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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[Near the large imprint!

Some of the grass seems to move out of the way as the voice yells. It's a quiet yell, at least? As if it was far away even though it's near.

"Catalina! Catalina! Wake up, please! Oh no..please, please. I don't know what to do! Please don't...!"]

[xxxx_me]

...Oh. The clock is always accurate.

[This makes a certain kind of sense, yeah.

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Can he follow the footprints/movements?]

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[He can! There just seems to be a lot of pacing right now. The voice, young and a girl is clearly distressed and there's some shuffling of that imprint.]

[xxxx_me]

[He just quietly moves closer, trying to make sure he's in earshot to hear what's being said and generally watching for visual signs of more disturbances, too.]

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[There's a faint male that calls out from what should be the entrance of the garden.

"Lillie! What's wrong?"

"It's Catalina--she's such a strong climber, she said she's like a mankey..!"

There's a thump as a white duffel bag is dropped into existence as the voices fade away.]

[scratchitti]

[Neku jumps at the sudden item, and moves over to Allen]

Careful, it might be a trick.

[He's the 'grown up' here, so he'll take the possible hit, kneeling over to open it]

[xxxx_me]

[Wise choice Neku, he was definitely about to reach for it without thinking.]

Oh. Er- be careful.

[But he'll hover to watch.]

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[The bag has some spare girl clothes, some snacks, and not much else.

This area is clear. The clock seems to be resetting itself as well, judging by the sunrise coming up. Everything else seems to be the same.]

[scratchitti]

[Oh thank god no cosmogs jumped out]

...what the hell...

[He picks up the bag, slinging it over his shoulder]

Looks like the clock's going back to normal. I saw it doing that earlier too...

[xxxx_me]

[Oh. It's over. Allen stops for a moment, thinking it all over.]

...

Maybe you solved some kind of puzzle after all.

[scratchitti]

Maybe... sorry, I didn't notice you out here earlier or I wouldn't have fu-, uh... messed with the clock that hard.

[What if he accidentally like, unmade Allen or something????]

[xxxx_me]

[He shakes his head.]

It's okay. I'm a little glad I got to see... whatever that was.

[Not necessarily for the contents themselves, but for the clue it provides.]

What are you going to do with the bag?

[scratchitti]

Guess I'll just keep it safe until we can get everyone together. See if anyone recognizes it.

[xxxx_me]

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I want to try asking Alice about it. Not the cat, though.

[scratchitti]

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Yeah, good idea. Nyalice likes to try and talk for them both sometimes. Let me know if you get anything out of her.

[xxxx_me]

It feels like... the Cheshire Cat is the one making Alice do it.

[There's a sense of distaste in the way he says the name "Cheshire Cat." It's entirely possible he's just biased, but he doesn't like her.]

ACTUALLY I forgot something

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[Also for sake of clarity later, the mod misspelled Catarina as Catalina, my mistake.

When Neku moves to get the bag, he does step on something near the large indentation.

A silver earring with some blue jewels.]

[scratchitti]

Whoa...

[He plucks the earring up, dusts off the dirt... and holds it up to his ear.

Hmmm... yeah he has high enough BRV for this look. His now]

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[It looks good on him! Too bad the hook is really damaged.]

[scratchitti]

...

[Oh. Yeah, maybe don't wear the swag of a probably dead girl]

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[Catarina would have thought it looked neat on him but, yeah, probably bad manners or something.]

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[There's a feeling of dread in his belly at that panicked tone. He recognizes it... or something similar. His own voice denying the truth, or well a slightly younger him. Closer in age to Allen then he is now.

Someone died here. Or came very close to it. He shivers and watches Allen investigate, not willing to voice his thoughts. Maybe dead kids can just sense other dead kids?]