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superhell2023-03-30 09:33 am
WEEK SEVEN 2: THURSDAY PREGAME EDITION
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.
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!
THURSDAY PREGAME
[obviously attendance is not actually mandatory but you should all come anyway. if your character would not come to this icly but you still want to participate, you can assume gideon and akira came to sheepdog them to the resort.
there are pillows and blankets and a shitton of kigus to choose from here. all of the feet or ankle pictures have been taken down and piled near a fireplace for fuel. there’s also a huge lineup of drinks, all set down on a counter. they have labels, don’t worry. and the bar isn’t that far away, so if you want a different one, it’s there - but for the sake of ease, assume there’s two or three of every effects drink on this table. don’t think about it too hard.
gideon doesn’t say anything to anybody like welcome or hey or whatever, because as far as she’s concerned she’s not hosting an event or a town hall or anything, she’s just collected everybody in one place. hooray. she is, however, in a dragon kigu.
however, this might be a good time to test drinks or come up with a more solid game plan for the party... there’s probably a few commercial breaks that they can get away with, here.]
PLOT
IDEA 1 - BE ANNOYING
brought up in the discussion below. we cause upheaval and problems in hell, and then have satan banish us for causing too much unrest. in reality, we'd get satan to agree to this plan in advance. it might help him in his goals to reform hell.
IDEA 2 - PRETEND WE DON'T WANT TO GO BACK
a few different ideas involved the idea that we should pretend we want to stay in hell, or at least that some of us want to stay, and going back is a punishment if we lose.
IDEA 3 - ENEMIES
a few ideas turn on the thought that we could pretend that we hate each other and are trying to compete against each other rather than only satan to punish each other. this would be more to add spice or excuses to other ideas than being a full proposal in and of itself.
IDEA 4 - COMPETE FOR POWER
in this idea, some of us ask satan for a more difficult competition. we make the terms of the contest harder, or say we'll try to outdrink each other or the personal demons, or something like that. if those people succeed, they ask for the power to decide what happens to the rest of us who don't win the contest. implying that they want this to torture them or get revenge in some way, but really send people where they want to go.
IDEA 5 - REALITY TV DRAMA
play up the drama! perhaps as an added sweetener for one of these other plans. we try to find out what the demons watching are most interested in and really play it up, while teasing an even more exciting season 2. if the ending is fun to watch, then hell might not mind more of us getting out.
IDEA SIX - TAG TEAM
tag team? we convince satan to let us tag team in one of the dead or something.
IDEA 7 - SEDUCE THE HAMSTER
ryo fucks the hamster but also he marries satan?
IDEA 8 - SATAN’S CUP
play party games with satan and use the party games (perhaps proposing this idea to satan in advance) to earn an extra victory condition or a chance for the dead/demons to play in the drinking game. the party games we play could include things that would make it fun for the viewers like violence and combat as well as drama and betrayal.
just in case we'd like to mix and match! discuss here.]
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...I think we liked the Satan's Cup plan, yes? But to propose it, we'll have to devise rules.
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[ YES JUST WHAT IT NEEDS MORE DICE ]
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[ date's in a blue alpaca kigu. cosy. ]
Are there regular non-Satan rules?
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anyway ]
So! Here are the original King's Cup rules. We want to add two jokers to the deck, to make those the cards worth the most value to us. We need to figure out what that might mean. The first rule I'd like to propose is no softballs - in the actual game, whatever dares, truths, kisses, or what have you that are offered need to be of a decent quality. If you asked me to go hug someone, for example, that'd be too easy.
Any thoughts?
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DRANK
also, we have so many effects this week like 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 and touch so feel free to throw those in whenever.
please, have fun. this is for science but it’s also just to hang out with each other and go wild because it’s the last curfew of the game!!]
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anyway: ]
If you end up mixing a few drinks and get a strange effect, let me know! I've started playing with those, but the possibilities are almost endless. Additionally, if there are any you'd like to avoid, they're all clearly marked, so be careful! But, if you want something at random, I'm happy to bring you a random drink, too. Or get your own! You don't have to ask me.
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[But he says it, like, in an amused tone... in that "y'all are gonna be so fucking messy in like an hour and I will be here laughing about it" way]
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If you mixed Woo Woo and Nice Having Ya, do you think that you'd just go around biting asses? [ distract satan by making him bite people on the ass (no) ]
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anyways, she's holding up a glass of "Bundle Up" ]
Ah, you have my and Childe's drink here as well!
[ and to lu bixing. ] What kind of mixes have you done so far?
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[pepperidge farm remembers confidence week]
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What if you drank "Stop" and some body-specific drink. Think it would target that particular body part?
[ he is not trying this. someone else be the guinea pig. he's smoking while zhanlu happily sits with popcorn wrapped around his neck. he has materialized his own little iguana kigu in his digital projection :v ]
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So what science have you discovered so far, Mr. Headmaster?
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I told you this was a terrible idea.
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I never really thought about just how many of these there were, but seeing them all together like this is something!
[ checking out all the documented effects... hmm ]
Have you tried mixing Siren Song and Dirt yet? Seems like that could be dangerous.
[ and FUN ]
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what's she mixing. ]
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Whaaaat are you doing.
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... No harm in practicing.
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also does literally nothing to stop her. ]
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... this is not stopping him from mixing drinks tho.
(at some point, he does drink the furry drink. half because it tastes good, half because he's pondering what to mix it with. spot him looking like this for at least an hour, except in a fox kigu for redundancy.) ]
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I hope Gideon's extremely pleased by this outcome]
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So much is happening here that he doesn't know what to pay attention first, so instead he will have a drink as long as it's not dairy-based...]
Being with more people this time is really weird.
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he's just eyeballing the drinks thoughtfully, like he might be thinking about mixing them or chugging a few at once for the vine. ]
Think we could just love potion all the viewers into doing what we want? Love potion Satan? I'm open to suggestions.
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