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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[unfriendliest]

[ good thing tsuru dies after this because he's the only one who can get to kara so fucking easily

alright. you're on. ]

Yeah.

[preowned]

[ amazing

but he'll pick up the speed again. it's still not quite as fast as a battle, but it does have the added difficulty of a different kind of footwork than what they're used to doing while fighting. ]

[unfriendliest]

[ now this is better - harder to keep up with in such close quarters, but that makes it more fun. it's closer to a battle this way, even if the footwork is all wrong.

he's almost smiling, even! ]

This isn't bad.

[preowned]

Right? You really need to pay attention...!

[ or else your foot is going to be stomped on, which tsuru just narrowly avoids doing to ookurikara just now. ]

[unfriendliest]

[ ah - hey! ]

Aren't cranes supposed to be graceful?

[preowned]

I dodged you! That was grace!!

[ was it really ]

[unfriendliest]

You almost stepped on me. How is that grace?

[preowned]

But I didn't! That was my quick reflexes in action.

[ stop insulting his crane aesthetic wow ]

[unfriendliest]

Luck.

[ make him ]

[preowned]

Skill! Talent!!

[



it was luck ]

[unfriendliest]

Luck.

[ he's just teasing tsuru now lmao ]

Maybe cranes aren't meant to be dancers.

[preowned]

Cranes are the birds that are most suited to be dancers.

[ there is no science behind this statement, tsuru doesn't know shit about birds ]

[unfriendliest]

Then you aren't living up to your name.

[ is he going to take this dare ]

[preowned]

Ookurikara.

[ it's said firmly, and there's determination in his eyes ]

Prepare yourself for the ultimate dance of swords.

[unfriendliest]

[ it's amazing how easily ookurikara can get a rise out of the others when he tries

but he gives tsuru his most skeptical look ]

Are you sure you can handle something like that?

[preowned]

[ tsuru's a moron

he nods his head quickly ]

I'll handle it better than anyone else!!

[unfriendliest]

[ he'll hold that stare just one more moment, before: ]

Then show me.

[ he's gonna regret this probably ]

[preowned]

[ he definitely is

tsuru will immediately proceed to quicken the pace, but the glint in his eyes implies that he is planning more than this ]

[unfriendliest]

[ this much, he expected. it's a bit harder to keep up with, but he manages - it's that look in tsuru's eyes that has him both concerned and vaguely curious.

is he actually going to be surprised this time, if he knows tsuru is planning something? stay tuned to find out! ]

[preowned]

[ see, tsuru's plan at the moment is simple

and it's to make it harder to predict that something might happen by delaying it ]

Are you keeping up?

[unfriendliest]

[ kara's still pretty sure he's up to something, but fine. he'll wait. ]

Mm.

[ this is good training, too, he thinks - trying to anticipate tsuru's actions. ]

[preowned]

[ everything seems normal for a bit

until tsuru very suddenly goes to spin kara outwards ]

[unfriendliest]

[ ok he was not as ready for that as he'd hoped

kara stumbles a bit, but manages not to fall, and just turns to stare at tsurumaru, but he doesn't want to let tsuru win just yet, so ]

Is that all?

[preowned]

[ TCH!!!

that's fine, he can still handle this

so he'll just smile ]

Hm? Of course not, Kara-bou!

[unfriendliest]

[ of course not. he rolls his eyes, and steps back in to resume the dance. ]

Then show me.

[ like he has any right to be impatient after starting this ]