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     Scrambling to her feet and reaching for her bow, she’s even more surprised when her fingers close around not wood, but the synthetic material of the bow she’d used during her first Hunger Games.  Even more frightened than moments ago, adrenaline courses through her veins, flooding her system and putting her on edge.  It’s then that she notices she isn’t alone; she can hear footsteps and then two voices, male, and definitely older than her.  

[Why John?  Computer simulation is controlled.  Experiment:  Control variable, fixed variable, testing variable, what are they testing?  Why John?  Who else is this linked to?  Why link us at all?  What do these links even do?]  

"How did you get here?"  Sherlock demanded.  He invades John's personal space and grabs John's shoulders.  "Concentrate, tell me what you can remember.  It's vital that you describe the experience as much as possible.  Quickly!"  

[Everyone else will be down here in the labyrinth as well.  Just the other citizens of Hive City alone will be a challenge, never mind what dangers the labyrinth has in store.]  He's never felt more woefully unprepared in his entire life.  

Introducing Holmes  The revolutionary sleep aid that is simply Elementary!

  "And you happen to know that sort of thing."  

   He was currently skidding around the streets of sector oo1 and after turning a corner too sharp he lost footing and barreled straight into someone. 

  “Oh dude what. Im like 6ft tall and bright ass red how the hell did you not see me coming-” He groused but was still laughing. Shaking the snow off of himself he glanced over to the poor soul he knocked over. Whoah. Dude was kind of skinny. And breakable. Hopefully this wasn’t a you break it you bought it case—

[Human????  Humanoid?  Sentient?  Why spandex?  Red?]  

Concussion symptoms: Nausea, double vision, memory loss.  No.  No, although an abundance of red person is still alarming.  Also no.  No bleeding.  No dull aching pain that indicates internal bleeding.  Just a fall.  Nothing that he hasn't dealt with before.  

"I'm fine," Sherlock said.  Wouldn't be the first time someone's laughed at him anyway.

Just a few notes to make before Sunday and the new week begin. We’ll be nixing Meme Sunday this week, in favor of emphasis on event replies and interactions. This doesn’t have anything to do with the recent requests to cut down on meme hours in the week, but rather from the overwhelmingly positive responses and amount of attention the event has gotten in only its first day! 

Secondly, we’d like to note that there are plenty of places and situations for characters to have out of group threads for the event. Though they are still limited by the twenty feet rule (which you can just interpret by keeping an average living room’s amount of space between yourself and your group during these threads), areas where two groups intersect or meet to cooperate or just meet in a resting situation are perfect places to have such threads, though one on one fights are possible as well! If groups that meet up would like to split the brunt of a combat situation between multiple related threads, that can totally be done, just know that the outcome of one will affect all of the characters on your team, obviously.

We hope that gives you some ideas, and we hope you enjoy your weekend! Thank you!

Hi, anon!

If a character is incapable of feeling pain for whatever reason, be it nerve damage or lack of neurological response, they’ll still feel some metaphysical strain, enough to numb them down to the level of their teammates. It may be fear, it may be anxiety, or exhaustion. If the character who cannot feel pain is damaged, they’ll feel the extent of that damage in the same way, though their teammates will feel it as normal pain.

Does that make sense?

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ar·i·ad·ne

daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë: she gave Theseus the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth.