7rings | WEEK 2 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!

Good thing, too. After the deaths of Grell Sutcliff, Kaz Kaan, and HK-47, the tension around the base may be a bit higher than it was before. Should anyone try to contact the deceased or review their profiles, they will find that they have been deleted from everyone's phones.

Then again...last weekend was a bit of a mess, wasn't it? Perhaps you would prefer to leave it all behind you. Lucky for you, the elevator reveals that it may now visit the third floor. It may be worth checking out these new areas, free for exploration. If you're feeling incredibly ambitious, you can also take a more in-depth look.

While you can't contact the deceased, the Avatars are once again available via their eight symbols. Shoot them a message, have a chat with them, and see what you can learn. Perhaps you'll find it easier this week.

On the bright side, all of your skills are in working order once again. Cherish your gifts, little sinners. You would hate to lose them again wouldn't you? But even if you did, you would still have your memories of them. Memories are important, aren't they? Things meant to remind you, and things to motivate you. Your most tragic, painful and even downright embarrassing memories shape who you are as a person, and this week you'll find that others will be witness to these as well. This may occur when you're in close proximity to someone, or it may be when you brush past them. Even the slightest eye contact may set off this sharing of memories, and your deepest secrets will be harder to keep.

Hide all you'd like. You can't outrun your past.

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There's a few cocktails with wine. It's worth a shot to at least potentially get rid of your boredom, right? [ grace doesn't seem to have noticed the bristling? or is choosing to ignore it. who knows. ] But okay, what's the kind of work you used to do? You can keep it vague, but it might give us something to work with, fun-wise.

[... well.]

If you can believe it, it had to do with knives. [was that a joke]

You know? I can believe that. [ because of stabbings. ] You've clearly got the pointy end of it under control, but do you know knife tricks?

I'm capable of them. Don't have one, though. A knife.

Did you get it taken away after this weekend?

[ she cannot blame anyone for that. ]

No. I have that one. It's unbalanced.

[gluttony sometimes is helpful. sometimes.]

Oh, right, you'd need a perfectly balanced one for tricks. Hmm. What else do people do with knives... carvings? That's not very exciting either.

[ unless pride makes shivs, i guess ]

[they probably do, let's be real.]

Carvings. Of what, ducks?

It's not my type of hobby either. [ she's not a NERD ] But maybe? Little figurines of people or animals aren't so bad. And it does take some talent.

[hmph.]

I'll think about it.

Yeah, it's not the most exciting. [ again, she is not a nerd. ] What about fighting games? They've got stabbing in those, so it could be like a simulation.

I don't understand how the controllers work. [but that's not a no.]

Is that the only problem? I could show you. It's really not that hard. [ there's a beat as the screams of the chapel hang out in the background, i guess. they've been here a while ] Beats hanging out in this place.

[hm, bad.]

... Fine.

[they don't want to be in here, anyway.]

Great. But I can't teleport, so we're walking.

[ grace walks out seemingly confident pride will? follow? this is happening ]

[they could teleport the two of them, but they don't want to.

... so they just follow after, quietly.]

[ she would hate that! so it's a good thing pride also doesn't want to!! ]

Okay, so, while we're walking-- let's dish. What's the thing you've enjoyed most in this place so far? You can't have just been bored or tormented by alarms the past two weeks.

The things I enjoyed most in this place are now impossible with the lot of you here.

Peace and quiet?

[ she says that but does not make any move to leave pride alone so like ]

[okay, but that makes them laugh, just a bit. it's a very small sniff of amusement, but still.]

You guessed it.

With this group? It wasn't hard to guess.

[ is she preening because she got a sniff of amusement? maybe. anyway here they are at ~~the arcade~~ the rec room, and grace will lead the way to the fighting games ]

You said you didn't get the controls, right? So have you tried before?

[she earned it!]

Lust has tried to force me to play once or twice. [they say, idly. and then they lift their claw hands to show grace. these are not good for controllers.]

Oooh. Sort of like playing with those fake nails, I get it. I had some for like, twelve seconds once and it drove me nuts. [ it's pensive, and then grace leads them to one of the arcade machines that are fighting games since those are just. a few big buttons and a directional stick? ] It's old school, but this should work better. You pretty much just mash the buttons and move.

[oh... neat.

they stand in front of the arcade machine and stare at it like they've never seen anything like it. uh. what... do...]

[ pride. please. grace sidles up next to them and starts the game ]

The stick controls how you move, and the buttons are attacks. Just pick whatever character you want and start mashing buttons.

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