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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[hamaoned]

[ tail and doggie ears.

...and the way he's wagging his tail and ears are perked are showing signs that he's waiting for something. maybe if toi did more than vibe. though, he is going to wave back?? for starters?? ]

[soba]

[ hm

he dives underwater. give him a moment. ]

[hamaoned]

[ hm.

he'll wait to see what's going to happen next. tail wagging just slightly. ]

[soba]

[ he pops back out




with a duck. where did he get this duck. ]

[hamaoned]

[ !!!




a duck!! his tail wags a bit more. what is toi going to do wit the duck though??? ]

[soba]

[ the hand that is not holding the duck slowly raises..... to lift the dish off his head

and places it on the duck. he holds it out. ]

[hamaoned]

[ a dish with a duck on it???


???


is. is he supposed to take it?


there's a lot going on and ken is going to take a step closer to...sniff? yes, sniff. ]

[soba]

[ the duck quacks

and jumps back into the water.

toi goes to retrieve his dish. ]

[hamaoned]

[ !!!!

ken also takes a half step back after the duck quacks at him and jumps back into the water. (with a little bark) like what is happening he has no idea but— ]

Were you trying to hand off the duck to me?

[ lets try words now, yes. that said, his eyes are following toi to the dish. ]

[soba]

You seemed interested in them.

[ so he was just going to

give ken a whole ass crab ]

[hamaoned]

[ that's nice of toi. toi being nice to ken, text it. ]

Oh, thank you.

[ what the fuck is ken going to do with a whole ass crab? hopefully it isn't too grabby because rip ken's nose. ]

[soba]

[ i typo'd duck as crab but i refuse to fix anything so there's now a crab in his thread

but yea. toi nods. ]

No problem.

[hamaoned]

[ niji would be so proud right now...

also i guess ken is looking at this crab and back to toi. like???

i GUESS ken will keep it as a pet?? or eat it. depending. ]

You're taking being a [ uh. ] kappa well.

[soba]

Oh, I'm pretty used to it already.

[ toi lucked out so much this week

he's not complaining except for the amount of times he has had to explain what a kappa is ]

[hamaoned]

[ good thing ken would know what a kappa is, huh? ]

You are?

[ um. ]

Why would you be used to it already? [ wait, that's a dumb question. ] How often do you turn into a kappa?

[soba]

It's not an every day thing?

[ kappa time is for special occasions ]

But enough.

[hamaoned]

[ hm. ]

Is it like your super power?

[soba]

[ he has to think about it ]

I'm not sure if I would call it that. It's not like being a sentai...