bluesclues | WEEK ONE: MINGLE

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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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[ Old piloting partner. His options are writing about a dog's owner or a pilot's partner. Neither of these seem fun. ]

I haven't decided yet. What else do you like?

[Does he just really want to write about nurses!!! Subete just gives kind of an awkward laugh..... explaining freeform poetry or Verbalism to a dog.....]

Uh. You can probably not worry about it too much and just give us the information you want in the poem. It'll be up to the rest of us to craft it. Something like that.

[A quiet hum of thought, very brief, and then he nods and seems to brighten up in the same breath.]

Maia -- she can be cold and severe, but she's actually a great person who really wants to get things done right. Very goal-oriented. It's pretty cool. I'd say she's way cooler than me somehow, and she's been a big help...

[Looks like he's ignoring Dazai's question. You're on Maia route now.]

Wow, she sounds really cool! Does she give good hugs? Because that's another thing I like - Miss Kamila's hugs! And Miss Lynne's hugs! And I bet Sissel would give good hugs if he had a body to hug with!

[ Maia + hug route ftw? ]

[ Don't ignore him. ]

Who is Sissel?

... Hahaha, she does give good hugs. How'd you know?

[He'll ruffle Missile's ears since he's over here holding all of him up anyway. Doggo hugs for maximum profit, will they ever get to the actual assignment, who knows.

RIP Dazai but he's kind of curious about Sissel too...]

I should have known there would be more souls or something where you come from...

Sissel is my friend! He lost his memory and he's doing his best to find it - but he's also helped me protect Miss Kamila and Miss Lynne!!!

[ he's very cool ]

He also has an evil twin or something. It's very strange.

That sounds like a plot to a show.

[ Suddenly evil twin. ]

How did he help protect Miss Kamila and Miss Lynne?

Hmm, this Sissel guy sure has a lot going on.

[So like, yeah. He agrees with Dazai there, Sissel/Missile this is so much, also your names rhyme?? Also, since Missile is a powder puff he'll just hold him with one arm and then start jotting down notes.

...... Most of it is just rambling about Maia, though, should anyone care to peek.]

Dazai-kun, you should start thinking about what your subject is, too.

He saved them from death!!! And stick-ups! And he helped Miss Lynne with her investigation stuff! Plus he helped a bunch of other people, like the weirdo in the park, and the pigeon man, and the Inspector, and-

[ he's going to keep rambling. and he can say nothing about the Maia scribbles because he can't read! ]

I only like crab or suicide.

[ He is going to peek at the rambling notes, while listening to the dog continue on. ]

Stick-ups? Sounds like they get into a lot of trouble.

[ Poking the notes Subete is writing. ]

Are you sure she was just a partner?

Maia's -- was my one and only partner. She transferred.

[It's distracted because lordt. Is this Sissel guy like a JRPG protag or something, how many sidequests is he doing!!!

Subete dutifully records the fact that Missile's fellow soul-dude/not-owner has way too much free time. Then he blinks at Dazai. It's deeply nonplussed.]

... Those are two very different things. But, ah, for this, we probably want crabs. [...] That reminds me, though, is Dazai Osamu your real name?

Oh, like the Inspector is for Miss Lynne? But I think he's more her teacher than anything...

[ but they sure are close. everyone in the dept. loves Miss Lynne, after all! ]

Huh? Why wouldn't it be his name? Dazai, you didn't give a fake name, did you?

[ Writing a love poem about crab. He can get behind that. ]

Of course it's my real name.

[ Looking at Subete's face to figure out if he thinks it's strange or something. ]

Maia and I... Well, she's stronger than me in a lot of ways, but I don't know if she counts as a teacher.

[A little wave, his notes are pretty haphazard but it's pretty easy to see the whole. Maia Is Complicated side of it, probably. It's a little much to try and declare in an impromptu poem in the middle of a murdergame, maybe...

But he can make an attempt. Dazai just gets a small shrug.]

Ah, I guess there might be parents like that. Dazai Osamu is also the name of a classic author in the literary canon...

... So she's a role model you really like?

[ Subete, you're so strange, accusing people of fake names and being all reticent about your not-gf ]

[ He's very strange. Subete strange. ]

Ah, so you had a crush on her.

[ Maybe he can work with this after all. ]

That's the first time I've heard of that. What kind of books did the class author write?

[He... flushes and ruffles his bangs to the point where he could almost match Missile for fluff, but -- he's not going to deny it. His voice is pretty quiet, though.]

... Maia is very important to me. Yeah. You can call her a role model, Missile.

[You get the feeling that you could probably be here for the rest of the duration of the game and he'd still have stuff to say about this girl but you know what. They have enough for a poem probably so! So!!]

Dazai Osamu... wrote a number of stories and books based on his own life. They were pretty dark, but there was something compelling about them all the same. Maybe you were influenced somehow? I don't know anyone in Japan who wouldn't know of him.

I don't know about him!

[ does Dazai Osamu even exist in the land of Japanifornia ]

Does that mean Dazai is a better writer than both of us?

I'll write about his crush then, if Missile wants to write- er. Talk about crabs.

[ They will write for him. ]

I haven't heard of him before, and I was forced to read a lot in the last year. He might not exist in my world.

If it's not the same Dazai, then I don't know who's a better writer. Um, have you ever written anything, actually, Missile? I wouldn't expect a dog to know literature either way... I'll work on writing something about your people, though.

[He has!! Doubts!! Half of them are in Missile's direction and the other half are in Dazai's direction just in terms of allowing him to write anything about Maia but. He's also kind of curious about whether this Dazai can write..... Dilemmas.

He'll get a fresh page to start scribbling about Missile & ghost-not-so-ghost friends. A tricky ghost page, if you will.]

Why were you forced to read a lot, Dazai-kun?

Subete... I know I'm very intelligent but... I don't have thumbs! There's no way I could write anything before!

This week, you can borrow someone's thumb.

[ Imagine. Little dog. BIG THUMBS. ]

The boss was very insistent on it. He had me read books about military strategies and that kind of stuff. [ sighing ]

He's already borrowed way more than just a thumb...

[Flashbacks... to weredog.......]

But I meant more, if you'd dictated anything for anyone else to write down. You are a talking dog, after all -- I feel like that would be worth recording.

[But maybe it's just him and Missile's world is just crazy enough to have talking dogs as a matter of course??? He looks amused at Dazai's sighing, though.]

So you had to buckle down and study, huh, Dazai-kun? The mafia is pretty tough even without school, I guess.

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