WEEK 2 MINGLE

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POPULATION: 32

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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[holeful]

[I said Fukuda is useless but actually he has one use and it's that he is definitely familiar with greek myth bc he's a big nerd who loves books.]

Ah, this is the third of the Twelve Labors of Hercules. The Golden Hind is a bull sized doe with antlers, and it could breathe fire.

[Looking around. Hm. He has no idea what this has to do with catching a wild animal?]
We're inside an arcade or something, though...

[housewolf]

[Omi is not the writer of Mankai, and such does not know Greek myths that well. So he's pretty happy to know Fukuda does. Neat.]

Shouldn't be too hard to notice in here.

[A deer should stand out, right? Especially a deer.]

I think it's laser tag? I've gone with my friends a few times.

[He will continue reading the card-]

Looks like we're allowed one item out of this bag for our task. Any ideas?

[maelstroms]

I have no idea what that is. [ Lasers? Arcade? The rec room is his only exposure to arcade games. But he considers the information Fukuda gives, and Omi's question. ]

It doesn't say to kill it, just to capture. So something to aid in that. A net, rope, something to counter the possibility of fire breathing?

[holeful]

[Fukuda has not been to laser tag but he has heard about it;]

It's a game, Mr Ming Yi. You have fake guns which you use to shoot lasers at the other players.

[Anyway;]

I think in some versions of the myth, Hercules does take it back alive in a net, so that makes sense to me? I don't really want to kill it either.

[housewolf]

Alright. Let's go with a fireproof net.

[He has never attempted to chase down a deer, but this should be fine, right?

It's not like they will also be dealing with a bunch of arrows or anything like that.]

[maelstroms]

Guns and lasers are beyond me, as well. [ But... a place for games, probably, since they're fake? Aight. He can gather enough. ]

But a fireproof net is probably the best option.

[ It'll probably be fine. ]

[holeful]

[Great plan team! In any case, though they're not going to find the deer just standing around, so Fukuda, still holding onto Omi's arm, is going to start to head down one of the paths.]

I'm sure it will be fine with everyone working together.
[And then an arrow shoots out of nowhere directly into Fukuda's arm.]

[housewolf]

[Omi was pulling out the net- but then Fukuda gets shot and now Omi's tugging them both down to avoid any more arrows from hitting them.]

Where-?!

[maelstroms]

[ Ming Yi is - grateful, actually that Qingxuan nagged him about his godsdamn shovel, because he's going to use it to block an arrow from hitting him in the face. Another one clips him, insomuch as an arrow can clip someone, and he goes to duck down with them in absolute exasperation. ]

One thing after another. How deep is it, Fukuda?

[ Because they can't pull it out, but. Better to know what they're dealing with. ]

[holeful]

[Fukuda doesn't seem that fazed but maybe he's just still in shock? Who knows.]

Hahaha... I guess someone doesn't want us to capture the hind.
[This does not answer the question? He's looking around, though. Another arrow flies wild and doesn't hit anyone.]

I think they're coming from different directions?

[housewolf]

I knew it wouldn't be easy, but this feels excessive.

Are you okay? [Fukuda, please. You got shot?!]

[maelstroms]

Things are always excessive here. The arrow stays until this is over - most arrows are designed to cause more damage when pulled out. [ He rolls his eyes, setting his shovel down and reaching to brace one hand against Fukuda's shoulder, the other on the arrow shaft. ] Omi, the net?

[holeful]

Well, it doesn't hurt much now, I guess it will hurt more once Mr Ming Yi pulls it out? We should get moving, though...

[Fukuda is looking up and away from whatever Ming Yi's doing, holding him in place, and while that happens another arrow flies and lands right in his leg?]

[housewolf]

Try not to get hit more.

[Anyway, he will pull out the net from the bag and hand it over to Ming Yi.

There's the noise of hooves hitting the arcade floor somewhere distant.]

Is that the hind?

[maelstroms]

[ Ming Yi just makes an affirmative to moving, and snaps the shaft in in half, instead of pulling it out. ]

Let's all avoid getting hit more. And don't jostle this, much.

[ He glances up, though. ]

... probably. Head that way?

[holeful]

[Fukuda will just go wherever he's lead, though he suddenly has an idea;]

What if we split up? To try to corner it, I mean. I feel like it will just outrun us otherwise.

[Another arrow whizzes by his head but just lands in the wall nearby.]

[housewolf]

[Is that a good idea when Fukuda's in a state like this?]

We might also be able to corner it against a wall, depending on this place's layout.

[An arrow almost hits Omi's shoulder. He doesn't flinch.

It's fine.]

[maelstroms]

[ Glad that everyone is so unconcerned about being hit, because he just lowers his head to pick up his shovel again and an arrow whizzes by. ]

If we can get a better idea of the layout, we can have one person try to corral it to a wall with the other two prepared with the net.

[holeful]

The only other thing I can think is for one person to provoke it as a distraction.

[Anyway he is heading towards the noise. Omi is coming too because he's not being released. Around the corner, down the end of another passage, for a moment there's a glimpse of a... green deer ass? dissapearing around another corner.]

[housewolf]

[So he really is an emotional support Envy at this point. Alright.

... It's nice to be needed.]

Keep that in mind for later.

[He'll try and follow the glimpse of deer he's just gotten. Surely there can't be more than one in here, right?]

[maelstroms]

[ He makes a face at the thought of provoking it, because he sees Fukuru making Omi into the emotional support Envy. That leaves him the third party for solo things, doesn't it...... ]

Was that green? [ Guess we're following a grass assed doe. ]

[holeful]

[Listen if Fukuda wasn't convinced he's incapable of doing anything without help right now he would offer to be the distraction.]

... Maybe the rest of it is gold?
[But yeah he is following after, stumbling a bit after he takes another arrow to the leg.]

[housewolf]

It's a magic deer, right? Maybe it's changing colors.

[Omi gets grazed on his side by a stray arrow.]

[maelstroms]

[ Fukuda don't you know this myth... ]

Why not, honestly. [ An arrow hits him in the back of the shoulder, and all he does is reach to break the shaft on it. ] Does something smell like it's burning?

[holeful]

[Listen. Myths are variable. Maybe the deer is green in one version, as far as he knows.]

... Burning?
[And then then round a corner and come face to face with the hind, whose ass is now magenta, and it turns to look at them, and its eyes flash before lasers shoot out? Hopefully Omi pulls them both out of the way in time because Fukuda is not dodging. Ming Yi too since he can't anticipate lasers.]