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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[axecessory]

Worth a shot. Thanks so much for your help!

[ even if he's a weirdo who made them perform onstage for NOTHING. she doesn't really know the traditional high school structure, but it surely can't be that difficult to find the second year classrooms. so, off they go! ]

[discernments]

Thank you for your suggestion.

[ All Jeanne knows the structure of is a French boarding school?

Anyway, they'll make this work. To the second year classrooms!! Won't stop until they get there!! Maybe they should ask people to direct them so they don't waste time.

She asks a random student for directions. ]

[retellers]

No.

[ The girl returns to her book unhelpfully.

The student helpfully point to the direction. He also warns to be careful because people have reported weird sightings over there? Strange. ]

[lecarre]

[SIGH.

FINE.

If Alex was able to say something maybe she'd try harder but Ange is in charge right now so Ange is legitimately just gonna leave and presumably bring Alex with her.

She legitimately feels like looking over the school herself will be faster than dealing with someone who may or may not know where Rabbit is.

TIME TO START LOOKING AROUND THE SCHOOL. Maybe reunite the party. Who knows.]

[axecessory]

[ strange sightings in a... school. that's not too out of the norm for schools, she supposes. sometimes you go to class and, like, war breaks out. people show up in subterranean tunnels. it's all good.

they follow the directions to the second year rooms! ]

I mean, things were already pretty weird. It can't get much worse!

[ time loops and samurai murder trains are bad! ]

[discernments]

[ Jeanne does the mental equivalent of closing her eyes. She doesn't want weird sightings.

Unless the weird sighting is finding Rabbit. ]

Hilda, please do not say that.

[ She is inviting trouble, and Jeanne is bracing herself, watching carefully for anything out of the norm.

But to the second year rooms! Or as near or as close they can get. ]

Let's hope it's a harmless weird.

[retellers]

[ As Ange and Alex walk, they'll hear students whispering about rumors of a murder? Wow, what is this, a murdergame. They don't sound like they believe it though.

Meanwhile, the other two girls go to the second year rooms. They hear very loud laughter in the distance. ]

[lecarre]

[there may as well be a murder, really.

Murder is probably the least surprising thing that's happened thus far.

Anyway, if they eavesdrop can they gather more deets...? Like where said murder happened, or where they should go to ~investigate~]

[axecessory]

Sorry, sorry... I'm pushing our luck.

[ but okay there's the laughs. she perks up a little at the oddity, shooting jeanne a glance before moving down the hall to Investigate.

can they go into whatever classroom the laughter is erupting from? ]

[discernments]

I hope your luck is better than mine.

[ It's a good thing Jeanne isn't near the murder rumors.

Jeanne prays laughter is a good sign and not a bad one, but yeah!! Heading towards the laughter. Can they find and go to the source? ]

[retellers]

[ Apparently there was some incident in one of the classrooms, from what Ange can overhear.

They can. They will walk in on a group of students, one being a green haired girl. She looks at them and



immediately bursts into laughter and points at them. ]

[lecarre]

[Well.

Time to start checking classrooms as they go!!

As they try to also figure out if they can get any more details than that, but if not, they're just gonna have to check each and every one.

I hope this school isn't that big.]

[axecessory]

[ ?????

actually the most frightful thing in this cyoa is being made fun of by high schoolers. hilda shoots this new girl a curious look. ]

Um... what's so funny?

[discernments]

[ It's fine. Jeanne can take being ridiculed. She takes it in stride. ]

Is something the matter?

[retellers]

[ We may need Alex for this subplot, admittedly, but Ange can wander in search.

But the girl wipes tears from her eyes. ]

You guys look... so ridiculous... hahaha!

[ Please quickly ask your questions while you still can. ]

[axecessory]

[ oh, their clothes. these punks. can't imagine what sort of reception they'd have gotten if they were still in those costumes.

in any case. ]

Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up. [ sighs!! ] We're looking for someone, about yay high and...

[ please insert description of rabbit here again, why didn't they loot her photo ]

[discernments]

[ uh, this gym uniform is their uniform? hello?

but also, stealing other people's personal belongings is a bad thing!!! it'd be really useful right about now, though. ]

Have you seen her lately?

[retellers]

[ She's still laughing, but ]

Oh, you mean [ a student accidentally knocks over an entire desk ]? I haven't seen her come in yet... Are you her friends?

[axecessory]

[ MIKURU RABBIT YOUR NAME ]

Yup! She's a good friend of mine, but I haven't seen her all day. Maybe she got caught up somewhere?

[ does she know where, perhaps? ]

[discernments]

[ Wow, these things that just conveniently happen so no name is heard.

Jeanne goes over to help right this desk. ]

Mm. I was hoping to see her soon, too. Do you know how to get in contact with her?

[chanteuser]

[ i guess alex is here checking rooms too hello someone needed her for subplot reasons?

what do her little alex eyes see so we can get this subplot going ]

[retellers]

[ Alex and Ange walk into the room to see a normal empty class. Or, almost normal, because there's a body slumped over on one of the desks without a head.

It probably looks familiar to Alex.

Meanwhile, elsewhere, the girl shrugs. ]

.. I haven't seen her yet. Hm, where did she go?

[chanteuser]

[ sometimes your series has a limited number of good memories for you to link for impact and you yolo one forgetting you also submitted it for memloss it’s fine she remembers the body.

so instead she just

slams the sliding door shut and turns to press against against it and makes a motion at ange/whoever has run over for plot convenience purposes ]

I have a feeling I... can guess the answer, but you aren’t squeamish are you?

[ she will not resist being pushed aside to look in if not ]

[axecessory]

[ this search is really turning out dire. ]

Does that mean she hasn't come to school yet?

[ do they need to go to her house or something? despite all the silliness, she's starting to get worried for rabbit—the clues should really be pointing her way but their leader still feels as lost as when they started. ]

[discernments]

If she isn't at school, where would she be?

[ How lost is lost?

This is the question, isn't it? What does lost mean here? ]