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

[totalcatastrophe]

[ It's hard to tell, with such weird and pointy little ears. But he hasn't started purring yet like he does in his sleep. Luci glances around before curling up beside her. ]

You have any dumb ones too?

[totaltrashfire]

...Not like that. One that kind of sucks.

[She doesn't really elaborate on that, instead glancing back where the portal is - though not so long she can see inside.]

Remember I said I stopped a death cult? That one's here, somewhere.

[totalcatastrophe]

Oh, sweet. Did you get to kill any of them again?

[ Okay, if she is still petting him then he is finally purring lightly now. The portal is still shifting in hues of blue, orange and red. Luci is pointedly not looking at it. Avoidance successful for now. ]

[totaltrashfire]

[She'll keep petting him.]

If no one goes in there and stops us then I guess!

[And who would want to stop that?]

But that's when I found out. That Casey was killed. And I thought... we thought he just ran away. He would talk about hopping a train all the time...

[She trails off, ignoring the portal behind her. Focusing on petting Luci instead.]

[totalcatastrophe]

Who's that again? You have too many friends.

[ It would sound meaner if he wasn't also purring against her leg. ]

[totaltrashfire]

[She actually laughs at that.]

I only have as many friends as people who will tolerate me.

[So it's amazing that it's as many as it is!]

Me and Casey became friends in high school. We were detention buddies. Us and my friend Gregg, we were the troublemakers.

[totalcatastrophe]

Yeah, well you're pretty annoying. [ Ugh, his stupid voice is flat, but he meant it meaner than it came out sounding. The rest of it is more of a mumble, distracted by the petting. ] But those are the only people worth tolerating anyway. Forget everyone else.

[ What is it about troublemakers that always have him gravitating towards them? He scoffs, sounding tired. ]

Bet he had more fun than any goody-two-shoes has in a lifetime.

[totaltrashfire]

[Yeah that didn't feel very mean, Luci. It felt more like when she tells Gregg she hopes he dies in a chemical fire. That is to say, entirely toothless.]

He did. Casey always had the best ideas. [She strokes Luci's head and leans back, thinking.] One year it flooded. The most rain we'd had in like, fifty years. He showed up at my house in a flat bottom boat and threw rocks at my window until I opened up.

[totalcatastrophe]

I hope this place floods.

[ Luci says it sullenly but snickers anyway. His lack of energy is less obvious. The whole boat thing reminds him of home, stupidly because it's something he could see happening back home with his own friends. ]

Where'd you sail?

[totaltrashfire]

Haha hell yeah. Then this whole place would be full of campus fish.

[It feels like a good sign that he's perking up a little.]

Just around. The whole place looked different while the water was up. Like the town was floating. I liked it better that way, I think. Even if it sucked for everyone with water damage.