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.


SETTING TRACKER

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

NEWSPAPER SUBMISSIONS + EDITION #1

SAGE / FLORENCE / LORELEI

MEM SHARE DETAILS

OOC NOTE

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!

FULL NAV

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Comments

umebachidou, early morning

[undertakings]

[Considering he's probably read a good number of the texts that were already available at the school bookstore, it's probably only natural for him to wander into Umebachidou at some point (while it exists, anyway) to browse through the shelves. And while he'll still pick at some of the works in Japanese, he'll gravitate towards any books that seem to be written in English.

But at some point, he will draw close to the backroom once he hears whatever rustling and noise is going on in there, only to see the rather absurd sight of Frog Man hanging out on the ceiling. The whole comical display is enough to make him raise an eyebrow as he tries to figure out... what exactly is going on here.]

What is that?

[A pointed glance at Frog Man which is probably rude but whatever!!]

[unsinksyourship]

[Ah, Tamamori thinks vaguely, of course Umebachidou is open today -- it's raining, after all.

And then he realizes that's completely absurd because it's not like it's raining anywhere else (except possibly where the streetcar is, which is also absurd); but for a moment despite everything he had completely forgotten how much things had changed -- the more things change, the more they stay the same, the more he forgets how the days have passed (or not passed).]

Mm? Do you see something besides how unhelpful these back rooms are...? [he starts, but Frog Man finishes from his splat position on the tatami:] T-Tamamori-san!! I feel like he can see me, he can definitely see me!

... Don't be ridiculous, why would anyone be able to see you??

[undertakings]

I can hear it talking as well.

[Just in case Tamamori truly needed that confirmation!! And if Frog Man needed it, maybe.]

Is it a spirit?

[As if on cue, the hollow ghoul that’s still chilling with him clips through Shin from behind to peek at Frog Man. Look, Fido can’t fit in the bookstore so this will have to do.]

[unsinksyourship]

[... Well, Frog Man gives an even louder shriek at the sight of the ghoul, rolling in a terrified tizzy all the way across the room and right behind Tamamori like a very strange, very hollow drum. There he shrinks down small enough to fit into the palm of one's hand, that is he just shrinks down out of sight.

There's a tiny yelling now:]

I'm not a spirit! I'm not one of those scary things either!! [so, confirmation he's not a ghoul, at least..... Tamamori looks between the frog and the ghoul kind of dead-eyed like: really?] I mean, I knew all the exorcisms didn't go so smoothly, but why are you still lugging that around?! No wonder you can see hallucinations, too.

By the way-- [in a slightly less dead voice, because there is Some Concern here] --that's not going to come after us, is it?