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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[horologia]

... welcome back. It sounds like you had quite the time as well.

[infreefall]

[ waves for homura-san! ochako isn't sure if she's allowed to hug this one, honestly, so she hangs back a bit, but it's clear that she wants to. ]

Heh, yeah, we did. I'm glad you're all okay, though.

[horologia]

[ her body language pretty much is just "tired", beyond the whole dirty ballroom outfit from fairytale week thing. funny enough despite all their memories being back, she's... still like this, as opposed to how she was before losing anything?

maybe a little softer around the edges at most. the hug will be accepted, but she won't initiate. ]

We would have been fine. The only reason things wouldn't have been is if there was something more necessary that none of us had heard about.

But as far as we all knew, that was the last of it, was it not?

[infreefall]

[ ochako does not initiate a hug... yet. but maybe it's coming, you don't know. ]

Isn't there still something about that monster we have to defeat? Though we were wondering if it's actually some kind of virus because of all the glitching.

[horologia]

Truthfully I'd wondered about the reality of this place for quite a while.

This isn't exactly the way I'd have expected to be proven... perhaps not right, but somewhere in the realm of it, though.

[ catch her sharing glances with (redacted) and mouthing excuse her? excuse her???? ]

I'd half expected for us to have forgotten about where the nova was going. It came up so rarely as time went on, compared to other subjects... but I suppose we'll see, one way or another.

[infreefall]

I know what you mean. This whole place is weird, and so much has happened, that it's a little hard to keep track of it all, right? But... I don't know. Having a goal to work toward... I think that helped me, at least.

We should probably all try to rest while we can, just in case we have to deal with it sooner than we expect.

[horologia]

I'd been taking notes, but after a while, I ran out of things to actually write down. We just accepted that what we did in the weekends and toward the middle of the week accomplished their goals of collecting Nova... Though I never really did learn whether what we were doing was simply staving off the inevitable or not.

[ said like it was the only reasonable thing to do, taking notes. what else would she have done. ]

How have you fared?

[infreefall]

Mm, I don't know. It was all supposed to draw the monster out, I think, but I guess we'll see what happens.

[ hard to say when they only just got back, anyway. ]

Oh, I've been fine - I mean, it's only been a week. And you made it so easy... It hardly even feels like anything changed, honestly, except that I couldn't see you guys for a little while.