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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[coastal]

[kaoru is bad at talking Ye Olde.

but regardless lili will just barely keep back a laugh at that]

Why do we need to do that here? We could be doing something else.

[they already missed the point of a date]

[unfriendliest]

Exactly. I don't see the point.

[ unless he's saying kara should be courting lili? he never paid attention to the intricacies of courting as a sword, so how would he even do that?

...he brushes that thought off. ]

We can spend time together anywhere else.

[coastal]

Mm, there's more to the gateway that I haven't seen yet. We might as well go investigate that—

[though she's interrupted by getting up because ty said that kaoru will be bringing around drinks and sweets to everyone.

which means that this cute and beautiful sundae will be placed at their table and lili will blink because she is a little hungry]

... well, at least we can go do something more productive after. This looks cute...

[unfriendliest]

[ oh no

kara loves it??

all he can do is nod in response to lili while he immediately forgets that this is for eating because... cute........ ]

[coastal]

[ . . . idiot.

she thinks it, but for once she's nice enough not to say it.

but she'll pick up a spoon - why is there only one spoon - and gently scoop one of the parts away from the front so she doesn't actually harm the kitties. instead she's going to take some of the strawberry with a tiny bit of ice cream so she can eat it]

Oh - it's good!

[unfriendliest]

[ he wouldn't dare try to eat it, but kara does watch as lili fishes out a strawberry, nodding at her assessment. ]

It's... cute.

[ not. that lili was talking about that

but it is ]

[coastal]

[ . . . . okay this time she actually says it]

Idiot.

[but she's smiling as she does? so there's no actual like. insult to it.

she'll look around for a second spoon... before realizing that there isn't one and kaoru isn't nearby, and deciding she doesn't care much. she's careful to pluck out another strawberry piece that won't manage to make the entire thing collapse and scoop some ice cream along with it

and holds it up to him]

Here, do more than just look at it.

[unfriendliest]

[ he hesitates

but after a moment he leans forward to try it himself ]

...It is good.

[ why does he sound surprised ]

[coastal]

Did you think I was misleading you?

[she's only mock offended though

she'll move her spoon to try to claim another piece to eat because it's right there - but she notices that it looks like it's drooping a little already... ice cream melts....

. . .

so don't mind if she'll just gently lift her other hand out to make it a little colder again so kara doesn't have to watch the cats melt away]

[unfriendliest]

No.

[ he trusts lili, aND YET -

his eyes do light up a little when he notices that she's keeping the ice cream cats cold, though. lili gets it, she understands his priorities here and he can appreciate that ]

[coastal]

[ . . . her hands are occupied so she can't use them to cover her mouth. so instead she just has to turn away to try to hide her laugh in response. it's sweet, how much he likes these cats, even though she thinks it's a bit of a waste of food.

oh well. she'll just continue to gently eat around it, taking a scoop for herself and then a scoop for him, alternating if he doesn't see any reason to complain]

Why don't you learn how to make these? Tsurumaru might like them, when he returns.

[unfriendliest]

[ ah - there's an idea he hadn't thought of. ]

I'm... not as good at making sweets.

[ and he already got a... sort of white pumpkin to send as an offering. but tsuru would like this, and he would love getting multiple offerings even more. ]

Someone did ask me to make cookies... I could try both.

[coastal]

There's no harm in trying, is there? I've gotten a bit better at sweets too... I think I'm finally good enough to offer some to Nana and Junna without offending them.

[so at the very least, they can try.

it's also getting a little harder to eat the ice cream without cutting into the cats, but it's fine. at this rate they're never going to eat them

another scoop for kara! she offers the spoon up to him]

[unfriendliest]

I was going to try making them tomorrow, I think.

[ in case she wants to join him in making the attempt

at any rate, he will accept this scoop. maybe this date isn't so bad after all...?

still weird though ]

[coastal]

Tomorrow then. We can send a small feast and save some desserts for after dinner.

[a feast of sweets look it's fine,,

lili doesn't mind this and only thinks feeding him is more convenient because there's no second spoon. but he doesn't seem to hate this and honestly neither does she]

[unfriendliest]

He'd probably like that.

[ somehow he manages to sound both annoyed and fond at the same time ]

I was going to make zunda mochi too, but if we're making this, it might have to wait.

[ there is such a thing as too many sweets ]

[coastal]

It will?

[another scoop for lili.

even though she sounds genuinely confused. she's still nobility in the end, which means there was always far more food than she could ever hope to eat, on the off chance that she might want to eat any of it]

[unfriendliest]

There's no point in making more than we can eat, even if some of it's going to be an offering.

[ they only make what they have to in the citadel! he doesn't see the point in making too much here, either. ]

[coastal]

We can't give the extras to others?

[they're approaching the end of the ice cream bowl that they can eat without starting to nom on the kitties......

oh well. kara gets last bite]

[unfriendliest]

...That's still a lot left over.

[ he will take the last bite though... and return to marveling over the little cats. he doesn't know what to do with them now, but at least they're cute. ]

[coastal]

Fine, fine. We'll save it for the weekend.

[they are cute and lili assumes that they're not allowed to eat them because then kara would be sad. so she'll just lift her hand to refreeze them again, making sure they're cold enough that they won't collapse

and then she tilts her head]

Is there supposed to be something else to do?

[is it just. eat. and talk.]

[unfriendliest]

I was going to make manju, too...

[ which is the other reason he's like "this is too much sweet stuff" haha

anyway he'll shrugs ]

Doesn't sound like it. He said something about entertainment, but there's not much of that here.

[ in this weirdly pink shop. what even counts as entertainment on a date anyway. ]

[coastal]

Manju...

[she'll just softly repeat it - she assumes she'll see it later anyway. though she'll just shrug]

I don't know - I tried to escape out the closest window every time father tried to force me to meet a suitor.

[his guard was down so she could get away?? it was convenient]

[unfriendliest]

It's a type of cake you eat with tea. I was going to send some to Lune.

[ his eyebrows lift in amusement at that - somehow that sounds exactly like something lili would do. ]

Are you going to try to escape from me, too?

[coastal]

[she's actually going to ask kara to consider passing on her apology to lune -

but at the question she flusters a little, giving the weakest glare in the world that's further offset by her blush.]

Sh-Shut up... You already know the answer to that.

[she doesn't mind if it's with kara....]