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.

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Comments

[nonbelligerent]

It doesn't hurt to be careful.

[...]

I assume you're curious about this?

[he holds up his tablet, because 80% of the people he's spoken to have been...]

[preowned]

[ in tsuru's defense swords are fucking stupid

but he nods ]

A small screen?

[nonbelligerent]

Yes. I write on it, and it generates speech.

[preowned]

Uwahh... technology is really amazing!!

[ he sounds genuinely amazed, unfortunately ]

[nonbelligerent]

Remarkable, isn't it?

[it's okay, this isn't even shess's race's tech so he's also impressed by it]

[preowned]

It is! People really do think of the most amazing things to get by...

[ even if he doesn't understand a lot of it ]

You can't speak then?

[nonbelligerent]

[he shakes his head. no, tsuru, he doesn't spend the effort writing in the tablet for fun.]

[preowned]

Wow! Technology that's even helpful!

[ what's being polite ]

[nonbelligerent]

[shess is usually surrounded by assholes, it's fine]

Are you used to unhelpful technology?

[preowned]

Well...

[ more like selective technology, but how does he explain that ]

I'm still getting used to it all.

[nonbelligerent]

Understandable. It can be a lot to take in.

[preowned]

Can I try?

[nonbelligerent]

[he half-expects this question by now.]

As long as you're careful.

[handing it and the stylus over! i'm on mobile rn so screw you francy you don't get a linked pic]

[preowned]

[ you better link it later binch

but he is very??? excited??? how the fuck does this work ]

Sorprise!

[ he typo'd ]

[nonbelligerent]

[fine!! you just write on the screen with the stylus, and the sliders at the bottom are probably the settings for changing the voice—which, if tsuru didn't change them, comes out as the one shess has been using.

typo and all ig.]

[preowned]

[ he'll write again!! this time he is being nosy with the sliders ]

I am Tsurumaru Kuninaga!

[nonbelligerent]

[i can't tell you anything more than that francy

but tsuru looks like he's having fun, so shess just smiles.]

[preowned]

[ he is having a lot of fun ]

Who are you?

[ he'll hand the tablet back after that one ]

[nonbelligerent]

[comments so you can't fix your html

once he sets it back to his original settings:]

Shess.

[preowned]

[ binch ]

I saw you when everyone was speaking to the hooded figures.

[nonbelligerent]

And I saw you as well.

[preowned]

It's a pretty surprising situation we've found ourselves in!

[ that's a word for it ]

[nonbelligerent]

Yes, that's certainly one way of putting it.

[preowned]

What do you think?

[nonbelligerent]

If what they say is true, I have an interest in keeping my world unaffected. Even if it isn't, I would also like to be returned home, so I suppose there's little choice at the moment but to go along with it until we have more answers.