WEEK ZERO: MINGLE

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WEEK ZERO

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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.

Comments

[givethemhell]

[He's running fastly from Jiang Cheng. ALSO LOOK. YEAH?? He's having a great time playing with this cute kitty, why would he stop to help with dishes?? Though the clattering plate has him grinning, and he pulls his hand away after another little dash across the stovetop.]

Mm, I see. We didn't have much time to talk about where we came from, back there. [...] It's good that you get along, though! [His goblin grin shifts just a little at that, something briefly soft surfacing in it, before he points toward the dish stack that's left.]

Need any help?

[bittybat]

Grayson doesn't talk about himself even if there is time to talk about it. He's too busy worrying over everyone else instead, ignoring his own health and well-being.

[Pennyworth looks a little disappointed when Wei Wuxian's hand disappears, taking with it all of his entertainment. :\ bring that back]

I'm fine. I can do it myself. [He glances at Wei Wuxian, but then continues on with what he's doing in the sink.] I'm almost finished.

[givethemhell]

Aha, well! That does sound a lot like him, too. He has an incredible knack for running himself into the ground and remaining standing.

[It's a good thing and also a bad thing?? Hm. Anyway, he reaches out to give Pennyworth another scratch behind the ears.]

Be good and I'll let you hunt my hand in a bit, alright? [Said to the cat as if it can understand him... He'll mosey over to the sink after that anyway, picking up a dish and a sponge to start a-scrubbin'.]

It won't count unless two are working together, I think.

[bittybat]

[See. He's ten, but he can see right through Dick Grayson's bullshit. Stupid ass hero complEX FUCKS. Points at eyes, points at Wei Wuxian.]

I would have simply found something else to do instead since you wasted so much time with the cat instead.

[Playing with pussy instead of working, how like someone from THE FUCK BOAT.


also, (jin ling voice) WHO WANTS YOU TO HELP THEM?!]

[givethemhell]

[HE'LL KEEP HIS HERO COMPLEX HIDDEN until the last second where it will leap out to decimate him in one fell swoop.]

Ah, but how could I help it? He's just such a handsome and well-behaved fellow! Look at him! He's so cute...!

[Just fuckin GUSHING OVER THIS CAT THAT AIN'T EVEN HIS. Cats are the only creature in this world outside of crows that Wei Wuxian will fuss over instead of threaten to eat.]

[bittybat]

You can cease reducing his ferocity by blubbering compliments about his appearance. He is an apex predator. One of the few domesticated animals still clinging to prime, murderous instinct.

[Smashcut over to Pennyworth who is on his side on top of the burner, spinning in a circle after his tail.]

[givethemhell]

[LOOKING OVER AT PENNYWORTH...

Looking back at Damien.........]

...You should compliment him more often, I think. Especially his cute little shoes.

[bittybat]

[STOP, don't look at the damn cat. He is a vicious beast. Damian looks at Pennyworth, and then promptly goes back to what he's doing.]

They're socks. I compliment him fine. [On, like, his hunting and stuff. (and maybe how cute he is in private, lowly, where no one can hear him)] Go away before we accidentally touch and become stuck. You're too close.

Sweep the floor.

[givethemhell]

[Even Jiang Cheng compliments his pets more freely than this Damien, please.]

Socks! They're lovely socks, in that case. Very dashing. [But then he's telling him to go SWEEP and--] Oh, that's a wonderful idea!

[Suspiciously, he immediately drops the dish he'd been working on and nyooms off to go get a broom...

So he can come back and try to get Pennyworth's attention by rapidly sliding it from side to side across the floor nearby.]

[bittybat]

[Damian doesn't trust this a single bit. He turns his head over his shoulder to watch Wei Wuxian run off, feeling immense exhaustion and fear.

A little better when Wei Wuxian comes back with the broom, but then more exhaustion when it's clear what's really going on. Especially considering Pennyworth 100% falls for it. The cat pauses, watches, and then rolls up to a hunch.

There's some butt calibration, the eyes widening, and then he leaps off the stove to rush the bristly broom ends.]

Why don't you get your own cat?

[givethemhell]

[HaHA. Pennyworth is his favorite member of their crew now. He skirts the broom quickly away from this deadly hunter's rush, pulling it in a wide circle around him.]

I don't have a cat of my own, though! And it's not like I can just go into the forest to pluck one out of a tree.

[If he could, he would have absolutely done that by now. BUT HE CAN'T, so he gets to steal Pennyworth's attention instead...]

Don't worry, don't worry - I promise I'll get the actual sweeping done, too.

[bittybat]

[WTF, THIS BROOM? Pennyworth zooms around Wei Wuxian in a small circle, front half skidding over and paws slapslapslapslapping after the bristles.

And Damian goes back to his dishes, the last few.]

You're only encouraging his occasional idiocy. [There's a "tch" under his breath. He can't believe these morons spinning around in circle in the kitchen behind him, like FOOLS.] Where are you from?

Besides the "Boat." Before that.

[givethemhell]

[honestly you rping a chaotic cat is the funniest fucking thing, almost as funny as the mental image of a 10 year old being the only person in this kitchen doing any actual work]

Please, he's working on his hunting skills! Keeping them sharp, you see?

[As Pennyworth skitters around doing his best, the bristles ever just sliiightly out of his reach...

He glances over at the question though, still grinning.]

Before the boat? I was in- [fantasy ancient china name hell if i know what it is they only gave ancient fantasy japan a name]. Yunmeng, in specific, but Yiling is more my home.

[bittybat]

[Playing this damn cat of chaos gives me hives but also an unfortunate little thrill of amusement.]

I see.

[The white-tipped tail bristles like the broom, and Pennyworth zooms away from Wei Wuxian down the length of the kitchen and around a corner.

After a second, Pennyworth comes bounding back out, but sideways, arched high at the back and galloping. He makes a great effort of intimidation without getting close.]

Is that where you were returning at the end of the game you played before?

[givethemhell]

[IT'S YOUR INNER CHAOS DEMON I KEEP TELLING YOU

Anyway he's finding this absolutely hilarious and dashes a little farther across the kitchen and away from Pennyworth's sideways nyooms, skirting the broom across the floor as he goes. This is cleaning, right??]

—That was the plan, for the time being! ["For the time being" because of course every survivor but like Edelgard were immediately like "so we harness the powers that be and come back to kill right??"] We weren't given any way to cross-communicate after leaving, at least.

[bittybat]

[NO I'M LAWFUL]

"The time being"? [He's ten, but he's not... stupid. Unfortunately. He glances over his shoulder just as Pennyworth zips off again around the kitchen. The cat tries to come around from the other side with tail poofed, trying to dive bomb the end of the broom before Wei Wuxian sweeps away.] Tt...

Jackson had to request for us to communicate across dimensions.

[givethemhell]

[you're a lawful cabbage with an interior of chaos]

Mm, only the time being. [He's not trying to be furtive about it, at least. IT'S THE TRUTH. He does intend to go back!! Just not forever.

He quickly nyooms to the other side of the kitchen too and he's honestly probably kicking up more dust than he is cleaning, but Pennyworth is having a good time so that's all that matters.]

Haha, a good thing someone requested it, though! I hope it works for you all. Figuring out a way to communicate from a world without any of that sort of thing in existence yet is an extra headache.

[bittybat]

[Pennyworth has a stand-off with Wei Wuxian from across the kitchen. Damian glances down, watching Pennyworth decide whether he wants to attack, or not.

Lifting his hands out of the water, Damian flicks some on Pennyworth's back, and the cat hauls ass, back rippling. Hehe.]

You might be able to request something here.

[givethemhell]

[GOD CATS ARE TOO GOOD. Wei Wuxian cracks up, but finally gets to actually sweeping the floor now that Pennyworth is not here to distract him.]

What a good cat. [10/10 favorite person in camp.] Ah - that's possible, mmhm! Though I'd still rather refrain from relying on the gifts our dear friends may or may not give, you know? For this and that reason.

[Like the weird shit they keep plucking off of things. And the fact that he still trusts no one.]

[bittybat]

[Annoyed--or embarrassed--Pennyworth sits near the door and sticks a long, white-socked leg up to furiously groom the fur because of this awful transgression of being spritzed with water.]

For this or that reason. You may as well just say it. I don't trust them either, not entirely. I doubt any of us trust them, and if someone does, they're a fool.

[givethemhell]

[He loves Pennyworth... just sitting there, trying to act like a cool cucumber. Hanging out right in plain sight to show his disdain off to the world.]

I said it that way because I'm too tired to list off everything. [Replace "tired" with "lazy" and you got it.]

But they've done some strange things! Notice them plucking something off of their items before handing them over? Hah - but you're right about the trust, at least. I haven't talked to anyone who isn't at least a little wary.