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

[sicklysweet]

I wish they'd just do that.

[It's very annoying.]

Maybe the lily will fade soon and I can retire. That's more likely to happen before I turn to stone, anyways.

[selfconcept]

What's the lily thing about? You told me about the corpse rock, but not the lily.

cw suicide & gore mention.......................... closes my eyes

[sicklysweet]

The Sage's wizards fight the Calamity, and each wizard chosen for that is marked by a lily somewhere on their body.

[obvs.]

And there's no way to remove them. I tried to rip out my tongue to get rid of it when it first showed up, but it was still there when I came back.

[selfconcept]

[ Hien squints and looks down at Owen. ]

Your tongue mark sure as hell doesn't look like a lily.

[sicklysweet]

That's what it is, so shut up.

[She rolls her eyes.]

So you've never been to this world even though you've talked to me?

[Which does sound incredibly fake, but he knows just enough that it... does seem plausible.]

[selfconcept]

I know everyone.

[ /s

Nya. ]

[sicklysweet]

Liar.

[smh]

But that's fine. It doesn't really matter, anyways.

[selfconcept]

Guess so.

[ He looks out into the ocean. It's nice and cool. ]

Turn me back, nya.

[sicklysweet]

Alright.

[But she is going to scoop him off her shoulder and set him on the beach, first.]

Better? Don't want me to change anything else for you?

[selfconcept]

[ Here he was, hoping Owen forgot... ]

Give yourself cat ears.

[sicklysweet]

[Can't believe Owen wants to make Owen a catgirl...

She looks equal parts amused and confused, but it's not really a difficult request, so.

Nya.]

[selfconcept]

[ kawaii....

He thinks it looks cute on her, but then Hien reaches out to pinch her cat ear. Because he's a bully. ]

[sicklysweet]

[Should have expected that, honestly.

She only tolerates one pinch, before pulling back.]

Don't do that.

[selfconcept]

Don't tell me what to do.

[ He reaches out in an attempt to fold Owen's cat ears backwards. ]

[sicklysweet]

[What’s with the ear fascination!!]

I should have left you a cat.

[She slaps his hand away. Stop that.]

[selfconcept]

[ Fine. He'll behave. For now. ]

Too bad. Now you can't do it again.

[ Hm. ]

You're so calm when you're not antagonizing people.

[sicklysweet]

[Wow?]

What were you expecting? To be on my bad side forever, no matter when or how we meet?

[selfconcept]

Yeah because you're a prissy princess.

[ Yeah, he's telling her to her face. ]

[sicklysweet]

[...]

You might be the only person who would ever say that about me.

[selfconcept]

Why? Since everyone else is too scared to?

[ He ain't scared of you ]

[sicklysweet]

Obviously.

[She's the scariest! And that's how she likes it!]

Most wizards can barely make eye contact, much less humans. You saw how things were in the bar.

[selfconcept]

It was still pretty lively, so I dunno what you're talking about.

[ Even if Owen seemed lonely? Somehow. ]

Anyway, you. You're not scary.

[sicklysweet]

Western wizards have a strange relationship with fear.

[It's kind of annoying. Westerners are the worst because even if you try to make them afraid they just make it weird.

Her face screws up.]

How do you know I'm not scary to things that aren't just Calamities? Are you saying I'm weak?

[selfconcept]

[ Kinda like Owen, huh. ]

Yeah.

[ He sure said that to her face. ]

Gonna do something about it?

[sicklysweet]

[Don't kinkshame her.]

You really like pushing people, don't you?

[She grits her teeth, before glancing back at the under construction city. She's mulling over something. What she could do to this city and if it would be worth it, perhaps, because she sighs next.]

I like Shylock's bar, though, so I don't want to destroy anything too badly. Don't tell anyone I said that.