WEEK 2

[whimsicalism]

The first week at the castle passes without any (recent) murders. Mysteries were found, questions asked, bonds formed, and Halloween celebrated. Now as Sunday 'dawns', you might feel your mind a little lighter as your first memories fade. Will this be just a week celebrating the (questionably) best thing about October or will more sinister things be afoot?

Either way, it looks like the Alices will continue their game.

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

[Hello, and welcome to week 2! Don't forget to submit your memory losses here and your activity here. If you want to ask or annoy the twins you can do so here. As always, don't forget to turn your threads in for 'fabulous prizes.]

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[xxxx_me]

[Peering inside!]

...I found... something that might help a little with the memories.

[strictura]

[ Raises his hand in a wave; it's okay to come in. ]

You did? What is it?

[xxxx_me]

[Stepping in then, his voice still quiet.]

...They won't do anything to your notes if you write stuff down. So if there's things you don't want to forget, you can write everything about it that you can and keep that instead.

[A pause, and he hangs his head.]

The memories themselves are still gone, though.

[strictura]

[ Hm... well, that's definitely good to know. ]

So you read through the things you'd written down and found one you didn't recognize anymore?

[xxxx_me]

I can't remember anything about my parents again.

["Again," because, well.]

But this time I wrote a bunch about them. So I can at least read about what they were like, and how they looked, things like that.

[strictura]

[ ... ]

Ah... Well, that was a good idea. It's lucky that they did take one of the things you had written down, too, so we'd have proof that it worked. It might also be evidence that they have a preference for more important memories, even if we probably all expected that.

[xxxx_me]

It's something I've forgotten before, so I wanted to make sure it wasn't completely gone if it happened again.

[He's not sure what to think about being right, though.]

[battlestations]

Parents?

[Nigel's eyes go wide for a second and he starts flipping agitatedly through his notes.]

Ugh! What an oversight!

[Looks like they forgot the same thing :')]

[strictura]

...That was a common one, huh?

[battlestations]

[pinching the bridge of his nose]

So it seems.

[Nigel huffs, putting the notes down. He did write one thing about his dad, even if it... has nothing to do with him as a dad, really.]

...But, perhaps it's better this way. I wasn't ever going to see him again, regardless.

[xxxx_me]

...Even if I can't see them again, I don't want to forget them again. That's why I wrote about them first.

[His voice shakes a little at the end, but he takes in a breath to steel himself.]

I wrote a bunch of other things down, too, but I think I'll keep writing down everything I can think of. Just... in case something happens.

[strictura]

...Right, that's a good idea. I should make an effort to write more down this week myself.

[soverainty]

... I'm surprised that if they could deal with memories, the setting, and everything else, the Alices would overlook something like this. But-- [she pauses in what seemed almost like a ramble and after a moment resumes, voice a little smoother but with a tiny frown across her eyebrows] --I guess reading about it wouldn't be exactly the same?

[That seems to be a real question, directed more-or-less at Allen himself. She doesn't ask to see his notes, but she still seems sunk in thought about them at least to some extent.]

[xxxx_me]

...It's not. I can read about what they were like... but I still can't remember them.

[soverainty]

Ah, that’s really tough, isn’t it?

[All sympathetically, she gives him a small smile, though it’s more of a reassuring movement than an actual bright expression.]

You’ve lost your memories before, you’ve been bullied by the Alice stories before... Mmm, if there’s a way to mess with time in the castle that the Alices haven’t thought of, and a way to write things down, maybe there’s a way to get things back, too?

By ourselves, I mean...

[Optimism, maybe.]

[xxxx_me]

We found stuff that Queen Alice didn't expect us to... Maybe we can find things that will help us with our memories, too.

[soverainty]

Mm, at the very least, everything that comes out of that vending machine sure is mysterious... if we're finding other people's belongings around the castle and seeing memories of them...

[She's quiet for a moment; those sure are memories they've seen.

But she starts again, because sometimes you've got to see the story through to the end...?]

Maybe there's a meaning to the things we have with us and the things we're given, too.

[xxxx_me]

Meanings...? Like what?