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

[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.

[preordain]

To be fair, if we go that route, I feel like I would be the most believable one for that.

[cavaliered]

Yeah, but I don't trust you to put people where they want to go. [she'll just say it.]

[outsidebones]

Too believable. No one is putting their fate in your hands.

[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]

[toyska]

He already told me no.

[reignite]

Persistence is key! [ no. i almost almost banned yaywon. ]

[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.

[bileygr]

Sure.

[teufelshund]

[ shrugs. ]

Well, I don't mind waiting around — and I doubt anyone will argue against it in my case. Even a decade is barely more than the duration of a sneeze for me, and I can just make a new timeline when I get back if things have gone to literal hell without me.

[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.

[greatvalue]

... And if we all had a public falling out, only days before the event?

[outsidebones]

The personal demons seem to believe this deception wouldn't be noticed; most of the worst demons don't pay close attention.

[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.

[engineers]

[ proud ]

I can help if you need it, Kon.

[outsidebones]

[lol.]

I do like this plan, yes. The subtitles say 'Please send our enemies to Superhell, the hell that's worse than the current hell we're in!'

[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.