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04 - week four
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
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!
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!
saves sweater for later when Kawase isn't RUDE
[Tamamori responds so quickly he almost ends up talking over him, even though they're still both in about the same straits when it comes to breathing and talking -- hard to tell if he's trying to keep Kawase talking or if he just can't abide by what he's saying. Shaking his head furiously:]
But I don't care if life isn't fair. If it isn't fair, I'll cheat, and you should too. I told you, I told you--
[He takes a shaky breath, pausing at all of the things Kawase is telling him and not telling him and it's a lot, but hasn't that always been the way of things? (In the end; he refuses to think of this as an end.)]
You're not allowed to go anywhere. [there's a choice, so what about me?] What if -- after this, I just didn't let you out of the room anymore? It would serve you right. Don't think I won't do it, you don't know what I've decided and what I can do!
reaches for sweater /o/
...is that the kind of relationship you want from me? Are you going to feed me? Entertain me? Take care of my every need? [ By this point he's dragged himself almost to a sitting position, and since they're probably both on the ground for both the same and different reasons, it should give him height advantage even if he can't stand. Even if it doesn't, it's kind of moot since he's tipping over anyway, trying and failing to keep the world in focus. He's still breathing and he's still conscious, but like sakura blossoms, he really was never meant to be more than an ephemeral thing. ]
no subject
[It's a reflexive mutter of his own, Tamamori shifting his hold and using both hands to keep Kawase from toppling over entirely, winding them together in a bloody and bedraggled mess; he doesn't care. He's close enough to catch words, and breath, and Kawase if he just tries hard enough.]
I'll do whatever it takes to keep you around. Haven't I shown you some of my resolve these past weeks? [... well, it's hard to tell what he's shown him, things here have been so all over the place, but it's not like he hasn't been trying in his own bizarre Tamamori way; but like everything else, what passes between them isn't quite that simple] If you haven't been looking, then that's your own fault, Kawase.
hands you sweater \o\
Tamamori-saan! I brought the... everything! All of the everything! Can we help? Can I help?! Kawase-san, hang in there...!!
[Tamamori jumps a little but nods, drags both frog and bag over without any particular grace as best he can with Kawase in hand as well; Frog Man doesn't seem to mind, rolling through mud and flowers and who knows what else like a very obedient beach ball. Out of the bag comes... a variation of this sweater in cherry blossom pink, soft-knit.]
Now put it on.
no subject
Don't tell me that, you don't mean it. [ Don't —this is all he has left in the end. It's almost a pity that he never catches sight of the sweater, but maybe it's for the best. Unconscious as he is, now his body no longer has to fight his mind. And he no longer has any recourse for how ridiculous he will look in that sweater. ]