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

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[herlocksholmes]

[Upon arrival, Sholmes examines the surroundings, hurrying to take a closer look at the war machines. What's...this is pretty advanced! Far more advanced than any war machine he's aware of. This is Shin's world, isn't it? Sholmes already knew this world was quite different to his own, but seeing this sure drives that fact home.

Speaking of Shin! Looks like he's over there...getting scolded. Welp, time to snoop! Hiding behind the nearest object of his size he can find, Sholmes tries to get as close as he can to find out what's drawing this man's ire at Shin]

[undertakings]

[As the man approaches, Shin seems pretty unconcerned for the most part; almost like this is a routine he's entirely used to, as one of the other kids seated by one of the war machines startles and runs off to avoid ground zero. Anyway I'm not typing out this whole convo!! But the man makes it clear from the start he's pissed off at Shin being making a mess of the machine he uses. He rattles off the issues with the parts that are particularly hosed up, but despite his... rough way of expressing it, it's pretty clear he's not keen on Shin dying as a result of his reckless fighting. It also seems like supplies are an issue considering the man talks about running out of parts, and then we get this charming exchange:

"My spare?"

"Ah, yeah, the spare. We do have a spare, don't we? Gotta have one when the captain keeps trashing his rig left and right. Ya come to us for repairs three times more than any other Processor. D'ya think yer some kind of prince or somethin'?! Huh?!"

"The Republic abolished the class system in the revolution three hundred years ago."

...In any case, the man seems like he's going to go on another mini-rant again. Shin is... well, probably more or less the same as what Sholmes knows of him so far. Is he going to keep snooping?]

[herlocksholmes]

[Oh, yes. Definitely yes to snooping around in the area. Looks like you got into trouble, Shin. Let's see how bad it was.

If Shin's machine is a mess right now then perhaps he can find it, or at least narrow it down to just a few. He's curious just how it looks like...and what kind of damage it might suffer. What are you fighting, Shin? He has wondered that ever since the first day]

[undertakings]

[Wow Sholmes out to get him huh!!

Thankfully, Shin's machine is not actually that difficult to find and the two's conversation actually makes it clear which unit it is: it's one they're standing right next to, identified by the small design of a headless skeleton hoisting a shovel emblazoned on its side. Despite the man's complaints about the machine being wrecked, it seems most of the damage is related to the legs and some of the internal systems; while the main body is lightly scarred and scorched on parts, it looks pretty intact as far as things go. Either way, it's hard to say what might have hosed it up; it doesn't look like there are any bullet holes or anything, and whatever scratches and gashes would look more like they came from shrapnel rather than a direct hit of anything.

Either way, as the conversation goes, Shin brings up the possibility of taking parts from a machine owned by someone named Kujo--someone who is now dead, as the man makes apparent from the way he asks if that's something Shin is okay with. In as nonverbal a confirmation he can give, he simply knocks lightly on the side of the machine, right by the skeleton mark.

'Yeah, too late for that, I suppose... Ain't that right, Undertaker?'

The man seems resigned to the whole thing, but Shin remains as impassive as ever.]

[herlocksholmes]

[Fascinating. Sholmes finds himself very enraptured by this machine...and notes that indeed, the damage doesn't make this machine be as damaged as this man's shouting made it sound. Why, this has time left before it's destined to be scrapped in some junkyard!

Well, it's time to attempt to meddle. Meddle, and see how things go]

Pardon me!

[Sholmes calls aloud from beside the machine. Can others hear him, he wonders]

[undertakings]

[From the way the two of them look in Sholmes' direction, they sure seem to be able to hear him, at least. Interestingly enough, they don't appear to look particularly surprised either, even as the man raises an eyebrow behind his dark shades while Shin just watches quietly beside him.]

Huh? What, did somethin' happen to one o' the other rigs?

[Compared to when he was speaking with Shin, the man's voice is certainly less severe in tone when addressing Sholmes, kind of like he's treating him like a... co-worker?]

[herlocksholmes]

The same incident from three months ago, sir! It will be covered up once again! The nerve of people who make mistakes!

[Sholmes points towards any machine in a cluttered space far away. If there's people, then even better]

[undertakings]

[Well. The man stares at Sholmes like he's grown a second head before looking over to where he's pointing, where a couple of other maintenance crew members are milling around. He scratches his head awkwardly as he turns back, like he's not entirely sure how to respond to this.]

The hell are ya talkin' about? I know we were in a rush tryin' to fix things up fer these kids, but I ain't heard a peep about that from the rest o' the crew.

[The man glances over to Shin as if to confirm, but just gets a shrug in response.]

...Anyway, if ya got somethin' to report, let's hear it then.