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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[undershadow]

[ So! Getting a knife out of the vending machine on her first try kind of soured Lena on the whole concept for a bit, but by Saturday night she's ready to give it another go. In the morning, she thinks. Then Ib dies, and she wakes up not knowing where her friendship bracelet's gone, so loot kind of goes on the backburner. She spends the next two days mostly in her room, writing more and more notes to herself, until she can't sleep on Monday night.

Lena casts an eye at her little stack of coins at around three in the morning, and soon enough she finds herself creeping out at the witching hour to cash in. She ends up surrounded by a bunch of stuff, some of it the same size as she is, and it takes her a while to drag it all back to her room. The bucket of mud is particularly unwieldy and gross, and after almost upsetting it in the portrait gallery, she decides it's someone else's problem and abandons it where it stands.

When you come in for breakfast, she has somehow managed to drag her treasure chest to the top of a chair. Lena perches atop it, eating a piece of toast, and casually rolls a shiny "gold" coin between two of her fingers on the other hand. ]

Doubloon for your thoughts?

[ After the motive, she goes to the library. Like others before her, her search for nonfiction leads her straight to the Zoobooks. Anyway, have you seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Do you remember the scene where Cameron stares at a painting and the camera keeps zooming in further on both of them? Have you ever imagined it with a cartoon duck and this? ]

Well, I hate this.

breakfast;

[golden_king]

[ That will catch his attention and he'll give out a playful, small 'hm' too. ]

I think they should've at least given us a pool to play around in. That'd have been real fun.

[ Maybe it was too much to expect something thoughtful early in the morning... ]

[undershadow]

You know what, it counts. Think fast!

[ And she's flicking the coin over his way! It is very obviously not actually metal by appearance, but also very obviously not metal by the velocity with which it arcs over. ]

... no pun intended. [ Woof. ] Maybe they'll hear you and put one on the mysterious second floor that doesn't exist.

[golden_king]

Oh no how will I ever—just kidding!

[ He definitely caught the coin with a well coordinated swipe of the hand. He'll begin to look at it more carefully, poking at it...soon he will figure out when it's chocolate. He also seems to be kind of a little amused by the unintentional pun as well, even if he'll let it pass without comment. ]

...Thinking about it, though, it'll mean I'd actually have to be grateful for something they did. Now that might be difficult to do.

[undershadow]

[ Nice. Meanwhile, she produces another coin and starts unwrapping it, because it's impossible to be this on, this early, and not be running a low-grade sugar high. ]

Well, even if you can pull it off, they don't have to know about it. Especially not after the last few days.

[golden_king]

[ Unwrapping his coin now too... ]

That's a good point. Giving them something like 'thanks' is too much for all they've done. Putting a pool up would be like not even reaching the true bare minimum of kindness, huh?

library

[strictura]

[ He spends a lot of time in the library, so when he comes in today and notices her, he'll look over to see what she's staring at......

Ah. ]

...I can't say I blame you.

[ Awkward. ]

What non-person animals do you have in your world, anyway?

[undershadow]

Oh, tons. I walk past basically every species in [ waving the offending ducks and waterfowl Zoobook illustratively ] this thing on the way to Starducks? But we've got pigs and dogs too.

[strictura]

And they're... smaller than the ducks?

[undershadow]

It depends on the duck? [ She pauses. ] Oh. You meant... not what I meant.

[ He said "person" and she just assumed he meant "specifically hairless monkey" after a week and change of this! But also she heard "animals" and thought "sentient people", so truly... it's on her. ]

The answer's the same, though. We've got pretty much everything.

[strictura]

[ Um. ]

I don't know if I'm picturing this right...

[ Hopefully he isn't, because this mental image is pretty fucked. ]

Are there different animals that you keep as pets versus ones you talk with and go to school with? Or different... variations of the same animals? Or are pets not really a thing?

library

[imozon]

Really? I think they're cute.

[Dark Dream, master of putting two and two together.]

[undershadow]

[ oh boy ]

Gee, thanks.

Breakfast

[rhododendronhoney]

[Cori's got a piece of paper with her, and is frowning down at it.] It's...I forgot one of my family recipes. I wrote it down, but each time I look away it slips from my mind. [She actually looks pretty distressed about it.]

[undershadow]

[ Oh! Hmm. ]

... here, milk chocolate. [ That works, right? ] No, uh. I'm sorry. Even knowing it was coming... this really sucks.

[rhododendronhoney]

...thanks. [She takes a big sip. Hmm...chocolate-milk balance could probably be adjusted a bit. Though she doesn't say that out loud.] It's...I thought even if I forgot something, I could relearn it, or follow the instructions, but I can't even have that now...

[undershadow]

Maybe one of us could try. You know, if we ever get a real kitchen.

library

[caligulass]

[...

This is kind of funny, actually.]

Well. I suppose I'd have the same reaction if I learned there were strange non-intelligent humans living in your world.

Re: library

[undershadow]

I mean, I know about ducks. But I didn't... read about them like that's the only kind of duck there is, you know?

[ She does not. She does not, in fact, know. ]

[caligulass]

...so wait, are there animal ducks and person ducks? Then again, I suppose that isn't too different from how there are manaketes and wyverns. Except manaketes look like humans most of the time instead of dragons.

[undershadow]

Wait, even your dragons have to get weird and fleshy?

breakfast

[theawfulaccount]

[ Violet, for her part, is writing a great deal very quickly in a notebook when Lena speaks up. ]

Um... mostly surprised you got your hands on something like that in a place like this, at least for starters.

[undershadow]

I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if the weird vending machine started spitting out pirate loot — but it's actually chocolate. See?

[ And she's just going to toss it over Violet's way! But the goal is for it to land on the table instead of forcing her to catch it midair, like Gil did, because her attention's divided as it is. ]

The chest, not so much.

[theawfulaccount]

[ Violet picks up the coin and examines it. ]

Chocolate coins. I suppose that does keep with the theme of this place.

[undershadow]

Mmhmm. Who needs money when you can have toys and candy appear out of thin air, right?