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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[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. ]

[georeject]

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

Your "bad smut book" was quite helpful.

[chevaliered]

The "bad smut book" was very helpful, actually.

[decisions]

I did enjoy having a duplicate of myself around...

[chevaliered]

[ he's suddenly realising that a duplicate of percy came from the smut book, and opens his mouth and closes his mouth. ]

Mmhm.

[daggering]

[ belated but ]

How could you stand two of them.

[petalbursts]

It did come in handy, when it wasn't being read out loud.

[georeject]

[sometimes you are stuck in a cottage for a week with percy and his smut]

[decisions]

I thought you were asleep. [ he tugs her ear a little (affectionate) ]

[chevaliered]

It was way too much decision making for one... month? Two months? I don't even know how long we were there for. And the sniffing was terrible, like zero out of ten do not recommend it.

[ but that's about all he's willing to talk about. ]

[decisions]

[ STOP SAYING "DECISION" ]

Hated that most of all. Even more than the forest and the tunnels.

[georeject]

It was rather unpleasant... I'll take it as a compliment that she thought I smelled terrible.

[decisions]

Means she'd probably eat you last.

[chevaliered]

[ no, dreamwidth username "decisions" i will not stop saying decision ]

More than being stabbed through the chest. Or in the sides. Or in the shoulder.

[decisions]

[ STOP!!! SHRIEKS!!!! ]

More than smashing my leg to pieces.

[petalbursts]

I think the advice we received could be helpful here too? Between the dreams and the voice we heard from the butterfly.

[decisions]

Do you mean the... "What is lost is lost. Perhaps someday it will be restored. But not here, not today, not now" or... "Whenever you're ready"?

[petalbursts]

[ nods ]

We've lost a lot since coming here, but we know that it can all be brought back and fixed, right? It's just a matter of figuring out how. And "whenever you're ready" could refer to the residents...whenever they're ready to face the reality of this place and move forward, rather than remain complacent.

team twewy - riff side

[aitou]

[I think Zia and Cola are busy/sleeping so slaps this up for them to chime in later if needed]

Damien, Marceline, and I ended up in Riff's world, from his memories. Esti-san, Garou, and Emet were there too, I think together with Himawari? Since they're from the same world... we didn't see them at first, though.

We had to use "pins" to fight animal monsters, and get stamps on a card--I don't think that part was all that important, aside from learning how to fight and "sync" properly. But eventually we found Riff, or some illusion of him, being attacked. ...Ah, people from our world were around too, but we didn't talk to them.

[Thanks Marcy.]

Anyway, we had to rescue him, and it was a hard fight, but he helped us. But while we were fighting, we could hear his thoughts, and sense his emotions. [He looks down at his lap.] It wasn't good. I don't know how he's feeling now, but he was really suffering.

After that, all of us met up with Esti-san and Himawari's group. But Himawari and Riff... I think they might've been refracting? Or something like it. They turned into a huge monster, and it took all of us to defeat them and bring them back to themselves. They were having a really hard time--when we read their thoughts, it felt like they were "losing" and "drowning". We had to remind them who they were, and that everyone here was waiting for them.

It sounds like they got more memories back, after all of that.

[georeject]

... Garou mentioned something like that to me. [coughs into their hand] That their group had a task to cure people who were refracting, by trying to remind them of what was important to them.

[daggering]

[ nods... vax's brows are knit, mouth pulled into a frown. their poor riff and bass... ]

's what Emet said, too. Said that those people... faded away, after, too, but they came back to normal by the end.

[aitou]

[Reaches out to squeeze their arm gently, supportive.]

[georeject]

[thank you puppy]

[gogoghostpowers]

Whoa. Was it...actually them, that you were fighting there? Or just...illusions of them in the weird memory world?

[aitou]

I'm not sure... a combination, I think. Since they remember some of it, but I think they were here while we were gone. So illusions of them made from their memories, maybe.