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!))

Comments

[ballooncaged]

What are you doing?

[Having seen him earlier as most people left for breakfast together, Mizuki found it odd that he changed clothes in the middle of the day. So she's asking.]

[battlestations]

Oh nothing, just fooling the door with my excellent disguise!

[oooh, ahhh, look at the farm themed bedroom behind him]

This is perfect timing actually, I didn't want to wear a skirt next.

[ballooncaged]

[Mizuki puts her hands behind her back for support as she tilts to one side and wow!!! An entire new location!!]

Really, that works somehow?? Okay, gimme a second then.

[She's taking the designated outfit into Catalina's bathroom since it's such a convenient locked place to change. She'll come out with the blouse and skirt on over her dark long-sleeved layering shirt and leggings, while the dress is slung halfway over the back of her yellow coat. Holding her red shoes, she eagerly trots over to the threshold to put them back on over the striped socks. The old socks are in fact folded in a bulging little zipped pocket.]

[battlestations]

Excellent work! Now you just have to take that to room 26.

[ballooncaged]

Oh, did you find these with some kind of tag or something?

[Wandering over as requested, it's easy enough distance to talk. Here's the nameplate then.]

"Kirika"... Guess that is a girly name.

[battlestations]

I matched the laundry basket they were in to the room. We all have one in there, it seems.... but yeah, that too, I guess. Good luck!

[ballooncaged]

That's good to know... I definitely don't want anyone else touching mine.

[battlestations]

Well, me either, now that I know this actually works. We better make sure this doesn't work on the occupied rooms.

[imozon]

What doesn't work on occupied rooms?

[Hi, you two are noisy and now Dark Dream is here.]

[ballooncaged]

Oh, hi Dark Dream! [Wave. In the blouse that the black shirt totally shows through.]

So, we just found out that these outfits belong to some missing people and go with their rooms! [Points at the third one.] That's for room #30. [Frowning.] But if it's some kind of charm that's on the whole castle, like some creepy guy steals your stockings and gets in your room, that would suck.

[imozon]

Oh, that would be really bad.

[Disclaimer: Dark Dream has no idea what would actually make a guy creepy. Mizuki just sounds convincing.]

So you're just trying them on?

[ballooncaged]

[it's good that tone conveys what might have been difficult to get across with "stockings" alone]

Well, yeah, we're probably not gonna wear them all day. But it's so we can investigate. There might be a way out or something. And this room is set up for Kirika, it seems like her and Oriko know each other. So it could be really important.

1/2

[imozon]

[She didn't fully understand all that, but she thinks she got the gist of it, which is why she heads over to the remaining outfit.]

In that case, I'll have to help out, too, so we can try on all the clothes and search everywhere! [She points in a basically random direction.] It's decided!

2/2

[imozon]

[After a moment, she brings her hand in and looks at her finger like it did sonething weird, them smiles.]

I never actually said that before.

[whimsicalism]

[The door opens without complaint. Like the other room, this definitely belonged to someone with a sweet tooth. Maybe even more so? Unlike Catarina's, who leaned more towards baked sweets, there are just so many candy wrappers in the trash, dear Alice.

There's also a battered video game console hooked up to the TV. The window is showing a sprawling mansion that has seen better days. A picture is thrown haphazardly on the bed.

Also, uh, why are most of the walls and furniture really beaten up?]

[ballooncaged]

Whattttt.

[Mizuki is going to examine the furniture first then, bracing an easy chair against the wall to help her get momentum and turn it over.]

[whimsicalism]

[It looks like someone with some strength has been kicking the furniture. There's scuff marks along the wood. Someone had a temper.]

[ballooncaged]

They definitely weren't just training...

[Mizuki... actually does not like this. At all.

Rushing away from that, she picks up the picture with both hands.]

[whimsicalism]

[Kirika at least looks normal?

Kirika Kure - The Mad Dog

Age: 15
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 117 lbs
Likes: Oriko
Dislikes: Whatever gets in Oriko's way

" We can look forward to whatever final form I take when despair takes me over..." - Kirika Kure]

[ballooncaged]

[Aw they like each other, lesbian rights - no that's not confirmed or important right now.

Turns it over? Feels for layer behind portrait, anything? She has a really bad feeling about this.]

Oriko needs to see this...!

[whimsicalism]

[There's a piece of paper glued to the back but for the moment it's blank.]

[ballooncaged]

[Running fingers over it nervously. Just for the record she's taking this with her to show Oriko later.]

[whimsicalism]

[Catarina's bathroom is like all the others but there are some mud caked boots in the tub but considering the rest of the obvious farming theme in the main room isn't too out of place. Onto the next comment for Kirika.]

[ballooncaged]

Ewwwwww, and I felt bad not putting on toilet slippers before coming in here.

[Does the mud look super old then? Not indicative of some fresh garden romp?]

[whimsicalism]

[Super old. They might have been put there to soak but if they had been, the water's drained away by now.]