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]

[ he's...not going to push it down. but. ]

Is it going to shock you again, you think?

[pornography]

[ turns to look at ken ]

It... might?

[hamaoned]

You...wanna try it?

[ LOOK. THERE COULD BE SOME REASONING FOR THIS. ]

Maybe there are just some places we can't touch.

[pornography]

For science?

[hamaoned]

Something like that.

/2

[pornography]

[ touches away from the heart

FINE ]

[pornography]

[ touches the edge of the heart

NOT FINE ]

/2

[hamaoned]

[ heh. ]

[hamaoned]

[ okay but for real— ]

Oh, so we can only touch the heart and nothing else?

[ hmmm... ]

I guess that'd be more annoying, except we don't even know how to power it with determination.

[pornography]

Maybe it's supposed to be a metaphor?

[hamaoned]

A metaphor...

[ grumbling. ]

You can't really heal a heart with a metaphor.

[pornography]

I know, but how else can we use the "power of determination"?

[hamaoned]

[ ......


....


.... ]

By showing off your "fighting spirit"?

[ this is the wrong time to think of what akihiko would do ken. ]

[pornography]

Can't say I have too much of that!

[hamaoned]

[ there'a heart that needs fixing can they please just??? ]

Yeah, it's more lack of fighting spirit with you.

[pornography]

Can't say I disagree with that~

Oh, but there's one thing I am determined about!

[hamaoned]

Is it something perverted?

[pornography]

Talking to cute girls ♥!

[hamaoned]

[ ken is


going to ignore shima wholesale and just take hold of the doll's hands (and not! get shocked) as he lowers his head to them in an almost prayer-like manner. ]

I'm sorry that you were stuck with us to fix your heart. I'm just not sure what you need from us when you ask for 'determination'.

[pornography]

[ starts digging through the doctor's bag for what could be in there?? ]

[hamaoned]

[ whatever shima wants there to be.... what can fill a heart full of determination undertale style?

either way, ken is just going to keep looking at the doll and clipboard with full doubt. they won't have to open them up do they? it seems a bit unnecessary. ]

[pornography]

[ pulls out a




cute bread! ]

Alright!

[hamaoned]

[ ....








wha. ]

What are you going to do with that?

[pornography]

Eat it?

You want some?

[hamaoned]

[ ken is eleven. ]

No thank you, but why were you looking for bread in there?