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Week 6
Weather: All Week - Clear Skies
- 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.
--
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...
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
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[ Unique is a great way to describe all of them, honestly. They're definitely a strange bunch to see all together. ]
Everyone here is an Ultimate. We're all part of the Ultimate Initiative, where students are selected for having a lot of talent in a certain field. You get all kinds of perks for being one too.
[ She pauses. ]
It's probably pretty obvious, but I'm the Ultimate Pianist.
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...
That sounds very overspecialized, but you know what--this could work if it was a legitimate school with proper teaching for the students to grow. As a teacher, he has this opinion, but seeing the environment... it doesn't look suitable for any of that. He also recalls Minato's words about Kaede dying in her home world, so it really just keeps off... an awful vibe. He squints off to the side for a second before looking back at her. ]
Things went wrong here, didn't it?
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Yeah, it did. We're all trapped here.
[ Kaede looks up at the sky, at the giant barrier keeping them in. ]
There's no way out unless you win the killing game. That's what we were told.
[ She still believes otherwise, but it's hard to continue to have that determination. ]
1/2
What is it about killing games that keep happening, no matter what world it is? Did people deem these Ultimates as too dangerous for society and sought entertainment to watch prodigies kill each other? Laurent thinks people aren't defined by what they're good at. People are people--there's always more to them than their expertise. He knew Joonghyuk and Dokja had to deal with gods watching an apocalyptic event as entertainment, while Laurent has metaphysical embodiments doing the same thing. He doesn't know what Kaede's is, but he wouldn't be surprised if it was a human. Humans are also capable of being monsters, after all. In fact, that only makes him resent the idea even more. ]
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Were you a victim here?
ndrv3 spoilers
[ Kaede feels that shift in the air, a sudden pressure that surprises her with both the intensity and quickness with which it is gone, leaving her to wonder if it was her imagination. Maybe it wasn't. Dreams are like that, after all.
She sees the furious look on Laurent's face, but that's gone soon too and she looks down at the ground. That question has her eyebrows knit together in worry. Was she a victim? She died, but she wasn't killed. She was executed, and that's different. All that happened was that she faced punishment for her crime. As much as she likes to think her motive as a good one, Kaede still killed someone.
There's a noticeable pause before she finally shakes her head. ]
...No, I wasn't.
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There's a bit of silence after Kaede says that, while Laurent looks a little thoughtful. If someone had to think about their answer to that extent, there is probably more than what meets the eye. He thought of Kaede as a sweet girl and still does, so if she doesn't think of herself as a victim even after dying and wanting to stay on the island (though the information is mostly secondhand from Minato), he feels like he can deduce several things from those facts--for example, Kaede killed someone in order to escape, since it looked like she never wanted to be here anyway. It's a possibility, but there are others too. Such as, of course, factoring in Kaede's personality. Laurent knows a fake smiler with hidden intentions when he sees it, because he knows that type a little too well. It's not Kaede.
He quietly breathes in. ]
I'm sorry.
no subject
It's okay. It was my fault anyway.
[ Part of her is afraid to say more than that, because she's worried that Laurent will hate her and she wants to be friends with him. Still, a smaller part wants to finally say what she's been afraid to say out loud since she woke up on the island. ]
I thought I would be able to take care of the mastermind and get everyone out. I thought I would keep everyone safe if I took initiative... but I was wrong. I should have known better.
[ She finally looks up, but instead of looking at Laurent, she looks over at the building with the red door. ]
no subject
Do you regret doing it?
no subject
She finally looks at him. ]
I do. I thought I had everything under control when I was just playing into the mastermind's hands. If I didn't try to solve everything on my own, I think things would have turned out better.
[ In the end, that's what made her do it. She tried to save everyone and take on that guilt by herself. ]
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He thinks Kaede is a kind person. That's why he doesn't want to ask her the question of constant time looping this particular scenario, because he gets the feeling her answer would be "yes" without a doubt. No one deserves that. ]
I understand, since I believe trusting people in that kind of environment would be difficult, especially when the stakes are so high.
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Yeah... I did trust one person, and I should have gone to him about this before I tried anything. I think if we worked together, maybe we would've actually caught the mastermind.
[ Then again, masterminds really shouldn't be underestimated. Who is to say that the mastermind wouldn't have figured out whatever plan they came up with?
She shakes her head. ]
It's probably silly to go over what I should've done, since I can't change the past anyway.
no subject
That's right. You can't change the past, but this is your dream. Want to go do something you haven't been able to do when you were "here last time"?
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Kaede takes a moment to think about what she didn't get to do. A lot of the school was still unfinished, and they couldn't go to a lot of places around the school, but... ]
There was a room in one of the hallways that looked like it was practically made for me. It was called an Ultimate Training Lab and it had a grand piano in it. I never got the chance to really play it.
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[ Since he thinks getting lost in this place would be a nightmare. ]
I think I remember seeing something like a futuristic guard robot... different than the one I mentioned before.
no subject
[ And she'll start doing just that, taking them back to the main school building. She frowns at the mention of the guard robot. ]
Those are the Exisals. They're powered by the Monokubs, so they shouldn't hurt us, at least I hope not.
[ They threatened everyone with the Exisals before, so it's possible that could happen here in her dreams too. ]
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[ He tries to sound confident and reassuring with a smile as he continues to follow Kaede. ]
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[ She turns to look at him. ]
I know a lot of people in our group have powers... are you one of them? Or are you super strong?
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Sort of. It's a little complicated, but I can end things on a small scale.
[ Well, he'd prefer it to be small anyway. He looks around to see if there's something harmless he can use it on. Even though it's not the correct door, Laurent goes over to one of the locked doors and rattles the doorknob to show that it's locked. Then after grabbing the door handle again, he ends the functionality of the lock, making a small clunky sound and the pieces that make up the lock fall out and onto the floor. ]
There.
no subject
[ That's something she's never seen before! She stares at the broken look for a few moments, stunned into silence. ]
That's so cool, Laurent! I had no idea you could do something like that.
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Neither did I until several months ago.
[ Anyway, this isn't about him! He doesn't want to make it about him, unless Kaede persists. His expression is smiley as always. ]
Anyway, the room? I don't think this is the one.
no subject
Ah, right! Let's go this way.
[ She points to a hallway, leading the way. Thankfully it's not a long walk before they end up in a small courtyard-esque area. Like the rest of the school, it's covered in grass and trees, and a giant monitor sits in the corner. Kaede stops in front of a door with giant piano keys painted on it. ]
Here it is! When I first saw the door, I felt like this room was made for me.
no subject
It really does give that sort of feeling, huh?
[ Hm. ]
Is the door open? If it isn't, I can unlock it.
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It's open! We should try unlocking other doors later.
[ Since there are places here she never got to visit.
The room beyond the door very much looks like the ideal room for Kaede. There's records of every kind of song imaginable on the left, and rows and rows of sheet music in the shelves on the right. It's a bit messy, though, with sheet music scattered all over the floor. ]
It's just like it was when I came in here the first time. [ She pauses. ] I only got to visit it once. Like I said, I never got to play the piano so I never really got to enjoy having this room here.