WEEK ONE

[lesmodsalouette]

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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Comments

[cleansheets]

The way see it, the lot of you old farts are up past your bedtime.

[ ... sorry, Hwyl. He may like you a bit more after the weird commiseration moment yesterday but. Not that much. ]

[antline]

[well]



[of course he's drinking. duh. he's like a hundred times 20]

[coldseep]

( being chastised by the young is the privilege of the elderly, and vice versa. he laughs lightly. )

Aw, don't be like that. If you want me to get you some hot milk, I'm sure I can find you something.

[stygiomedusa]

[That's... a hard question to answer, and Hamel has to pause before she can get the words out. Maybe that's just because of how heightened emotions have been this week, but... Well. It's obviously upsetting to her.]

He didn't turn into a Corruptor, but... he waited for me, outside of the Carnival. He wasted his whole life trying to find a way to me...

[She had hoped he would be free of his own burdens, but, well. Didn't get that lucky.]

I was in the Carnival for 23 years, so it was... a long, long time.

[cleansheets]

... yeah? Space colonies?

[ This whole place is medieval as hell, but surely...




... oh god. Is THIS why there are no colonies on the charts?? ]

Giant cans of metal in space?

been unable to fly before coming here

[coldseep]

( u better have been skyborn straight out of the egg or ur takin a sippy )

[cleansheets]

[ Angelo raises an eyebrow. ]

Elaborate.

[cleansheets]

Because they were worth it. The world may condemn the Captain's actions, but this means nothing. It's a world worth smashing.

[fourtuity]

[ That sounds like a good name for a band. She almost says that, but it does kinda sound like an actual question? ]

Um... You mean like a space station or something?

cowards

[distain]

As a child, I fed a pimply boy laxatives to get out of socializing with him.

My father is the chairman of the school I attend.

I ranked at the top of the class on my last exams.

[She'd kill at least one of those girls by participating in a game like this... she can imagine the pearl-clutching and shrieking now.]

[vivens]

For some people.

There are cultures that kiss one another as a greeting.

[fourtuity]

[ Understandable. It would be hard to explain everything. ]

Yeah... I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

[cleansheets]

[ Oh, god. ]

Larger. Have you heard of O'Neill Cylinders? Cities in space, essentially.

[ Somehow people being from other worlds was easier to accept than someone being from pre-space-age Earth... ]

[cleansheets]

[ FRUSTRATED JUICE SIP!!!!

Even he is weighed down by Earth's gravity.......... ]

[snakeblood]

[ Bless, drinking streak continues~ ]

[vivens]

[ ...???

okay?? ]

Well, it's along the same thinking of if you praise everyone for everything then it becomes meaningless.

I assume what you hold for your captain is specific only to them and no one else.

[the_obedient_servant]

[They smile.]

I can approve of that logic, though I obviously don't know the details. Allowing a fundamentally broken world to continue unimpeded is also a sin, in my view.

[cleansheets]

[ That does make Angelo stop dead in his tracks, and for a moment it's unclear if he might swing to hit Yoru. He doesn't, in the end, but the impulse was certainly present. ]

You have no obligation to care about some stranger's anguish. I'm not out for pity.

[stygiomedusa]

If her own father would try to kill her lover, she would be well within her right to, I think? After all, he may continue to make more and more extreme decisions like that...

[spotsalone]

Mm. What was the plan?

[cleansheets]

[ Okay fun fact: me, Luna, I just cannot read English. I was like 'give freely' means 'give voluntarily' right??

Anyway. Moving on. ]

Naturally. The Captain has transcended humanity. He is the hot-red force that will burn away all the filth of the world. The king of the dispossessed who can lead us to a better future.

[fourtuity]

Okay, now that sounds like a band name. [ Intrusive thoughts win this time. But she does find the whole space city thing interesting, so she won't leave it at that. ]

—I heard people talking 'bout expanding to the Moon soon? But I couldn't tell you the details of how. Cities, huh...?

[ She stares at the papers, wondering where they'd be. ]

[cleansheets]

The moon's settled as well, of course. There's a few major cities there.

[ War profiteer capital, for example!! ]

It's been nearing a century since the first space colonies became operational.

[ Angelo joins her in looking at the charts again and then points at a spot a bit behind the moon, on an adequate map. ]

That's where I'm from.

[fourtuity]

[ boo, no fair. (okay but what if she lies about her age—) ]

[fourtuity]

[ weird, but another excuse for a sip! ]