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WEEK FOUR

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 β†’ wintering room
- photography studio β†’ 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!)

fourtuity: (avert ye eyes)

[personal profile] fourtuity 2025-04-01 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yeah, not like she can carry the blade normally with this outfit!

Once she notices the wiggling, she'll stare blankly for a moment before a lightbulb goes off in her head. ]


Uh...hold still a sec.

[ If the blade stops being all wriggly, she'll carefully open the pouch. ]
objetdevanite: (Knife.)

[personal profile] objetdevanite 2025-04-01 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ It will stop wiggling!

Because she asked so nicely.

Once the pouch is open, it takes moment before the knife flings itself out and embeds itself into the dirt.

......................................

uh oh. Why does this keep happening. ]
fourtuity: (fight fight fight)

[personal profile] fourtuity 2025-04-01 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ Blink, blink. Was that supposed to happen? ]

You okay there?
objetdevanite: (Knife.)

[personal profile] objetdevanite 2025-04-01 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ A wiggle. So-so, maybe.

Let's.

See.

If it can free itself.

wigglewigglewiggle

...

wigglewigglewi okay there cool. Done. Now it's just...

...

Vibing...? The dirt isn't as easy to dig into for words so the knife isn't going to even try, but it seems as if it might be trying to find something to do. Or go. ]
fourtuity: (fight fight fight)

[personal profile] fourtuity 2025-04-01 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ She'll carefully pick up the knife, keeping the edge out in front of her. ]

Hmm, I can try going wherever you point? As long as it's not in someone. Please don't point at someone. Unless it's the clown.
objetdevanite: (Knife.)

[personal profile] objetdevanite 2025-04-01 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ ..........................

The Witch would not be a bad idea. Putting a pin in that.

That aside, the knife wiggles in her hands, apparently pleased with the offer, before it turns her hand towards the hedge maze. ]
fourtuity: (did someone say exposition)

[personal profile] fourtuity 2025-04-01 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ Toward the hedge maze it is! After a quick stop to pick up the cloth pouch, of course. She doesn't have much space to carry stuff with this outfit.

Anyway, she's just following this knife now because apparently this is normal. ]
objetdevanite: (Knife.)

[personal profile] objetdevanite 2025-04-01 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ This is totally normal.

The knife vibrates in hand. Good Clover. It does seem to turn this way and that, sometimes leading to a dead end where it might pause and then lead her back out, and...

... she might get an odd feeling that, rather than trying to actively get to the center of the maze, she's being lead to simply wander to every corner and path like an Etrian Odyssey player? ]
fourtuity: (generating puns)

[personal profile] fourtuity 2025-04-01 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ She's still following, because why not, but...it kinda feels like she's stuck in a puzzle? ]

Uhh, hey, we're not lost, are we?

[ Her memory isn't so bad that she can't carry them out at least... Communing with knives sure is rough. ]
objetdevanite: (Knife.)

[personal profile] objetdevanite 2025-04-01 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ At least one of them can escape the maze through memory......... The knife is a little dull in that area.

It. Shakes? It's head????? It waggles back and forth as if to refute.

And then turns a left to start... doing that one, like a dungeon crawler. There's a clear purpose to this, even if Clover doesn't understand it. It's deliberate. ]
fourtuity: (possibly a pink chihuahua in a past life)

[personal profile] fourtuity 2025-04-01 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Well, if ya say so. Keep leading the way!

[ Good thing she has no issues walking fast in these new heels. She's a little confused, but the knife's got the spirit. Onward through the hedge maze! ]
objetdevanite: (Knife.)

[personal profile] objetdevanite 2025-04-01 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ Wow!!!!!!!!! She's so cooperative!!!!!!! The knife can't imagine belonging to anyone else that would simply trust a haunted blade to lead them into a hedge maze that's getting a little too tall to be seen over all alone.

...

Good thing this isn't a thriller!

Once they reach the center, eventually, the knife points at the rock towers. It seems like the fountain's being half-choked by them. ]
fourtuity: (fight fight fight)

[personal profile] fourtuity 2025-04-01 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ Worse comes to worst, she's carrying her crystal this week. And hey, if she wasn't stabbed already, it should be fine. Probably. ]

Did ya want those rock thingies moved?

[ Can she even move them??? ]
objetdevanite: (Knife.)

[personal profile] objetdevanite 2025-04-01 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ Can she??? Might be worth asking, since the knife pauses before vibrating in excitement (?) again. ]
fourtuity: (possibly a pink chihuahua in a past life)

[personal profile] fourtuity 2025-04-01 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay then, here goes nothing!

[ She's gonna try her best to move them in a way where the fountain is no longer being choked by them? At least she's not wearing anything she's super attached to.

Unfortunately, this is probably going to be wet work. At night. (RIP dryness.) Good thing she totally brought a lantern with her, even if she had to set both that and knife down nearby for this.

...Hmm, was she supposed to do more here? ]
Edited 2025-04-01 15:25 (UTC)
simulacres: (pic#17613527)

[personal profile] simulacres 2025-04-01 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, Clover!

[ after a long ouija board session ayaka’s on her way to the hedge maze… and, looks like someone got here first.

she’s carrying a certain top hat under her arm. ]


Did you get told to come here, too?
fourtuity: (fight fight fight)

[personal profile] fourtuity 2025-04-01 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Still moving the rock towers around like the puzzle hater she is, but she stops to... wave once she realizes who it is. ]

Hey, Ayaka!

[ Her appearance reminds her she didn't tell anyone before she left. Oops. Anyway! ]

Yeah, by something sharp. I think it wants me to do something about these thingies.
objetdevanite: (Knife.)

[personal profile] objetdevanite 2025-04-01 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The something sharp wiggles on the ground. Careful not to step on it, Ayaka! ]
simulacres: (pic#17729115)

[personal profile] simulacres 2025-04-01 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
That knife is moving on its own??

[ wow, great observation! she’ll give it a decent amount of room. ]

I was told by the hat to come here… something about destruction? I think we might have to break it.
fourtuity: (did someone say exposition)

[personal profile] fourtuity 2025-04-01 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup, sure is! Wild, huh?

[ She's certainly a lot more calm (?) about this than the last time this sorta happened.

The moment Ayaka says break though, Clover immediately and gleefully tries to smash the towers into the ground. No warnings, sorry.

On the bright side, she's aiming away from Ayaka and the knife. ]
simulacres: (pic#17729110)

[personal profile] simulacres 2025-04-01 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you need help?

[ though clover seems to be having fun. maybe it’s better not to interrupt? ]
fourtuity: (possibly a pink chihuahua in a past life)

[personal profile] fourtuity 2025-04-01 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Unless you really wanna try to smash stuff, nah. Better to stay back unless something happens.

[ Anyway, more swinging! Somehow she still has her mace on her so it's....kinda helping. Maybe. Anyway, these towers are going down (to the best of her ability)! ]