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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[preowned]

What.

[ THAT'S.... SO LONG????? ]

The festival will be over by then! [ UGH. ] Darn...

[ tsuru sighs, running a hand through his hair. ]

I guess we can save it for tomorrow.

[unfriendliest]

Unless we find someone with ice powers...

[ he only knows about lili, but he's not going to ask her. she's kind of a jerk. ]

[preowned]

[ tsuru likes lili but he doesn't know she has ice powers so rip ]

Maybe we can ask back at the party...?

[unfriendliest]

[ that means talking to people. kara makes a face. ]

You can go ahead, if you want. Otherwise we'll have to wait.

[ he'll stay here if tsuru goes to fetch an ice person though ]

[preowned]

[ he's considering...

and then he points at the champagne and rum. ]

Try it.

[ he wants to see kara's reaction first ]

[unfriendliest]

[ well he's certainly not going to try both at once, so he grabs the champagne and tips it back for a sip.

and - coughs a little. that's what he meant by "bubbly?" ]

It feels weird going down.

[ he doesn't mind the taste though...? ]

[preowned]

It's bubbly, right?! I wonder how it does that... it makes it feel so different.

[ he just stares intently at the champagne bottle for a moment, like it'll give him its secrets

he is very clearly wobbling on the edge of tipsy and drunk ]

[unfriendliest]

[ kara isn't going to answer because he, too, is staring intently at the champagne bottle

and at the pots of juice

and back at the champagne ]

Will it work for this...?

[ he's more talking to himself than asking tsuru. the flavors would be fine, he thinks? but how does bubbly = jiggly treat ]

[preowned]

... we can put it in some of them!

[ so that way it won't be too disastrous when/if it fails. ]

It seems like it'll be a surprising combination.

[unfriendliest]

Only if it stays bubbly.

[ buuuut since they're still waiting, he supposes he'll go ahead and try the rum. ]

...I like this one.

[preowned]

It's good, right?

[ why does he sound so proud he didn't invent rum ]

I'm going to go see if I can find an ice person!

[ ...... he's going to take another one of the already made jello shots with him ]

[unfriendliest]

Yeah.

[ good luck with that tsuru, he'll just be here

gradually pouring vodka into the first pot of juice and taste testing as he goes

this is bad, probably ]

[preowned]

[ meanwhile tsuru will



forget about what he was supposed to do once he's back at the party

he returns eventually, with more jello shots. ]

Kara-booouuuu!! ♥

[ tsuru is drunk ]

[unfriendliest]

[ tbf kara is getting a bit tipsy from taste-testing all these future jello shots. he's on the pot by the time tsuru gets back, just adding another spoonful of rum.

...and he notices that tsuru is. alone. ]

You didn't find anyone?

[preowned]

[ oh



right. he was supposed to do that. ]


... nnnnnnno.

[unfriendliest]

[ siiiiiigh ]

Then we won't know how they turn out until morning.

[ he's a little... disappointed? he wants to know if he got it right! ]

[preowned]

We'll check first thing!

[ and they can have jello shots for breakfast, cool ]

Let's go back to everyone else!

[ he'll wander over to drape himself against kara while. still eating his jello shot. ]

[unfriendliest]

[ i hate everything tsurumaru stands for but yeah they probably will

ookurikara doesn't pay him much attention as he finishes with the rum. if tsuru is still hanging onto him, he'll just shuffle with these over to the fridge so they can actually leave

and take one of the jello shots from tsuru so he can have a spoon of it ]

Okay.

[preowned]

[ he'll let go for kara to put the shots away, mostly because he doesn't want to accidentally knock them over.

but once they're put away he'll go back to leaning on him as he starts to tug him out of the kitchen. the only reason he won't drunkly wrap his arms around kara's is because tsuru is also trying to grab the bottles of alcohol along for the ride, so honestly right now they just look

really fucking stupid ]

[unfriendliest]

[ yeah guess they shouldn't leave those behind, huh... ookurikara will do his part and grab two of them on the way out while tsuru pulls him along

they're fine ]

[preowned]

[ THEY ARE TOTALLY FINE

slightly drunk but fine

to the party, then ]

[unfriendliest]

Can't we just go?

[ since the jello won't be ready until tomorrow anyway, he has no reason to go back ]

[preowned]

Isn't there anything you want from it?

[ admittedly tsuru just wants to take some of the fancy champagne glasses with them. ]

[unfriendliest]

No.

[ yet he's not surprised at all that there's something tsuru apparently wants. ]

Why would I?

[preowned]

Because there were so many interesting things there! The people here seem like they'll keep us occupied when we're bored.

[ but also

his champagne glasses ]