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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[riegan]

(Maybe if they were back at the Academy and these students looked like they were soldiers and stuff, Claude would ditch everything and head right to the building but these guys looked.... normal.

So Claude calls to Alphonse,)

Let's make sure everything is okay first.

(TO THE FIRE.)

[canned]

Right!

[Al is already three steps towards running right into that fire! He's gonna see if he can spot or hear anyone trapped by it from the outside first, but if not he's just gonna dash into it to see if there's anything beyond]

Keep an eye on Pam, Claude!

[what the heck kinda school is this]

[retellers]

[ Sometimes, schools are terrible.

But they'll hear screaming, and some people running to try to get away from it. But they'll also see one person who isn't actually running. She's just staring at the fire. ]

[riegan]

( Yeah sometimes schools are terrible, Al, don’t you know?

Anyway looks like Fire is indeed the problem here BUT HE DOESNT EXPECT AL TO ACTUALLY RUN INTO THE FIRE? )

Hey, big guy— Alphonse?!

( Actual suit of armor or not fire is bad!!! But he can’t really run into the fire himself after him.

Anyways what’s up with this person, )

Pam do you recognize them?

[canned]

[just before dashing into the flames, Al will note the student just staring into the fire and call out to her]

Get back! It’s dangerous!

[and then into the flames he goes, is there a source of them? anyone trapped in here? he knows about how long his armor can withstand flames so he’s kinda dashing in and out of fire pockets in his search]

[retellers]

[ Pam looks at who they're talking about and just laughs. ]

Oh, yeah! That's my roomie!

[ on closer inspection, they can see it's Tiger, although instead of wearing the gym uniform she's in a green cheerleading one. She's staring pretty intently into the flames, and there's something burning in it.

Alphonse can go and save some students. ]

[riegan]

(It's students, Tiger. Students are burning. And Alphonse now too. But cool if it's just Tiger, Claude's going to approach her,)

Hey! Tiger! (Don't tell me the school mascot is the TIGERS or something.) We've been looking for you.

(Well, not her specifically you know? But this will do.)

What's going on here?

(AND IS SHE LOOKING AT THE BURNING THING? WHAT IS IT?)

[canned]

I'm here to save you! Call out if you need help!

[Alphonse is jumping through lines of fire and, whenever he spots someone, basically just scooping them up and gently yeeting them out of the main fire so they can get to safety—as mindful as he can be of his metal surfaces heating up]

This seems like a bad thing for a school to be doing! Where are the teachers??

[retellers]

[ it's a burning body, but don't worry about it. she looks at claude, her expression confused. ]

Huh? Oh... it's Woodrun.

[ LIKE THAT EXPLAINS ANYTHING???

the students that Alphonse save just kind of, run off after being saved without really saying thank you. Pam claps for him every time he saves someone. ]

[riegan]

Yeah, people keep telling us that.

("It's Woordun." But really, what's with that look. He waves at her to see if she might recognize him at all? I mean sure they weren't close or anything in the Realm but that's like... four weeks or trials or something.)

Why are you standing around here? Who's...

(BURNING BODY? Are they deda... Look, people don't even die during the mock battles back at school this is a lot.)

[canned]

[Al finally emerges out of the fire, having found everyone he could and occasionally stomping out or kicking dirt over patches of flame

His armor is smoking a bit and the gym uniform is burned in a few spots, giving him sexy battle damage]

No one seems really bothered by what's happening here, huh?

[!!]

Tiger??

[Al sorta looks confusedly from Tiger, to the fire, Claude, the body, and back to that nearby building—anything going down over there? or should they just pick up Tiger like a football and dash for the endzone here?]