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Week Four
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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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[ ... against her better judgment, she walks over to shirasu and extends her free hand to him so that she can at least help him back into the chair.

with xion now here, tenka's form begins to shift—it's subtle, and for the moment, it remains locked into his visage as it tries to discern xion's worst fear while her back is turned to it. ]

[you know, pretty much any other time he'd reject it in favor of just struggling on his own-- but after all of that? yeah. he accepts her hand after a brief pause, though as soon as they've managed and he glances behind her... his brow furrows.]

-Xion-chan.

[that comes with a gesture for her to turn around-- this doesn't seem like a time to have her back to... whatever is going on there.]

[ she does so at shirasu's warning, drawing the wand she's borrowed from hermione. when she turns around, the boggart starts its transformation, the red at the tips of tenka's wild locks slowly taking over the rest of his hair as it starts to spike out.

the knuckles of the hand she holds the wand with whiten. ]

I know it's a lot to ask after all that, but... try to think of something funny. Hermione told me laughter is their weakness. And this should help—riddikulus!

[ she points the wand at the boggart, which is now halfway between a dead tenka and a yellow-eyed axel, her ice magic using it as a sort of conduit.

can anything make shirasu laugh right now? ]

You want me to what--

[...because yeah, that's a very, very tall order right now. it might be on a good day, but after everything and especially this? it's asking a lot.

but-- he'll try.

xion will probably manage to affect it first, though, seeing as he's having a hard time thinking of anything that'd do the trick.]

[ xion might've been a smart cookie by choosing to actually ask the npc what to do, but that doesn't mean she fully knows what she's doing. as such, the spell doesn't do terribly much. the tenkaxel amalgamation now has pink cotton candy for hair? that isn't that funny... ]

I know, but that's what we have to do—RIDDIKULUS!

[ saying it louder and more forcefully should make it stronger, right? ]

...if you say so.

[andie i really think they're just going to create something horrible at this rate, holy shit

because the best shirasu can come up with is thinking of times they've made him laugh before, and given certain things tenka has done in canon? the thing they have created of this boggart is now crossdressing very terribly.

they're trying their best?]

[ she just kind of

stares at it

and stifles the tiniest of laughs

and it winces? ]

—Look, it worked! Keep going! Riddikulus!

[ another burst of xion's magic hits it, and it starts dancing? ]

[okay, this is progress then. so what else comes to mind that used to make him laugh...

ah, that's right.

now it's dancing but even worse, with a distinctly drunken stagger to it, and this time even shirasu breathes out a very quiet half-laugh.

he's not going to burst into laughter at the boggart, like, at any point, but this is what you're getting out of him? at least it seems to make it stagger back a bit more.]

[ it's a good thing xion's here, then, huh? because now that shirasu seems to have gotten the hang of this, she's able to more openly giggle at the creature, who just straight up isn't having a good time anymore. between wobbling and just barely tripping over its already ridiculous-looking self, it shouldn't take much longer...

then, in a slightly unsettling blend of both men's voices, its mismatched eyes look over to them—one yellow, the other glazed over—and says, ]

"GoT iT mEmOrIzEd?"

[ and xion just fuckin loses it, because how is she supposed to keep herself together when this is supposed to be a reflection of her deepest fear and it pulls out that tired line? ]

[i can't believe we really just went from trauma to full shitpost?

neither can shirasu, because this thing is now a mess. it's nowhere near as funny to him, he doesn't really get why she finds that in particular so hilarious-- but at least between him managing a little humor at it and her absolutely losing it, that will probably do the trick.

thank god for xion or this would have just been nothing but the depress express.]

[ shirasu joining in appears to be the final nail in the boggart's coffin, and tenkaxel finally just falls over its dumb as fuck-looking self and vanishes in a puff of smoke. when the haze clears, a small key like the one hermione had initially mentioned is left behind.

give xion a few more seconds to calm herself, lightly wiping a single tear from the corner of her good eye. ]

We... we did it.

...I suppose so.

[it's a little embarrassing that it turned out to be just something like this after all, but-

well. he had his reasons for letting it get to him, honestly. he just shakes his head, exhaling a sigh.]

Take that and let's get back then, shall we?

[because he's pretty sure she will not hand the key to him.]

[ sobering up considerably once she gets those last few chuckles out, she nods and grabs the key before it can fly away and keeps it tucked between her palm and the wand. before she starts walking over toward hermione to turn in their task, though, she utters, ]

... You'll need both hands to push yourself, after all.

[ she's rude now, at least to shirasu, ]

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