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WEEK FOUR

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The day is rung in by a myriad clocks tolling at once.
It's a familiar sound. It's the first time you're hearing it.

Once again, Monday is upon you, and once again you have just arrived at the castle to meet your new roommates. The last week is gone without a trace - nothing there to remind you of its existence. Injuries have been replaced with the old aches you may have felt before coming here, keepsakes have vanished and decorations have returned to their original state.

Formally, this is a clean slate and a fresh start. But that's not how it feels in your mind - your bodies may be rewound, but your hearts are steadily continuing, carrying the weight of a time that never was.

As always, the castle is new and old at once. Static, yet ever-changing. The curious minds among you may find it a good idea to explore a little.

TIME LOOP:

-Characters wake up with the clothes they had with them at their canon point, like in the intro log unless you wish to have them affected by the weekly effect as early as Monday.
-The state of their bodies is still exactly the same as it was on the intro log (for better or worse). This is independent of the weekly effect.
-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:
- garden, library, promenade
- aquarium → wintering room
- photography studio → tea room

WEEKLY EFFECT

This week the castle's whims have decided to put on a little fashion show! Characters may awaken to find themselves dressed in an outfit that they have once worn... or an outfit that they might have worn, in a future that has never come to pass. These clothes are not period-accurate and instead reflect the characters' own lives and thus worlds! It's time to shine in an outfit you absolutely love - or absolutely loathe!

The drawback is that these magical clothes also cannot be removed until sundown. Whatever outfit you woke up in? You're stuck in it! The only way to escape your dress-up fate is to damage the clothing, but if you do so you'll find yourself stuck naked until the beginning of the next day. The castle's strange properties do at least provide a little cloud of mist that will follow characters around for modesty reasons.

The new clothes will remain after the day of their appearance. They'll lose all strange properties and become garments that can simply be worn or discarded at will, like all other clothing.

(OOC: Counter proposals are open until Tuesday! Murder proposals are closed! Thank you all for your enthusiasm!)

MONDAY • TUESDAY • WEDNESDAY • THURSDAY

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[ We’re going where all nerds are destined to go… the library! It’s time to learn about mythological creatures, capybara friend. ]

[ So far so good, but the closer they get to the library, the more the capybara plush starts...shaking. Vibrating? There had better actually be something good in that library. ]

[ Oh.... why is his new child shaking? He'll stop right outside the library, holding the capybara out in his arms to look down at it. ]

I hope this is anticipatory rather than fearful. Unless you truly dislike learning about mythological beings.

[ It stops wiggling once he holds it out, then stops moving except for what feels like a resigned sag. Since it’s a tiny plushie, though, that doesn’t feel like much. “What the hell, sure” meme in capybara form. ]

[ The resignation... it's so cute, to the point he can't help but smile. ]

Ah, but if you prefer to go elsewhere, I would be glad to take you there. Would the observatory suit your preferences more? Or the gardens, mayhap?

[ "Observatory" gets a very big vibration. "Garden" gets a very little vibration.

In terms of intensity, it would probably be garden > library > observatory.

Though maybe he and Ayaka can cross paths if the library and mythological creature books still win. ]

[ Hmmm...

Yeah, it's time to go to the library. It's right in the middle in terms of vibration. ]

I think library suits us well, then. Shall we?

[ He'll tuck the capbybara under his arm in a way that allows it to still see out into the world as he opens the doors to the library. ]

[ The capybara shall be carried with no attempts to abscond...for now.

Where shall their reading adventures lead them? It's just a capybara. ]

[ It will eventually lead them to the floor, several books stacked on top of each other right next to the capybara as G'raha sitting cross-legged as he lays out one particularly thick one on mythological creatures on his lap.

He will, in fact, be reading aloud to the plush until it comes to life and smacks him. ]

[ The plush does sit there for a short while, listening to his pleasant reading voice. But then it does begin to move of its own accord, scooting across the ground on legs that can't actually move to "it's time to stop posting" its paw down on an entry on fairies.

Then it'll be nyooming away! ]

[ Oh, goodbye Lauren.

He'll be gently folding the edge of that page down, however, and reading over it just to see what he can garner from it. ]

[ Yeah don't worry he isn't going to be alone for long as something flings through the air and sticks into the library table in front of him.

A knife? One from the workshop, notably.

Someone's going to be missing this, but it's fine. Clover can deal not having it in her pocket for five minutes.

...

It looks like it's... stuck. Like, very stuck. Uh oh. This wasn't the plan. ]

[ HELLO???? ]

By the Twelve!

[ It takes him a second to recover because he's very much not anticipating a knife flying at him in the library.

...

Oh? Is this the knife from the workshop? The one Clover had? He'll quickly check the handle's color, but he's pulling it out of the table anyway. ]

[ Correct! It is a red handle, just like what Clover showed at the trial.

Anyway. Give the knife a moment. It took a lot of effort to get up here and not kill G'raha by accident.

... ... ...

Wiggling. ]

[ Oh, perfect! He simply stands back to let the knife do its thing. ]

Must you startle me? A simple tap would have been more than enough, I imagine.

[ The knife wiggles, almost in vain, until it can

sort of? "Stand"? On its blade.

... Okay. Very slowly, it will scratch into the wood, with appropriately scratchy handwriting: ]

PUFFY TAIL

[ Oh my god are you trying to send him to the graveyard right now?

Is it too dangerous to reach for the knife? He's... he's so tempted. ]

Don't inscribe that!

[ If he tries, it will spin away. If a knife could laugh, it probably would.

... It will write another thing, wobbly as it is: ]

HAPPY TO SEE YOU MOST BEAUTIFUL

[ This is gonna be where there's a three minute pause of that capybara too so soak that in. ]

[ Oh so this is how he dies for real, huh? He gives up when the knife spins away and just... resigns himself to this.

It's fine. Dying by embarrassment isn't so bad anyway. He takes a seat at the table and watches, incredibly thankful he's the only one in here. ]

Likewise. [ A sigh. ] 'Tis a relief, as much embarrassment as this brings me.

[ Right, but who knows how long these messages will remain marked in the wood.

Please hold far too warmly for three minutes.

... ... ...

The plush leaves and the knife straightens again. The message's tone is different than the previous, considering it's only two words: ]

READ HEDGEROW

[ He'll wait the full three minutes, just happy to be around the capybara and the knife for the time being, at least until the plush leaves.

He sits up straighter, focused as he pays attention to the message. ]

Alright. I shall go take a look right this moment.

[ Which he will!! Time to go see what this message is all about... ]

[ Wonderful!!! The knife is

wobbling again before falling onto fairytale, like the plush before it.

Work it out, nerd. The knife seems exhausted of its use. For now. Clover come find your blade the date is over. ]

[ Wow he can't believe this knife has bullied him so relentlessly...

G'raha smiles at the knife, soft and sincere, before he works to cover up those marks.

...And to find that book and read it. ]

[ For what it's worth, the capybara plushie is still in the room, but it's well on the other side, going absolutely ham trying to rip books out of the stacks and failing at every turn. This probably sounds ridiculous.

It will eventually give up this endeavor, notice the knife, turn into an unmoving object again for about three minutes, and then depart the room for real.

It will return to G'raha Tia at the end of the day if not sooner. ]

[ He can see the capybara going wild with the books and he'll go look at them later, but...

At least his new child returns to him later. ]

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