notagain | WEEK ZERO: MINGLE

WEEK ZERO

▽ FULL NAVIGATION
▽ LOCATIONS
▽ STATUSES
▽ IC PROFILES
▽ IC RULEBOOK
▽ MURDER PROPOSALS
▽ PCS
▽ CURFEW
▽ AUDIENCES
▽ CAMP STORE
▽ REPORTING

Rise and shine, everyone! At 7:00 AM on the dot, those who are asleep will be roused from their slumber by the sound of a bugle call. It seems that breakfast is now served in the Mess Hall. How nice! It's up to you to decide if you want to continue sleeping or not... But maybe it's a good idea to grab a bite and explore your surroundings. After all, it looks like you'll be here for a little while.

Regardless of what you do, be sure to check the weather before stepping outside. You never know when you might need an umbrella! Once you're up and at them, though, there are a few points of interest this week.

If you swing by the Director's Office, you will find Black Shadows manning the receptionist's desk or flitting in and out of the rooms down the hallway. This week's tasks are now available, and you can check them out on the announcement board in the waiting room. Should you visit the Camp Shop, Purple Heart will be handling all transactions at the checkout counter. Even camp directors hold down normal jobs, you know. Strangely enough, Winter Wizard doesn't seem to be stationed at any set location. Maybe it's their week off? Oh, well. Seems like if you want to get ahold of them, you'll have to pay your respects to the bunnies.

Finally, though all seems normal at first glance... You will quickly realize something is wrong the moment you start interacting with other people. Or, more specifically, once you come in physical contact with them.

For the rest of the week, anyone who makes skin-to-skin (or whatever counts as skin, for the non-humans) contact with someone else will find themselves in a bit of a sticky situation. Whatever body parts touched will be stuck together for the next hour, with no way to separate them. Try not to create additional points of contact while trying to cheat your way out of this situation, yeah? That would be unpleasant, for each spot will last an entire hour. Good luck.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[amused mouth twitch]

I come with a cool alternate costume and everything.

Pics or it didn't happen.

[spreads his arms at his sides, mouth curved into a slightly impish smile]

Believe it or don't.

[DIDN'T YOU SEE AKECHI'S LAME COSTUME CHANGE BELPH]

[i actually don't remember if he ever did, i don't think he knew akechi got his persona back until the last week]

I believe you got a costume. I'm just dubious on whether it was cool or not.

[that's fair]

[a laugh]

Point taken. I guess I'll have to wait and see if they give us our abilities back to show you.

So what does your cool-or-not alternate costume do?

Protect me from the cognitive distortions in the Metaverse.

[. . .]

And make me look awesome.

That is very important.

So what's cognitive distortions?

-- hang on. Why do you get to ask follow-up questions when I don't?

[YOU COULD HAVE AKIRA YOU JUST DIDN'T]

I never said you didn't. What's that they say about assumptions?

. . . touche.

[huffs]

Cognitive distortions are areas of the Metaverse that have been altered in appearance by a powerful distorted cognition belonging to someone in the real world.

We call them "Palaces" because it's easier.

What, so like someone creating a dream world because they have deep-rooted issues? That kind of thing?

Hn. Something like that? I wouldn't call it a "dream" world, though.

It's a world made out of cognition, so a single person's thoughts that are extremely powerful and prevalent can come to life there. But in order for that to happen they have to be extremely distorted.

[a shadow crosses his expression]

Willing to blackmail high school students into smuggling drugs for them levels of distorted.

Ah. So be a huge douchebag, you mean.

Basically.

Though some Palaces have roots in deep trauma, too.

[hesitation. he doesn't want to give away Futaba's secrets when she isn't here, so. . . he will dance around it]

A. . . very good friend of mine had a Palace, and it came about because she was traumatized by her mother's death.