WEEK SEVEN 2: THURSDAY PREGAME EDITION

[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

[engineers]

[ bixing's here writing out the rules of the initial king's cup game for comparison with his rainbow dry erase marker on the nearest available vertical surface. he's in a dog kigu, though the top half is tied around his waist, and underneath he's wearing this shirt and plaid pj pants


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?

[failbo]

At this point we all know each other's limits and what we're capable of. We probably can aim for the hard stuff without making it impossible.

[No testing the waters, given how well they all know each other, probably!]

[engineers]

Agreed. We couldn't dare Scaramouche to go around and stab someone at random, but we could dare him to hug five people.

[ don't use scaramouche as the example ]

[failbo]

Ahaha...I think...that probably would end with someone stabbed.

[It's Scaramouche]

[greatvalue]

Well... failing to complete the challenge would mean you're out, right?

[which would scaramouche hate more...? hugging people or losing? (it's hugging people)]

[nascens]

I can complete the challenge and still stab someone.

[engineers]

[ lol ]

Good for the views...

[toyska]

[Help this makes him laugh]

[engineers]

[ idk where aki is to kill me so i will continue to make jokes ]

[outsidebones]

I almost wonder if we should make the Jokers something that would be high stakes but that we don't actually want.

That way, Satan could technically "win." But the real prize would be the rules we add to the drinking contest if we get an 8.

[engineers]

What if we make that the coup option?

[outsidebones]

Mm. Or if Satan wouldn't agree to that, an option to become lords or generals here in Hell, or to obtain our own personal islands we rule.

[engineers]

I'm sure the audience would love that. Or love to hate it, at least.

[ can you imagine some of the people in this group being lords and generals of hell... ]

There are only two of them, so we need to make it look like those are the main goals of whoever's left standing. If we rig it correctly, we ought to have someone win that fairly early, and then continue to play through the end and lose it to Satan with the final joker. If someone draws the joker and gets eliminated, will that mean a loss of the rule? Or should we intend for whoever is going to be our final contestant to draw the joker and take it to the end?

[cavaliered]

In this case he's in on it, right? So we'd just have to trust him not to pick the bad option that we don't want, or what?

[outsidebones]

Not a bad option, an option that's good but isn't actually our goal. The viewers can believe we're competing for it, but we don't care about winning it.

[cavaliered]

[nodding...]

Right. [squints.] That's the tricky part though, isn't it. There's a lot we want, but I don't think there's much Satan wants from us.

[polyglotti]

Well...if it's to get the masses interested, what if a Joker is that we have to tell a secret about ourselves? Everyone loves drama like that, and we can purposefully pick secrets that will make the crowd go wild but also don't reveal that much about who we actually are.

[Or they could just lie too. Lying's always an option, as long as they're convincing lies.]

[cavaliered]

We could add the rest of the numbers in the deck, too. There's no reason to just stick with these, and we can even change around the established ones.

[engineers]

Good thinking! I just figured it might be nice to have a visual reference. We have quite a few left... maybe one should be "drink one of the cursed drinks"; that's pretty simple and can have a wild variety of impacts.

[cavaliered]

Maybe to make it risky, the other person picks which cursed drink. Or you mix two together and have to just go for it.

Other stuff like all the guys drink, all the girls drink. You choose someone to drink. [gestures vaguely]

[outsidebones]

Guys drink, girls drink, Satan drinks.

[ontrend]

Have the viewers at home respond on Bicker to pick a drink. That'll get them invested in letting the game go forward, 'cause they get to fuck around too.

[


oocly we could just rng it and say demons watching picked it tho]

[awol]

Could dump leftover drinks into a bowl and make it a consequence to drink it.

[ hell jungle juice. hangs out here in a dino kigu :thumbs_up: ]

[firstandgreatest]

Should we come up with the other cards or just add a couple more?

[engineers]

[ the ooc management of All the Cards makes me want to die ]

Let's make the rules simple, so it's not too hard to follow - maybe we should only add a few more.