week zero: mingle

[cyclists]

Week Zero
32 in Competition

On Monday morning, the sun rises on the sleepy village, and when the first ray of light touches the gates at each corner of the village, the previously tightly sealed doors open.

The barriers around the village fall, and leave it entirely open. Each cardinal direction will have a path exiting the village, taking the curious explorers who follow it on an adventure to new territories to be explored. They’ll find that each location that they arrive in appears to be associated with one of the elements. As the Signs had explained the day before, each of the participants in the game possesses an elemental assignment, whether they are aware of it or not.

When they approach the elemental areas, they’ll find themselves more in tune with their new powerset, as if the location invites them to take them out for a spin. The new areas appear to be perfect for training and learning how to use the new skills, or maybe if you’re curious you can discover which of those listed powers you’ve been granted.

Just try not to hurt yourself while you’re out there.

In addition, it seems now that more pieces of the core are being revealed, the river that runs through the village will begin to be dotted with small lanterns floating on the water. Some of them seem to be holding small notes. Try as you might to grab one, they’ll always just barely float out of reach.

Perhaps try sending one yourself and see what results you might get?

Occasionally in the village, you might hear the sound of drums and flutes - is that festival music? - though no matter how you search, you can’t find the source… yet.



Welcome to your tutorial week mingle log! Please see all the links within the log to check out the new updates. In addition, your status page has been updated. In case you missed it, please report all item theft to this top-level where all comments are screened. Private conversations are also open and should be reported under the Week 0 top-level.

A mini-event will also be posted on Wednesday, June 5th, so please keep an eye out for that!

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[twinsightful]

Boutique

[If you enter this space today, you'll find one (1) Kaoru Hitachiin sitting on the floor with a sketchpad in his lap, a pencil in his hand, and scraps of fabric spread around him in a circle. He doesn't bother to move out of the way and he doesn't look up from what he's doing, but once he's aware he isn't alone, he lifts his free hand to point at a rack of clothing before him.]

It's a perfect fit. [What?]

Library

[You can also find him back in the library and roaming the upper floor today, fingers running along the spines of the books. He frowns to himself and he turns to whomever is nearby.]

Should we be worried there are no reference books for this place?

Fire

[Ah. The gates are down and against his better judgment Kaoru wanders out on the paths, eventually making his way north and to the desert. He thinks he should turn back, but for some reason something encourages him to continue on. Maybe it's a void in the back of his head, or maybe it's the thrumming in his veins like adrenaline. It's hard to say, but as he steps over the rocks and enters the area he finds himself relaxing just a little.

As he approaches the large volcano, he folds his arms over his chest and looks upward.]

Have you been to any of the other paths? [This is to whomever is closest.] I wonder what they have in place of a volcano.

Wildcard

[Hit me up for anything else! You can randomize me, or hit me up for PCs/etc via interpretively or disco!]

Boutique

[yokeye]

[Toki looks where he's pointing, but it appears to be at nothing but a clothing rack. It fits in the space provided, maybe not perfectly, but he couldn't know without measuring. Perhaps Kaoru has already done that.]

Okay~!

[He shrugs and steps around Kaoru to look for shoes.]

[twinsightful]

[Toki why are you like this? But Kaoru glances up and recognizes him as the guy who just, like, you know. Wandered away and never came back. He pauses in his work and watches him approach the shoe rack instead.]

No matter what you pick up it fits somehow. [Which doesn't make any logical sense.] Did you ever find a shovel?

boutique

[compendiem]

[ Hello... Minato steps inside quietly, not wanting to disturb Kaoru while he's hard at work on whatever it is he's doing, but when Kaoru speaks up, Minato takes that as an opportunity to do so too. ]

What?

[twinsightful]

The clothes. [Another repeated gesture.] No matter what you pick it fits perfectly.

Boutique

[omegathree]

Is that strange?

[I don't know how demon clothes work, please do not ask me about demon clothes.]

[twinsightful]

Yes. [He sounds affronted, actually.] Clothing is supposed to come in different sizes and cuts, so seeing that it fits everything means there's something wrong with it.

boutique

[whitewalls]

Hm?

[ she hadn't checked out this place yet because ha ha! why would she look at clothes!

so when kaoru speaks, naminé blinks in surprise. ]

[twinsightful]

Anything you pick up. It's a perfect fit. [He may be having a small crisis about this, but he looks up and pauses for some reason as he looks at Naminé.]

Fiyaaaaah

[stillstands]

A beach.

[ Hello.

Miki doesn't actually stop, she just keeps walking past Kaoru onwards, like she's gunning to just get up there and climb that thing. ]

I think I liked that place a bit better than this one. [ Yet still, here she is. ]

[twinsightful]

A beach? [He starts a bit because he recognizes Miki, but then she's walking and--wait!]

Where's it at? [He's not really sure he's into the idea of walking into a volcano, but...he can't argue that it isn't strangely comfortable even if it's hot here.]

boutique

[daibanana]

[What indeed. And here Nana had just wanted a look around the premises agin, having cooked herself to boredom and now needing something else to occupy her time.

She'll glance at the clothing rack when prompted, at least, eyes widening a fraction]

What's a perfect fit? ... For you?

[twinsightful]

[Surprisingly he actually perks up a little upon seeing Nana.]

For anyone, really. That's the strange part. It doesn't matter what it is, it fits.

library

[specialdog]

Maybe this place didn't exist until recently.

[ you know, a regular conclusion to come to. she laughs because she seems to realize that sounds a bit silly. ]

Or maybe they were just very into passing down their own personal history orally?

[twinsightful]

[Akane is someone he recognizes and he actually seems somewhat comfortable when he replies to her. Especially given he's not looking away from his task.]

That would mean their history's pretty dead since there's nobody around to tell us about it. Shame. [He does not even sound like he means it.] Can planets just appear out of nowhere?

boutique

[lionharts]

[ one of the places squall hasn't really investigated-- because who. cares about clothes... ]

For who?

[twinsightful]

You, me, the next person who walks in? All of the above. [Hello Squall.]

fire

[unfriendliest]

[ oh no, not you again. he thought he was done with you. ]

If you want to know, you should go look for yourself.

[ helpful. ]

[twinsightful]

[Very helpful. Kaoru just lifts an eyebrow, apparently unperturbed by this.]

They're far. [That's it, that's his excuse.] It may not even be worth looking at them if they aren't like this.

library

[leaberator]

[ axel looks up from his place lounging and reading a book (wait, axel can read???? then why didn't he read the power scrolls earlier, the dumbass.) ]

Yeah, probably. It's like there's no history to this place at all.

[twinsightful]

Is that possible? Some of these places look fairly lived in. [The style of the buildings skew a little older in his opinion, not to mention the worn paths and the grown animals.]

boutique

[forefall]

[ Instead of answering his statement right away, she takes in his haphazard work station. ]

I noticed that yesterday. [ Probably. ] What are you working on?

[twinsightful]

[Thank god someone else understands and he isn't losing his mind. Still, he turns the sketchpad to show her. It's a blazer. Or, rather, it's a sketch of a blazer with numbers for measurements written next to it.]

An experiment.

library

[foodbin]

You know that'd be way too easy. Why let us have one helpful thing for free?

[She sounds more sarcastic than anything, but there's a real edge of Exhaustion below that.]

[twinsightful]

What, you think we have to earn it? That's ridiculous. [He's fluent in sarcasm and even speaks a little himself. But yeah, this blows.] How are we supposed to help them if we don't know anything else about where we are?