WEEK SEVEN - MINGLE

[hellscapes]

Rise and shine, little deadlings. Change is coming. Satan's grace has shined upon you...and you made it. Congratulations to those of you who wake up in Gehenna this morning.

For those of you who slept in the dorm last night, when you make your way downstairs to head off for the day you'll be greeted with a new message on the white board in the common room.

Four Days Until Satan's House Party!! Congrats on Your Invite!!

The countdown continues...

It's funny. You've all played along for so long. It's been so many weeks of hard work, of training, of experiencing new things and trying to figure out the best game strategy for the drink-off, but at the same time you've lost so much. It may even feel as though all of this was for naught. Some of you may have even lost hope along the way. But hey. Haven't you heard? The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Walking out of the dorm, it's immediately obvious something is different. It's in the atmosphere, and unlike before, you can hear ambient sounds in the distance and all around you. It's the sound of other people. Other establishments. Other islands and other residents, all things you haven't experienced before in your isolated dimension. Bicker is popping off from a million accounts, no longer just you newbies. Anywhere you go there are strangers, human and demon alike, just living their afterlives. At the dock, the ferry is happily floating on the lava, waiting for you to climb aboard. While there are still several unknowable islands on the horizon, the ferry can now shuttle you between all of the previous islands and the largest island in all of Hell. This island can be seen from just about every other point of this realm, but it's even larger than life when you finally arrive. Should you find yourselves returning to more familiar bars, you may find that along with new faces - real bartenders, thank God - new menu items await you as well.

But maybe you'll be too busy for that. After all, for some of you it isn't just your surroundings that are different when you wake up. You may feel better than ever, like a part of you has been revitalized, or... like a part of you has been switched back on. Abilities you once had in your living life have been returned to your possession, but do keep in mind the rules and regulations of Hell. Don't abuse them, now! Be a good neighbor.

Everywhere you look there's the buzz and excitement of the upcoming party, and everywhere you travel feels more open than before. You're less limited, less isolated, and perhaps you'll even run into a familiar face in the crowds, if you're lucky.

But there are a few consequences that come with being abruptly ejected from a quarantine zone and into the real realm of Hell. Some things need to be recalibrated, and throughout the course of the week you may find yourself experiencing different effects you underwent during your previous weeks here. Maybe one day you find yourself experiencing a loss of your senses. Maybe the next you're falling back into those memory-sharing holes. And maybe another you're t-posing each other to assert your dominance without realizing how stupid you look.

It almost seems as though it's simply meant to be an annoyance...for everyone involved.

And speaking of annoyances? Don't forget to check out what's new on Bicker. You can always contact each other via public Beeks or by sliding into their DMs.

Likewise, you'll find that your personal demons' accounts are live and active and despite what some of them may say, their DMs are also open.

Enjoy the week of pregaming!

Good morning everybody, and welcome to your week seven mingle, aka the final mingle for endgame week! A few notes for clarity.

-This week's effect is everything. That is to say, you are free to either not be affected by anything at all, or you may play with the different effects that have come up during the course of the game to play out with people you may have missed opportunities with! As a reminder, the effects are:

-Rumor Mill (aka the compulsion to tell a lie or spread a rumor about someone)
-Emotional Overload (aka experiencing intense emotions and the inability to calm down until they're shared)
-Loss (aka loss of senses, memories, abilities, etc.)
-Memshare (self-explanatory)
-Heightened insecurities
-Overconfidence
-Touch

-As noted in the blurb above, those of you who have powers in your canons now have access to these again (outside of anything game-breaking.) Any items from home may be unnerfed as well. Please use your powers responsibly! Abuse of powers or harming random residents will be flagged to the HPD and your powers will be shut down for 24 hours.

-If you "die" you come back within three hours. All injuries, including old ones, now heal at an accelerated rate, but the specific time and amount is up to you oocly.

-Also as noted in the blurb above... Hell has a few more residents than usual! That is to say, along with now being populated with its own residents, characters who have died and were in the graveyard are now available to you once more. There is no longer a barrier between you guys. Be free.

-Audiences for the personal demons are now open! Please submit all requests under the correct weekly header.

-Please submit all PC submissions under the correct weekly header.

-The Bicker poll is public! All replies will be public, and players may also post their own Beeks in their toplevels that will be considered public. You are free to reply directly to the appropriate toplevels, or you may create Beeks in your own toplevels with other prompts. Be free.

-Finally, we will not have a trial this Saturday but we will be having our endgame event, aka SATAN'S PARTY. Please let us know if you will not be available, but otherwise we'll see you then!

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Comments

[outsidebones]

[listen she doesn't need a notebook to remember any of this she's just being goth.]

Lord Satan may not have a taste for bloodshed himself, but the demons watching this program do. They don't want to see a happy ending where he is nice to all of us. They want to see something dramatic.

We need to prove we have earned a better outcome, or else we need to use deception.

[ontrend]

Maybe we could make it, like... have some of the people we want to take with us act like they want to stick around here? And then be like, "Yo, Satan! If I win, let me drag this person who wants to stay here back up to life with me!"

That'd be kind of a betrayal...?

[outsidebones]

[she nods!]

Interesting. Speaking with some of the personal demons, at least some denizens of hell would believe that we wanted to stay.

Another thought I had is whether some of us could offer to play not only to return, but also to gain power within hell to decide the fates of others. They could act as though they want authority to punish some of us by banishing us somewhere worse.

But instead, they banish us where we wish to go.

[preordain]

[ glances over here ]

[cavaliered]

Not you.

[ontrend]

...you know, if there genuinely is anyone who actually wants to stay - and I'm not saying this because I think anyone needs to sacrifice themselves and volunteer to! That's bullshit and I won't stand for it! - maybe they could be like, "Hey! I wanna steal the demons' jobs! If I drink you under the table, fire them and hire me instead!"

And then we just kidnap them back to life.

[bookpapers]

[looks at Childe]

[outsidebones]

[she nods at this.]

...I agree. No one ought to feel pressured to stay, but if anyone would actually prefer this place to returning, they ought to speak up.

[psynchronise]

Like a kind of reverse psychology?

... Keep in mind though, we've maybe not been as subtle as we think regarding not wanting to leave people behind though. We might need to be a little bit more nuanced.

[outsidebones]

Ah. Well. Fortunately, apparently the subtitles on this program are very bad, so the viewers probably do not know.

But yes, that is why I was saying I hated all of you on Bicker earlier this week.

[psynchronise]

[ he just lifts his drink at her. ]

I didn't say a damn thing. [ i think. i don't remember anything about anything. ]

[astika]

Subtitles don't matter when the calls sent to us were broadcast in public for all to hear.

[refate]

I hacked the commercials during the last trial, so I could probably swing something so that it's a Best Of Infomercials or try and alter the subtitles further.

We start acting like we're angrily yelling at each other when really we're calmly discussing things, and fake in-fighting dialogue in the subtitles.

[ontrend]

I mean, that's also potentially how it could work? Like, if the viewers are all, "Oh yeah, that Kuranosuke guy is all about escaping from here," and they also think, IDK, someone else who doesn't wanna go back is down to stay, it's believable if I decide I know better and drag 'em up outta hell myself against their will. That's the "betrayal"!

[toyska]

This meeting isn't supposed to be a secret from Satan, is it? Since I'm pretty sure it isn't.

[greatvalue]

It also sounds like the demons are, uh... not big fans of changes. Even ones that are meant to improve things around here. So maybe, if the status quo was threatened somehow, they'd have reason to want to see us gone.

[psynchronise]

So... what. We start a public strike for worker's rights until they boot us all out?

[greatvalue]

Or we threaten to be as loud, obnoxious and destructive as possible for the rest of eternity. Childe and Scaramouche already got a head start.

[psynchronise]

Sounds like the groundwork's already done for us then.

[ontrend]

We riot against HPD because they won't lock that damn hamster up...

[outsidebones]

[nods!]

That's another idea. Simply give Satan a good excuse to "banish" all of us.

[ontrend]

Let's annoy our way back to life! I'm great at that!

[don't just sAY THAT SO PROUDLY.]

[engineers]

[ what's up we're here tapping at his personal device as usual bc look harrow has her bones, bixing has his computers. he is at one with the world and zen like this. dryly; ]

We could all just kill each other and revive and sneak off backstage.

[


joking. anyway, ]

Kidding aside, I think dramatic is an excellent point to make. I mentioned to you that we may well make it seem as though we've earned the right to this as a punishment and frame it as something of a talent show. As for the action itself, it might be nice to do some market research - we have a whole city full of demons. If the 'show' of it all is the talk of the town, we might get an idea for what kind of drama they're the most eager for, from bloodshed metaphorically to literally. Follow their storylines, switch them up in a few places, make the ending worth it.

[ use the demon headcanons ]

[outsidebones]

[nods.]

That could also be a way to add some benefit to Satan in whatever we propose. We need an overall proposal, but we can promise if he plays along with us, we'll be certain to add some drama that Hell will enjoy.

[engineers]

That's what I would be looking for, in his shoes - a PR boost for him that takes a load off of his shoulders, to make the transition as smooth as possible.

I remember talking to Rose a bit about how this was something of a test run, so maybe we can drop hints to the audience about a tantalizing second season with a new cast of characters.

[ ie: not them ]