04 - week four

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WEEK FOUR

Saturday comes to a close, and it’s time for some rest and recovery. Perhaps the TLC you deserve will come this week, or perhaps the nightmare will continue. It’s hard to say with things being so strange around you, from Wei Wuxian’s disappearance to the sudden addition of objects and places and creatures from your homes. Who knows what this week will bring? Nothing ordinary, that’s for sure.

You wake up on Sunday to an increase in those little glimpses you saw yesterday. What were snippets of songs, locations that might’ve seemed familiar, and creatures that were dormant, are now all alive and whole. When you go to the karaoke bar, the songs you once knew are there. Monsters and animals are alive and sentient. New business are abound. Vehicles are operable, and perhaps some of your old belongings are back, too.

However, some of these things aren’t even things that should exist outside of your dreams. They may be far too strange and unusual to be real, or just things you don't remember ever seeing. The only thing you remember about these things in particular is that they were, quite literally, in your dreams this week.

That being said, every few hours, all of these things from your homes and dreams fade out and get replaced by new sounds, places, beasts….only to maybe come back again at another time.

Well. At least there's one constant here: You’ve got a handful of new locations to look at, with the fog having spread once more, and they aren't going anywhere. There aren’t as many new places that are native to Estelline this time around, but that may be for the best, considering everything going on.


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OOC: Details on this week can be found here!

Also, we have a lot of participants for the news activity from last week. Neat! Everyone who participated in some capacity will have a small polaroid camera delivered to their doorstep. There's limited film, though - 10 photos per camera. It doesn't seem like there's any extra film at this time, either.

Finally, there will not be any weekly tasks this week. You guys are going to be busy with memshare and dreamscape stuff; instead, enjoy the Estelline University Newspaper!

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CYOA

[tosa]

(Next, class trips which is just another way to say CYOA.)

Recently, some of us have been going on trips without everyone else. 'S not my problem but if you're gonna go off and have fun without us, maybe y'all can tell us what ya did?

There've been two so far and it's too early to say for sure but there might be another one this week, too. Just in case, make sure you're ready to go.

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Please use this sub-level to talk about CYOA results!

[fabulation]

Well, to be honest I'll get to the important parts on my end.

[ Then people can ask him questions because there was a lot. ]

First, what happened a little while ago wasn't the first time I'd seen duplicates of us. Personally, I'd witnessed a double of Miach, who said she had somehow created herself, and mentioned about other versions being able to replace the real ones. She also moved like some kind of puppet and made a strange whining noise which made me think of a machine.

She also mentioned us being pulled over to what appeared another version of the mall and such was something that happened every year and something pulled them in. Not unlike those orbs have 'pulled' us into places, I imagine. She also stated that 'we' don't work the way this world works, which I'm assuming was the 'one' we were pulled into.

In addition to that, she mentioned some of those pulled over to the side I was spoke about people lashing out more than usual. After she told me it was dangerous to remain, I headed off over to what appeared to be a circus, briefly watched some clowns prepare for a show. Then some of those hollow people who appeared outside the museum showed up, seemingly to watch the show.

One important fact to note is that they had the same markings we do, both for the ones here and around the museum.

[ So. Yeah! There is that aspect. ]

The ringmaster seemed to act as inhuman as the doubles we met, what with those jerky movements. But, after the spotlights showed up...Shin and I were back at that stop.

[vivens]

So, it's similar to what we experienced on Saturday.

[ except there are key differences since they only had to deal with doppelgangers of themselves while this certainly sounded much more involved. the bit about the pulling in was most interesting but. marks? hollow people? ]

I wonder if the reference to not working the way this world works has more to do with how we were brought in independent from how you were brought to that space.

[ hmmm. ]

Did those hollow people express any kind of emotion or had any reaction to the "show" they watched?

[fabulation]

Yes, it is.

[ And, well, to be quite honest, Xingqiu believes the duplicates in that world 'seemed' less...antagonistic in a sense than the ones over on Saturday, but he hesitates on giving that evaluation because the threat of 'replacement' still was present. ]

It's entirely possible that could be the case. Miach did mention something about the fact them being 'here' to help us fit in. But I'm not sure if that was also limited to that world as well.

[ So, hm! ]

Hmm. We'd been transported so quickly I didn't see much of the show, so unfortunately...I can't say. But before that, I didn't really see much emotion. Maybe the others saw something, though.

[imitationsoul]

My double, huh...

[ Miach would have liked to speak to her in that more talkative and less malicious state, but alas... ]

The yearly phenomenon has been mentioned a lot this far, I get the feeling it is at the core of what is happening here.

[fabulation]

[ Alas indeed. ]

I do too.

It'd be to our advantage to learn more about it. As much as we can, at any rate.

[ ... ]

Oh and I found a toy torn to shreds on the Ferris Wheel, but it fell apart when I picked it up. Not really all that important in the grand scheme of things, maybe, though your double said it might belong to someone who hasn't been there for long.

[imitationsoul]

Do you remember any details about what the toy looked like?

[fabulation]

Oh, yes. It looked like a brown, stuffed teddy bear.

I suppose whoever was holding onto it was upset enough in order to tear it apart like that, but that's probably obvious.

[undertakings]

[Before he starts, he takes out a circus flyer for the one they were at and also a bus schedule. Incidentally, the route map on the bus schedule looks weirdly difficult to focus on, although the parts that are readable correspond to the defogged locations that they currently have available.]

I started out in front of a shooting game stall. I left the circus soon after that, and I found these flyers on the bus stop by the mall area before I arrived on campus. Like Xingqiu, I saw a double... but of him, near the fountain. He said that I was wrong and didn't belong there, but that I come and go. My guess is he was referring to how we enter the orbs every Saturday and manage to find a way out. Because we're not from this world, we aren't beholden to the same rules as the residents of this city.

I headed east after and encountered the same void that blocked us from escaping the museum last week. There were some people wandering in and out of it, but I was able to speak to one. From what they told me, it had been more than a week since they were drawn into that place... although it would be two weeks now. They couldn't remember their name, and didn't know of any exits either, although they said that place was constantly changing. [...] If you meet them... they should have a red tie around their arm.

[Anyway.]

I can confirm that the fog on this side corresponds to where the void appears on that side. We walked to the museum and it was the same as it was over here, so if anyone ends up there again, you can assume the district that just opened up would be clear. We went back to the circus after that. They didn't make it back with us when Xingqiu and I returned.

That's all I have to report.

[imitationsoul]

[ She'd be almost tempted to just keep this to herself, but in the name of keeping on receiving information from others, she also needs to give some from time to time. ]

I went to the carnival as well - it was populated by people at the time. None of them seemed to be able to agree on the date, interesting enough. We got the 8th, the 10th and the 11th from three different people respectively.

There was a double of Shinei Nouzen at the game booths. He got into an argument with one of the locals, accusing his emotions of being somehow wrong. Though I couldn't understand the double's speech, he managed to confirm to be that this phenomenon affects more than just the man he was quarreling with.

Their emotions during the fight also influenced the ambient temperature - as was normal in Estelline when it was still populated.

Mr. Herlock Sholmes and I were then brought on to be actors on 'the show' - a dress rehearsal at least, which didn't actually take place as we returned here the moment we stepped on stage. The events on last Saturday seem to have been the real deal.