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WEEK SEVEN: MINGLE

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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[ The next carriage is just people waiting to get to their next stop! Those people are also samurai, with swords, and they're going to immediately just charge towards them. Chise simply slices through some of them and moves ahead without looking back, leaving Blackpink to deal with the rest.

And yes, if you had left your weapons backstage, they would have vanished, don't worry about it. ]

[ alex has been gifted a pipe. a single pipe, which she will grip in her hands like a lifeline. she nods when ange tells her to stick to the middle of the group -- she's... happy to follow suit there, as she doesn't know what the heck she's doing in a serious fight. ]

R-right, I will.

[ she keeps the pipe close to her, and glances around to see if there are any assailants sneaking up from behind.

go go team blackpink lizards. ]

[UGH. IT IS THE SAME. GREAT.

Chise is moving forward, and Ange doesn't know if the same Boss Foe is lurking somewhere around here. She doesn't know if the other train is there. But if this is plucked from her memories as it seems to be, it seems best to plan for the worst case scenario.

Anyway there are samurai and Ange is unarmed because I sadly could not think of a way for someone with one broken arm to lug a keyboard with her. :(

It doesn't stop her, though; she ducks a sword immediately, reaches out with her one good arm and tried to fling the nearest samurai away with a tidy throw. Still she's not really made for long bouts of combat, especially not in this state, so, uh--

With some slight actual urgency in her tone:]

We need to continue and keep up with her.

[chise protect us]

[ oh, this escalated quickly. there's not an opportunity to talk the situation down before these samurai suddenly charge them in this unfortunate, narrow train.

and of course, hilda left her main weapon backstage. instead, she wastes no time flipping her guitar, holding its neck like she might an axe, and slams it straight into one dude's face. she will swing it again if necessary. double-tap! bye! ]

No need to tell me twice!

[ she's not standing around to get stabbed. sidelong to alex: ]

I'll keep you covered, okay? So keep moving!

[ francy made a joke about jeanne bringing the entire drum set, but i'm making it real.

partially real. jeanne has uno cymbal, and she's going to use it the way god intended. the fight has already begun, so there is no real need to stay quiet anymore.

CRASH - she slams the cymbal into one samurai's face and then turns to slam it down on another's head, aiming to kick a sword out of one of their hands so she can quickly pick it up, if she succeeds. ]

Alex, for any one that we make falter and fall, follow up and hit them where it will hurt the most. We do not want any of them getting back up and following us.

[ jeanne "the best defense is a good offense" d'arc

She knows Alex is not soft.

RUNNING AFTER CHISE LET'S GO ]

[ I love them all so much. Thankfully, the samurai seem to be taken by surprise at their uh... unconventional weapons. It's enough to slow them down enough to be attacked by their various items, but the advantage won't last too long, so they better run.

(does a dice roll) One of them manages to nick Ange on the arm, but it luckily isn't too deep, so it'll be more of an annoyance than anything considering she's already down one.

They can hear a commotion from up ahead. Chise seems to be yelling something but it's hard to hear over the sound of train and battle. ]

[ alex does as she's told by jeanne and smashes one of the samurai in the balls with a pipe before hustlin' down the carriage after ange and presumably jeanne.

she's keeping in the middle, like she was told. good thing she knows how to run in heels.

can she make out anything significant from the commotion from where she is? any sounds that stand out? ]

[ hilda is in charge of bringing up the rear, aka hitting things with her guitar if they get too close. they're hustling along after chise, when alex ruins one samurai's day— ]

Wow, nice shot...

[ —but it doesn't look like they're out of trouble. ]

Ugh, why are there so many of these guys!? Ange, where are we going—?

[ she'll keep clobbering whoever she needs to, but they'd better get a move on. how many more cars are there on this thing? ]

[ Alex may be to hear what sounds like screaming? Still weird. Actually, it might sound like someone is yelling Jeanne's name in particular, but it's still far enough that it may just be you hearing things.

They're about two cars away from Chise. ROLLS ANOTHER DICE I unfortunately rolled a 17 for you guys so you get through this one without much incident. ]

[ neat.

the dice roll, not the screaming and someone shrieking for jeanne part. but she's gonna keep moving, in the middle of the pack. cracking samurai where it hurts as she goes.

what a lovely field trip. ]

[That's annoying, yeah, but Ange shakes off the cut immediately with a faint scowl.

Chise wtf slow down, she doesn't have a gun!!]

This is being pulled from my memories. There are two trains, and if one of them is not stopped, they will collide at high speeds. [aka Bad.]

There may also be an extremely dangerous assassin onboard. [JUST CASUALLY.

Anyway, she's ignoring the possible yelling for Jeanne in favor of trying to get away from the samurai and pursuing Chise.]

Chise--!

[ thanks to dice rolls, no thanks to whatever ange's canon is. ]

That sounds bad!?

[ REALLY BAD? like samurai aren't enough, suddenly they're on a death train and also there is a murderer on the death train. she makes a face and picks up the pace. is the screaming coming from the direction that chise is running? ]

[ The screaming, is, in fact, coming from that direction! Ange can at least tell it wasn't Chise's voice though, so there's that.

They enter the next train car, and.... (rolls a dice) they get into a little more trouble here. You may all choose any sort of minor injury you may want. ]

[ nice, slash alex in the upper left arm please and thank you. she's gonna try and keep moving if she still can because.

y'know.

there isn't a whole lot of material on this outfit to wrap around her new wound. might as well get this over with. ]

[Ange ends up with a slice across her cheek because why not, it's fun. New scars for Princess to be horrified at.

She ignores it as blood drips down her face in favor of continuing because, well, what else can they do really?]

[ yay, injuries! hilda manages to deflect a sword coming her way with the guitar, but it still bounces off and slices her shoulder, damaging her very cute(?) costume.

this is deeply irritating and she takes it out by hitting another samurai. ]

[ yay injuries!

Jeanne can get a little cut on her lower left arm, as if she isn't cut up all over anyway.

Is there still screaming of her name, and if yes, does the voice sound familiar to her.....

Still moving forward after slamming another samurai in the head. ]

[ The voice does sound familiar to her, but like, in a bad way. Remember how she was surprised about someone only staring at her earlier in this thread!

Anyway, moving on. There they go to the next car, and Chise is here. She seems to be stuck fighting someone. She glances at them. ]

There is a woman who ran ahead of me. She seems dangerous.

More dangerous than all these guys with swords back here?

[ priorities?? priorities. ]

[Poor Alex, she deserves better than these ladies from ridiculously fight-y canons.

Anyway Chise can handle herself so Ange isn't too concerned.]

Stay wary, and keep moving.

[ONWARDS!!

She's being as cautious as like, a spy and her posse can be on a moving train that they may or may not have to stop in an emergency.]

[ hilda is TIRED of being fighty, they should be able to retire to a nice cart and enjoy the scenery as it passes. instead she has to hit samurai with her electric guitar and worry about her friends getting shanked, and/or herself getting shanked, and/or colliding with another train.

what a day. she misses the stage. she gives alex a sympathetic look before following after ange. ]

Don't feel bad about hiding, if you need to. But you've got a pretty mean swing with that pipe!

[ they'll be okay, probably. ]

... I'm afraid if it's who I think it is, she is more dangerous than all those samurai combined unless she has also been stripped of her abilities.

[ Sorry?

Maybe Atalanta is also nerfed. That would help a lot. Jeanne prays Atalanta is nerfed. ]

At the very least, she should only target me, so you three should move on to stop the train, if it becomes necessary.

[ Time to bash more heads in via cymbal. Moving on???

They'll be fine, absolutely. ]

[ It's fine, they all leave Chise to deal with the guys here as they move onto the next car.

There's a few things they can notice right away here. The first, is that there's a window open and they can see someone in the process of climbing out of it to get onto the roof. The second is that, through that window, they can also hear that there is, in fact, another train also approaching.

The third is that Atalanta is indeed here, and she is immediately charging for Jeanne. Sometimes, multiple memories get merged together to become a clusterfuck, and that's fine. ]

[ ohhhh my god, that's a lot to process at this moment in time. first thing's first, she's shoving the pipe at jeanne because lawd knows the girl is doin' incredibly with that cymbal but maybe she can do a little more with that pipe than alex is.

secondly, she's not going after the person climbing out the window because she would just fall straight off the train and that would be messy for everyone involved.

thirdly, she's going to use atalanta's single minded focus to her advantage and try and keep going? if there's another train they need to find the front and the brakes, right? ]

[YOU'RE DOING GREAT, ALEX.

Ange takes stock of the whole situation, also gets the hell out of dodge re: the weird angry catgirl, and moves towards the window.

Because if someone is trying to escape she wants to know why.

As she goes:]

You'll want the red lever! Do not stop the train too suddenly!

[You'll yeet her right off of the roof...

Anyway she's vaulting herself out the window and climbing onto the roof. With one broken arm. Don't @ me, she's a spy and she's been faking incompetence for 7 weeks, give me this.]

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