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!

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SAGE INTERACTIONS

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SUNDAY

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NEWSPAPER SUBMISSIONS

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Edition #1

The first edition of Estelline University's paper will appear on everyone's tablets. There will be a notification and a newspaper app installed on everyone's tablets for easy viewing.

There are no tasks this week, but if you'd like to submit anything to the paper for next week, feel free to do so. As always, submissions are due by Friday at 6pm EST.

MONDAY

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TUESDAY

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WEDNESDAY

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[ Something will be happening on Wednesday at 6pm EST. ]

THURSDAY

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[ As a reminder, memshare events will start Thursday evening to account for CYOA folks returning earlier in the day. ]

FRIDAY

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SATURDAY

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TOWN HALL (MONDAY)

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(At the beginning of the week, someone will slip a folded note under everyone's door about a study session. This is really just a vague way of saying everyone should get together for another town hall this week. See you there on Monday!)

☆ CLASS MEETING ☆ Let's share notes for our next class. If you don't got any, don't worry. We can all help each other! And we can go grab dinner and do karaoke after. ☆ Monday. Common Room. 15:00. -Mu

(On [day], in the common room, everyone will find markers, string, sticky notes, pens, and paper for everyone to use. There are also some random snacks and bottles of tea and juice from the store. You know, whatever to make them comfortable and for the meeting to go as smoothly as possible.

On the board, some things are labeled. It looks like a loose schedule,)

TDL: * introduction * overview * daily life * class trips ✿ ✿ ✿ BREAK TIME ✿ ✿ ✿ * lost and found * ??? * finish (dinner, karaoke)

(When everyone has arrived, Mutsu will look at the time and nod,)

Looks like everyone's here? If ya aren't here, say so now! Right.

Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki, reporting. Thanks for coming.

I dunno about all of y'all, but I'm kind of struggling trying to wrap my head around this whole school thing. Probably 'cause I've never had to worry about school before! (Hah!) But a lot of us've been working pretty hard and we've learned a lot of things so I figured we could all help each other out and share some notes. It's been a while since our last meeting, y'know?

Let's share what we can for now and if we run outta time... we can probably do some more catch up after dinner! Was thinking of going to karaoke after if you guys are down for that.

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IC, this will begin in the common room because it's convenient. Per Herlock and Flat's discovery earlier in the month, everyone will move to karaoke after dinner to discuss more sensitive things privately (hopefully). This was shared publicly in Week 2's town hall so hopefully everyone kind of gets the *hint, hint, wink, wink* implication there IC. I'll be setting up some subthreads for people to share information in a semi-organized way. Feel free to start other subthreads if you feel like something needs one! Everything in this thread is considered public knowledge. Treat this like a mingle and jump around/threadjack. Like I did for Week 2, I'll review things later this week and make another doc summarizing what's been shared here. I'll post the initial WIP on Thursday-ish and a more "final" version at the end of the week.

OVERVIEW

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So, let's get started!

(Yeah, if you were expecting a big ol' grand opener, you're going to be disappointed because Mutsu starts off pretty generally:)

... How's everyone handling school so far?

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This sub-thread is for more general things like talking about the setting, impressions so far, this week's current effect, tasks, and so on. You can also use it to just kind of heck around in the beginning and get some more casual CR!

INVESTIGATIONS

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(Now, we move on to the daily life section,)

When we first got here, this world was pretty small and we couldn't really see much. Since then, the world has grown every week.

Last week, Sabo and me checked out the museum and found some interesting stuff. What about y'all? Find anything recently?

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Please use this sub-thread to talk about investigation results!

CYOA

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(Next, class trips which is just another way to say CYOA.)

Recently, some of us have been going on trips without everyone else. 'S not my problem but if you're gonna go off and have fun without us, maybe y'all can tell us what ya did?

There've been two so far and it's too early to say for sure but there might be another one this week, too. Just in case, make sure you're ready to go.

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Please use this sub-level to talk about CYOA results!

ITEMS/REGAINS

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(After a snack break, it's time to talk about gacha,)

A lot of us've been getting things recently. Looks like some of 'em belong to people here. If ya found something recently and ya aren't sure who if it belongs to someone, ask.

If you're missing something important, you should say so now so we can keep an eye out for it.

I know a lot of it's real cool stuff but no one likes a thief! So ya better fess up before ya get in trouble.

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Use this thread to talk about gacha items (random or regains). You can post about gacha items you received or warn characters to look out for potential gacha items.

KARAOKE (SECRET THINGS)

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(Towards the end of the meeting, Mutsu looks at the time and calls out,)

Alright, alright! Good job, everyone. Dunno about you guys but I'm starving. I know we didn't finish getting everyone's notes and stuff but if ya wanna do that, we can do it after dinner.

If you're tired of studying, you can copy someone's notes later.

(After dinner, if people are interested, they can go to karaoke where they're (hopefully) safe from being snooped on. There, they can talk about things more privately without risk of being overheard. If your character make it, assume someone shared notes with them after! Anyway, it's time to go to dinner and blow off some steam with some sick tunes. )

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Use this thread to talk about ~top secret~ things. It can be anything but in this subthread, assume all conversations take place at karaoke. This is the last subthread I'm setting up! Feel free to make your own from here on out.

[festiverogue]

[Good thing Madara came prepared! He has a small box containing a tiny nurse's hat, a white outfit he's sure someone's going to miss, and a rather fancy scarf!

These items belong to Luci, Ryouma, and Cater respectively! But he doesn't know that. He's just helping out.]

I've got these; feel free to let me know if they're yours! And I've got to give credit where it's due: Fai and Hien really helped me out last week. I ended up with my unit uniform and my bike back. Anybody seen any helmets, by the way?

[selfconcept]

Who wrote that story that had me and Idia in it?

[ He doesn't look annoyed, but more curious. ]

I'd like to give you a comedy award.

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[Whenever there's an opening, he'll drop some info:]

I didn't think that much of it when I discovered the back room of the jewelry store before, but camellias keep coming up. I think there's a connection between the guys from the jewelry store and possibly someone who worked in that "Camellia facility" that just turned up. I didn't get a good look in there yet, but I'm willing to be muscle if someone wants to try to hack those computers or get past a door. Specifically, there was a user with the name "yellowitsme", with camellias in the email signature. It might be too obvious to actually be a connection, but it seemed worth mentioning.

[festiverogue]

[He says this with a straight face:]

Just here to state for the record that I wouldn't kiss Owen's hand seven times.

[Before he dissolves into laughter.]

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[ IMAGINE IF SABO SPOKE UP ABOUT THIS....imagine. no, this comment is not here but somewhere he is witnessing this. ]

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Fai and I had something like a garage sale last week, but we still got some items to pass out. I still need some people to pick stuff up, so check it out. I really don't wanna lug it back to my room.

[ Garage sale redux!!

The items include the following: idol outfit (for Riku), last storm lance (Grimnir), cell phone with a cracked screen from 2009, picture book about a knight saving a princess from a tower (Owen?), Golden Raven Insignia (Bennett?), fake red glasses, and a shamrock charm. ]

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At once or ever?

[festiverogue]

At once! I'm a gentleman!

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM + PARK

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[ with the assumption that they're all here in the karaoke for this bit, sabo's going to start going over what he found with and separate from mutsu. ]

Like I hinted at last week, I've made it a point to do a bit of exploration myself when the new areas opened up. The first place I decided to do a bit of look around was in the park since I might as well have. I found an area with some fruit trees of various types. They're all very delicious and I can show you where they are if anyone wants to help themselves to some.

Something else I found relates much to something I hadn't realized had any real meaning until after I had done a bit of snooping with Mu later in the day. I found a flyer that had both the logo composing of camellias with the slogan of, "Life Under Control". It was dated for a release of "927".

[ he'll pause for a moment to take a sip of something and for people to process that. it isn't much but the next part is. ]

Alone it didn't make any sense to me and I didn't think anything of it, but like I had mentioned just moments earlier, Mu and I found some interesting information within the displays and one of the exhibits themselves. We found out that emotions can physically shape the world. In fact, this world's ages are categorized by emotions. [ which was a fun fact that became rather important. ] However, the writing specifically mentioned that it was humans and more importantly, groups of humans are the ones who are capable of this and not animals.

Though, in light of one of the areas that most recently opened up here, I think it's even more important to mention that Mu and I are highly suspicious about the possibility of this "CAMELLIA" organization being able to influence the way people think. As the most worrying thing we found was an exhibit donated by them advertising their "Vision of the Future" and I can only tell you that their vision doesn't sound like it allows for much freedoms.

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(EATING SOME POTATO CHIPS...)

I have a giant lizard-- I mean, dinosaur costume and some sweaters but I'm keepin' an eye out for my sword.

(HE HOLDS UP A VERY SKETCHY AND HIGHLY MEDIOCRE DRAWING OF A KATANA. It is straight and has a blue handle and some little details on it? Like a bandage wrapped around the sheath. He points at the center of the page and then points at himself,)

This is me. It's real important so I'd appreciate it if anyone found it and handed it over.

(HE DOES NOT THINK TO MENTION ANYTHING even though I know what else is in that gacha. He has #priorities.)