WEEK 7 MINGLE

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POPULATION: 18 19

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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[bonetiddies]

. . . Well. So much for the books.

[alteracion]

[ she's just groaning. ]

[bonetiddies]

[Ugh. Well. Hold on. She's just going to real quick write it all down just in case while she remembers. Sorry to Sheila as she tries to write this left handed?]

. . . No, listen. It's still information, even if it's bullshit.

It wants the Avatars most - whatever has happened to them has made them more appealing to it. It doesn't like the dead, for whatever reason, which is contrary to what we thought about its tastes, since it's currently using them first. It wants to. . . let go of less tasty?

[toesies]

[it's fine

as long as she doesn't elbow her and get stuck that way]

[alteracion]

[ i can't believe you're making grace get the book back. take note of the dick plz ]

Okay, well... [ in a very tired tone ] Maybe that's why the dead were vanishing? They're not as tasty anymore so it has no reason to keep them around because they aren't indulging, so they aren't a food source? Like how it was thrilled because Beau still had a lot of envy when it got to her.

[ sorry to molly that we are discussing it here in public ]

[headmt]

[it's fine probably]

[bonetiddies]

Except from what I understand, she and Tamaki were actually never where the dead are, that anyone saw.

[alteracion]

Right. Which means it got her early, when she still had plenty of envy left. If Beau and Tamaki didn't indulge...

[ maybe? ]

[dotcom]

[ she couldn't fuck him she's a lesbian............. ]

[bonetiddies]

I don't know. We all indulged that first week - we still knew we had to. I don't think she was abstaining.

[Don't ask Molly. Just.]

There was a whole. . . party thing.

[alteracion]

Yeah. She indulged there, which means she had the envy in her still. But there was a whole week her and Tamaki would've been alone, right? Maybe they didn't indulge then.

[maelstroms]

They do seem like they still need to indulge, wherever they are, so as not to fall prey to the thing. But they might just be easier to get to, despite not being as... appetizing.

[alteracion]

Maybe we all stop indulging altogether and it won't be able to eat us because we won't have any sins.

[ CHRISTIANITY IS THE ANSWER ]

[dotcom]

Oh. That would piss it off.

[bonetiddies]

Unfortunately, we know that it killed Nathan outright because they hadn't indulged enough.

[dotcom]

Well... some people do like to save their favorite food for last.

[bonetiddies]

Do they? How wasteful.

[Hmm.]

What the Avatars are - they're connected to it, somehow, through the recalibration process. If I understood correctly, it's the same sort of combination technological and biological process connecting them to this thing; it may be parasitic.

So I wonder whether it's just unable to consume them outright.

[dotcom]

It would harm it if it just finishes them off? Sounds possible.

[mukagen]

I was told that the roots that it has planted in this station are the Avatars. It infuses itself into them? So parasitic does sound right.

[ INSEMINATES
mods: don't call it that ]

[bonetiddies]

Ah, hmm. So if those roots were removed, it might lose its control?

[. . . That sounds like she's suggesting murder.]

If whatever transformation they went through were reversed, it could be effective.

[headmt]

Are we less tasty?

[bonetiddies]

Perhaps we are?

[liuli]

[ .... ]

Right now, all of us are similarly appealing, if that's the case. [ clicking his pride claws together again... they've been in and out all week but he's mostly stuck with his monster features. ]

"Make ourselves inedible" seems like the entirely too simple answer...though, I suppose being 'let go' may imply a lack of wishes.

[bonetiddies]

No, I don't think that's the answer. Lust told me Nathan was consumed because of not indulging enough.

[shiftingwinds]

...I think what happened to Nathan is definitely something we should try to avoid.