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.]

Comments

[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?

[undershadow]

No, we've got pets. Dogs, cats, whatever. We just — look, I haven't ever thought about this before now, it was normal until like 10 days ago.

[strictura]

[ That is much better than what he was picturing, which was basically a duck with a Beagle Boy on a leash on all fours. ]

Hm. There aren't ducks like that one, though?

[ Pointing to the Zoobooks cover... ]

[undershadow]

Mm, there's probably a bunch out there. But they're, you know... small. To us. And the dogs and pigs.

[strictura]

[ ???? ]

But you don't have different words for them?

[undershadow]

You mostly get it from context clues, I guess? Like, if you hear about someone feeding a duck bread, it's probably not gonna talk.

[strictura]

I see.

[ sees that your world is weird as hell, anyway ]

It seems like they could have made that simpler to communicate, but I guess if that's what you're used to, it works well enough.

[undershadow]

I mean, you guys are walking around as the only talking animals out there. To me, that's weird.