bluesclues | WEEK FOUR: MINGLE

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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[Taking the scrub brush, putting it back into the bucket, then picking all of that up for him. Might as well clean up the cleaning Ayabe was doing.]

You don't feel that we're getting any closer? [He looks around the room, tilting his head at the portions that almost seem like word.] I feel we are edging towards an answer. Certainly not fast enough.

No.

[ He makes a grab for the bucket, though, even if he ends up missing and just splitting water everywhere, because those are his comfort objects, don't take them away. ]

The only answer I care about is how to leave. The secrets of this place, who died and what for? I don't care. They involved my family when they should have stayed out of it, so I will burn this place to the ground.

[Fine! Take them back. Also, Lio might be less . . . nice, or whatever he's trying here, when he finds out you're threatening to kill his boyfriend, my dude. The eye of his mask flares open, pure rage, crackling like fire.]

It isn't real and you've heard us all say so - that is what we have been trying to uncover! That is why we are working so hard, together, to escape! Whatever it is that is controlling us here, what it wants is for you to act on your own, so we all begin to hurt each other. Burn this place to the ground, but don't burn the rest of us with it!

[The Burnish always leave an escape path. The Burnish do not kill. ]

[ Every time I open that image I'm so delighted. Also Galo offered himself so!!!!! ]

How do you know it would fit the pattern?! You can't say nothing here is real- so many people have already died and that's real! As long as there's a chance this is, I can't take it and do nothing, Lio. I don't care what happens after that!

[ He is not Burnish. He is only human. ]

[Galo also just gives his blood away without asking why, which is why he needs a very angry protection twink.]

A stupid thing to say when you've seen the evidence that death isn't the same here either! The dead send letters, communicate through children's board games, move things around the house! If you don't believe me, speak to one of the staff, or anyone else here who has seen it with their own eyes. The chance they are offering is the whole point. It is the easy choice, a coward's escape!

We don't know that! There's no proof that the dead send letters and whatever the staff says, I can't trust any of that! The board— a projector, strings, there's always explanations for things and I can't—

[ believe in magic OR SOMETHING but whatever it is he wanted to say, it just ends in a growl of frustration. ]

Call me a coward, but I can't leave this up to chance! Not when something could happen to Kosue!

[He growls right back.]

I won't let you hurt them.

Like you wouldn't let anything happen to anybody else in weeks passed, is that it? You could not stop anything before. We still haven't found out a way to negate that rule.

[ People will die. Lio can't be everywhere. Just what can he do? ]

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