thevine | ✦ WEEK ZERO: MINGLE

✦ WEEK 0: FRIENDSHIP IS 20/20

REMAINING

Mingle x

Good morning, sweet fruits! The sun is shining, the birds are singing... it's a wonderful day to get up and start the season properly. When you wake up, you're very quickly herded off the boat by a string of harried bunnies who are shouting about schedules and timing. You'll find the Fruit Hosts (Lemon, Lime, and L'orange) have come down to the beach to greet you, and lead you to your brand new home! Why don't you check it out? While you know that there's a lot in store this week (such as an event on Wednesday and a mysterious all-day broadcasting scheduled for Saturday), until then? You're free to live your life. Explore your new locations, get to know your team (including your team leaders!) and get used to the feeling of being watched at all times. The only place you're safe from cameras are in your team bedrooms and in the bathrooms. Remember that. Or perhaps you do want to be in front of the cameras? Well, have no fear. The Confessional has arrived. Located in the mansion, this little slice of reality tv is there for all contestants to really get juicy. Check out the page for how it all works. Hmm... but after the initial excitement of moving into your lounge and new home fades, you'll find that you feel sort of itchy and scratchy. There's someone on your mind, right? Someone special. And it's not necessarily romantic (though it could be if you're brave enough), but you are drawn to this person intrinsically - you want to hang out with them basically forever. Almost as if a red string connects your fates.

A NEW CHALLENGE APPROACHES

Whoa, remember that thing we said about twists? Well, here's one for you. It's red string week! This effect means that your character and another are intrinsically linked. You want to be next to them at all times. You want to talk to them. Hold their hand. Cuddle and hug and spend soooo much time with them. Well, in a purely platonic way of course. This doesn't mean that you have to be around each other 24/7, but the more time you spend away from each other — the stronger urge to see them again. How sweet? And how very awkward if you happen to be matched up to someone who's not on your team. Whoopsies.

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Get ready! Get set! GO! #SEASON_69 of #THEVINE has officially started!!

Remember: Three teams enter. Only ONE will leave with the grand prize, their heart's greatest desire. For some of you, this might be the first and last time you see your team in first place.

☰ OOC NOTES

✦ Welcome to Week 0! ✦ Several new things are unlocked! Check out the Audiences page, Confessional (on the Submissions page), your team lounge, and the CYOAs page! ✦ Because we will not be having a trial every week, The Confessional will serve as our Activity Check for this game. Please be sure to check it our and read the rules carefully. ✦ CYOA sign-ups and submissions are now open! Important: If you'd like to sign up to be in or run a CYOA, please do as early as possible so we may plan for the future. Keep in mind we're only doing a grand total of three mod run CYOAs. All the rest will be player run, if they're submitted. ✦ !! This week, please submit an IC two truths and a lie for your character to us! For later reasons! ✦ As always, come talk to us if you've got anything on your mind!

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Wait, what would you have chosen?

19 but only because of the remembering every detail of stuff part!
If it's you I hope that Frumpkin roleplays, the part about being a silver friend is so shitty.

Oh. Well, I cannot confirm anything, but I wouldn't even go so far as to call myself a silver friend, so no offense taken. I am definitely not a gold friend.

I'm going to tell someone from Lime to throw pillows at you.

Oh boy. I wasn't trying to start a pity party or anything. Listen, that one was mine, but the first entry didn't say anything about friends whatsoever. It was about transmutation magic. They changed it to say friends, but I would never write that I'm a "silver friend," what would that even mean.

[due to poor timing, throws a pillow at caleb right as he hits send on the above message.]

[hit in the head with a pillow.]

Ow. You are the silver friend, Jem.

Aww. I think of us as friends already, too, Caleb.

[♡]

[pats him gently on the shoulder.]

You can be gold too.

You are all being nicer to me than any of the friends in question would be.

Edited 2026-02-26 00:18 (UTC)

If they were here we could pummel them for you.

Mollymauk is one...If you need to hit someone for calling me a silver friend, it is him.

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etherealism - 2026-02-26 00:21 (UTC) - Expand

Like being a good friend? I don't know it's not a pity party so much as it's just a shitty way to try and be funny at someone else's expense. Not the kinda being the butt of the joke I'm keen with.

Anyways you've been nice so far so I would at LEAST give you silver since we just met and I'm sorry to Frumpkin for assuming he liked to roleplay.

Ah. You are very kind. I have been called much worse, including by people who are friends, so it didn't bother me. But it is sort of hard to tell which one of mine is true and which is a lie because of how it is written now.

Joking around with friends is one thing, you can usually tell once you really become someone's friend, but I don't like bullies.

What was the gold and silver part supposed to say originally?

I don't know if this is breaking the rules of the game, but if you want to try and guess, here is what I submitted.

1. I can transmute wood into iron and copper into silver, but I cannot do silver into gold.
2. At various times, my cat has turned into an owl, a mouse, a spider, an octopus, a sparrow and a hawk.
3. I have a picture-perfect memory for anything I see or read for one week after I see it.

headmt - 2026-02-26 00:58 (UTC) - Expand

Don't say that. You seem fine. Plus you have Frumpkin.

Frumpkin is the gold friend.

Well, even in that case, Frumpkin is your familiar so that means that his gold worth is ultimately raising your total asset value and increasing your net worth.

Yes, but my negative worth is tarnishing us back down to silver.

If you're in debt, just figure out a repayment plan and rebuild your credit from there!

Oof. Right now? Bronze at best. You did call me uncute earlier. And we've been here a week and I don't think you've even read my profile.

Edited 2026-02-26 00:31 (UTC)

Here is some common sense. Though I did read your profile.

Lead, now.

All of these people are coddling you. But don't worry, we'll get you into shape.