WEEK SIX: MINGLE

[saturations]

MINGLE

A bittersweet victory, isn't it? You solved everything this past weekend. No mysteries were left unsolved, and now things seem to have settled down. Of course, there's surely plenty on your mind by now. As always though, time marches on. You must keep moving ever onward.

At the far end of the park in the central node, you'll hear the faint sound of rumbling as something new appears. The Prism is opening itself to you all, showing you what it's capable of, and providing you with space to explore.

For those of you feeling particularly daring, you are free to explore a bit further on your own. But even before you leave the apartments, perhaps you'd like to pay a visit to the gumball machine in the lobby.

Strange. Some of you may have gained or lost a color since this time last week, but it's not like many of you will ever tell. In fact, many of you are very, very bad at sharing. Many of you continually suppress your own emotions whether for the sake of others, or in order to go unnoticed. It's hard to say what your motivations are sometimes. This week, however, the suppression... isn't exactly for the best. You may feel a strange twinge in your chest, a slightly uncomfortable tickle in your throat, and then before you can stop it, you find yourself coughing up a handful of flowers. All different shades, all representing your hidden feelings, this disease takes its hold and infects everyone in the Prism. Too bad the timing isn't always the most convenient either.

Finally, as always, you may contact the residents at any time. They may even have something new for you to do.

Welcome to your week six mingle for chroma!

Things of note:
► This week's effect is hanahaki! Yup. For all suppressed emotions characters may be feeling, after some time they'll find themselves coughing up flowers in different colors representing those feelings.
► The flowers can be any type you want for the aesthetic. It can be one or two flowers, or it can be a lot of them. Whichever way you wish to play it is fine.
► Moida submissions continue to be open!
► More to come... keep your eyes and ears open.

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Comments

[decisions]

Are we allowed to ask it another question today, I wonder?

[aitou]

I can try, but I don't think it will work... when I asked another question last time, it just spun around again and again and landed on [frowns down at it thoughtfully] "oofa doofa"...?

[decisions]

[ he nods... that's... so annoying... but it's not yasu's fault so! ] Perhaps since it's been a week it might be worth trying anyways? What's another "oofa doofa" you know? [ better to have tried and all that ]

[brotograph]

They did say try again later. Maybe we should give it a shot?

[nightchild]

Kumon-kun, Danny, and I explored the anime store last week and found letters from Ma-kun and Ryu-kun. They were addressed to Bubble-chan and Kumon-kun.

[he nods at them both, here's the cue if they wanna share (also I'm on mobile)]

They mentioned that the prism was broken and they were trying to fix it, and that they were with Dreamer and the others.

[aitou]

[Nodding to both him and Prompto.]

Sure, I don't mind.

[chevaliered]

... oofa whatfa.

[9mon]

Yeah, I've got it here.

[He has his letter on him right now!

Hyodo, thak you for the gifts nd letter. Sorry, cat write much. Or read? Wy? We're here & OK. There are some others here too, but █████████. We can sɘe some of what's happening and receive things through the alli. Can yu try sending yello scarf etc? I don't know how the grism is broken, but there's time to fix it. Don'ot give up. Say hello to Bin & Wagahai for me. Sorry. -Nardo & Ass. PS, it's sakura blossums!]

[chevaliered]

Yeah, haha. I'm used to big things but they aren't normally on fire.

[daggering]

[ will vax stab a knife into the table to get people's attention today? who knows. obligatory fit check here, though it looks like he's got some paint splatters on the front of it.

either way, he's pretty quick to speak up today. ]

... Last week, I was able to get one of my abilities back as the Champion of the Raven Queen. Once a week, I can guide someone to make contact with one of the dead. Vin and I met with Atsushi and learned a couple things. Biggest takeaway is that we need to not go along with what the Prism wants of us, not get complacent. That goes for everyone, including the residents. It's important to help them realize this place's fucking up their memories.

...I think I have an idea of who to take this week, but beyond that, it'd be good to come up with a list of questions to ask of them, or information we want to deliver to the dead as clearly as possible as a whole. The power isn't as strong as I like - I can only hold the connection for a little while, and no one can touch, but it's at least enough to get started.

We asked about refractions, about Dreamer, and about a few other things. Sneaky did all the talking, so she can report more of the details, too. Just don't ask anything personal of her, yeah?

[chevaliered]

[ he moves his legs so that vax can stab the table if he wants to. ]

[aitou]

[points at the part of the compass that says oofa doofa and shrugs helplessly]

[chevaliered]

[ oofa doofa to you too, compass buddy. ]

[chevaliered]

Ah, I think that part about sending the scarf is sorted.

[brotograph]

Last week, a few of us went to the mountain to check it out. We got hit with a storm and hid in a shack for a few hours. While there, we found a bunch of letters. Aymeric found one for himself and one for Meteion. Hot Pants found a couple. Rox and Doc both found one each. I'll let them share their own letters if they want, but I can share Roxana's if you guys don't think she'll mind. I still have the pictures of them.

[gogoghostpowers]

...what if the residents don't want to fix their memories?

[9mon]

Oh! Yeah? It got over to them after all? Good!

I didn't remember who who had it.

[chevaliered]

Chang Geng, Nogiku and I found it a few weeks ago. She messaged me about it the other day, and seemed to know what to do with it.

[9mon]

I definitely sent them the wrong scarf...

[decisions]

[ here is percy and he will tell the tale of their sordid adventure. ]

We were taken through an archway to a forest of... talking animals. [ wrinkling his nose ] They told us that the owner of a nearby cottage could perhaps help us if we waited long enough. We just ended up being stuck in the cottage for a week instead with a cabinet full of weapons and a bad smut book.

Eventually, we were able to leave, and encountered a witch in a hut. She said she would offer us help in exchange for a bargain. She was quite dramatic about it and... rude. She sniffed us a lot... [ :| ] Eventually, she gave us these small dolls, semblances of those we were looking for, but it wasn't long before we were separated in a rather large wood full of bramble full of all sorts of illusions.

[ he hums ] When had to separate after that once more, into four separate tunnels. I can only speak for myself, but it felt as though a couple of weeks had passed going through that tunnel, in a place i knew well... though I didn't tire or grow hungry, I simply felt as though time had passed. We reunited when we made it out at an oasis after that.

It was full of animals in all shapes and colors, all species, even ones I'm certain I've never seen before, but just beyond them we could see some animals had been petrified... and then... some people as well. [ he pauses ] Turns out there were monsters that could turn you to stone if you held their gaze long enough.

[ there's a moment where he just kind of rubs his eyes under his glasses. ] You can assume what happened next—we... had to fight them and ended up defeating them all... despite everything. As it turns out, Shale's family was there, among the stone statues of our friends. They had a staff with a large pink crystal on it, which was able to reverse the petrification and send us home. We were able to bring it with us and have since returned it to him.

[ HE'LL JUST. GLANCE AT THE OTHER THREE if they want to throw in. this is just the general gist of their adventure. ]

[chevaliered]

[ he's doing his best. ]

Well, if they were cold now they have a scarf.

[georeject]

[the sniffing was so bad 0/10 would not recommend]

Your "bad smut book" was quite helpful.

[9mon]

I only sent one, though. And there's a lot of people on that side now.

[Should he be sending more scarves?]

[chevaliered]

Estinien and I checked out the Renne Faire the other week. Aside from getting put in the dunk tank by a bunch of multi-coloured animals, we found a few letters.

Estinien had one from 9S, I got one from Wicked, and for some reason we also found one that was meant for Percy, so ... he's got that one now. Ask them about it for the contents, if they want to share.

[ ... ]

Couple of important things from my letter: Wicked mentioned that they're fading away wherever they are. Talking to each other is helping them, but being remembered also helps so... time to start doubling up on that duty.

Also, if you're a twink she's gonna beat your ass but I'm honestly not sure which twink she's referring to specifically, so. Brace yourselves I guess. [ his money is on damien or itsuki. ]

[decisions]

I received a letter from Chang Geng, thanks to Crow. He did mention that we should make sure to sign our letters as apparently some have come through un-signed. Ah... other than that, we should make sure to keep talking about them as well.

If we have questions, we should ask the Residents or even just questions in general, we should ask them aloud, even if we don't have answers. They're able to try and search for the answers on their side as well and do their best to send answers to us in their own letters, which seem to be redacted in certain parts. Likely something that can't be transmitted from different sides of the prism.

I think it may be a good idea to send them the symbols from the compass as well? To see if anything makes sense on their part?