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]

[ comes over and loops arm through four's ]

She's got the right idea! Time for another drink, Lavi. Do you want one too, Four?

[forefall]

[ she tenses for a second but lets him do that.

she sighs. ]

Just give him another one to change the effects of whatever he drank.

[engineers]

[ trying to bond with my daughter and being interrupted ]

...he's really weird like this, huh.

[forefall]

He is. I can't even laugh at it. What do you think that drink effect is?

[engineers]

Maybe a green with envy sort of thing? Jealousy...? I'm not sure; this is one of the newer ones, so I don't have a lot of case studies with it.

[ lu bixing does not know what a yandere is ] But it definitely doesn't suit him.

[forefall]

.... He does seem jealous over the stupidest things.

[ corpses? ]

Do you need more data?

[engineers]

[ thinks about four drinking the jealousy drink



hm ]

I need more data for mixed drinks, the most. The more of the mixed effects I can isolate, the better prepared we'll be for Saturday for when things inevitably get weird...

[forefall]

[ spoilers: nothing would change

she tilts her head. ]

I'll let you mix a drink for me.

[engineers]

[ !!!!!!! HE LOOKS SO EXCITED you could almost see the dog tail wagging on the kigu. ]

Do you want me to focus on the flavor of it, or the effect?

[forefall]

[ ..........

she's wondering if she should regret saying that. ]

Go for the effect.

[engineers]

You got it.

[ okay. he will! go to the bar table!! and go look at the drinks. he's really taking his time to make sure he picks something good...

and after a moment, he returns with a mix of bundle up and bazooka bubblegum... animal crossing cuddles. ]

I think this should be pretty harmless - and pretty cute? Try it out.

1/2

[forefall]

[ i spent a good 10-15 minutes trying to edit an animal crossing deer before i remembered the funnier option

she takes the drink with some trepidation. it's hard to trust especially when she knows she hates half these drink effects from observation (not experience)

but....

from some combination of weekly effects, she is willing to give this drink a try. ]

[forefall]

[ it's gufourba time. ]

Why!

[ she runs at lbx to hide but also for cuddles. ]

[engineers]

[ HELP

SHE'S

SO CUTE


bixing scoops her up IMMEDIATELY and like, brings his kigu around so she can come hide in it?! LOOK AT HER ]

You're so - this one's so cute.... It could've been much worse, I promise, some of these are horrible!

[toyska]

[WH

CHILDE POINTS WITH HIS LITTLE FOX ARM]

Why are you Guoba again?!

[reignite]

[ for some reason or another, seeing Gufourba has Uriel staring...

and then a nearby monitor starts to suddenly play a memory. yeah, it's memshare time baby. ]

There's a beautiful area before them. To which Uriel looks to, with an accompanying... orange panda? beside her.

They seem to be walking towards an encampment hung with banners marked with a particular symbol. There are several smaller tents, and one much larger tent sat at the center. To their right, is a cluster of small wooden huts and a trail that appears to go off over the curved horizon, vanishing from sight on the other side of a hill.

At first, no one seems to stop them before suddenly a masked person suddenly puts themselves between them and the large tent. Blocking them from just waltzing in.

"Woah, woah, woah. Are you the new recruits?"

They glance towards Uriel, despite the bear. And giving them both a vaguely baffled look at their sweet digs? Uriel of which seems to be wearing this. Though one of her wings seems to be severely burned and damaged, despite it her voice steady with confidence kicks in.

"We are."

Uriel's nature as Demon-Like Judge of Fire kicks in, giving an elegant and noble air with another observing look around.

"We were instructed to come here for a more detailed debriefing before being escorted to the Lord Harbingers."

The gold bear stares intensely at the masked person before, undoubtedly, Chandra's voice sounds out loud and clear.

"Get out of our way."

The masked person is much more impressed by Uriel's display of grace and elegance as compared to this small... angry......... bear. She's just looking down at him and his mismatched outfit and tiny fists of pummeling fury. He is so small, and so close to the ground. So tiny. So round.

Then the screen goes black.

C

[ Uriel just stares horrified at the monitor.

Oh.

Oh no. ]

[bookpapers]

[






separates his arm from Four's]

[forefall]

[




wh ]

What are you doing?

[bookpapers]

[loops his arm with four!!!!]

Hehe.

[forefall]

[ she is considering throwing him across the room. ]

Don't simply laugh.

[engineers]

[ jesus christ

sticks a straw in a Doing Just Fine and holds it out ]

Drink, please.

[bookpapers]

[drinks...... will this save him...............]

[engineers]

Do you trust me?

[bookpapers]

[me googling what the fck is opposite a yandere and forcing everyone to figure out the answer for me in other words i still don't know so im making this mood flip specific ig lavi had like a yandere hatred for bixing but now it's 180 so he just throws his arms around Bixing and lifts him into a hug]

[engineers]

[ HELP

CRISIS AVERTED?? he laughs, big and loud, and throws his arms around him. ] Hey, hey! Careful!

[ this is pure sorry he loves this ]