellers]

Quests are for nerds.

[ the child speaks, lifting his head and wow. this kid has some pretty fucking bad buck teeth. unfortunate. maybe dental work will fix it. he takes a dramatic drag of cigar before blowing it up to the ceiling ]

This here is paradise for troublemakers. You don't wanna cause trouble, you should get out, or trouble'll find you. [ he looks at hilda and lup ] You seem alright, but your friends don't look cool enough to be here.

[ they're not even holding a weed bucket? that's how the kid knows they're not cool. at his declaration, other kids start throwing popcorn at the girls. children are terrible. ]

[uhhhmagic]

[Turning around to snap at these handholding weirdos--]

You can't just be older until it's convenient, ya' boomer ass shitheel. And I'm not nice to kids.

[But, then turning back to King Kid.]

Tell you want, I'll dramatically betray them if you give me the quest item. Or hint. Or whatever it is you're dispensing here. It'll be hilarious.

[evocationary]

[ ??? THIS BETRAYAL? ]

If you betray me to impress this scrub of a child, I'm going to tell Hilda every embarrassing story about you and the crush you had on Anthony from our Arcane Statistics class that I can think of.

[ checks her nails - and also gets pelted by popcorn? she picks it out of her hair and THROWS IT BACK ]

[axecessory]

Oh! Yes, spill!

[ lup is officially her favorite elf. her competition is taako, a boomer, and alphi, a nerd.

anyway maybe this child will be useful and not hurtful soon, until then she just tries to dodge popcorn. ]

[retellers]

[ the kid COMPLETELY ignores lup and hilda, as they are uncool people being pelted by popcorn ruthlessly. children are booing once lup starts throwing back. this is stupid.

he seems interested, though, sitting up a little as he taps the excess off of his cigar straight unto the floor like an animal ]

What kinda dramatic betrayal we talking, here? I'm not about to spill for a fake-out.

[uhhhmagic]

[lup you aren't helping the case to NOT betray you dramatically right now

Taako just whips his head around to yell at her for a second:]

I don't even remember Anthony, and if I did, I'm fine with how that turned out! Third base is perfectly acceptable! Fuck off!

[There are children in the room.]

I don't do fake-outs. But I also won't do like, physical harm. I could curse them? I've got some curse items I gotta use.

[evocationary]

[ if lup had any magic these children would all be llamas right now

the funniest part is that she attempts to scold him by yelling his name at him but she like, pauses? and gets confused. so she's super useless this round, frowning. ]

[axecessory]

[ what a time for some sad memloss. she gives lup a quick look before narrowing her eyes at taako. ]

Wh—hey! I will curse you back so fast, Taako—

[retellers]

[ all the kids are now looking between taako and his future betrayals in rapt attention. okay, no, some are still throwing popcorn at the girls, but, y'know.

the main child sits up properly like an interested criminal mastermind about to hear a heist plan ]

Now that's an interesting proposition. I knew that weed bucket wasn't lying and you were cool for an adult. How about you curse one of 'em, and then I tell you and you curse the other one?

[uhhhmagic]

Easity peezity.

[He looks very confused when Hilda just says some static nonsense? That name can't stop him. He can't hear it.

Just shrugging at the deal, digging in his pockets (sort of, balancing the weed bucket in one arm and sticking his tongue out), then pulling out a slightly smushed flower. Then yoinking a petal right off!]

[evocationary]

[ well, okay, that's cool, what does that do ]

[axecessory]

[ suspenseful music swells ]

[retellers]

[ well normally i'd tell them in private but you know. lup's hair grows! to! A RIDICULOUS LENGTH. It is all over the dirty, sticky floor, and it is growing exponentially to like, 70 feet in length. Golden, beautiful, immediately dirtied by children who are terrible and throw stuff at it and try to pull it to see if it's real.

i am so sorry.

the kid taako was talking with laughs! he laughs so hard he brays with it, slamming his chair with a fist. he is delighted! ]

You son of a bitch, you really did it, huh? You're the real deal. [ he sounds like a total jackass. ] How many more curses have you got in there?

[uhhhmagic]

[also braying like a jackass? Sorry this is objectively very funny. Taako stomps a foot for a second before he pulls it together--]

A mystery! That wasn't the deal. The deal was I curse one of 'em, you give me the goods, then I curse the other one. Pay up, that's the dealzo!

[evocationary]

[ she is - immediately startled by how long her hair grows? what the fuck.

for a second she just stares at it. ]

... Why is it -- [ and then she immediately shuts up. SHE'S TOTALLY A BLONDE. definitely. ] Aw, gross! Stop, you dang gremlins, get out of my hair!

[ she's going to end these children, but first she's going to steal taako's hat as punishment. or whatever his name is. ]

[axecessory]

[ kids are the MOST ANNOYING, actually? also there is so much hair? hilda is too distracted by lup's luscious, natural blonde locks to go beat taako(?) up. ]

Lup!

[ she's going to try and... spool this hair up off the ground, because the floor is stick, covered in popcorn and whatever else is on the bottom of these children's shoes. cool. she also pushes a small child to the ground when he tries to pull on it. ]

[retellers]

[ Hilda pushes a child to the ground and the other kids first laugh at him as he hits shit on a table, and then they immediately attempt to grab some of the hair to wrap it around both hilda and lup. because they are terrible. a child dumps his beer on it.

The king brays again. ]

You drive a hard bargain. Alright, word around here has it that the fair is having some trouble working. Hell if I know why, but I guess that's why that guy let us in for free! Even told us to do whatever we wanted. So we did.

[ children do not understand the concept of economics and how that does not make sense ]

[uhhhmagic]

That's our-- That's our lore, seriously? Not even a good item? What guy?

[Seems like a bad deal, King Kid! Anyway, Taako is yelling at the child while trying to defend both his hat and his weed bucket from Lup, but look, she's being attacked by hair, so surely she's not that agile right now]

[evocationary]

[ hilda just yells a bunch of static for the second time tonight --

it's fine, taako's hat survives for now. she is immediately distracted by the children trying to tie them up in her own hair, like - she's so done, she doesn't care if they're ten

the one pours beer in her hair and she immediately launches herself across the room to kick his ass with her noodle wizard arms ]

[axecessory]

[ it is now time to fight these children. she is going to duck under this horrible hair rope to avoid being cornered by these hellspawn, though there's a lot of them... ]

You are asking for trouble, mister—

[ she dumps a container of popcorn on one of them before riling up to take on the next horrible baby. ]