WEEK FOUR: MINGLE

[gatonina]

WEEK FOUR

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

POPULATION: 29 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. After the events of last week, perhaps you yearn for privacy. Unfortunately, it seems that though your past will no longer be put on blast, your feelings will be made known to those around you instead. Should you come into physical contact with somebody else, you immediately become aware of whatever emotion they are feeling and vice versa. The feeling will linger for five seconds after physical contact has been broken, at which point it will fade. But the knowledge will remain with you. And even worse, it doesn't necessarily have to be skin-to-skin contact like in your first week. As long as you are physically touching them, that will be enough for the effect to take place. Whether you want to or not, it seems like this is the week to wear your heart on your sleeve. Good luck.

Comments

[chaoticlootral]

I.
[Taako’s in the clothes store! If you wanna do a fashion montage. He’s mostly trying on things with very high collars and turtlenecks, grumbling to himself a lot about it. Dark bruising is still fairly obvious as high as behind his ears, and his eyes have bruising forming there too now.]

Well, does it cover it? Don’t look at me like that, I know most of you think it was a pathetic performance, but I’m not that useless.

II.
[Anywhere in camp, Taako will skitter away (sort of limping, it’s fine) from you to the total opposite side of a room if you’re anywhere near close, practically hissing in frustration.]

Don’t! Don’t do the touchy thing! It’s bad enough as it is out here! I know how to do a neck snap now, so if you try I’ll beat the shit out of you! If you wanna know my feelings, I’ll just fucking tell you, the feeling is stress! It’s stress! And maybe spite. Possibly some sad in the mix.

III.

[Hi. Whatcha doin’. Wherever you are, Taako is sidling up next to you and holding out . . . a piece of construction paper, coated in a glittery signature. It says TAAKO. Why? He just. He’s just like this. Also, he does a little pose. Wow.]

For you! Limited edition. Better hold onto that— it’s gonna be worth so friggin’ much on Fantasy E-bay.

ii

[ruffboi]

Oh, yeah? You wanna tell me more about your feelings?

[Reaching out - like he's going to poke him.]

[chaoticlootral]

[HOLDING A KNIFE UP?]

Don't. Don't test me! You're like, the person I am way more likely to stab than anyone else here!

[ruffboi]

[What're you gonna do, stab me? No, he's just laughing, still holding his finger out but not touching him.]

Aww, come on. You don't wanna trade some feelskies?

iii

[applechemist]

[ She'll treasure it. ]

What's Fantasy E-bay?

[chaoticlootral]

[Would she like a second one? He's holding that out too.]

Oh, it's this auction in Armor Bay hosted by a guy named Edgar and you go up and sell your shit to people bidding on it.

[applechemist]

[ ... Sure. She takes that, too. Later they will both be hanging on the wall by her bed, next to a somewhat unskilled portrait of herself? And a ton of random flowers and rocks that are just scattered around. She's kind of a slob now that it's just them, don't worry about it. ]

Oh, auctions are fun. Or, they sound fun?

iii

[recrypt]

[ cool, free autograph. hers now. but also! ]

I thought the point of the task this week was for the gifts to be anonymous?

[chaoticlootral]

Oh-- no. I don't really do anonymous?

[ . . . offering a second one.]

Now they just need a photography studio. Could really use new headshots. [Right now, Taako? With your face like this?]

[recrypt]

Wouldn't you want them to add a salon of some sort first? Or at least somewhere you could pick up makeup, maybe...

[ taako, your face. somehow she doesn't feel like taako is the type who'd want his battle scars (???) immortalized? ]

ii!

[givethemhell]

[FORTUNATELY WEI WUXIAN ALSO HAS NO INTEREST IN GETTING CLOSE TO PEOPLE so he just like takes several steps back, holding his hands up. SPARE HIM SIR.]

I'm not, calm down! ...Where did you learn how to snap necks, though? Magnus?

[JUST IMMEDIATELY ASSUMES.]

[chaoticlootral]

[Deflating a little bit.]

Well, you don’t have to call me on my bluff roll that quickly?

[givethemhell]

[Taako... He just huffs a little laugh, since he doesn't know what a bluff roll is but he can make an educated guess. HELPFULLY:]

I can teach you, if you need to make it so it isn't a bluff. Though I hope this place is done picking on you...

i

[unpredicktable]

Uh... Yeah, mostly.

[ damn, taako, your ego. dick looks critically at the clothes around them before turning back to him ]

I'm surprised you're not using this as an excuse to accessorize with scarves?

[ dick's fashion sense is the epitome of straight because he just likes to be comfy, but he knows a thing or two because bats. that's how it works. ]

[chaoticlootral]

Well, no, because someone can—

[Indicates grabbing a scarf? Hm.]

[unpredicktable]

How tight are you tying those scarves? [ but also. he gets it. it's why his cape used to be detachable when he had one. either way; ] You pull off the popped collar pretty well, but the turtleneck is more subtle.

iii

[okitactless]

[Yasusada understands absolutely nothing about what's happening here but he will TAKE IT ANYWAY.]

Wow, are you famous?

[chaoticlootral]

Totally! Or— I will be, if all my irons in the fire pan out? I mean. Suppose there’s a big if on the whole dying horribly then being consigned to, um, Murder Game detritus.

[okitactless]

[Yeah, that's... probably fair. Kind of hard to plan for the future when the future could very well be death.]

What are you famous for?

i.

[muragas]

... Why would I think it was pathetic? You're the one that won.

[ like. really, does it matter how you win a death match as long as you win? ]

[chaoticlootral]

Not exactly a flattering fight, though, right? I didn’t even get a cool one liner off.

[muragas]

... I'm not sure death matches should be flattering.

[ that was... maybe a poor choice of words? or how he deals with things? ]

But I think you said some pretty cool things.

iii

[slobjection]

[ phoenix takes it.... ]

I'll treasure it always.

[ a beat. ]

I have a gift for you, too... completely anonymous.

[chaoticlootral]

If it’s anything like the other ones I’ve gotten, I don’t fucking want it.

[ARMS CROSSED. What crimes have been committed against Taako already, you ask.]

[slobjection]

It's something very valuable and precious.

[ he is very curious about taako crimes now though... ]