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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Comments

[distain]

Why should you trust anybody? He only told us to get along with one another... I don't think that would be enough for almost anyone.

[Nobility doesn't ever trust their neighbors. In some ways, Andrew might say that kind of suspicious paranoia is baked into her blood. Her father certainly never trusted anyone.]

[fourtuity]

...I don't think I have to. But being paranoid wouldn't help either. So I was trying.

[ She looks down, staring at her wrists. ]

[distain]

[Her eyes flick, following the path of Clover's gaze, but when (if) Clover looks up again, Andrew will be making unflinching green eye contact.]

Were you also thinking you might have to stab someone else in the back? Or was your worry without reciprocation?

[fourtuity]

[ That question just brings so many things bubbling over that she doesn't even think before responding. She doesn't look up. ]

I thought I'd have to. I had to avenge him, even if it killed me.

[distain]

[She can, perhaps, get the sense that this was an overflow of emotions the likes of which have made her say things that she would not be caught dead uttering in front of people she's never seen (and, God willing, will never see again once this week is out).

It does not stop her from asking.]

Are you talking about your brother?

[fourtuity]

[ She keeps answering as if this was all in the same breath. ]

Yeah. I knew I was next in line to die. But I found him actually alive before I had to.

[distain]

[Does she always talk about traumatic things without breathing like that, dumping them out like it'll vent the pain?

...No, this other girl must be like a dam breaking.]

Slow down so I can keep up. I haven't been in a similar situation. It would be a good thing to find your brother and not have to die, typically. Is he the one who betrayed you? ...Were you not angry that he was alive all along? [She can't quite wrap her mind around that bit.]

[fourtuity]

[ And just as suddenly, she stops with a jolt. ]

...

[ The silence doesn't end for a while, with her standing as still as a statue. Yet eventually she does open her mouth again. ]

...Yeah, it's hard to understand without the full context. But I shouldn't have said that in the first place.

[distain]

That's quite all right. [It's not her pardon to hand out.] I won't be telling him. [She's not a snitch!]

Pretending you didn't have to worry about all of those things must have been difficult.

[Clover is about to be vindicated in two days, but we're not ready for that conversation.]

[fourtuity]

...Yeah, but at least it's easier than what other people are dealing with.

[ She really shouldn't say more about herself though... Not with all these people around. Still, she can't just leave any thought out there that this was something to be mad at him about. No. Never. ]

...It's not my brother's fault. And he would never betray me. We just...ended up unlucky pawns that got separated until the end. Wanted to make that clear.

[ Hoo boy, she will not be happy about that vindication at all. ]