02 - week two

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WEEK TWO

When the glitter settles and everyone returns to their dorms - or wherever they intend to sleep for the night, if you’re planning on sleeping at all - your first week of school officially ends. Perhaps it was better than you expected, perhaps it was worse.

Hopefully you learned a bit more about teamwork and school spirit.

Still, this course is going to run for longer than a full week, and come Sunday morning you’re still exactly as you were when you settled down for the night. Still in Estelline, still with that mark on your wrist, still connected to your partner. There are some changes, though. The bookstore has received quite a few books, and those of you who added to the bulletin board and pep rally tasks in the first week will find an envelope taped to their dorm door (or themselves, if they spent the night elsewhere). Inside of the envelope is some kind of voucher! Furthermore, the common area is covered in a bunch of glitter.

Also, there are a ton of eggs in the kitchen – at least 10 dozens.

Florence or Lorelei are still available, should you wish to speak to them.

Finally, you've got some new locations to explore.


SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

TASK LIST

CLUMSINESS AFFECT DETAILS (BEGINS TUESDAY ICLY)

W2 CYOA SIGNUPS
CYOA Signups for Week 2 close Sunday, May 29th at 6pm EST.

THREAD SURVEY
Google form for partner threads, due by Friday, June 3rd at 6pm EST. Optional.

W3 CYOA SIGNUPS
CYOA Signups for Week 3 close Friday, June 3rd at 6pm EST.

OOC NOTE

OOC: Anyone who performed in the Pep Rally (Sabo, Madara, Riku, Shizuku, Herlock, Idia, Flat, Miach) task will be able to redeem a voucher for a prize with one of the NPCs. This can be handwaved, and the prize selection is below.

-Single-serve coffee machine wither a selection of creamer. Comes with packs of coffee beans.
-Popcorn maker and kernels.
-High-quality tea kettle with a selection of just as high-quality tea.
-Carbonation machine (think Sodastream, etc) with flavored syrup.

Any coffee, tea, popcorn, etc. will last characters up to two weeks.

Anyone who participated in the Bulletin Board task will receive a voucher for your choice of two pairs colorful socks with cute animal designs. (Worry frog design available.)

FULL NAV

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Comments

[sicklysweet]

[Sighs.]

Wedding vows are a promise, aren't they?

[He's not as pissy as he would be usually, which Hien can probably tell... Probably because of whatever it was that made him zone out.

He sounds kind of... tired.]

Wizards don't make promises unless they're idiots or they don't know any better.

[Which are things that are, obviously to Owen at least, different. And just to cut off any questions Hien might have about why making promises are stupid...]

If a wizard breaks their promise they lose their magic. So how could you promise to be with someone for the rest of your life? That's an impossible promise to keep.

tw: unethical possession of corpses, body horror, world vore

[selfconcept]

Can't they just die before you so the promise is fulfilled anyway? Or do you have to be with their corpse?

[ He isn't looking for an answer to that, so he just continues. ]

It's inevitable that I turn into a monster permanently one day that devours worlds. People who know this don't enjoy me being in their world for that reason.

[ He fights them anyway. ]

But I can change forms, so that's why you can see me as you do now, instead of some wispy void monster that devours everything in sight.

[ h u n g r y ]

[sicklysweet]

It's still breaking a promise, depending on how you look at it. They're gone so what do you do? How will your heart handle that loss?

[He gets a (non)answer anyways!

What Hien says is much more interesting than promises, though.]

Is it really inevitable? Or have you just accepted the hatred people have for you as fact?

Does survival make you a monster?

[selfconcept]

No, it really is an inevitable.

[ Want more deets? Pay up. Owen can assume Hien said no for all three questions. ]

[sicklysweet]

[Wow! There's a flash of annoyance on his face, before it fades.

He looks away, staring at the counter with his brows knit together. It's not the same zoning out from earlier, but...

He knows Hien will want more information if he's going to tell Owen anything else.]

There's nothing else I can say about me that you don't already know.

[selfconcept]

That's a fucking lie and you know it.

[ Or at least he thinks so. Maybe Owen has split personalities??

He decides that it doesn't matter. ]

Tell me about your life back in your world.

[sicklysweet]

I'm a wizard.

[Well, there is one thing he hasn't mentioned, he supposes.]

And I'm one of twenty one wizards that are supposed to help push back the Great Calamity every year. I've had my position for a few centuries now, after one of the other Northern wizards died and had his soul bound to his brother after that very same brother killed him.

[Still looking away, he shrugs.]

That's all.

[selfconcept]

[ Uh. Cool. ]

I'm assuming you did not like getting shoehorned into that.

[ It doesn't seem pleasant with the way Owen looks away. ]

The one who converted me into an Overseer was the concept of Destruction.

[ He pauses a little as if thinning something over. ]

He added the inevitable monster thing and added the willing monster transformation to my list of skills so that I'd be reminded of it every time.

[ It's just like before where Hien doesn't show a lot of emotion when saying that. To him, it's just a fact now. ]

So technically, I became a god, because Destruction willed it.

[ Hopefully that explains his violent tendencies. ]

cw suicide.........

[sicklysweet]

All of the chosen wizards get crests that mark them - but I didn't know what it was at first. I never cared about the calamities before, and it's not like I lived around people.

[Shrug! This is easier to talk about than... basically everything else Owen's talked about, apparently.]

So when it showed up I tried to get rid of it. I ripped my tongue out, but when I came back to life the crest was still there.

[Very unfortunate.]

But what did you do to piss off Destruction so badly?

[Because that seems like a lot to do for no reason at all, but... He doesn't know anything about Overseers or... or concepts of Destruction.]

[selfconcept]

I just existed.

[ Yeah. It's 100% truth.

Destruction does things for shits and giggles, unfortunately. ]

That's all. But now you can't die and life is a bore, huh?

[sicklysweet]

That's it?

[Wow. Disappointing.]

Does that sound familiar, Hien?

[selfconcept]

Well, I wouldn't say it's a bore. I actually have a lot of things to do.

[ But he has never once claimed to be in a rush to return. ]

And that's probably the difference between us.

[ Or it makes them more similar than they'd probably like. ]

[sicklysweet]

Are you going to ask for more if I ask for what you even do besides eating worlds?

[He will not acknowledge any similarities that may or may not exist.]

[selfconcept]

Do you like me?

[ :) ]

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[sicklysweet]

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What?

[selfconcept]

Do you like me?

[ He repeats it, because you know. In case Owen didn't hear him. ]

[sicklysweet]

[????????????]

I - No?

[congrats hien he has no idea how to answer that]

[selfconcept]

[ The look on Owen's face is kinda funny, and he can't help but to laugh a little. ]

You sound so curious about me though, for a person who usually doesn't care about others. So I was wondering if you were interested in me in that way.

[sicklysweet]

[What has he done to deserve this?

Asides from like.

Everything he's done and said since showing up here.]

Why does being curious mean I care? That's not how it works. Besides, you wanted to know things about me, and you don't like me.

[selfconcept]

Oh, I like you. As an existence. You're cute. But not caring is apathy, and apathy isn't packed with curiosity. Therefore, you like me.

[ It's some fucked up logic, that's for sure. ]

[sicklysweet]

[????????]

Cute? What is wrong with you?

[Just going to ignore everything else!!! He does not see it!!!]

[selfconcept]

I'm sure I don't need to tell you from what I've told you already.

[ Owen is cute.

Hangs it up on the wall for everyone to see. ]

[sicklysweet]

None of that explains-

[huffs]

Whatever.

[why does everyone lie 2 him]

[selfconcept]

[ Hien sure looks at Owen like he's a pouty child who didn't get his way. It's actually a little endearing.

it aint a lie homeslice ]

Feel better now?

[sicklysweet]

[Wow. Wow.]

I didn’t feel bad in the first place.

[Which must be very convincing.]