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bellelurette2025-03-17 12:42 am
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WEEK TWO
WEEK TWO
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You're wrapped in a soothing, all-encompassing darkness.
You've had a good nights sleep, a very good nights sleep, much like the one on Thursday night. No matter where you slept (on a chair, under a bed, in a closet), you wake up in a bed with a stranger—no, you know this person. You just spent the past weekend with them, forced to go through a hell carnival, how could you forget? Your mind is full of fog and sleep calls to you, but it's elusive.
You're at ChΓ’teau Ambregris, brought here against your will by a terrible Witch. So why is it that you're dressed in your old clothes again? Why does your body feel the same as it does when you woke up here a week ago? Maybe this time you won't hit your head. The clocks all gong within minutes, so at least this time it seems, you won't need to wait too long for answers. Though, it seems things aren't exactly as you remember them...
TIME LOOP:
-Characters wake up with the clothes they had with them at their canon point, like in the intro log.
-The state of their bodies is exactly the same as it was on the intro log (for better or worse).
-Any items they accumulated last week are also reset (sorry you'll need to build up your weapon cache again), except items that were given out as event rewards. Please note that the item uses are not reset.
LOCATIONS UPDATED:
-library, workshop
- pool β mud bath, throne room β menagerie
- rose soap and candle details have been updated for villas for clarity
-The state of their bodies is exactly the same as it was on the intro log (for better or worse).
-Any items they accumulated last week are also reset (sorry you'll need to build up your weapon cache again), except items that were given out as event rewards. Please note that the item uses are not reset.
LOCATIONS UPDATED:
-library, workshop
- pool β mud bath, throne room β menagerie
- rose soap and candle details have been updated for villas for clarity
WEEKLY EFFECT
This week's effect is mood weather. Is your character really happy? Rainbows might appear all around them. Sad? Watch out for that raincloud above your head. Having doki's? Flowers might suddenly spring up under their feet. These effects are just suggestions, feel free to riff as you like and make anger lightning of your dreams. Notably, these effects will appear even if your character has a great poker face, but is still inwardly feeling emotions.
This effect, like the weather itself, is intermittent throughout the week.
This effect, like the weather itself, is intermittent throughout the week.
(OOC: Murder proposals and counter proposals are open! )
2. workshop;
[ Blade isn't exactly the most talkative person here but apparently he is Here. And yeah observatory has moist adventure memories, though really it could always be worse (?) ]
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A nod! And then going through to the workshop... There's so much here. ]
Do you like anything artsy?
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A dark atmosphere.
Blades.
[ ...are his words - which, like, well. Blade isn't an artsy person, but there is like a facsimile of appreciation for blades. And maybe foreboding flowers with a certain kind of symbolism.
Sorry he's like this still, Siffrin. ]
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What's red?
[ We'll start there. ]
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The essence of life.
...The red lotus.
The horizon.
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means absolutely nothing to Siffrin. What makes a flower "red"... they're usually bright. Sometimes just light. Other times dark. ]
Um. Okay. Sounds artsy enough. We'll be working with small blades, if you want to carve with me.
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[ ...
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...Blade absolutely did not understand the assignment, I am so sorry, Siffrin. ]
I'll carve with you.
[ Though, for precise work like this, the quality will be debatable due to issues with certain motor functions, but Blade is going to stubborn his way through it for lack of other things to do. ]
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Um... Flowers are a little difficult for beginners, so... Do you have an animal you like?
[ As Siffrin gathers some things... little blocks of soft wood and pencils, their whittling knives... Gloves. For Blade. Who needs them, because just one won't cut it. ]
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Though, something about this is just a touch ironic. ]
No. I don't.
[ A moment of further consideration, though. ]
A dragon might work.
[ One glove really wouldn't cut it indeed - he'll probably accept the things. Though his potential subject may also be difficult. Blade seems to like making his life difficult, however. ]
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The only one I've ever seen was a few days ago. But I think... I could probably draw something simple enough for you to follow.
[ Easier than a flower, which needs a lot more whittled away -- dragons can still be bulky. A sitting position could be nice. Siffrin'll do a basic outline on the block, staring hard at where the curve of the neck might be and making a harder mark there.
And then sets it down in front of Blade, taking up their own block and sketching another animal. A deer... ]
Push the blade away from yourself and just kind of... take off little slivers until you get where the lines are. Those are your guides for, um, where your dragon starts to take form.
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[ ...Is about all Blade's going to be saying here - Dragons can be simplified, bulky, or whathaveyou. Though he doesn't exactly see himself as someone who has the creative perspective to envision a plainer design.
(Or is it his mind's past as a blacksmith hindering his ability to put into the possibility of something drawn simply? Even if that skill is undoubtedly in a sense may as well be a lost art now...to him.) ]
...Simple enough instructions.
[ Especially someone who used to forge such complicated designs - the memory mostly lost, but muscle memory...? Yet, when he tries to replicate the instructions, his hand twitches at exerting effort in such a minute way - not like handling a sword. Far too exact, so he has to go slower. Pause. Then, try to repeat it, despite the inherent difficulty.
His eyebrows furrow in concentration and he feels a sliver of phantom pain, necessitating a quick halt. A longer wait. ]
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Can I help?
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[ Blade looks at them. Waiting. ]
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[ (...
It's okay when you touch people. Easier. You were getting used to this back in the House, too. Bit by bit.)
Siffrin'll gently take Blade's hands in their own, so they can... show him how they carve. Feeling is different than trying to look at someone and figure it out. But only if Blade lets them, ready to move off if there's an indication that he doesn't like to be touched. ]
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So, Blade looks grumpy, though allows him so he can follow, but then pulls his hand back quickly. ]
...I'll try it again. But slower.
[ Blade immediately goes to work...stubbornly so. ]
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(You counted the seconds again, just like with the others. It's exhilarating.) ]
It's okay to make mistakes. There's really not a lot of ways you can make it unsalvageable, but if your wrist starts to hurt then take a break. It's a lot of repetition.
[ Back to their deer, then. Though they'll keep an eye on Blade. ]
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[ Blade feels something like a thread of that perfectionist side begin to rise even if Siffrin said it's okay to make mistakes - and really, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't honestly matter, does it?
Except, it kind of does - and he focuses on the guide Siffrin gave when he guided his hand. ]
It'll be fine.
In the worst case, I can handle a little pain.
[ Or so he insists, anyway. ]
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Siffrin is a perfectionist too. But they know beginners need that safety net. Blade seems determined though, so they nod. ]
As long as it doesn't end in your death.
[ A... light joke, haha, this is not a joke to make, ]
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...Maybe he just finds it humorous. ]
Anything can happen while we are here.
[ Blade says more seriously, apparently, though he still focuses on his work. Determined he is indeed. ]
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...
Siffrin'll become more absorbed in their work as they go, mumbling quietly under their breath ("please come out well please come out well please come out well"), but it's a quiet vibe otherwise. ]
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Blade doesn't make a habit of saying much, and although he hears it, he won't disturb them. If anything, he's concentrating further on his little project...
...somehow, he's making progress, though. ]
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...
So they'll set their work down for a moment and stretch their wrists, watching Blade to see how he's doing. ]
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Already done?
[ Blade grunts, though he isn't necessarily too disgruntled. He already knew that he would be particularly not so great at this for a myriad reasons. ]
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[ More deliberateness to the motions, so there's more pressure as a result. ]
... You're doing well for a first timer. Do you wanna stain it after? Um, it protects the wood and brings out its natural color.
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[ At least once you get really into it, so he does understand, at least. ]
...I thought I wasn't doing so well, at first. [ ... ] If it's preserved easier, staining it will be fine.
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