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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[chevaliered]

[ for all your other murder mystery needs ]

[aitou]

[I don't really have anything useful to share I'm just saying 1. Yams is here and has his sword back and 2. Reposting the nonsense compass results from last time, which came up in response to the question "what are the ways to stop any and all future refractions?"]

[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"...?

[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. ]

[daggering]

[ this is why you're his favorite. ♥ ]

[gogoghostpowers]

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

[allomantic]

[i am suffering under capitalism but she's here to add onto this!! she coughs a little, hiding whatever flower comes up in her hands. it's fine.]

It's as Vax said - we need to help the Residents realize they don't belong here, and important that we don't become complacent, or we might become stuck here as well. Apart from making sure to return the items we find on the adventures we go on to the Residents, Atsushi told me it might be important for them to talk to each other about leaving here or going home. He was also able to confirm that the Residents we have not met in person are with the dead, but it didn't sound like they've had their memories tampered with in the same way.

When we asked about the refractions, he confirmed they're caused by an imbalance in color. Evidently, one of the Residents killed another in the past, and the refractions may be an unintended side effect of this. I also asked him whether they had any ideas about how to bring those we've lost back to us, or about how we might all leave this place, and he did not answer, so I imagine he didn't know a sure way. But he did mention that the idea of risk, specifically risk that is used to change, may be important. He said that nothing will change if we continue to accept the Prism the way it is. Evidently, Chang Geng suggested destroying parts of the Prism and replacing it with our own creations - that there needs to be some kind of disruption each week if we want to gain control of this place.

[thinking, thinking...]

That being said, I would caution against doing anything drastic all at once. I don't want to make enemies of the Residents on this side by starting to destroy things immediately. Hopefully, we will receive more letters or notes that will confirm or clarify this idea... And Atsushi made sure to specify that when talking about destruction or disruption, he did not mean violence of any kind.

[daggering]

[ replies to my own thread

this time, he puts a hand up to his mouth, and addresses the ceiling. hey deadzos: ]

By the way. If you guys have someone you think'd be best from your side to meet up with one of us, I'll take a suggestion. Volunteers or otherwise. Just send me a sign, somehow.

[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?

[nightchild]

I think that's a good idea. They'd have mentioned it if they saw it last week, right?

[...]

Or maybe not... I wonder how often their letters can come through?

🐖

[ktiseos]

[anyway, after mentioning the dreamer note above-]

Regarding the dreams which leave pig tattoos-- I've something of a working theory. Do confirm or deny if you are able to, but... it appears one is assigned a task after receiving the dream, and as far as I am able to tell, the... 'pig with a gun' tattoo is likely the result of not completing it.

Given their somewhat unnerving nature, and the messages they appear to convey, asking if we want to know how to get out... combined with Dreamer's note, I think it likely they are the source, even if it feels a bit on the nose. [dreamer sending dreams who would think such a thing.] In asking about them, I was told they were someone who only pretended to be nice, and who would probably dislike being ignored. [hence the. threatening version for not doing it.] In addition- that if the dreams are something they are pushing, their message is unlikely to be good.

However, it may still be worthwhile to see just what they are attempting to say, and I would not necessarily say to avoid completing the task if one is able.

[chevaliered]

I can’t confirm the gun part, but I did do my task and had a normal tattoo.

[dms]

[ a little while later, kazunari raises his hand like he's in class. ]

So this might not be as relevant to everything coming up now, but, um...

[ there's a healthy bit of hesitation there, and he coughs a little into his hand... but what was it someone said? face the scary stuff? well, here goes. ]

If you guys have more questions about refracting, like what came up in trial, you can ask me. I was refracting the week before Percy, and it - it made me kill Nines. It's not fair to keep taking things like that to Percy every time they come up, so I'll try to answer things, too, if I can. That's all.

[georeject]

[clarte will reach to touch kazu's arm, as they give him a smile. proud of him!!]

[chevaliered]

[ … he shoulder bumps him gently. ]

[brotograph]

[ oh. there it is.

patting his back to help with the flowers ]

[nightchild]

[he's here in helioho solidarity... he'll reach over to touch his shoulder, homie pat....]

...Thanks, Kazu-kun.

[daggering]

[ reaches over

ruffles his hair ]

Brave of you, kid.

[decisions]

[ work swallowed me but percy is here and he's just. you know. giving him whatever steadiness that he can. he'll put a hand gently on his shoulder and offer a quiet nod. ]

[aitou]

[Kazu can have a hand squeeze if he will accept it]

[slashay]

[He will also just gently place a hand on Kazu's shoulder for a moment for a lil reassurance.]

[allomantic]

...It was good of you to say something.

[9mon]

[ Kumon watches all of this happen, then hugs Kazu. ]