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]

Well there's still tomorrow. [it's kind of a joke but also...woof. still, shiro gets a smile.]

Looks like we all made it where we were supposed to. Welcome back.

[lionson]

Thanks. We had a hell of a trip to get here, but it looks like you guys did too.

[reconnective]

I think we all knew it wasn't gonna be easy, but it was definitely worth it. Doing okay?

[lionson]

No complaints here! Though I'm gonna miss the infinite respawns we had back where we were. It's gonna be hard to trial and error stuff when you can actually die for real.

[reconnective]

The what? [NO ONE SAID ANYTHING ABOUT THAT?] What were you guys even doing over there?

[lionson]

Fulfilling ghosts last requests, feeding sea life, spying on you guys. Oh yeah, and I got to chase Shima around with a shotgun, that was pretty cathartic.

[reconnective]

I figured you were spying when I asked Kano to send a sign, but the rest is new. [...] You didn't actually shoot him, did you?

[are the dead okay. were they ever okay?]

[lionson]

I shot at him.

[reconnective]

[hmmmmmMMMMMM.]

Well, I guess if you couldn't die that's not as bad.

[lionson]

Yeah. It's actually a good thing, I totally would've broken my neck a couple times if we could die. And I would've bled out that one week we were all injured.

[reconnective]

I have a lot of questions suddenly, but I'm not sure I want to ask them. [sir, your neck???] But you're here in one piece and shotgunless. That's the best outcome so far.