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[notblayde]

Not to add to the increasing load but I've another round of questions for everyone.

First of all, I'm sure everyone's been acquainted with the currency here. Chroma 🌑️ and Demichroma️ 🌓️. The people here seem very fond of the moon! Good taste (everywhere, honestly, LOVE the neon look 💙)

Who here has really gone through this thing? The bracelet they've given us, I mean. It's rather robust, I'm a big fan personally and might be working on a few things already. 🤫

Right - The point! Sorry. What I'm getting to is how many of you have been checking your banks?
Follow up: Rough estimate, how much do you have? Don't share the number, that's terrible security, dear God I'm leveling with you as a cybersecurity expert all I need is whether it's single, double, or triple digits
2nd follow up: Have any of you been doing any kind of work?
3rd, final follow up: Have you noticed when/where your balance goes up?

I'll go 1st: Triple #, no work, I may have a... few working theories

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[takingchances]

Double. It's fluctuated a little but I have gained some from somewhere. Now where, I don't know. I haven't done any work beyond studying up on the world just yet.

[To the more important point, because Eva has some notions here and she's dying to find that thread that connects them.]

What are your theories? If you don't want to share them here, you can inbox them to me. I've got a few ideas of my own but nothing firm.

[notblayde]

Double? Interesting.

Can I ask you a somewhat personal question?

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[sometimespawnskillkings]

Triple digits.

And surprisingly, I haven’t been doing any kind of work - unless rescuing people from the vines counts, I suppose.

And I have not noticed when/where it goes up. It just feels like I look away for a moment or so, and then, when I look back at my account, I have more Chroma than I did before and no idea at all how I got it.

Because my Chroma always increases when I’m too busy or distracted to look at my account. Like during the festival, or when I was rescuing people from the vines. Times when it just wouldn’t occur to me to check my bank balance because too much else is going on.

[Temple hasn’t had any sex but he has been touching lots of people and doing it for fairly long periods, and that has given him the triple digit balance he has now.]

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[resound]

Are people seriously getting jobs
It's not like we have to pay rent?
Why bother?

[ they can get back to the survey in a second. this is important. ]

[notblayde]

Another triple?

[ Trust and believe Matt has question! ]

You were with people, right? What would you say you were busy with, exactly?

[notblayde]

Sorry?
Is all you need in life a place to stay? Did you miss the part about transforming outfits?

[sometimespawnskillkings]

Dancing, and kissing, basically.

And just generally trying to save people from the vines.

So, though I was busy, I was not “getting busy” so please, cease that line of thought.

[“Busy with, exactly,” phrased the way it is, makes Temple think Matt is reading implications into what he is saying that he didn’t mean so he is seeking to clear up that ambiguity as quickly as possible.]

[And he hopes that Matt will not ask anyone else about their sex lives.]

[resound]

Sure.
That and cigarettes.
I already have a stage outfit, I don't need the extra.
It doesn't seem like Chroma has been that hard to get, if that's your only argument
Not compared to making money back home, anyway.

[takingchances]

Might as well if it'll help us figure out anything.

[They certainly asked enough of them when she first arrived.]

[notblayde]

I just wanted to see if they compensated us for enjoying the festival. I played the booth games a lot for example.

Thank you for sharing where your head's at, though.

[notblayde]

Were you in personal contact with anyone since arriving?

[takingchances]

Yes. Several times. I helped out when people were trapped in the vines, shook some hands too. And danced at one point.

... Is this connected to how touching others seems to be an energy boost? It seemed like the easiest way to help people out after the vines was to hug them. I passed quite a few of those out to locals.

[notblayde]

Yes, but have you figured out how exactly to get it?

[notblayde]

Yes! Ithink it's directly connected, in fact!

God it's nice to find another clever mind able to put the pieces together. Given the boosts, the emphasis the locals have put on physical connections, the theme of the festival (granted, it IS the only one we've seen so far) the invasive nature of the questioning, their choice of literature...

[resound]

If you want to show off, just say what you're thinking
I'm at double digits if it matters.

[notblayde]

idk what to tell you mate
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[resound]

I thought you had some

[ wait. hold on a sec. he has to scroll back up for the exact wording. ]

" Working theories "

[takingchances]

EXACTLY.

[Pardon her all caps but she's been chewing on this for days trying to figure out just how everything is connected up.]

I knew there had to be some reason for all of the emphasis. I mean, they passed out lipgloss that made people want to kiss you. And the scientists were pretty focused in their questioning.

[So with that bit about Chroma rising and falling, she thinks she's worked this out somewhat.]

So physical contact directly influences how much Chroma you have. If that's the case, is all physical contact equal? Because a hug helped way more than a handshake. And some people were doling out kisses as well.

[notblayde]

[ If anyone understands excited breakthrough caps, it's Matt. ]

The chocolate fountain had a few effects of its own as well, to say nothing of the leading questions of the compatibility game.

That's certainly the next question. Not to seem crude, but experimentation should probably be conducted at some point for consistency.

[notblayde]

Sorry, I assumed you'd caught on.

Physical contact is the strongest theory so far.

[takingchances]

[Ah the game. What a pain.]

I completely agree. Even the most basic of trial and error ought to show us how much basic interactions are technically worth. The touch of a finger versus a handshake versus a hug, things like that.

[Speaking of crude though... ah what the cactus, the scientists were blunt and if they're going to figure things out, she's going to have to dive in too.]

As far as anything beyond the basics and dealing with more sexual topics, that would have to be something conducted over time. I'm going to be blunt and forgive me for this but I wouldn't mind seeing a breakdown of those too.

[notblayde]

The first thing we need is volunteers. Given some of the people already here, I really don't think that'll be particularly challenging. The second part might be a bit more difficult to find the right sort of people for but I can already think of a few names. [ To be blunt, one, in particular, comes to mind but that may be a LITTLE on the nose. ]

[resound]

How many people have you been getting handsy with to figure that one out?

[notblayde]

Holding hands counts, thank you!

... But a few.

[resound]

If you say so
Mr. Triple Digits.

It should be easy to prove that one way or the other, though
Shouldn't it?
Why only a theory?