WEEK 1

[whimsicalism]

Well! That was some tea party, huh? You've finally seen the faces (or perhaps the singular is more proper here?) of your captors. A pair of creepy twins seem to fit the overall theme of the Castle at least. Why not have Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum, after all?

Regardless, it doesn't seem that they're changing their minds any time soon. The first floor of the Castle is still open up to you. The Audience Hall is still locked most of the time so perhaps you can meet the Alices there if you need to. There are plenty of things to occupy your time before the inevitable slow erosion of your memories. If this is a game, who will make the first move? You or the twins?

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday

((OOC: Welcome to peace week! There will be no case this week so just have fun and explore. If you want to investigate please put Investigation in your top level. Don't forget to put threads in for regains or go to the Audience Hall to meet the Alices.

Also, if you want to keep up to date on things we now have a discord server!))

Comments

FRIDAY

[whimsicalism]

Re: FRIDAY

[seventhlittlemonster]

For what it's worth... (Library)

[It was growing harder and harder for Seven to sleep and wake up. This time he had awoken before midnight before going back to sleep until afternoon.

Something had kept on eating away at him as he arranged the seven drawings of his family in a heptagon in front of him.

...He was clearly trying not to cry.]

[octopups]

[Amdi is happily trotting down the library aisles with a book in each of his mouths when one of him spots Seven, and then all of him stop at once. He looks back and forth at himself, uncertain, but then three of him pad softly toward Seven, with their long necks bowed and small ears drooped.]

[He's seen Jefri crying about his parents and sister often enough. He knows the look.]

Seven? ... Are you okay?

[seventhlittlemonster]

A- Ah, you're... [He knew the dogs.] I just... I've been worrying.

I'm sorry to just dump this on you all of a sudden, but... [He took one of the drawings and showed it to Amdi.] What if doing this won't work? What I forgot I even drew it or worse, it disappears...?

[There's always a loophole... but the Queen also has her ways...]

[octopups]

Forget—? ... Oh. [Right. Alice's note. The memory stealing. He's been... trying not to think about it.]

[Amdi fidgets a little and several of him look away.]

Do you... do you think it's really possible? For them to make us forget things?

[seventhlittlemonster]

Anything can be possible. This is a magic castle after all. [He gathered his drawings and folded them up.] I'm going to keep these in a place only I can find them...

[octopups]

Oh... right. [Several of him droop dejectedly, but a couple also nod.] Y...yeah, that's probably a good idea...

... Um... who are they?

[seventhlittlemonster]

My family. They're the most important people in my life. Even if I can't keep my memories of them, I'm going to keep who they are with me. [He had... a glimmer of hope in his eyes? When he said it out loud, it felt much better for him.]

[octopups]

[Amdi listens thoughtfully, then cocks a couple of heads, thinking.]

Um... maybe you could write down everything you remember, and then keep that safe with the drawings?

[seventhlittlemonster]

That's true, but... there are so many memories I don't know what to pick... [He sighed, tapping the table.] Hm...

[octopups]

[Several of Amdi nod, a little sadly.]

Yeah... that sounds hard.

... [fidget] Um... maybe you could tell me a little about them, in case you forget? I've never, um... I've never had any family, its sounds... nice.

[seventhlittlemonster]

Of course! [He kind of. unscrewed his head and put it on the ground so he'd be at eye level with them.]

[octopups]

[Wh]

[What]

[How do]

[WHAT]

[EIGHT SMALL DOGS ARE NOW RUNNING AROUND IN A PANIC BECAUSE WHAT]

Seven! Seven!! Your head!!! Seven!!

[seventhlittlemonster]

Did... did no one tell you I could do this? [That seems to be a running theme with every person that knows him in passing without. getting to know him.]

[octopups]

No!! [Ok he's less panicky now because obviously Seven is not hurt but still!!!]

Can other humans do this???

[... Amdi this is what happens when you assume.]

[seventhlittlemonster]

Uh... well, no they can't, and I'm not a human.

[octopups]

You're not?!

But... but... you walk on two legs and you have a flat face and not a lot of fur!!

[Yes Amdi that definitely checks all the boxes good job.]

[seventhlittlemonster]

But I am in fact just a monster. Those criteria would mean my brothers Two and Five wouldn't be monsters... And a hairless monkey would be a human then!

[octopups]

What?? No! You shouldn't call yourself a 'monster', you're nice!

[Amdi plz]

[seventhlittlemonster]

N-No, literally, I am. My siblings are also literal monsters... It's not perjorative in the slightest I tell you!

[octopups]

Really? So... a "monster" is just a different kind of person? Of, uh... [what was that word Ravna used?]... of "sophont"?

[Amdi does certainly seem to buy that, but he's still looking around at himself and cocking his heads in mild confusion.]

[seventhlittlemonster]

I don't speak Italian but yes, I would consider myself a person. [he doesn't know that word]

Therapy dogs for everyone!

[octopups]

[click here to learn more about your pal Eight Dogs]

Dining Hall

[Amdi hasn't spent a ton of time in the dining hall this past week. It's one of the areas of the castle that's least home-like to him, with its too-high table and strange narrow benches and unfamiliar foods. He usually just ducks in to nosh on whatever the Queen has decided to provide from his home planet today, most often his favorite autumn soup. So if you were wondering what that meat-and-barley(??) savory-yet-vaguely-alien smelling stew that comes in those bowls with the weird-shaped padded handles was, well, now you know.]

[He is indeed eating some of that today, but also, a few of his members are standing on the benches and sniffing around at the more typical human foods on offer. He tried tea with Oriko on Monday and didn't really like it, and he's been a little concerned about the possibility of getting sick in a place where he is literally the only person of his species, but by Friday his curiosity is overcoming his better judgement. Got any food recommendations for him?]

Library

[One place he definitely HAS been spending a lot of time is the library. At first he was a bit disappointed that there were no books about math, but then Manaka told him all about King Arthur and he's been pulling books wildly off the shelves ever since. Human culture is almost completely unknown to him and he is totally fascinated by all of it.]

[He's not an especially fast reader (he was assembled and educated specifically for mathematical aptitude, after all) but he's already got an impressive pile of lovingly dog-eared (ha) books in his little corner of the library, including but not limited to The Canterbury Tales, a large pile of assorted Babysitter's Clubs, Bill Bryson's A Walk In The Woods, the entire pre-2000 run of The Magic School Bus, and the biographies of both Isaac Newton and Srinivasa Ramanujan. His yet-to-read pile includes volumes from several more children-to-YA level series and a large number of books that seem to have been picked out completely at random.]

[Want to compliment and/or roast him on his reading choices? See anything in his fresh pile you'd like to steer him away from? One interesting note about Amdi while reading: unlike most everything else he does, he only ever has one member actually doing the reading, while the rest of him mostly lay down contentedly on their bellies with their eyes half-lidded. ]