WEEK ONE: MINGLE - OVERFLOW

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WEEK ONE

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

POPULATION: 39 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 seems the fog has receded enough to reveal a few new locations. 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 Purple Heart 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, Winter Wizard will be handling all transactions at the checkout counter. Even camp directors hold down normal jobs, you know. Strangely enough, Black Shadows 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. As you explore the camp, however... You may find yourself confronted by scenes from a not so distant past. Or, perhaps, the so-called-movies playing on the big screen are completely foreign to you. But that's not all you will have to deal with this week. Continue skimming the edges of the forest, and you will find yourself going down memory lane. Literally. To further complicate matter, at the start of this week everyone will wake up with a tattoo of a star on the back of their hands. Though you will be unaware of its purpose at first, it will quickly become apparent the moment you say the words "I wish" out loud. It's a wish granting star! Or, well, sort of. Regardless of what you wish for, the result of the wish is always material, small, and never actually useful for what the character actually desires. They cannot cause effects or change anything, nor will it result in a weapon or items that can be used to solve a murder. For example, wishing for an exit will result in an Emergency Exit sign materializing in your hands. You will all get three wishes each. The star will become fainter with each wish, until disappearing once they make their third wish. All items gained through this effect will disappear once Week 2 officially begins. Good luck.

Comments

[recrypt]

[ well, she is the youngest in the camp by a large margin. yin yu's valid to question her... everything, really. but she's methodical in her actions, showing them off clearly rather than just sweeping through them all with a speed begotten by familiarity. ]

Right. And a battle is the worst time for a weapon to fail, though...

[ she tilts her head, looking thoughtful. ]

It's interesting how much respect many seem to treat a sword with, as opposed to any other weapon. I usually don't hear the same sentiments applied to a pike, or an axe, or bow and arrow...

Is it due to the more personal nature of the work that goes into forging it?

[shixiong]

In some ways. [ hm... ] At least, where I am from, a cultivator's most important and valued weapon is his sword or saber. It can be used as a spiritual weapon as much as it can a slashing or cutting one--using your qi, an entire swordfight could be had without you ever actually lifting a finger.

[ he gestures upwards with his hand, making a small back and forth motion, as if imitating a blade slashing through the air without a hand to guide it. ] Each weapon crafted has a soul in and of its own that is unique to it. That shouldn't be too surprising, when you think about people such as Yasusada here...although, I have never met a sword spirit in walking human form, before I came to this place. [ which is. weird.

...anyway. ] A sword can reject the cultivator who chooses to use it, or the hand of someone who isn't its master, as well. The relationship between sword and master should be meditative, and it's important for the cultivator to reflect upon themselves as they practice: therefore, if you disrespect the weapon, it can easily backfire or abandon you entirely in a time of need, not to mention you would be failing at practicing one of the most meditative parts of an art that is only possible because of such meditations.

[ that was a lot of words for someone who doesn't usually use a lot of words!! ]

[recrypt]

I see...

[ does she? it's a very mystical and spiritual sort of explanation that's well out of her realm of knowledge, much less any familiarity, but given that stranger things have happened here and in their previous locations it isn't as if she has any reason to dismiss it out of hand. she's listening intently, anyway, and if there's any skepticism to her it doesn't show in her demeanor.

she just seems curious. ]

You seem to know such things very intimately. Is it only swords that cultivators form these close relationships with? Can other weapons not reject someone who would try to wield them?

[ spears like tonbokiri out here just getting ignored, apparently. ]

[shixiong]

I know many cultivators, and was one myself. [ was.

haha! anyway. zooming past that. ] As for other weapons... I'm not particularly sure how it would work in other places. However, it's unlikely, but not impossible in my homeland. I know someone whose spiritual weapon is a strip of enchanted fabric, for example.