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]

[!! 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. ]

[unfriendliest]

[ so. no recipe, then. great. ]

...Did you at least make the curry first.

[ he expects this is a no, too. ]

[nonbelligerent]

[he looks to minato.]

[compendiem]

[ Minato looks back ]

[unfriendliest]

[ oh my god. ]

You're supposed to do the curry first and let it thicken overnight.

[nonbelligerent]

Thank you, Ookurikara.

[he turns back to minato.]

Best to follow the expert's advice.

[compendiem]

[ insert math lady meme here, he had no idea you're supposed to let curry thicken overnight, the mabo curry he made last week was one of the things he made fresh in the morning and maybe the reason it was so thin and runny was because it didn't sit overnight, not because there was no rice to soak things up.

He moves around to the other side of the counter and sort of waves Kara over to the bowl of dough so he can do his thing, show them how it's done, please try to salvage the dough because there was a lot of flour thrown in there ]

[unfriendliest]

[ he stares down at the bowl in dismay. ]

What exactly did you put in here?

[ how can he fix this if he doesn't know what he's working with? ]

[nonbelligerent]

Flour, sugar, and salt, most likely.

[based off what he saw minato throw in there? shess hasn't found the yeast yet.]

[compendiem]

[ Minato points to the sink, because there's also water. Very important ingredient.

But yeah, that's it. Kara, what's yeast? ]

[unfriendliest]

[ haha. cool. kara heaves a sigh. ]

That's your first mistake. Dry ingredients first. Then wet ingredients.

[nonbelligerent]

[shess takes no responsibility, all he did was list ingredients? minato started immediately throwing them into water?]

We just need to find yeast, right?

[compendiem]

[ Minato will take responsibility, but he also doesn't care, so he just nods. Yeah, Kara, where's yeast. ]

[unfriendliest]

[ so guess who just learned you don't actually need water for curry bread so kara is just gonna stare at this bowl full of flour and water

and go dump the contents in the trash ]

We're starting over. The yeast is in that cabinet.

[ he points at one and goes to rinse out the bowl so they can try this again. ]

[nonbelligerent]

[shess goes off to fetch the yeast!]

[compendiem]

[ Minato was just going to make bread, hollow it out, and stick curry inside, but Kara's the expert here and Minato just looks really sad at the flour/water being tossed away like that. He could have made something else with it... maybe he'll save it from the trashcan when Kara's back is turned.

But okay, they're starting over. Shess is getting yeast, Kara is presumably getting water, so Minato goes ahead and grabs another clean, dry bowl and tasks himself with filling it with ??? cups of flour. ]

[unfriendliest]

[ this is why he doesn't want minato in his kitchen.

anyway he's going to pretend minato's not here i guess because you really don't need that much flour?? it's like. two and a half at most. so once the first bowl is dried he starts measuring the dry ingredients into it - flour, a dash of salt, some sugar... and whisk it all together.

the yeast will come later! minato got a little excited apparently. ]

[nonbelligerent]

[once shess is back he just watches kara. ooh, ahh, etc. making mental notes for minato's possible birthday bread...]