bluesclues | WEEK TWO: MINGLE

WEEK TWO

OCCUPANCY: 31

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 Pumpkin is...probably around tending to the animals outside. As you exit your rooms on this lovely morning, guests will find that the barrier leading upstairs has diminished, and a new floor has been opened to explore.

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 Nia's portrait remains the same, on occasion it will change to an image of a headless young lady. Likewise, Asch's portrait looks just like himself, though if you blink you may miss it changing into the image of a young man mid-transformation into something with claws and scales. Finally, Michiru's portrait reveals a picture of a beautiful young lady, but every now and then it will reveal an image of a shriveled up, dried out siren. 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.

It's been some time now. Surely you've made some friends and perhaps even some enemies. Though you may not fully understand each other, they do say the best way to know someone is to walk a mile in their shoes. Starting today you'll find that you've been bound to one other guest by an invisible sort of string. Everything you feel, they will feel. Everything they experience, you will experience. Though the threads may change from time to time, the connection is strongest with only one person. How will you handle this bond?

Some of you may find this easy. For others, this may be a little stressful! The pressure may grow stronger and weigh down on you, an anger so strong you find yourself...howling in the night to express your anguish. Others still may find that the silver cutlery will cause them to break into a painful rash, and others still will find that an increase of hair begins to take over your head, your arms, and even places hidden beneath your clothes. Perhaps it's time to invest in a razor and stick to plastic utensils.

Not to mention that the ailments you experienced last week are still in effect, though they're much less than before. Do try to keep track of your body parts this week...though you've been absolved of your sins.

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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Peach knows how to use an axe? How do you know?

[ Is she the sort of person to swing an axe around??? ...the answer is yes. ]

She's the cook, idiot. She'll know what works best for sharpening shit like knives.

[ aYABE. ]

[ LOOK Ayabe is also a cook and knows how to sharpen knives, but he's never had to sharpen an axe, maybe Peach has experience with that sort of thing ]

Whetstones. I've used them before too- they're not hard to use.

[ Time to head for the kitchen to see if they even exist, maybe the only knives they're allowed to have are butter knives. ]

[ He's just gonna follow the ever-resourceful cleaning leader, without much complaint. If Ayabe knows what he's looking for, he's not gonna get in the way. ]

[ WHETSTONES EXIST so instead of tiptoeing around that, Ayabe can actually find one in the drawers in the kitchen and pull it out. ]

You've used this before, right?

[ He'll let Ash sharpen his own blade if so, otherwise he'll do it. ]

Yeah. Something like it. A bit bigger, but it'll probably work.

[ Get off his axe, he'll do it himself. He's gonna go for it. ]

[ Go for it. Ayabe nods and waits for him to sharpen his axe before they go outside. They should probably take it with them to occasionally resharpen it, because between the axe and the tree, the tree will probably win. ]

[ He will sharpen it to the best of the whetstone's ability, and then tuck that in his pocket, before turning back to Ayabe, axe resting against his shoulder. ]

I guess now's a good time to ask - why are you getting me to risk the wrath of the groundskeeper to take out a tree?

Do you think Pumpkin would care?

[ As long as the tree doesn't squash anybody, it's not her problem, right? ]

Lio and I tried to burn down the forest earlier, but the trees wouldn't catch. But if they can be chopped down, that'd just as well: I want to know what's out there, and if there's no trees in the way, the house can be seen and be used as a reference point to prevent people from getting turned around out there.

....

She'd care if she got into trouble and had to catch up on work all weekend again. [ Probably. ]

'Course you did. Alright then, I'll give it a go. It'll burn off some energy.

[ What catch up? She would host another minievent and make them all clean up the yard, that's what would happen.

But alright, let's go chop down these trees that's probably just going to bounce Ash's axe back like rubber. ]

[ It'd fit the timeline for minievents.

But yeah, guide him Ayabe. Pick your tree of choice. ]

[ Alright, we're going around to the very back by the playground, so that if the tree does fall, it doesn't crush any gravestones or ducks. ]

Any one will do. I'll stand back so I'm not in the way.

[ alright then this can only go amazingly well let's do this.

shifting his grip on the axe, ash swings it at the base of one of the trees. he's already assuming this'll go arse over face, so it's not at full strength --

but it sure does bounce off and cause him to stumble back a few steps and almost fall flat on his back. ]

[ At least Ash is smart enough to not put his full strength into it, because Ayabe would have and would have been blasted off his feet. This much is enough to surprise him, though, and he rushes forward with his arms out in case Ash does fall. ]

Are you alright? It... didn't even make a dent.

[ there's a twinge in his arm he has to shake out, but he's looking at the tree like it just personally offended him. ]

It bounced. Like these things are made of rubber.

Fake trees made of rubber that doesn't burn?

[ He goes up close to the tree and runs his hand over the bark where Ash had struck it, but there's barely any damage at all. Hmmm... He looks around, considering, and then back at the tree again. ]

Let me try.

[ ... he just stares at Ayabe. ]

Can you even lift it? [ It's? Not light? ]

...Let me try.

[ Let him try lifting it, and if he can, then swinging. How heavy is it... he sort of almost managed 45 for a few seconds. ]

[ trails never tells us. But it's big, and hefty and yeah. Probably. ]

Alright. Don't hurt yourself.

[ Hm. He gestures for Ash to take a step back so he doesn't get hurt, and then experimentally lifts the axe off the ground. It'll be easier all at once, to lift and swing in the same motion instead of separately, so that's what he does, slamming the axe into the side of the tree but his grip isn't strong enough and he goes toppling over one way while the axe bounces off in the other. ]

[ Ash runs for the axe first. He knows his priorities. ]

[ Then he'll check on Ayabe. ] I did say to be careful.

[ Is the axe okay? My priorities too.

Ayabe groans and gets up off the ground. At least he didn't drop the thing on his foot or something. ]

Yeah, yeah... What are these trees even made of?

[ The axe! Is! Okay! Everyone can relax. ]

Rubber? Whatever it is they don't want us getting rid of them.

[ Thank god. The axe is safe and they can go home now, there's nothing more they can do here so Ayabe straightens up to go back inside. ]

It's so stupid, surrounding the place with fake trees. Why?

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