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🐾 ([personal profile] cluedin) wrote in [community profile] bluesclues2020-03-22 05:59 pm

WEEK FIVE: MINGLE

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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oathic: (b30.)

[personal profile] oathic 2020-03-26 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
No... well, I guess we should look through the bag. But maybe it means she's shy and we need to help her open up?
goldpeony: (pic#13827008)

[personal profile] goldpeony 2020-03-26 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[This is, by far, the worst thing he's ever been apart of almost. He's sure of it. Between Beau and Hunter, he really would like the ground to open up and swallow him whole. Now he's just put in that awkward position if being a coward if he tries to back out. Someone without any kind of dignity and honor.

Both hands fist at his sides. He stares at the two of them even if they won't give him a single glance. It's similar, but it isn't it, he doesn't think.

Stepping forward, around Beau, he reaches out and snatches the plush from Hunter's hand. He turns around and tucks it on Hiro's chest with an arm around it.]


Don't listen to either of them. You don't have to talk to anyone if you don't want to yet. Not unless you're ready. They won't understand anyway, most of them. That's fine. You still have someone important now. [The friend, he means.] They've been with you when your face was the thinnest. You take care of them because they need you, too. They're loyal, and you do things together all the time.

They'll always listen, and won't give you platitudes, or judge you for not having a family, or tell you you're childish, or you didn't do enough. And if you just have this one friend, that's okay. One is enough until you want more.
kazokun: (060)

[personal profile] kazokun 2020-03-26 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
The cool club of people who can call me "Reito"?

[ That is such a lame club, Beau. Exclusive membership or not, even Ayabe thinks it's lame. ]

As long as it doesn't spread... Other people starting to use it would feel weird.
disreguarded: (37)

[personal profile] disreguarded 2020-03-26 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's definitely cool. [ BEAU THINKS IT'S COOL and her opinion is the only one that matters. anyway. ] I'll still call you Ayabe in front of other people, if that makes you feel better.

Are you really planning on just like, living out here?
recrypt: woυld yoυ ѕтay нere? (ιғ ι dιvιne yoυr мeanιng)

[personal profile] recrypt 2020-03-26 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
... I think I might tear it apart by accident. Or drop something, if there's anything small or delicate in there that needs precision.

[ a clipboard is one thing, but she's got talons for hands. ]

I can open her up literally though, if it'll be needed?
oathic: (b10.)

[personal profile] oathic 2020-03-26 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, I'll try looking through. And hopefully not burn anything...

You can, uh. Start on that. Carefully?
kazokun: (052)

[personal profile] kazokun 2020-03-26 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
That's weirder. Just stick to one...

[ She would trip up otherwise, he thinks, if she had to switch between two names all the time, so it'll only serve to confuse everybody.

As for camping, he just shrugs. ]


I just want to be outside, for a while. I'll still come in for meals, and I might be in the library sometimes, but I can't exactly climb stairs without taking frequent breaks, and I sort of don't want to hang out in a house that's trying to kill me.
disreguarded: [ᴍᴇᴇʙʟᴏᴛᴛ] (07)

[personal profile] disreguarded 2020-03-26 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ she has never been more proud of both of them, honestly.

granted, jin ling's could've been better in beau's opinion but she's not saying anything. she's just glad he said anything at all. and it maybe gives her a bit of insight into how his head works. definitely gives her something to think about with hunter, too.

jin ling finishes - and the doll opens his eyes, looking over at them.

beau absolutely yelps. ]
recrypt: тнen pleaѕe coмe вacĸ (ιғ yoυ can reтυrn)

[personal profile] recrypt 2020-03-26 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Sure...

[ delicately

pokes the doll with a talon. mmm, feels like fake flesh. does this have seams, are there fake stitches that will come apart... no.

pokes harder.

gets a zap for her troubles. ]


On second thought, let's see what you've got first and go from there.
survivaltricks: (pic#13006311)

[personal profile] survivaltricks 2020-03-26 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
[thank god]

Yeah, the cabin fever sets in pretty quickly. Do you want to head outside?
survivaltricks: (pic#13006317)

[personal profile] survivaltricks 2020-03-26 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[in response, Akira's tail flicks a little]

I do. What about it?
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[personal profile] counterclocked 2020-03-26 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[He glances over at Jin Ling for a second once he finishes talking - but then Beau is yelping and Hunter is, hm, noticing that the doll is now looking over at them.

Which means he's reflexively shoving it off the table, and then when he predictably gets shocked:]


Ow!
survivaltricks: (pic#13004393)

[personal profile] survivaltricks 2020-03-26 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[HAUNTED. . . LAMP. . .]

[pats the lamp some more??]


I guess I've made a new friend.
survivaltricks: (pic#13006422)

[personal profile] survivaltricks 2020-03-26 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Uh-- sure.

[wait]

How long have I been asleep? You didn't wake me up when you got back. . .
pornography: (Default)

[personal profile] pornography 2020-03-26 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ GO SMALL CHILD GO ]
survivaltricks: (pic#13006477)

[personal profile] survivaltricks 2020-03-26 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
[DH, AKIRA]

What do you eat when you're in that form, then?
disreguarded: [ᴍᴇᴇʙʟᴏᴛᴛ] (05)

[personal profile] disreguarded 2020-03-26 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ like three of her five friends have two different names, it wouldn't trip her up, but she looks amused anyway. ]

Good point. I'd probably sleep out here if I didn't think people would raid my room while I'm gone. [ she finally like... sits up? has she been laying in the dirt this whole time? yes. ]

How are your lungs doing?
oathic: (b5.)

[personal profile] oathic 2020-03-26 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[well, he was about to look through the bag—]

Yeowch. You okay?
goldpeony: (15)

[personal profile] goldpeony 2020-03-26 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, he sort of screams softly when the doll moves because he is standing so close and didn't expect it. But then he yells,]

No!

[and panic, absolutely half throwing himself onto the doll to keep it from sliding all the way off the table and on the floor. HUNTER WHAT THE FUCK. He only gets electrocuted, and he yelps, but he stubbornly refuses to release the doll until he can get it right again.]
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[personal profile] recrypt 2020-03-26 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
I'm good! Though I'm not sure what they want us to do with her if we're not allowed to do anything to her...?

[ maybe she's just doing it wrong. squints at the notes again. ]

"Further study of her internal thoughts..." Do you think we just need to open up her head and look at it?

[ or maybe the answer is that there's a diary or something. bag, reveal your secrets. ]
oathic: (b4.)

[personal profile] oathic 2020-03-26 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think brain surgery is the answer here...

[rummaging through the bag...]

Medical supplies, more medical supplies... ooh, a camera.
disreguarded: [ᴋᴜʜᴋᴏᴏᴋ_] (30)

[personal profile] disreguarded 2020-03-26 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ jfc boys

okay, so jin ling gets the shit electrocuted out of him which is why beau immediately scrambles half onto the table to help jin ling get the doll back up on the table. ow. shocks for all.

the scarf probably falls down and shows off her weird beak mouth while she does this, but she'll deal with that later. ]


Ow, ow ow --
kazokun: (060)

[personal profile] kazokun 2020-03-26 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Half an hour. You looked exhausted, Akira. Why would I wake you up?

[ Just because Akira asked him to? Nah. ]
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[personal profile] recrypt 2020-03-26 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
You say that, but the notes here sound a lot like the ones from the morgue, and those were surprisingly literal.

[ diagnosis: chip on shoulder. ]

That must be hers, though. Anything on it?
kazokun: (113)

[personal profile] kazokun 2020-03-26 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ Beau better have more than five friends. ]

What are you even keeping in your room...

[ Same hat, though. Ayabe guards his guitar case jealously, at least, but there's little else that's important to him that he thinks people would steal- people wouldn't steal his guitar case, but they're nosy and he wouldn't trust them not to peek if he's not there /: ]

My lungs are... I dunno. Working. [ Barely working. ] It hurts. It's hard to breathe. It feels like I'm having an attack all the time, except this time I can't walk away from the trigger.

[ Beau can't pull him away and save him from this ): ]