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Week 6

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A New Week

This weekend, you had unusual dreams. For some of you, they brought you to an outdoor arena that none of you had ever seen before. For others, you dreamed of a familiar place: a place that felt like home in some way. And when you fall asleep on Sunday night, you’ll find that dreams of your homes are continuing. Your home may be exactly as you remember it, at any point in time before you arrived here; perhaps there will be slight differences, or maybe it seems like a different version of your home altogether. Maybe nobody else is in it except for you.

For each dreamer, however, you’ll find that your dreams will start in your own world; but at some point, there will be a mysterious blue light that appears. It looks like a large portal that will lead you to somewhere. Choose to step inside, and you’ll be taken to a random islander’s dream. Alternatively, if you elect to remain inside of your own dream, you may suddenly see a ray of yellow light that appears, and once the light fades, another one of your fellow islanders will appear before you.

Abilities will work as they did over the weekend in your dreams and in the real world. Everyone will have one of their own, whether it be their existing powers from home or something new entirely. Even the formerly powerless will have something within them -- namely something similar to what the strange boy you saw this weekend could do. Perhaps you now have the ability to launch apples at your opponents at a lightning fast speed. Maybe you can rip a tree out of the ground with your bare hands.

And most importantly...everyone will remember their dreams when they wake. Your memories of seeing your friends’ homes (or seeing them in your home instead) will remain. These dreams seem to happen every night for the rest of the week.

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Things do seem to return to relative normalcy on Monday morning. Tom Nook’s announcements begin, though he only has two new things to report.

“Good morning, everyone! I hope you all had a fun weekend, yes? I apologize for not having much for you to do this time around, but hopefully you could all use it as a chance to relax. Now, though, it’s time to get back to work on event planning. I’m hoping to bring K.K. Slider over by August 15th, so if that date does work for all of you to host the event, then that’s when you’ll need to be ready by. Once you’ve all decided on what to do, the other thing I’ll need for you to do is to create flyer designs.

In my tent are some papers and markers, crayons and what have you. It may see a little...childish, for some of you, but I assure you that your creativity will come a long way in capturing the hearts of all sorts of people in this world! Feel free to submit as many designs as you want, and I’ll send them over to Nook Inc. to make copies of all of them. We’ll work with Orville to get them all sent out.”

The next and final announcement follows immediately afterwards.

“And finally, we have an exciting opportunity passed onto me by the Able Sisters! Mabel and Sable are holding a design contest for an Isle Sonrisa pattern to put on some of their clothing! Channel your island spirit into your design and create something that you think best represents the island. You can use the supplies for the flyers to draw out your designs, and submit them to Mabel by Thursday. Everyone will get a participation prize of 5,000 bells, but there will be a grand prize for the person whose design gets selected!”

He claps his hands for a brief moment in excitement.

“That’s all for your announcements! Have a wonderful week, everyone!”

Possible Objectives

1. Participate in the Able Sisters' design contest. (Note: Entries can be drawn OR written out OOCly. We will choose a winner via RNG.)
2. Work towards preparing the island for your event
3. Make those flyers and submit them to Tom Nook (drawn or written OOCly is fine)
4. See what's going on in your dreams...

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[ like everyone else, hitsugaya has a dream of his own. his may be a bit harder to recognize as being hitsugaya's at first since the boy that stands in front of you upon arrival is only a vague image of isle sonrisa's resident wolf. there are a few things that are telling: the hair fringe, the color of his eyes, the scarf and the shinigami uniform that he donned on the first day. he's looking at you with those turquoise eyes of his expectantly. ]

Hm. So you're here.

[ the environment around you is very structured, certainly more so than isle sonrisa. there are shadowy figures walking around in the same black robes that hitsugaya himself is wearing, but without the white haori. everyone here also has a sword hoisted on their backs or their waists. ]

Well, there's not much to see here. And quit staring at me. It's weird.

[ Kaede is surprised to see Hitsugaya, and honestly she hadn't really even given thought to the fact that he wasn't really a wolf. So although she recognizes him, she still can't help but stare. ]

Sorry. I didn't expect to see you like this.

[ She finally takes time to look around, watching some of the figures walking around. ]

Where are we?

[ he just gives her a flat look. of course it's understandable, but he's getting a little embarrassed by people making a big deal of his true form. he turns around, back towards her and looks upward.

there's a pause. ]

... We're in a place known as the Soul Society. Shinigami reside here.

[ and judging by his robes and the sword on his back...well. it might be clear to kaede what he is exactly. ]

[ She smiles in response to his flat look. She can't help but stare, so unused to actually seeing what he really looks like.

But that smile turns into a contemplative frown. Being in the place where Shinigami live, even if it's just a dream... it's kind of scary. ]

Wow. [ She looks around even more, realizing the implication of the sword on Hitsugaya's back. ]

Wait... are you a Shinigami?

Yes.

[ he nods. which also brings him to his next point: ]

I did lie to you when I said Karakura Town was my home. While it's a place I frequent, this is where I reside primarily. The Soul Society.

[ and he does feel bad about lying to her about it, but... ]

That's okay.

[ She smiles at him. Honestly, she gets it. It's easier to just lie about things sometimes. ]

Can you tell me about this place now?

[ he nods. there's a lot to say, but he'll try to keep it to the most important parts. ]

This is the afterlife; most souls come here when they depart from the human world. The area we're in is home to the Gotei Thirteen -- the thirteen shinigami divisions. Most other souls are in the Rukongai. The number of shinigami compared to the number of ordinary souls is considerably small.

[ he gestures at her to follow him. ] I'll take you to the Tenth Division barracks. [ and since kaede can presumably read japanese, she'll be able to see the large "ten" kanji on the back of his haori. ]

The afterlife, huh...

[ She follows behind Hitsugaya, still looking around at everything. With the ten on his back, that must be his division. ]

So do you live in the barracks?

I have my own home, but it's within our division grounds, yes.

[ he doesn't know if he'll take her there, buuuuuut. ]

I need to be readily available at any moment's notice to give orders. I don't get much time away from these guys, unfortunately.

I'm not surprised to hear that... I bet you're constantly busy.

[ She looks over at Hitsugaya, noting how young he looks. He looks like a kid, but he really can't be that young if he's a Shinigami. ]

How old are you? [ She pauses. ] You don't have to answer that if you don't want to! I was just curious.

Very old in human years, young for a shinigami. Somewhere around 150 years, I'd say.

[ he's like. over 100. OLD MAN. ]

Shinigami age much slower than humans do. Our former Captain-Commander was several thousands of years old before he passed.

Wow...

[ While she wondered if Hitsugaya was old for a human, actually hearing it confirmed is a whole other thing. ]

I can't even imagine living for that long... but I guess if you're all used to it, someone being a thousands of years old isn't that odd.

[ Toushiro is still the same height... Unfortunately for him, Laurent continues to stare before looking around his surroundings. The voice is a little familiar and the familiar clothes ring a bell too. He really does stand out, doesn't he... ]

It's nice seeing your true form, so I might stare a little more.

There's nothing nice about it.

[ hitsugaya...please. he looks a little sheepish though, and huffs while folding his arms over his chest. ]

Though...seeing as you're the only one who knew of my shinigami status before winding up here, I suppose it's only appropriate you're here.

[ Mm................... Laurent will hold back his urge to pat his head out of deference to Toushiro. For now, anyway. ]

Is this place like the equivalent of purgatory or underworld?

[ Since he did bring up the shinigami status, after all. It could be related. ]

It's just an afterlife. Most souls exist here until they're reincarnated into the human world.

[ surprise! reincarnation is a thing! ]

This area specifically is for shinigami, however. We don't typically let just any ordinary soul through here.

Oh. So if someone comes here to see me, I'm in trouble, huh?

[ Does he have to hide behind your snall stature? ]

Potentially. ... Nobody walking around has addressed me, though. It's possible we're here unseen.

[ plus, the other figures walking around are kind of blurred and undecipherable. they're all people, but their identities are obscured. interesting. ]

Luckily for you.

Lucky for me.

[ Laurent smiles. His lucky streak continues! However... he makes a face when seeing one pass by. ]

It's like they're censored. Is this how you view them?

[ Since, well, this is his dream. ]

Subconsciously, perhaps.

[ there are a few that come into view suddenly, and they're much clearer. they have distinct faces and features and hitsugaya looks at them with some recognition. they don't seem to notice him when he steps up towards them, though.

he pulls back with only the slightest hint of disappointment. ]

Those were shinigami from my division -- the Tenth. The rest are most likely from other divisions and people I don't know. There're many shinigami; it's impossible to get to know every single one of them. That might explain why they're censored.

[ a pause. ]

I wouldn't mind showing you around, but there's nothing too interesting here.

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There are just that many here, huh...

[ Laurent thinks that makes sense, and he learns a little more about Toushiro with this information. ]

It's not every day when someone like me can go on a tour of a place like this. Please show me around.

[ with that, hitsugaya nods. just once. he starts walking off without a word, but he's assuming laurent's following behind him.

hitsugaya turns a handful of corners and walks down a few alleyways...and then they're at the tenth division barracks. seems like where they wound up in hitsugaya's dream wasn't far away at all. they approach a rather large entrance; the kanji for ten is a clear marker of whose territory this is. hitsugaya walks up the stairs and pushes the doors open.

the first thing that laurent will see is a very open courtyard area with some training dummies set up. there's a space for relaxation on the left, and it seems like the right is dedicated for target practice of sorts. shinigami with clearer faces are out and about; everyone seems rather busy. some are training diligently, others are running around with paperwork in their hands. ]

Here we are. Normally you'd see more slackers than this, but we were about to enter into a war before I got pulled to the island. Naturally, that'd put more people on-edge.

[ A war. No wonder he needed to go back as soon as possible. Laurent looks around after arriving. It really does have a traditional vibe when he sees dummies around in this sort of architectural space. ]

I assume technology doesn't work in this sort of place?

[ Since they're kinda. Not in the world of the living. ]

It does, actually.

[ because bleach?? logic?? ]

There's some modern technology installed here. One of our other Captains tinkers with things like that often.

[ though the look on his face as he says it is one with scorn. mayuri is not great and hitsugaya is not fond of him whatsoever. ]

Why, were you looking to try something out?

It was just something I wondered out of curiosity.

[ It seems they do have wi-fi in hell/purgatory/soul society. ]

I've always been curious places like these, since my friend wouldn't tell me anything. It surprisingly feels more homey than I thought.

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