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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Comments

[reconnective]

[NO!!!

also yeah suffer, congrats on your brain.]

You think they really have a say in this? Chiron, they were just as lost as we were. We still have to help them however we can.

...but we can at least celebrate the good parts right now. We worked hard for this and I'm not letting some stupid virus take that away.

[antaressnipe]

Not a say, perhaps, but if they can even sense if the conflict is truly over...

[Mmmmph, but then Sora is being a protag at him and even with his thoughts now shooting off in ten different directions, Chiron cannot help but smile a little.]

Very well. I cannot deny the efforts that went into seeing this succeed.

[Hmph. Reaching out to ruffle his hair. Is it out of fondness, or is Chiron deep down a gremlin, too? Who knows.]

The dead told me you in particular were working quite hard.

[reconnective]

Oh. [hm!] Guess that's something we can ask them tomorrow. I think they need some rest tonight after...all of that. We all do.

[but that's true. it's just how things are and chiron agreeing to acknowledge their victories means there's a wider grin, even if he ducks his head a little with the hair ruffle. hey!!!]

Did they? [he seems a little surprised.] I think a lot of us were doing everything we could to help. It was just really, really important to make sure everyone would be able to come back. There wasn't another option for me.