bluesclues | WEEK ONE: MINGLE

WEEK ONE

OCCUPANCY: 34

Rise and shine, little monsters. A new week is waiting just for you. The events of yesterday may have been hard to stomach, but time heals all wounds, after all. The damages the house has incurred over the last week have been reverted and the staff is hard at work fulfilling their roles in this mansion. A piping hot breakfast is served in the dining room promptly at 7am, every square inch of floor and furniture has been cleaned spotless, and...the sound of birds chirping fills the hallway. The sun's shining brightly through the glass windows, and the curtain has been drawn back from the doors in the ballroom. The barriers blocking off the stairs down to the basement and to the balconies have been removed, and all guests may now explore these areas.

For anyone who ventures into the ballroom, a new change may become apparent. Should you choose to look at the plaques long enough, two images will flicker and change sporadically. While Haruka's portrait remains the same, on occasion it will change to an image of a pale, scratched up woman with yellow foam dripping from the corner of her lips. Likewise, Nikki's portrait looks just like herself, though if you blink you may miss it changing into the image of a large, rabid rat. There is no rhyme and reason for the change...though perhaps it serves as a reminder to those who remain.

Additionally, the house rules have been moved from the ballroom and back into the hallway, mounted in the entryway as they were.

But with this new bit of freedom comes another strange set of circumstances, you see. Starting today you'll find that the urge to give in to some nasty little traits has grown stronger. Greed, Pride, Jealousy....any of those seven deadly feelings will begin to bubble up inside you. Can you remain calm under the weight of your sins?

Perhaps so. Perhaps you're the type who's capable of ignoring these feelings even in your worst moments. You may be a beacon of hope for those who struggle with their emotions, but something else seems amiss. Even if you've managed to avoid those prickly feelings, some of you may experience a brain fog, making your thoughts hazy and hard to focus. Others may find themselves with a constant craving for sustenance, an insatiable hunger...though it may not be for food alone. And others still...it is a bit alarming for your arm to detach itself from your body, isn't it? Why would your feet run away without you? Best take stock of all of your limbs now because for the next week they may be just a bit too easy to remove. Don't lose your head over it though. They'll reattach easily enough.

You may experience only some of these events. Then again, maybe you're unlucky and you're experiencing all of these events at different points in time. Time is of the essence, however, and come Monday at noon a rustling crackle of static can be heard from overhead. Try as you might, you won't be able to find the speakers but a message will play loud and clear for all.

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We’d be bitching about it non-stop when we run out of clean clothes. Wild thought: we could try not murdering someone down here.

[ revolutionary ]

Pass along the message and make sure everybody gets the memo.

[ Please limit murders to the first floor only, thank you. ]

Even with those rules in place, nobody would dare try and pull anything, will they? They saw what happened to Nikki.

... Remember what Pumpkin said? There’s a subconscious element to it. Maybe if you really want to go home, something here takes that as a willingness to kill to do it.

[ LOVELY ]

If that's the case, it'll be a bloodbath. Just take a look at the people here.

[ Look in a mirror, the both of them. ]

But we're aware of it now, so that must help with something. Plenty of people here piss me off, but it's not like I would premeditate murder to get them to shut up.

Betcha some people would. That’s the tricky part — figuring out who you need to watch out for, and who really is all they seem.

[ so. like real life but there’s a chance you’ll just die instead. ]

It's not that tricky. I can name five people off the top of my head that I don't quite trust.

[ Some people are blatantly frustrating, and there's no point in somebody hiding that they're a good person. ]

[ He just tilts his head. ]

You gonna share, or are you keeping those names a secret?

A week isn't long enough to trust someone to have your back not shoot it.

It's no secret. You've also read everybody's profiles, haven't you? There's people involved in assassination, members of the mafia, Four's profile goes right on ahead and names one of her skills being senseless slaughter.

[ There's truth in the things written in there, even though he knows not to take everything there at face value. Lio taught him that. But the means still matter regardless of to what ends people do things for. ]

I've met the odd decent assassin. [ No context theatre with Ash. ] Keep an eye on them then, sure. It's not a bad thing to do.

But a generalisation like that might mean something else catches you by surprise. Did you think that girl from last week would kill someone?

[ Hori seems like a good kid, Ayabe hopes that was a type on his profile, like his age that's missing a decimal point. ]

...No, you're right. I didn't. I was more worried that she would get herself killed, sticking her hand in fire when she learned she couldn't feel.

Looks can be deceiving. Keep your wits about you, and don't get eaten by a wererat.

[ simple. ]

I think most of us that couldn't feel ended up doing dumb shit, not always on purpose.

[ No gender discrimination. That's what did Haruka in. ]

What did you do.

[ Is this Ash admitting he also did dumb shit ]

I got a paperweight to the foot.

[ Accidentally, and then again intentionally. Let's not talk about the fork stab. ]

I saw.

[ He was there for the accidental, and should not be told about either the incidental or the fork stab, wtf Ash ]

I hope that was nothing worse than a bruise?

A pretty good one too.

[ he doesn’t seem too bothered by it. ]

Enjoying hearing all the little sounds of nature again?

It's noisy. Everybody keeps screaming and it hurts my ears.

[ He's been doing a lot of screaming too but it didn't matter before when he could yell to his heart's content and not hear it. A compromise would be great- something like earplugs that block out all the background noise but still lets him hear conversations ]

Get earplugs, it’s not gonna quiet down until popping off our own limbs becomes the norm.

[ rip in heck, ayabe ]

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[ So, never. But then he has to look around at literally everybody else here ]

Some people are already acting like it is. Have you seen Akira?

[ Playing games with his own hand. The number of people who don't give a shit seems to far outnumber the people with appropriate reactions like screaming and crying. ]

Yeah? I got a high five.

[ from that hand.

yeah. ]

And that's normal to you?

[ That's the reaction he's talking about. What is wrong with everybody? ]

Nah. But nothing about this place is.

So it's easier to just accept it. I hate that. It feels like giving up.

[ Like accepting means agreeing and he does NOT ]

Who said anything about accepting it. I’m just directing my rebellion to the shit that matters.

Not the rogue hands, but...?

[ What are we rebelling against, Ash? Runaway hands and feet seemed to matter a lot to Ayabe. ]

Not killing anyone? For a start?

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