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!)

MONDAY • TUESDAY • WEDNESDAY • THURSDAY

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Comments

[antemeridian]

Toys. ... Yes, that makes sense. Toys are a different thing than resources are. Playing involves sentiment. And sentiment...

[ well. certainly they have to look no further than the various messes of this week to see what comes of sentiment. there's only so much that Homura can involve herself in this conversation with Lili still bleeding, but even so: ]

Perhaps this is why he has allegedly only revealed himself recently.

[ maybe he knew better than to get too close, once.

or maybe, in locking himself into this loop of time with them, he'd cemented his own fate from the start. entangled connections, warped and strained but true, in some cases. inevitable outcomes, marching to their logical ends. ]

[the_obedient_servant]

Sometimes those sentiments can wrap around to being just as unknowable and incomprehensible as pure resource driven pragmatism. The idea that someone can care about something enough that they'll want to kill it, they'll want to see it happy, and they'll want to see it suffer all at once.

Words cannot describe how much I disdain a captor that "cares."

[antemeridian]

... Because the care does not stop them from doing what designates them as a captor in the first place? Or because the dissonance indicates an entity who will not admit to themselves what they are, and hopes that the 'care' makes them more sympathetic?

[ 'see, i am like you: i think, i feel as you do.' as if that changes any of the things they've done?

is this disdain tinged with pity, or is it born of utter contempt? ]

[the_obedient_servant]

Closer to the latter.

They cling onto their subjects because they like them, and want to see them do new and interesting things - they make them suffer because they want to see them react, and they're totally unable to reconcile their personal feelings with the consequences of their actions.