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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!
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Once I figure out where to start, I'll just have to go for it. Is there anything you want to know about in particular?
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( she pauses- speaking, at least, the walk doesn't need to be even longer- and frowns a little. )
I... ... who was that with you? In the memory.
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[He's really hoping she means Kohaku. But just thinking of Kohaku makes him smile, and it's a deeply fond look that Shizuku probably hasn't seen from Madara before. Kohaku gets him in certain ways.]
Kohaku Oukawa, my partner in Double Face. He's like me, in a way, in that he wasn't brought up to do good things and is doing his best with what's expected of him. Where I picked this trouble on my own, he was born into it: his whole family's assassins, basically.
[A beat. Maybe he'll explain the whole scenario.]
The guy we took care of was trying to screw over Kohaku's agency and trying to use up one of my oldest friends, when that guy's no good at fighting back. He'd done it to countless other industry people. The audience was totally made up of his victims.
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I see.
( she hopes one day, kohaku could get out of that. that madara could, too- that their expectations don't shackle them further. but she can't help but wonder if saying so would be insensitive to what they've been through. she'll just keep that prayer in her heart, for right now. )
So... Double Face deals with people who hurt idols?
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Hmm... Mostly, yeah. You could say that. [He thinks about the Gatekeeper incidents and that whole mess with the SS Tournament.] And we put people in line who've kind of strayed off where they need to be.
[A smile, soft and faint.]
Although recently Kohaku had a solo live and invited me to perform with him, so that was a nice change. He even themed it after one of my favorite things, even though he doesn't like it.
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( despite everything else she learned about him first. she really is just like this, huh? )
What did he theme it after then?
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Cherry blossoms. He hates them, I love them.
[He laughs faintly.]
I'm a liiittle old-fashioned.
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( she simply wouldn't be granted the privacy to do so. she doesn't resent her fans for this, though. it's just... to be expected at this point. )
... It sounds like he really cares for you.
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[He says it with conviction.]
Kohaku's a funny guy. I'm looking forward to working with him for a long time. He deserves a break after dealing with his weird group.
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( in a perfect world, their two units could meet somewhere, hang out and have fun together- no talks, no judgement, just getting to live.
shizuku squeezes his hand in her own. )
What's his unit normally like?
( she's not sure what entirely to ask- what he wants to give. so she'll navigate from point to point, however shakily- )
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[He'd like that, even if it'd be really weird having the murder idols and the cute idols become friends...]
They're... Their leader's just something else. He caused a whole fuss in the industry and tried to pull some stuff. Somehow, it just never stops.
[A little laugh.]
Honestly, I thought the idol industry was bad, but I'm wondering if maybe it's just where I'm from that's bad. There's levels to all of this.