week four: mingle

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Week Four
22 in Competition

As the sun rises on Monday morning, all participants will find themselves awakening with a sense of purpose. Regardless of where they slept the night before, they’ll find themselves compelled to return to the main meeting hall first thing in the morning.

Approaching the hall, however, they will find a large, swirling mass grey in color looming near the sakura tree. This swirl cannot be approached just yet, but seems to be locked and waiting for something more.

As the last member of the village enters the hall, they will find Lune and Sol at the head of the room. Though they’re together, it’s Sol who speaks up first this time.

"We've been asked to open another gateway for you guys, but...it's funny. It sort of feels like things have calmed down. The corruption's temporarily evened out and the universe is stabilized for now, but that doesn't mean we should stop looking. Take a look and see what you can find on the other side. You might even get to learn something new."

When Sol finishes, they turn to face Lune, allowing for the other to speak for themselves.

"A bit of reprieve of welcome, isn't it? Please take this time to recover, even as you make steps forward to continue your good work. Thank you, thank you."

The moment participants leave the hall, they will find that the gateway has changed from grey to white, the opening widening enough for multiple people to step through. The Signs will soon take their leave, and all will remain peaceful once more.

In addition, as the week goes on, partners will be able to hear each other's thoughts whenever they look at one another! They may not hear every single thought that occurs, but the link will partners to hear thoughts as though their partner is speaking out loud. The more private the thought, the more likely the partner will pick up on it.



Welcome to your week three mingle! As a reminder, this is break week! This means no murders and no trial! Your normal schedule will resume next week. We will still be hosting a laid-back mini-event on Tuesday, however.

In addition, ensure that all of your week three private conversations were reported on the page, and your week four private conversations are reported on that page. If you'll be taking anything from locations, please report that as well.

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Comments

[nonbelligerent]

[oh god shess doesn't know how to make bread either, why don't you have a recipe minato]

I think you also need yeast? And probably sugar and salt too. And water.

[compendiem]

[ Akane was supposed to help him but then he decided he'll quit talking forever so he couldn't ask.

What does yeast taste like, though?? He doesn't know. But he knows water, so Minato will go fill a bowl up with water and leave the other three ingredients for Shess to handle. ]

[nonbelligerent]

[minato, why. but okay, shess will go and scrounge for other ingredients, sniffing them if he must.

salt and sugar are easy to find, at least. yeast, yeast...]

[compendiem]

[ Because it's indisputable that Shess is smarter than him, he's got those 2340958678 extra years of life experience.

While Shess things hard about yeast, Minato goes ahead and dumps some of the flour into the bowl of water. The flour floats on top and is kind of hard to stir in and quickly gets lumpy when he tries, but it's fine? It's cool. Who cares what bread looks like as long as it's tasty. ]

[unfriendliest]

[ it's right around this time that kara finally comes back from the gateway and heads to the kitchen to start cooking. he pauses just inside the door, staring at minato with a frown before turning his eyes to shess.

hi guys. watcha up to. ]

[nonbelligerent]

[...

hi, kara. shess waves. please ignore the multiple containers he has out as he tries to figure out where the yeast is.]

[compendiem]

[ I— oh

oh no.

Minato doesn't notice Kara there, but he does notice Shess waving and he follows his line of sight and immediately ducks behind the counter like he hadn't been standing there with his shirt half covered in flour for the past thirty minutes and five seconds. ]

[unfriendliest]

[ hm.

he watches minato duck before looking at shess, eyes narrowed suspiciously. ]

What is he doing?

[nonbelligerent]

Making curry bread for Milla.

[compendiem]

[ Minato keeps silent behind the counter. He's not here. ]

[unfriendliest]

...He doesn't know how, does he.

[nonbelligerent]

He located flour.

[he accomplished step one.]

[compendiem]

[ Minato blindly reaches up and taps the bowl of water— he almost spills the sugar in the process, but he located water? Shess, don't forget to give him credit for that. ]

[unfriendliest]

Don't spill it.

[ how annoying... ]

...You're not going to be able to make anything if all you do is hide.

[nonbelligerent]

[his hand reflexively goes out to the sugar, but phew.]

And he located water.

[amazing.]

Will you help, then? I'm afraid I don't know much about making bread either. I'm still looking for yeast.

[compendiem]

[ He didn't spill it??? have some faith. But not too much.

Minato rises slow and goes back to... mixing the flour and water. He's using a spatula but it's not really working that well, the flour is too thick and lumpy. ]

[unfriendliest]

[ kara has no faith at all in minato, especially when he sees the... spatula? you've got to be kidding.

with a sigh, he goes to retrieve a whisk, and holds it out to minato with an unamused expression. ]

[nonbelligerent]

[!! kara is helping!! and not kicking minato out!!

shess gives minato a smile before he goes back to looking for ingredients.]

[compendiem]

[ !!!! Kara is helping and not kicking them out............ it's a miracle and Minato wants to believe.

He takes the whisk and just sort of mashes it into the dough, he's never used a whisk before? it feels like the thing to do. He glances up at Shess every once in a while, because Shess is his translator and he's kind of afraid to look at Kara. Is he doing this right. ]

[unfriendliest]

[ for fuck's sake, minato. ]

That's not how you use it.

[ maybe he should just kick minato out before he regrets this. ]

[nonbelligerent]

[...

immediately goes over to minato to show him how to use a whisk. damage control!]

[compendiem]

[ Right... hm, okay. Shess has everything under control, so everything is fine, Kara, see? Minato picks up the sugar he'd nearly spilled and gives the dough a couple of good hearty dashes.

...Is this sugar? Shess got out both sugar and salt, and bread requires both, so it doesn't really matter. ]

[unfriendliest]

...Do you even have a recipe?

[nonbelligerent]

We do not.

[compendiem]

[ The salt(?sugar? the other one) gets sprinkled into the bowl too, and then Minato points at Shess's head.

They have a recipe! Sort of. It's in Shess' head and ingredients are a good start and they can wing it? It'll be fine. ]