7rings | WEEK 7 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 death of Tartaglia Childe...well, perhaps there isn't any tension at all? Hard to say. Should anyone try to contact the deceased or review their profiles, they will find that they have been deleted from everyone's phones.

Perhaps you expect this by now, but it seems that the elevator reveals that it may now visit the eighth 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. Strange things are happening, little sinners. Don't be shy now.

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.

If you aren't too distracted, that is. For the most part, it may feel as though there isn't anything strange about this week. Everything proceeds as normal and life on the base is calm again. But every now and then, you'll feel a burning in your hand right where your tattoo is as it loses its color and fades to black temporarily. A sudden swell courses through your veins, almost as if being injected with a higher amount of your specific indulgence. You'll find it nearly impossible to do anything else until you act on it, draining the indulgence away and bringing color back to your marking. This won't always happen, and this won't always happen at a convenient time. It may be best to plan ahead. After all...if you ignore it for too long, you may find yourself changing. Those aligned with Envy may find themselves with several new eyes. Those aligned with Gluttony may find claws and a tail beginning to grow. Those aligned with Pride may feel a sharp pain in their head as a crown of thorns embeds itself into their skin. But the sooner you act, the sooner these changes will disappear.

Dedication's sweet, isn't it? Do try to give it your all.

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I don't think she's suggesting that wouldn't matter. Only whether or not it's true.

[Her expression is neutral, but serious.]

It isn't wrong to consider all of the possibilities, especially when so much of what we have been told has been untrue. But we all understand that wouldn't be a trivial thing to accept, for some more than others.

If the indulgences serve as a ... charge of some sort, that holds the power for our wishes, I suppose we can only look for a way to use it ourselves instead of relying upon a third party creature to channel it for us.

Yes. There are things we can consider - I don't believe the Avatars have seen the transfer of indulgence to wishes work, either, but they also aren't idiots, so likely have some reason to believe it does work.

Lust once described it to me as like... points that are put into a bank, "kinda", that get used up when the time's right. If that helps at all.

But who knows if any of that was actually how it works, since they were avoiding telling us about the creature.

I know, I know.

The best lies have a bit of truth in them. I'd wager a guess it must be similar.

Give me time, and I could solve it and come up with another way to channel it.

[Sometimes, you just go around saying shit like this just so confidently. Sorry about it.]

But I don't think we have time, while that thing is stalking us.

Realistically, how much time do we think we have left? We're obviously not killing each other anymore, so... That's it for pwaytime.

I mean... we hit the top floor that isn't where the Avatars stay, right? So my guess is about a week...? There's no certainty of that though.

There's just nowhere else to go from here, in theory.

I don't know if the floors have anything to do with it, so much as the fact that we're not giving our satanic hand-me-down baby what it wants anymore. A week sounds pretty generous, though.

[there's a nod at that.]

Maybe we hit both at once. [since no one in this group seems to want each other actively dead anymore, in theory?]

Do you think we have... less time? Days?

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toesies - 2021-03-30 01:35 (UTC) - Expand

Not long. We're out of floors, and we aren't being very interesting right now.

Mm. I was told that at this point, it really depends on the creature.

Right. So at this point, whatever we need to do we gotta do it fast.

If we're to be making plans... I suppose a question to ask, for theorizing, is whether we can use our abilities on the creature.

toesies - 2021-03-30 01:41 (UTC) - Expand

maelstroms - 2021-03-30 01:44 (UTC) - Expand

So that brings us back to - what? Using the books, scrolls, and glasses, right? So we need to stop talking in circles and figure out what to use them for already.

There are at least three books, so - we were discussing using them to see how to recover the dead, and how to have everyone's wishes, right?

[SUCH CONFIDENCE ...]

The Avatars seem very intent on not killing it. Likely because its tied to them in some way. Or we all are.

[I'm sorry sometimes you got called a genius too often when you were a baby???]

I suppose, but I suspect it isn't a pushover, either.

[ wow can't relate ]

Particularly since we all lose our powers and such when we arrive here.

Oh. Yes, if I had my powers I wouldn't be particularly worried. I promise you that.

[...

she takes another sip from her drink, frowning.]

That's a solution I'd be here for.

[he nods at that.]

I get it.

[he's not mad at vira or anyone for the suggestion, even if his expression's a little bit more closed off than usual]

... so we gotta find out more about if it's true, and how we get there. That's all.

Yes.

[. . . After a second, she'll place a hand on his arm, gently for one moment before taking it away.]

I don't have any intention of leaving here without forcing the promises made to be accounted for. One way or another.

[it takes him a second - his kneejerk reaction to anger makes him temperamental - but the touch seems to at least settle him down a little enough to sigh. he brings a hand up to his own face as if to rearrange it into something less serious]

... yeah. Yeah, I know. [a big sigh] Sorry. I'll focus - you're right that even if the initial promise wasn't true, we'll just figure out a new way to get what we're owed.

That's all we can do.