WEEK FIVE: MINGLE

[cluedin]

WEEK FIVE

OCCUPANCY: 23

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 Phoenix's portrait remains the same, on occasion it will change to an unrecognizable figure, flames surrounding the charred flesh. Likewise, Four's portrait looks just like herself, though if you blink you may miss the sharp knives protruding through her chest, rivers of blood dripping down her front. 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.

You know what to expect by now. Once a week, one of your own transforms into someone unrecognizable. But it's hard to empathize with someone without experiencing the hardship for yourself, isn't it? Worry not. Starting today, from the moment you wake, you will find that you yourself have changed into something unrecognizable. Claws, fangs, fur, scales, extra limbs, extra mouths...the changes are numerous as your monster form takes a hold of you. Oh but it's alright! It's just the physical appearance, after all. You're still yourself inside...but it may be hard to believe that as the week goes on.

Some of you may be able to brush these strange changes aside. Others of you may find yourself struggling to understand who you really are. And others of you will find even more problems on hand. Is it your imagination, or did the mansion grow several degrees colder? You just can't quite to seem to warm up. While you may normally be comfortable sharing blankets with your fellow guests, you now find yourself feeling a bit greedy and unwilling to share...well, anything, really. The insatiable greed requires you to take and take and take, no matter if you require the necessities you're taking. And yet even as you take, and especially as you consume, you find that you're never quite satisfied, belly never quite full regardless of how much you eat. That's troubling, isn't it?

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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[madburnout]

[UGH.]

[now look what theyve done. just made a wet cat.]

Fine. Then we will try the Burnish way.

[voidbreaker]

[ gah.

ash just closes his eyes against the light. ]

You don't. Stuff like the other week, when people's memories just rushed out like an open book isn't normal.

[hamaoned]

[ what is camping when you live in a what looks like to be a pretty spendy port city. either way, ken is pleased that ayabe seems to be agreeable to the idea of them making s'mores. honestly, this started off so poorly but now it doesn't...seem to be too bad? he hopes, anyway.

there's a soft laugh. when ayabe struggles. ]

It'd be pretty funny to tell a ghost story while you look like that.

[ but also more importantly: ]

I don't think we have to worry about bears. ...unless you think we should have something to worry about.

[ sure they're all various degrees of "monster" but bears?? this also might be the friendliest these two have been to one another. i cry. ]

[soba]

Yeah, go ahead.

[ he's going to meanwhile look through this bag in case the burnish way fails ]

[kazokun]

Hmm... Missile, so he doesn't get into the chocolate.

[ They have to make Missile traps, as mean as that sounds ): ]

Not traps to catch them, but like... how you hang bags with food from trees so bears can't get to them. It'll be easier if it's Missile.

[ Is that a thing? Google says yes, but it's not a very effective thing. It's one of those camping things you learn growing up ig, I went to one summer camp my entire life and there were snakes, not bears, so idk ]

[hamaoned]

[ there are legit hundreds way i can reply to this but.

(also yeah, strapping your things/foods into a bag and hanging it from a tree in the air is a valid thing to do. u_u i had to witness it happen once when the single time i, naru, when camping.) ]

Missile's a lamp.

[ i'm just. yeah. ]

[shortforever]

I guess camping works, yeah?

[He's lived on the streets before so he doesn't see the appeal of sleeping outside, but he'll run with it.]

We should invite Akira too, so he's not lonely by himself.

[shortforever]

[Oh.

That's actually kind of moving, because it's what Chuuya has been silently judging people for and Galo's the first to admit to it.]

That- I don't blame you for that, you know. You're closer to Lio than you were to Dazai, so it makes sense that you would fight harder for him.

[counterclocked]

[He's also frowning the longer that goes on! Bad. After Jin Ling finishes reading all of that off and Beau gives that suggestion, he looks thoughtful, at least.]

Maybe, but... How are we going to do that, exactly? I mean, it's a doll.

[shortforever]

[Oh look, a button to press! Jin Ling can grab him, sure, but Chuuya is smirking.]

Oh? Sensitive topic?

[kazokun]

What?

[ Missile thread can icly come later and Ayabe will still scream, it's fine ]

1/2

[madburnout]

[yea okay

leaning over the extremely life-like, slightly burnt, slightly damp doll of this furry



then administering CPR? By gently holding her face and blowing into her mouth.]

[madburnout]

[except that also shocks him]

What the hell--!

[hamaoned]

Missile, he's a lamp.

[ because saying it once didn't have an effect. ]

You know how you're a ghost and I'm a dog? He turned into a lamp.

[ look he doesn't understand it either but ken witnessed it with his two own eyes and barked at him. it's fine. ]

[swordflash]

[is he going to be all right?]

If the usual meals don't work, I'm sure Peach can figure something out!

[burningrescue]

Yeah. Good idea. Then again, I can grin and bear it through the shocks while you give her tea?

[swordflash]

[Considering all that, even Zenitsu can accept some of that contagious happiness.]

That's true.

[He walks closer to Galo.]

I could hardly believe it when he started breathing again. Do you think something like that can happen again this week?

[swordflash]

[ Don't be mean. ]

I don't know! Some kind of mammal, maybe? I'm still me, though!

[soba]

[ he had picked up the clipboard, and turned the page and-- oh, look there's more information here

he looks up just in time to see lio kissing the cat and getting shocked ]

Oi...

[kazokun]

[ There are blankets and you eat junk food, that's the appeal.

Also, why would Akira be lonely by himself AKIRA MUST HAVE MORE FRIENDS THAN JUST CHUUYA, PLEASE, LET ME BELIEVE THIS ]

Sure, we can invite Akira. We're going to need a lot more sheets to fit four people, though.

[madburnout]

This is-- idiotic. Tch!

[Trying to shake off being electrocuted in the face?]

[kazokun]

Why.

[ Wow. Ayabe is me with my split 4 hours + 2 hours of sleep a night, his brain isn't working either. ]

Is he or somebody here scared of lamps?

[gitalong]

I guess the four minutes thing souls do isn't really looking at memories either...

[ this is hard :\ the head of the lamp starts swinging back and forth as Missile thinks, flashing into Ash's face ]

Maybe she has a diary? I know you're never supposed to look in a secret diary, but this is important!

[infire]

[ she could definitely offer to be the one holding anna since she can handle outrageous amounts of pain without reacting when she's ready for it

but eh. galo was being salty at her earlier. he can deal with it. ]

Alright. Hold her up then, and i'll try to help her drink it.

[kazokun]

[ Impossible ]

Mmhm... It doesn't matter. At least it'll be warmer for you inside the house. It's freezing in there.

[ And so we're sleeping outside, because it's spring and not winter and in my mind that means bright sun and cool breezes and the grass no longer being wet and squishy. ]