week zero: mingle

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Week Zero
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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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[omegathree]

[Humanity is not delicious for anyone except vampires]

How resourceful! If you can make it, I can show you how to use it.

[compendiem]

Deal. I'll put it near the top of my to-do list. Will you be hanging around here for a while, or where should I find you?

[ It's way too hot for Minato here; he'll be back, if Val absolutely wants to stay here. ]

[omegathree]

I'm intending to stay here for a few more hours at least.

[This is very cozy for him.]

[compendiem]

Alright. I'll be back soon, hopefully.

[ He will not be back soon, but he will check back within the next few days with a rudimentary fishing net in tow. It is probably garishly colored and more fabric-y than necessary, it'll be hard to cast and drag back up but maybe??? it'll work ]

[omegathree]

[Val can be found here most days. Again, not actually doing anything with the lava or the fire around him except looking oddly comfortable.

Minato better have muscles to make that fabric net work.]

It looks like you've made one.

[compendiem]

[ He does not have the muscles to make the fabric net work, but that's where Val comes into play. ]

Yep, took a while 'cause I wanted to make sure it'd be large enough to hold a shark.

[ It's like five feet in all directions, probably not enough to hold a shark, unless it's a small one. Perfect size for fish, though. ]

[omegathree]

You shouldn't eat a shark.

It's too high up on the food chain.

[But at the very least he'll get up and brush his cape off before starting to walk out of the volcano.]

[compendiem]

Oh... Sustainable fishing?

[ Or something? Something about eating things too high up in the food chain causing an imbalance.

Minato lets Val take the lead away from the volcano, with the assumption he knows how to get to the ocean and of the best spot to go fishing. ]

Will you be alright over there? It's pretty chilly, compared to this place. If you're used to heat.

[omegathree]

No, it'll be full of mercury. Humans like you shouldn't consume too much of it.

[He does actually know which way is to the ocean. The best spot... he won't know, because he hasn't spent that much time there.]

I don't mind the cold that much. This location the closest thing to home.

[compendiem]

[ And here he thought Val was an environmentalist... Oh well. The best spot to go fishing is some sort of dock, so it wouldn't be too hard to find a place reaching out into the water. ]

You're from... Australia?

[ Is Australia a desert..... Minato comes from an island nation, he doesn't know ]

[omegathree]

[He looks lost for a moment before shaking his head. Not close.]

No, I'm from the Netherworld.

[compendiem]

[ He was about to question the climate of the Netherlands, but that's not what Val said ]

Nether... Hell?

[omegathree]

[He's never even been to the Netherlands.]

I suppose that's how humans might think of it.

[compendiem]

How cool... When you get home, could you tell Satan I said hi?

[omegathree]

[There's a short pause as he tries to run through all the monsters and demons he's recruited-]

The prinny?

[compendiem]

[ ... ]

The what?

[ It sounds like an insult, and Minato's inner Satan is taking offense to that. ]

[omegathree]

[Listen sometimes you just name a prinny Satan and move on with your day.]

I know a Prinny named Satan.

[compendiem]

Is a prinny... [ squints ] a horse?

[ whinny... pony... he's trying to think of what a prinny could be. Still could be an insult, but maybe it's an animal? ]

Or a person?

[omegathree]

It's much smaller than any horse.

Prinnies are what the souls of sinful humans are stitched into when they come to the Netherworld.

I have an empty prinny skin in the village.

[compendiem]

[ ...........uh??? VAL??????? ]

...Can I come see it sometime?

[omegathree]

[He didn't choose to bring it along.]

You may. Let me know when you want to see it.

[compendiem]

[ He chose to own something like that instead of tossing it in the bin, it's still partially his fault ]

Whenever's convenient for you, really. I don't have real plans. Maybe after we catch something?

[omegathree]

[It's three feet tall, that's a whole trashcan.]

Very well. After we bring back the haul.

[compendiem]

[ three feet tall...... but he could throw it in a dumpster!! he could have found a way ]

"Haul," huh? Pretty confident we're going to catch something... [ he unfurls the net so it lays out flat without tangling in on itself. ]

Do we just throw it in? It should sink readily.

[ But also scare away the fish? How do you use a net ]

[omegathree]

[Is there a dumpster here, Minato??]

We throw it in where we can see a school of fish and then pull it out to bring the fish to the surface.