bluesclues | 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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[The barking startles him badly enough that a) he drops his robes, and b) the peacock tail shoots up wide and open, like... an attempt to make himself appear bigger and more intimidating.

Jin Ling looks frazzled.]

What are you barking at?! It's me!

[ the tail shooting wide open only causes more suffering for the two of them as ken's ears will fold back and he'll start to snarl and bark even louder than before at jin ling for a few moments before, once again, he forces himself to shut up. ]

I... I can't help it.

[ he says with a bit of a doggie whine in his voice and tail tucking between his legs. ]

I'm sorry!

[What tHE. Jin Ling only puffs more at the barking and the snarl. He doesn't have many feathers yet outside of the tail and the lil head plume, but what's on his neck ruffles anyway.]

If you try to bite me, I'll--! Peck you!

[He doesn't have a beak, but that feels very right to say as he scrambles to snatch up his robe.]

[ wha... ]

Peck me?

[ so much whining because now his ears have perked back up and tail sticking out indignantly. ]

I'm not going to bite you. Or, well, I wouldn't. I'm better than that.

[ are you ken. ]

Yeah!

[He's skeptical about this. So he pridefully struts over to put some distance between them. He's keep an eye on Ken, though! The tail won't go down, unfortunately... so it's just bobbing along behind him.]

Your barking sounded like you would bite me! I have Fairy, so I know what that barking means!

[ ken will....be a good boy and not bark at jin ling anymore but he will follow him with his eyes very intensely. he's a dog okay!! but he's a good boy and not going to chase him off. (maybe) ]

Fairy...? [ cue the ever infamous shib head tilt. ] Is that the name of your dog?

[ ... ]

A, anyway I'm still me.

[Oh noooooooo. Jin Ling would appreciate the head tilt if not for the fact he is a stupid, stuck-up peacock right now.

Sadly, Ken's herding just makes him hurry a little faster.]

Yeah, that's her name. [He keeps glancing back, but also is trying to fix his robes.] I'm still me, too.

[ he can appreciate them in retrospect if he wishes, but for now ken is going to be oblivious to the reason why he keeps glancing back. look. he's only a sweet shib...who is barky. and still following him.

he'll ask about what kind of dog fairy is when he gets this out of his system. ]

Um, they're very pretty. [ a beat as he points to them. ] Your feathers, that is.

[He comes to a stop and turns so he can look back fully. The tail folds enough to give him room, but the moment Ken appreciates them, the tail pops back open like an umbrella.

He puffs very proudly.] I know! [Wait, he sounds stupid, talking about feathers not even his own? They are, but like, not. He turns red in embarrassment.]

I mean--they're okay. They're nice. Like your tail.

[ ken will forgive the redness and embarrassment because he received a compliment of his tail, which gets him wagging. it's okay to be tsun jin ling, ken is honestly no better. ]

Yeah, aren't they great?

[ shib ears and tail are quite cute and nondescript unlike peacock feathers but you know. ]

They remind me of Koromaru—that's the name of my dog. Well, kind of.

[ who officially owns koromaru? we just don't know. ]

Koro...maru? [Unlike Ken's tail that goes a mile a minute when interested, Jin Ling's tail folds down some into more of a train behind him.] You have a dog, too?

Is it a spiritual dog?

Kind of, I'm not entirely sure who Koromaru belongs to, but we spend a lot of time together.

[ as for the matter of spiritual dog?? uhhh... ]

Um, no, he's a normal dog but he— [ hm. let's not tell jin ling how koro is a purse owner too. ] I guess he's kind of special.

[This is--for some reason part of Jin Ling is like "hm, dogs? not sure if like" and the other part is definitely a huge fan of doggos.]

Oh. Like Missile?

[KOROMARU]

Kind of.

[ koro-chan is a Very Good Boy. ]

Koromaru can't talk like Missile can but he's very smart and reliable. [ nods. ] He also has some special abilities that make him really great.

[ that's all jin ling will get. ]

[He wants more, but that's all he needs really.]

Fairy is like that, too. She can't talk like Missile, but... She's very smart, and loyal, and she can sense spiritually related things.

That's cool.

[ two people bonding over dogs. nods. just what people need to do while things are not horrible. ]

Koromaru doesn't sense spiritual things, but he has an understanding of people's emotions. [ nods. ] He's a really good dog.

[nods]

Dogs are good at that. [a boy stans many dogs! the only thing in his life that loves him unconditionally...] I wish Fairy was here...

[Well, he would say he glad she's safe at home, but....]

Same, except with Koromaru.

[ boys who stan dogs. ]

I remember when we first got here, I didn't think I would want him here with me, but...maybe it wouldn't have been so bad. I bet him and Missile could totally sniff out the bad guys.

[The very edge of his lips quirks, but only briefly, and it's more wry than anything else.]

I think they could, too. Koromaru probably misses you.

WEEK FIVE: MINGLE

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