WEEK FOUR

[lesmodsalouette]

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!)

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[lesmodsalouette]

['Tis Monday of a new week -- or perhaps the dregs of the old one, worn under a paper crown much like the sudden outfits thrust upon you all -- and normally all you have to deal with today is a whole lot of trying to wake up and Ish being Ish. That said, that is not all you have to deal with today.

The salon, freed from its grisly role in last week's bizarre case, is sporting some new accoutrements for the eagle-eyed: all in a row atop the tobacco chest are three very different decorations. An adorable fuzzy capybara plushie, similar to the ones many of you received last week, is seated with a somewhat familiar-looking top hat on its head (in fact, the hat is too big and almost swallows the rest of the capybara), and there's a pack of cigarettes in a nice cigarette holder next to it.

What a dapper capybara. Perhaps it's the salon's new mascot?]

[simulacres]

[ wow, ayaka’s taking the hat! ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[The plushie is left bereft of its dapper headwear...]

[objetdevanite]

[ and now the hat will wriggle in her hands. ]

[simulacres]

Huh-!?

[ she kind of jolts, and nearly drops the hat but!!! she catches it! ]

[objetdevanite]

[ nice catch! now what? are we going somewhere? ]

[simulacres]

[ ayaka wonders if she has the equivalent of a radar now but she’s not going to question it. ]

Do you want to go somewhere?

[ she’s talking to an object. maybe having the red hood just makes her more susceptible to mental instability, who knows. ]

[objetdevanite]

[ the hat says nothing, however, it will wriggle at her question.

acknowledgement? ]

[simulacres]

This is kind of weird. Do you want to go to the library?

[uiscebeatha]

[ Grabbing that cigarette holder-- ]

[objetdevanite]

[ Better hold on tight, Cain! The cigarette holder jerks and leaps out of his hand, clattering to the floor. ]

[uiscebeatha]

Whoa—

[ Hello??

Picking it up and looking it over, holding it tighter. He doesn't usually drop stuff, what gives. ]

[objetdevanite]

[ Huh, that was odd! When Cain picks the case up, it behaves, remaining in his hand without further issue.

...Until his grip eventually loosens, and then it's cartwheeling into the air again. This time, it skitters along the floor until it smacks headlong into a wall. It awkwardly rises to stand on end as one of its corners begins scratching something into the moulding. It's... having a rough time, though. Give it a sec. ]

[uiscebeatha]

[ Hello????

Cain chases after it to snatch it up again, but stays his hand when he sees it...scratching at the wall?

He kneels beside it, draping cloth pooling around him, and while he's ready to snatch it if it scuttles away again, he just watches for now... What's going on, buddy? ]

[objetdevanite]

[ Timmy's in the well!!!

No, but give it a couple minutes, and the cigarette case manages to scratch a single word into the wood: ]

MEMORIAL

[uiscebeatha]

Memorial...?

[ After a beat, he laughs. ]

Yeah, you're right. I've been slacking.

[ He snatches up the cigarette case and gets to his feet. ]

Siff got one, so it's only fair Hickey gets one too, right? Sorry about that. I'll go do that now.

[ He has NO idea if that's what this thing wants, but his roommates are on his mind anyway. ]

[allrounder]

[ graha is taking the capybara!! ]

[lesmodsalouette]

[Local fuzzy man finds fuzzy friend. ☆]

[arbalestrier]

[he’s stealing urianger’s child?!?]

[allrounder]

[ HIS CHILD NOW ]

[objetdevanite]

[ The capybara remains inanimate, unlike its unruly companions. Where are we going, boss? ]

[allrounder]

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

[objetdevanite]

[ 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. ]

[allrounder]

[ 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.

[objetdevanite]

[ 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. ]