7rings | WEEK 0 MINGLE

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Good morning, starshines. It is another beautiful day here on the base and it’s the start of a new week!

After the events of the day before and the meet and greet provided by four new Avatars, you may find yourself wondering how you can get in touch with them again. Fear not. One look at your handy dandy cell phone will reveal eight new contacts added to your directory. Feel free to shoot them a message. You may be surprised.

But before you get too far, perhaps it’s worth checking out the base once more. Those locked rooms from the days before have been unlocked, free for exploration. In addition, should occupants visit the central elevator they will find the elevator in working order (and flame-free) and that a new floor has opened. Take a look, familiarize yourself, and make yourself comfortable. Life on the base is a happy place.

And speaking of happiness…it’s funny. For the rest of the week, all who reside on the base will be inflicted with little feelings of hope and happiness, a belief that they can manifest almost anything. This week, all will discover that any mundane thing they hope for will be at their disposal...though do be careful. Those small wishes may come to fruition in ways you don't expect. For example, wishing for a year's supply of sushi may net you one astronomically large sushi roll. An eyeshadow palette may provide you with samples of actual colored eyelids. And a punching bag could be mistaken for a bag full of confetti instead.

May all your hopes and dreams come true, everyone.

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Oh.

[

Oh?

?????? ]

A visual novel character come to life?

[ Has the science of augmented reality finally come too far... do the otakus get their digital girls at last... ]

Aoi can't come to life. Aoi is a fictional character.

...I see... [ Suspicions more or less kind of confirmed, then? She's not "real". ] But you do seem to be plenty alive as you are, right now.

Aoi is sure the writers are grateful you think so.

[ God this is meta as shit. You know what, let's go with it, see how much he can accidentally break the fourth wall over this. ]

Who wrote you?

Nitroplus.

Sounds like a team or company name. How many people?

[ please stop making me google nitroplus facts ]

39 or so.

[ I'M SO SORRY ]

Wow. That's actually quite a sizeable team... for a visual novel? [ He thinks??? He actually has no real scale for how many people are typically on a VN game team. ]

The company has released quite a few successful games already, so they have more departments than an indie developer might.

Oh I see, it's an established company. [ He has never heard of it before in his life. ]

And it's... some kind of advanced augmented reality project? [ He believes Aoi is a VN character now, but from that to the 4th wall is still a large jump okay. ]

Nope. Nitroplus doesn't make AR games.

[ ? ]

...Outsourced, then? [ THEN HOW DO YOU EXIST. ]

[ she shakes her head? ]

They make ordinary PC games. Sometimes with mobile ports.

[ ... ]

Could it be possible that someone else independent of Nitroplus brought you to life... [ He will not address reasons why people might do that. Refuse. ]

Boop boop...

Who would do that?

[ What are you boopin' at there, Aoi? ]

................Some people get obsessive about their favourite video games.

... Aoi hasn't been brought to life. Aoi is just a game character inside a game.

But I'm not a character in a game.

So, if you're just nothing more than a character, how are we physically talking right now?

...Also, you're awfully self-aware.

Mm.

Not everyone is so self-aware.

So why are you?

A moe quirk...?

[ she has no idea! ]

What's a moe quirk?

You know, like nya.

[ she does the little paw motion? ]

Like... a cat?

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