WEEK SEVEN: MINGLE

[retellers]

WEEK SEVEN: MINGLE (21 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. As usual, the participants will find that their lodgings have changed, and should anyone check their PHS, Chiron, Ochako, Soo-won, and Dorothy's profiles have been removed. They may also find that they have difficulty recalling complete details of the past weeks. Furthermore, it looks as though the rules have updated. Not everything is the same as the previous pattern, though. The barrier to the north is back up, and once more, what lies beyond is an empty field. In contrast, however, participants may notice that they can finally access a place they haven't been able to before... Additionally, it looks like the Leaders aren't around. No matter where the participants look, they're nowhere to be found. Should anyone try calling for them in the Planetarium, there will be no response—not even a message telling the participant that they're busy. Finally, everything around the participants begins to... glitch? Buildings may suddenly blink out of existence and then back in, random items like chairs or cups may suddenly distort even while they're being used, and looking at any particular thing for too long may give someone a headache. It's worse than it was that one week, though: participants will find that it's happening to themselves as well. Body parts might suddenly glitch out of existence then back in, and there will be a shot of pain when it occurs. It'll happen randomly, but it also seems to occur more often if they're touching something or another person.

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[stillnot]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

[ clem nods in response to lup's question, but then looks sort of... confused for a second? ]

I think so.

[evocationary]

[ ?? ]

Aaaare you sure?

[stillnot]

I feel like I was supposed to ask you something, but...

[ she shakes her head. ]

I can't remember. It was probably nothing.

[evocationary]

[ squint ]

Oh, that's gonna drive me nuts, not knowing what you wanted to ask.

[stillnot]

Sorry.

[ clem doesn't seem too distressed about it. they lose memories from home, after all. not really memories from here. ]

[evocationary]

[ that's the most foreboding meta text i've ever seen ]

It's fine. Want something to eat, before the pan loses its shit again? [ she says this and it like, jitters, behind her. ]

[stillnot]

[ it's fine! ]

There's still a chance of you losing your shit, but - yeah. Sure.

[evocationary]

[ there is that, yeah ]

It only hurts like, a moderate amount when it happens. [ she says, squinting down at the pan. maybe she will use... a different one. ] I've had worse.

[stillnot]

Most of us had worse last week.

Still sucks, though.

[evocationary]

Sucks is definitely a word.

What do you think of the castle?

[stillnot]

It's fucking weird. All those places are so different - like they're all grabbed from somewhere else completely. Which... They probably are.

[evocationary]

That was my thought. Some of them got pulled right out of people's memories, I feel like. Like, I saw a little of Wolf's memories, so I'm not surprised certain places in here look the way they do.

I can't tell if it's magic or like, technology, at this point.

[stillnot]

... Technology that can do this is as good as magic.