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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[magicam]

[Oh, hey, school, how are you? And it's the wishes event, huh?

...Well, at least he doesn't have to bullshit another wish, and no one's especially bothering him for being here (or in two places at once, as the case may be!), considering. Well. You know.

Anyway.

Since this particular Cater knows this is all an illusion put on by the place they're in, he doesn't spend a whole lot of time watching the event itself - he's seen it, three years in a row, in fact, and while Ortho's display had been super cool, he's more interested in finding the Real, Actual Idia, hiding in the crowd.

And, you know, for old time's sake - there'll be a double grabbing each arm when he does find him, though one disappears after the initial surprised reaction.]

There you are~ You didn't get to watch much when you were in it, did you~?

[ignihidden]

[The two of them were protected by the fact this wasn't real. Idia had his hood up but, in reality, no one was going to point out "another Idia Shroud" was there. Which is good because he absolutely yelps loudly when a double grabs each arm and then is gone before he can finish the sound.]

[he swats and both his jacket sleeves like a bug might be on them before realizing what happened]

Eh- heeeeh- [dipping his head down a bit]

If I'd have known this was what was happening, I wouldn't have come... I'm not some kind of narcissist who likes watching myself or some masochist that likes to relive being humiliated...!

[magicam]

Ehh, but you're totally a super proud big bro.

[And he doubts he got to actually pay too much attention to Ortho's part of the performance while drumming away.]

But... since this is totally just all in the past and forgotten for you...

[He schemin.]

[ignihidden]

[Idia blinks for a moment, like it hadn't even dawned on him- after all, he can so many calculations to make sure Ortho could accomplish this that he hadn't really thought about- that Ortho had done it. That there was a different in the projected versus the joy of seeing it in the moment.]

[It makes him feel a little less proud of himself.]

... e- eh? [wait, this is no time to be depressed, the extrovert is thinking]

Wh- What are you thinking? [does he have to protect his past self?!]

[magicam]

[The extrovert is thinking! Watch out!]

Well, when you were wearing that, you totally had a jammer with you, right? I couldn't get aaaa~aany good pics! Not even of Trey and Deucey performing! Super mega rude of you!

[Do you. Do you get the implications, Idia.]

[ignihidden]

[Eep! ... Except, well, no, that's exactly what he did it for and exactly why he did it.]

There's nothing in the rulebook that a signal jammer can't be used during the Stargazer event...

[And they're close enough now for Idia to pout instead of just shrinking away.]

A-Anyways, it only blocked digital, the news crews had analogue tech and were able to get pictures for their article anyways...

[magicam]

[Rude, tbh! Targeting him, specifically!

(And, well, most of the other students who had digital tech...)]

Yeah, yeah, and Cay totally didn't bring his nice fancy camera, because then he would have been pouted at... Trey likes having his pic taken way less than even you do!!

[At least if the reactions to like half his groovies are any indication.]

[ignihidden]

I think you're really underestimating how little I like having my picture taken.

[No offense to Trey!]

... a- anyways, you can't just smile and get him to bend? He bent to this whole Stargazer thing in the first place...

[They seemed close, at least from what Idia saw around school. He doesn't get why a relatively okay guy like Trey would bother to refuse if Cater pouted at him enough.]