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?

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((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!))

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SATURDAY

[whimsicalism]

Happy Halloween???

[whimsicalism]

[Around noon, no matter where you are the voice of one of the Alice's calls out. You might remember it as the voice of the Cat Alice. (There also seems to be gentle snoring in the background for some reason.)]

Attention, residents of the castle! It's come to our attention that you've decided to not take us up on our offer to leave this week and we're bored.

[There's some stirring and the voice of Queen Alice rings out as well.]

Mm... yeah, bored.

So! In the spirit of the season we've decided to give you something else to think about while you think about if you want to go home or not.

Do it, Alice!

Hehe, of course, Alice.

[It might take a moment to realize what's happening but there's some rumbling as the media room experiences some changes. For those outside the media room, most of the rooms are now decorated for Halloween. Orange and black banners, paper and plastic decorations of various Halloween icons...

There's even a small cooking station in the dining hall with some large pumpkins for carving.]

We thought that since everyone will be busy on Halloween, why not keep up the spirit throughout the month?

Hehe, yeah. I hope you enjoy it. We'll have something planned next week to keep your spirits up.

As well as something to make sure you consider taking us up on our offer. For now, though:

Happy Early Halloween!

[The voices of the Alices disappear briefly before Cat Alice speaks up again.]

Oh, by the way, you'll be giving us some memories at midnight. That's all, enjoy your day.

[Don't forget to put in your memories!]

[caligulass]

[Veronica is reading in the library before the announcement, though the sudden shift to Halloween is, uh...

Well, she leaves to start looking around, anyway, and heads for the dining room. She figures there’s more likely to be people there to discuss the sudden shift to Harvest Festival Mode, anyway.]

[undershadow]

[ to absolutely nobody: ]

Wait, it's October?

[strictura]

The tenth, apparently. It was a different time of year for you before this too?

[xxxx_me]

[The sudden change is alarming, but not nearly as scary as it could be- he's just kind of looking around curiously at the new decorations, eventually wandering to find the pumpkins in the dining hall.]

They want us to kill each other, but they also want us to keep our spirits up...

[Alices, your priorities. Please.]

[ballooncaged]

More like turn us into spirits...

[This stuff is cute but. Why. Mizuki can get behind nitpicking as an attempt to maintain some sense of order in opposite day land.]

[strictura]

[ Well, he's definitely relieved that no one died (but concerned about that bit about encouraging it to happen next time). At all the decorations and the announcement, though, he gets a little distracted, and blinks. ]

Eh? Early Halloween? What date is it now?

[twinverses]

[There's silence and then the Cat speaks out, just once, before going silent again.]

The tenth of October.

[Spooky.]

Investigation

[octopups]

[Amdi's little corner of the library happens to be fairly close to the media room, but he's never really spent time in there. Now, though, the rumbling sends him into a brief tails-chasing panic. It does not help that he has basically no idea what "Hollow-wean" is and all of this is just totally confusing to him.]

[As soon as the announcement is over he cautiously creeps towards the entrance to the media room and pokes a couple of heads through the door. What's he see?]

[whimsicalism]

[It's twice the size it was before. Even to someone who hasn't spent much time in there, that could be obvious on a first glance.]

Re: Happy Halloween???

[seventhlittlemonster]

1. ...AH!!

[He quickly stashed his drawings in his nightstand drawer and he exits his room. He had this sort of reverie at the change in scenery... Halloween was his favorite time. Being a monster might have something to do with it.

He took this time to walk into the Portrait Gallery and stare at his rather abstractly monstrous painting.]

Hm. Suddenly, it feels more appropriate this time. [He said to no one in particular.]

2. Pumpkin Carving!!

Hmmm... Alright, let's see... [In the Dining Hall, He eyed the face bank he obtained from the vending machine earlier this week and tried to draw a stencil for his pumpkin based on it. of course he intends to trash the bank after it's horrible

For good luck, he had brought Fido, who also came from the vending machine. He put a witch hat on the plush's head and put him to the side as a sort of decoration.]

carving time

[battlestations]

Do you actually like that thing? [Nigel glances over from his station at the face bank. He got one too, he'd be happy to get rid of it!!]

[littlebratziska]

[Franziska had been in the library, leafing through biographies, when a voice appears out of nowhere, and that makes her jump slightly at the table, and glance quickly around to find nothing out of the ordinary, at first. Banners and decorations unfurl themselves as Alice talks, and Franziska watches and listens until the end, then slams her book shut sharply.]

Halloween is not until October!

[twinverses]

[There's no response but she probably can feel the sense that some brats are laughing at her.]

[battlestations]

I'm more surprised they're committing to a date at all. Earlier they were trying to tell you this place is timeless, weren't they?

[yeah he was listening to the others' conversations with the Alices.

...also, he's giving her a wide berth with a slingshot in hand. NO REASON.]

[nothingposh]

The clock changes the time outside and that's your objection here?

[He's just saying. If you told him you could spin the clock and make time go faster, he'd just accept that.]

[scratchitti]

It was summer for me- time is all screwed up here.

[imozon]

Isn't it November already?

[octopups]

[It's a couple minutes after the announcement and oh my goodness who's that running up from the back of the library? TRICK QUESTION IT'S THOSE EIGHT DOGS AND THEY LOOK A LITTLE SPOOPED. They spot Franzie first and now they are going to run around her legs nervously!!]

Franziska! That room with the glass front box, it got bigger!!

[battlestations]

[uh, okay, this is happening he guesses.]

The effect is a bit diminished when we're already getting free candy every day, but... the decorations are quite nice!

[He actually sounds a little happy. Buuuut the last part of the announcement is a great reminder so he'll be enjoying the decorations in the library while frantically scribbling down as much important stuff as he can remember in a notebook with crayon, sweat running down his face. Some of his 'notes' have a distinct Pepe Sylvia meme quality to them with gibberish spattered about it like 'aging virus', 'splinter cell', 'lost sector', 'delightfulization', 'numbuh zero', and crudely drawn blueprints for various technology.

Later on though he'll be at the carving station with his stuffed animal next to him, attempting to carve a pumpkin in its image.]

[rhododendronhoney]

[Cori turns to smile at him when he passes the cooking station.] You want to try a cupcake later? I'll even let you watch me mix the batter if you like. [Look...she doesn't want her hard work destroyed when he tries to check it for poison...]

[rhododendronhoney]

[Oh my god a cooking station. Cori might be crying actual tears of joy as she starts mixing up a bunch of batter. Later on, she can be found carrying around a tray of cupcakes and cookies, holding them out to anyone who happens by, including the two Alices.]

Hey, you should try some! They're my family recipe!

[scratchitti]

[Neku is nibbling on the snacks Cori made because Cori is the only food he completely trusts here but-]

'Something to make sure you consider our offer'... sounds like a threat to me.

[He's stressed about the memory loss coming up, but can't think of a damn thing to do to stop it]

[imozon]

[EXCITING TRIVIA TIME! Guess what fall holiday wasn't all that big in Japan in 2007? Which is to say, Dark Dream is out in the hallway not understanding what's going on at all.]

Halloween?