chasma | WEEK FIVE MINGLE

nerak: week 5 mingle

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25 Remain

Waking up this morning will reveal some unfamiliar surroundings. While Camebit had an autumnal chill in the air, things are a little different, now - the air is frigid, and waking up is an adventure, considering you are swaddled to the nines and cozied right up to your roomie of the week (where you have one, anyways). Everything around you is made of ice and packed snow, fogged glass and porcelain, and it is freezing. Who thought this was a good idea? Even the brisk chill of Camebit in the skies above everything was more forgiving than this! This isn't a transition! Whose manager can you speak to..?

About that.

You have to trek out of the lodging, and over into the building made of actual wood and stone, to actually see your Watchers of the week. They're all dressed in their full cloaks again to combat the chill, even in this building, although both Rameel and Satariel are standing much closer to Yomiel than they usually do - much like they had in Ahnkeen, actually.

"Good morning and welcome to Nerak! If you've ever wondered what it was like to stay at an ice hotel, then you're in luck!" Rameel says with moderate flourish as they make sure to keep close to Yomiel—their daemon currently not found anywhere near them as they make the announcement. Looks like they're without their black box of musical wonders this morning.

While the other two Watchers press close, Yomiel's daemon has wrapped itself around their neck like a polecat scarf. Warm. Arm cradled gently against their chest, they pause to glance at Satariel before greeting everyone. "Try to be careful. The ice can get slippery, especially when you're all looking like that and leaving a mess everywhere you go." Whatever that means.

Satariel seems a little more subdued than usual but offers everyone a smile, daemon bear-shaped against their back, large head peering around at everyone while they take in the travelers that come to join them here in the hotel lobby. Their cloak is completely closed around them - not even the front of their dress can be seen, and they're clearly holding it tightly shut. "Please be nice to the hotel staff - if I catch any of you being rude to them, I'll kick you clear across the tundra before sticking you in their outdoor 'jail' for timeout. We're guests, but they're working hard to accommodate us, alright?"

With the new week, travelers will find that they no longer the adorable animal features they did in Camebit, but something much less cute. Injuries from their pasts have come back to haunt them, major or minor, and they cannot be healed. The good thing is that they don't seem to hurt or really take a toll on the travelers at all - at least, not until they're touched, and then both you the other will feel the pain from the moment the wound was inflicted. This effect lasts all week.

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The one I spoke to said she was "here but not here", before - at the same time that Mr. Sholmes was. It's possible that... something could have happened, on their...

[

who let cola maybe die on a cyoa ]

Did anyone see her at all yesterday?

[ SMASHES THROUGH THE WALL WITH PC DEETS HELP. ]

Susato's alive. It's not Rika, it's Susato who's the one in danger.

Again.

[ She doesn’t sound annoyed — just vaguely upset. Leave her girl alone?? ]

Again.

[ geez. ]

It sounds worse than last time though. We're going to need to move, and quickly.

Honestly, if she’s outside she should’ve died from the weather alone.

But depending on the circumstances maybe we’ll be lucky we’ll find her without dealing with any limb loss.

Kotetsu has something for dealing with frostbite, he said. That's... something.

Then she’s hella lucky.

... She's not lucky until we find her.

I’m sure we will.

...

I hope so.

[ i, becks, have zero faith. ]

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quiz - 2021-11-05 19:57 (UTC) - Expand

Again?

[HELLO?? Who keeps doing this to Susato.]

But... does this mean Rika is dead?

... yeah. That's what they said. I don't know if she died on one of these adventures or not [ wouldn't put it past cola ] but... she's dead.

...fuck.

Yeah.

Given she's missing, I think she must've died while... wherever she and the others went... Watchers said they could sense her until yesterday.

Edited 2021-11-05 17:41 (UTC)

[... she takes a deep breath to steady herself.]

Okay. Then, let's say Rika died because of an adventure, Susato is missing, and everyone else is alive but out of our reach. Why is it that we need to wait until tomorrow to save her if technically no one has been murdered yet?

[she knows yuri can't answer this, but also. hello??? she hates this place.]

Same reason we didn't realise we'd been walking around with blood on us for 24 hours in the first week here. She's probably seen as part of what happened, especially if she was the one attacked.

Alive or not, she's probably seen as the "target", so we don't find her until the time they decided. That's what I'm guessing.

... This sucks.

We'll need to vote for someone either way, won't we?

We always do.

Wait—what?

[STOP PLAYING WITH HER EMOTIONS LIKE THIS????]

What do you know? What do we need to do?

It's the same as last time. She's "evidence", or considered part of the crime that took place. We won't find her until tomorrow.

[ alisaie your girlfriend. ]

... There's a chance she might not survive. Be prepared for that. But be prepared to move it tomorrow because we can't afford to assume she didn't.

[She wants to think that there's no way they'll let that happen but WOW THE TRACK RECORD OF LOSING LADIES IMPORTANT TO HER..........]

We can't give up until we know for certain.

[But they'd all better be ready to haul ass tomorrow.]

So we really need to move tomorrow. It seems like we might have a trail to go off of tomorrow where all the cloak and daggers stuff is lifted, but we'll need to be fast about deciding.

[ ……… ]

What kind of damsel in distress trope is this?

... If she survives, try calling her that to her face, Flat.