WEEK ONE

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WEEK ONE

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Maybe being swept away to a fancy castle isn't what you wanted (Hickey aside), but the fact of the matter is that you're stuck here, at least for now. Thankfully there's enough food even if hot chocolate for breakfast might be a bit rich for some palates. There's at least a stock of raw food in the kitchens, but your hapless kidnapper is a Witch, not a chef, so you'll have to perform your own, manual kitchen magic if the provided meals aren't to your liking.

Just try not to burn the place down before you get the chance to take your host at his word (that you'll be leaving in a week's time, certainly, trust).

If you do get the cabin fever immediately, the grounds are a beautiful reprieve from the great indoors -- and if nothing else, perhaps you can find time to get to know your fellow guests. The weather is gorgeous all week, cheerfully sunny, which lends something to the mood.

WEEKLY EFFECT

This week, characters will feel heightened emotions periodically. If they're very happy about something, it'll feel like the best thing in the world! If they'd usually brush off something mildly annoying, suddenly it'll grate on their nerves. This effect will last throughout the week until investigation and is completely optional.

[OOC: Welcome to Week 1! Despite the lack of any threatened murder (except in Witch's direction), there will be a case this week. We'll have a small optional event on Wednesday at 1PM EDT/10AM PDT, but it won't require real time threading and can be done over the course of the week. ]

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[coldseep]

( ok so a baby-- )

Oh, making love?

[fourtuity]

[ There's a small hum while she thinks. Somehow, she's still in a strangely good mood, so she'll continue to make a good faith effort. ]

First off, this can absolutely coexist with commitment issues...but um, do you think he's scared of your family?

[ She's mentally gesturing towards the word "curse" right now. ]

[snakeblood]

Mmmhmm.

[ In a serious, chanting-like voice he says: ]
One. You must not tarnish god.
Two. God must not be tarnished.

Those are my house's two inviolable rules.

[snakeblood]

Less than he should be, probably. [ That man does not take his family shit serious enough. ]

[coldseep]

( He's so happy for the baby.... the castle is great and thankfully it will remain great!!! )

It might just. Or maybe there'll be a new surprise waiting for you tomorrow morning. Isn't it exciting to wonder?

( He wonders how often Junior gets to wonder about the unknown in a positive sense... given he was really set on the idea that someone could jump them at night, it seems like his experience with the unknown has been not great. )

[fourtuity]

Dang. He sounds so weird, full offense.

[coldseep]

I don't hear anything in that that says it's an act that's innately defiling, though? Who decided that?

( smh smh human interpretation always gets a little weird... )

The closer you are with the spiritual world, the more you want to engage with nature on nature's level. The concept of chastity as a sort of cleanliness sounds like a human idea to me.

( Not that he doesn't know of spirits that value chastity, but as a raw expression of nature himself, he knows that sensuality as a form of oneness with nature has always had a place among nature and its keepers. )

[snakeblood]

Some of it is the curse. Maybe. It includes derangement, seeing and hearing things, losing awareness of your surroundings, severe delirium. And then you die, of course.

When he suddenly entered my room in the middle of the night, he was talking as if it was ten years ago still...

[snakeblood]

Oh, they definitely don't like it. This isn't something my family is being overzealous about, like making all my food and whatever.

The snake god is a jealous god. I should know. It's in my blood.

[coldseep]

Northerners, usually.

( He has to say Northerners instead of the Northerners he's specifically, obliquely, thinking of or else he Will cry on call... and thanks to the latent effect in the air, Clover does hear a bit of a sniffle, when he could normally push it out of his mind so long as he doesn't mention them directly. )

... They're pretty simple people, and they see red pretty easy... or get fixated on their pride... or just enjoy fighting. So if they hear their enemy's there, they're certain to go right for them without thinking too hard about it.

( He laughs - fond, and a little helpless, and a little bittersweet. )

Of course, they'd be pretty angry once they find out you've set them up for a lover's tryst instead of a fight with a tiger... or that enemy they were so excited to fight.

( trying to save their life and getting told off for it... smh smh northies (smh smh [specific people hwy is trying not to name in his head]) )

[fourtuity]

[ What is she even hearing right now? If that description didn't sound so creepy, she'd joke about being cursed just listening to this. ]

Like he's sleepwalking with you in mind? You sure have your work cut out for you!

[coldseep]

( well if the spirit in your blood is telling you to put your dick away then hwy shall concede to that, that's its fetish and who is he to judge-- )

Jealous of you being with others? Or...?

[snakeblood]

We just need to find the other half of the love goh. [ And break it. A shame since it's so well made.

He could try cursing you, if you wanna try Clover? ]

lolll

[coldseep]

So you have a matchmaker? That sounds nice.

( that probably wasn't the point, but )

Well, when you get home, I'd ask him about it just to be sure. It'd be a shame if you assumed one thing, and the truth ended up being a little bit sadder than that.

[coldseep]

You still have the memory, right?

( The clover preserved properly would be a lovely memento, but... )

... It's the matters of the heart that we carry with us longest, I think. So, in a way, it's been pressed there. Even if it's not always so easy to peer into your own heart.

[snakeblood]

Exactly. My body and soul belongs to something else already.

[ Wow, this coffee's so cold from all this chattering with @ all ]

[snakeblood]

Oh, he's dead.

That's why I'm head of the house now. [ So, a little hard to ask. ]

[coldseep]

( chuck the crystal stop checking ur phone-- )

Mmmm... What if you try to somehow let it claim this other guy, too? Maybe not exactly in the same way as you, but... in a way that satisfies it.

[coldseep]

Your situation is really complicated.

( he says this in a tone that's like "have you tried making it less complicated?" )

[fourtuity]

Kinda sounds like that part's the least of your worries though.

[ Wow, keep them to yourself! Don't act like she'd taunt him! ...Shh. ]

[snakeblood]

It only takes people from my family [ You could say, they were bred for this. ].... and besides that, Seojin hyung's pretty close to a normal human as you can get, spiritually. Tangentially, that's why he probably clashes with his younger brother.

[snakeblood]

There's a lot of unclear shit too, dating stuff aside. [ And that bugs him a lot. ]

[fourtuity]

[ She listens quietly, the slightly manic energy from earlier dissipating. ]

Wanting to fight instead, huh... Yeah, I think I get it.

[ The next part's a bit awkward because she's getting that this might be a touchy subject. ]

They, um, sound like a fun bunch. I can see why a princess would like them.

[fourtuity]

Yeah. Yeah, you're right. I still remember it like this years later. Which totally says a lot.

[ She's both glad and sad it's not stuck here with her. Just like him. ]

Maybe it's even more perfect in my memories.

[fourtuity]

There's more? Congrats on crushing on someone weirdly complicated.