WEEK FOUR: MINGLE

[cluedin]

WEEK FOUR

OCCUPANCY: 25

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, three images will flicker and change sporadically. While Subete's portrait remains the same, on occasion it will change to an image of a disembodied head, expression frozen in shock. Likewise, Dazai's portrait looks just like himself, though if you blink you may miss it changing into a hulking, dark nine-tailed fox with blood glistening in its teeth. Finally, Anya's portrait reveals a picture of the young girl, but every now and then a blossom of red appears on her pristine outfit as the light fades from her eyes. 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.

After weeks of getting to know each other, you may believe you have learned the most important things about them. You've seen their memories, you've felt their emotions, and you've shared their pain. But even so, some of you continue to hide your true intentions. Starting today, from the moment you wake, a mask will appear and cover half of your face. Each mask is different and though you may not understand what it means yet, each design implies something about you. Those who have experience within the supernatural world might have a white feather pattern across their mask while those who have powers associated with a certain element may find their mask changing color and temperature. Some masks may reflect bloody handprints to reflect the sins of a killer while others will appear black and cracking for someone who has died before. Those holding back a big secret will find their mask slowly covering their whole face and others still will find their masks reflecting anything from acts of betrayal to hidden romantic feelings. Though all are unique to each guest, all will find they are unable to remove these masks.

Some of you may wear your mask proudly as you have nothing left to hide, while others of you may become desperate in your attempt to remove it. Feelings of anger and aggression may bubble up to the surface this week over the smallest problems even for the most calm of people. As the sun sets, you may find that you don't feel quite like yourself, opposite personality trades coming to light. Luckily for you, you may not have to worry. Every now and then you may find a gap in your memory, temporary amnesia removing an embarrassing incident or two.

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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Comments

[voidbreaker]

Nah. I'm just telling you you're gonna get a stress ulcer. Ever thought about cleaning something that isn't literally called The Blood Room?

[kazokun]

I tried the crypt and I can't get that place clean.

[ Because Plum said it was for ~*~*aesthetics*~*~ and he still needs to confirm with her this that this is another stupid aesthetic room. ]

Besides, I'm cleaning this room because it's like this. Full of blood, a dirty place like this... nobody needs to see it.

[voidbreaker]

So then we shut the door and don't poke around in the ominously named room that looks like dried blood.

[ He leans in the door frame, because he ain't getting involved in this directly. ]

Why'd you assume this room'll be any different?

[kazokun]

Why are so many other rooms the way they are? What the hell is the point of this room?!

[ Right now, it's a room where Ayabe can seethe and rage and waste his time, which is a much better use than anything else it might have been used for in the past. What else is he supposed to do with his life besides scream internally or stab somebody? Right now, it feels like those are his only two options. ]

[voidbreaker]

[ You, uh. You devote yourself to that cleaning then, Ayabe. Noooooooooo stabbing. ]

Probably for the same reason this mansion has like five floors to it. None, other than they can?

[kazokun]

[ Yeah, Ayabe's going to live in the blood room this week. ]

Stupid.

[ He turns back to scrubbing. Maybe if he tries hard enough, he can scrub a hole straight through to the next floor and destroy the place this way. ]

Do you still have your stone?

[voidbreaker]

The planchette thing?

[ He stares steadily at Ayabe, before reaching into his shirt and digging out the pendant. ]

I can check, if that's what you're asking in a roundabout way.

[kazokun]

Yeah. What the hell happened here.

[ WHO DIED HERE and what does that dying message say ]

[voidbreaker]

[ this is all zia’s fault because

Wow

Ash makes a kind of grossed out noise and drops the planchette back into the folds of his shirt. ]

I don’t think it shows what you seem to want it to show. Looks like all the blood is running along the room.

[kazokun]

What, like it's dripping?

[ Is he secretly standing knee high in blood?? He holds his hand out because he wants to see, don't put it away yet. ]

[voidbreaker]

Like the walls are straight up bleeding.

[ sorry to say. ]

[kazokun]

[ UMMMMMM????? YEAH, DON'T LIKE THAT ]

From the ceiling, or??

[ He looks up at the ceiling knowing he'll see nothing, but then there's the wild thought that whatever room is ABOVE this one is just a huge vat of blood slowly dripping down into this one. ]

[voidbreaker]

[ Ayabe. ]

I'm not really sure how many ways I can tell you that the walls are flat out just bleeding, dude.

[kazokun]

[ Tell him in a billion different ways because he needs that many to understand this. ]

There has to be a source, though. Are they cut?

[ Are these flesh walls. ]

[voidbreaker]

[ ... ]

No it's just. [ lawd. ] Walls. But it's like there's a bust water orbment somewhere, except the orbment is blood.

[kazokun]

What's an orbment.

[voidbreaker]

[ closes his eyes ]

I'm not explaining my entire world's energy system again. It's a sphere, and we get energy, water, heat, most shit through it. Need water? Use the right orbment and you got it.

[kazokun]

[ That doesn't explain anything, Ash!!!!! ]

So, a vending machine? I don't understand.

[voidbreaker]

No.

[ HE'S NOT EXPLAINING ANYTHING ELSE AHHHHHHHHHHHHH ]

The walls arent fleshy, they're not cut. It's just flowing blood like a water feature. Except the water's blood.

[kazokun]

[ He has to explain one thing first before there's an "else" ]

...A waterfall wall.

[voidbreaker]

[ he's explained it so many times elsewhere, he's tired. ]

... [ Dead seriously: ] A blooderfall wall.

[kazokun]

A blooder- what? Wouldn't it just be bloodfall?

[ This is so pedantic. This is stupid. ]

[voidbreaker]

You tell me, you're the one asking me if the wall is flesh.