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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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[holeful]

[Fukuda would be exactly as useless as he is right now because he is not an overpowered shonen manga character like you two clowns.

He is trying a new technique where he scoops up a bunch of coal and just blinks really fast to maybe look less back. It's dumb and does not work but at least all the coal gets into the engine this time.]

That's a lonely thing to say, doctor. I like you both a lot, actually. Do you need a hug?
[Surely we have time for that.]

[mukagen]

[ wow. Law really is grumpy. Fukuda seems to take the words out of his mouth, but he'll also reiterate how he feels as he shoveling the coal into the engine. This time, a little more since he expects there to be a warm moment. ]

I like our bunch, too!

[ Okay, you two. Time for some hugs. Gojou is working harder just for this hugging to happen here. Don't disappoint. ]

[nodo]

I do not need a hug.

[ do not hug your doctor. we do not have time for that; though i'm deeply appreciative that both fukuda and gojou are contributing to the coal burning portion of the "making the boat move forward" part while law is here complaining. mostly. he's helping in the fact that he's (now) seeing how their pace is compared to their boulder buddy.

fortunately, it's a good solid pace they got going for them. (music is still bad and awful, thanks.) they have not become pancakes yet? or maybe that's unfortunately, who's to say.

do not hug your doctor. ]

[holeful]

[Fukuda does not pick up on context clues so he does not know what Gojou is expecting of him, but he's been thinking about archetypes a lot lately and he is thinking maybe Law is a tsundere?]

Are you sure? You're not helping Gojou and I power the engine. Is it because you're upset? A hug could help with that. I've read that human contact is very healing.

[mukagen]

[ could have just shown law that you have insurance to cover for the hug, fukuda. Anyway, Gojou's eyes round like an owl because he... Simply didn't expect this kind of provocation? From Fukuda?

Or maybe it isn't provocation at all. It just reads that way to him. What would a good man do right now? ]

It has been a stressful couple of days! A hug sounds like a good idea.

[ Peek poking the bear is what a good man would do. ]

[nodo]

[ law doesn't take insurance!!! and the fact that gojou does not do anything but add fuel to the flame is honestly mildly expected at this rate. there goes him closing his eyes once more (please let the boulder kill them) before he responds...slowly. calmly.

he just needed a moment to not abandon ship and just chance it with the water. ]

The two of you are handling it just fine, but if either of you want to take a break from shoveling I'll step in.

[ no mention about the hugging or the stress, thanks. trafalgar law is perfectly fine!!! ]

[holeful]

...
[Hm. He definitely agrees with Gojou. But he also can't hug Law without his consent?]

Maybe I don't want to shovel if you're not going to be a team player, doctor. You're not really embodying the spirit of the tunnel of love.

[mukagen]

[ If you asked Gojou, he would say you can hug people without their consent. There's just consequences after! ]

You know he's just going to say he'll shovel instead, piercings. You have to make a harsher ultimatum than that.

[ Sorry for emphasizing the hole in the plan. ]

[nodo]

[ consent is important, okay? and he's not even going to bother worrying about the plan because he's doomed regardless. ]

Don't bother with an ultimatum—I'll shovel regardless of whatever tantrum you throw.

[ do not hug your doctor!!! ]

[holeful]

[Well now he's being goaded on by Gojou so he feels like if he doesn't hug law his nice bed friend will be disappointed!!! So;]

I could throw you off the boat. Then it won't matter how much coal is in the engine because the boulder will crush you anyway.
[We really going zero to sixty here.]

[mukagen]

[ OHHHHH MY GOD. Gojou HACks because he just wanted to listen to more funny, innocent banter. ]

I know I basically said go big or go home, but... Let's keep Law on the boat.

[ He won't be disappointed! He won't! As long as no one dies here! ]

[nodo]

[ closes my eyes...

if you wanna threaten this man for a good time then you better be ready to back up those words with actions. ]

Yeah? Go ahead. Throw me off.

[ sorry gojou?? the tables have turned and now you must be the responsible one?? ]

[holeful]

It's not good to live with such anger in your heart, doctor.

[Well Gojou is saying not to but Law probably has more say over what should be done with his own person????

On the other hand he should probably not kill Law. So he does move to grab Law but if Law doesn't just counter him with some cool martial arts he's just going to get a hug instead of violence.]

[mukagen]

[ HE IS SHAKING. He doesn't think Fukuda will kill Law in front of his salad, before his very eyes, because that would be poor practice for any killer. However, however, Gojou steels himself to intervene if he has to.

Steels and prepares, counting adding more coal than usual so that it can save him some seconds to separate his two new kids (or are they more like big dogs). ]

Heyyy, let's play nice.

[nodo]

What ang—

[ COWARDS. but law could and should, in theory, get out of the way of someone that close to him gunning for a hug but that's no fun so fukuda gets a chance to hug the doctor for a grand total of a minute (or what feels like a minute (or year if you ask law)) before he'll shove him off.

...hope this boat is stable enough for all of them to be moving around like this?? also, unfortunately, through this entire ordeal, law would have been facing backwards the majority of the time so yaayy terrible music!!!

the true victim here is gojou. ]

[holeful]

[The fact that Law even let him hug him for that long is proof he needed the hug. Anyway, Fukuda thinks hugs are nice.]

Do you feel better now, doctor?

[There is still a boulder?]

[mukagen]

[ i can't believe Gojou was having a good time at the beginning and now he has to steady the boat. Suddenly all the responsibility is on his shoulders so these two adult tall men can hug it out. He distributes his weight to whatever side that needs it on this stupid swan boat. ]

Whenever you guys are done, we do need to keep feeding the engine. [ Can they even hear him past the BOOM BOOM BASS and nickelback? ] Take your time.

[nodo]

No.

[ gojou paid for his non-existent crimes. or, well, guess his single crime could have been neglect? no one here probably deserved any of this. ...probably. either way, fukuda got his hug, law suffered, the music got even more annoying, and let's never forget that there is still a boulder.

something that law is more than fine to contribute to, now, as he will grab for the coals and start chucking them into the engine because wow! what is fuel efficiency and someone had to recover from idiocy to make sure they didn't ass over tit. ]

[holeful]

Hahahaha....

[Law.... you say no but you didn't immediately push him away? Anyway, now everyone can work together!!!! Isn't that nice. Fukuda will also resume shoveling coal as the bass boosted hell music blares.]

Now that I've gotten used to it, this isn't so bad.

[mukagen]

[ Since Law is also shoveling, they're speeding away from the boulder... Though boat is chugging a lot more harder than usual? It's like, almost sweaty. This sweaty boat going as fast as they're making it go. ]

What?!

[ Sorry, he can't hear over the music. ]

You've used something that's bad?!

[nodo]

[ it isn't nice!!!

though what happened to this being a tunnel of love? is this what love is all about?? law probably knew what love was once upon a time and he's definitely sure that it didn't involve non-con hugs, deafening music, or a shoveling coal into an engine to not be crushed by a boulder.

anyway law has also endearingly resigned himself that their hearing will now be terrible for a while after all of this. or, even worse, that this song will be the worst kind of earworm possible. ]

I think he said something about being fused to it and it isn't so sad.

[ did he hear the correct words and now is being a shit? hm?? who's to say... ]