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

[xxxx_me]

Queen Alice told me some stuff about the monster this time.

It seems like... people are safer here if they're dead, because then the monsters won't try to attack. They only attack living things. And if you die, you aren't in the Nameless Forest anymore, so your memories are safe. But since Queen Alice was gone for a long time, she began to forget stuff.

Um... when people die, Cheshire puts you in a different place that's supposed to be safe until it's over. the monster that roared - she called him Roary - is the one who guards that place. She said his title is the Father for some reason, and he's really friendly and like a giant lion dog thing? Sometimes he gives Queen Alice piggyback rides, so Cheshire's jealous of him. And he's fluffy...

[...

He might've gotten a little sidetracked during that conversation.]

[golden_king]

Oh wow, a big fluffy lion?

[ That's kind of a dog apparently but details. ]

That sounds neat! Did she say anything else about him?

[ ...Thereee's the other stuff too but L I O N S!!! ]

[xxxx_me]

He sounds nice... I guess he's doing them a favor by guarding the dead kids.

[battlestations]

That doesn't seem at all like something that should be called 'Father.'

[like he associates that name with the biggest bad of the adults so this is full derision]

[rhododendronhoney]

Shishi statues sometimes also come with a smaller baby one...

[battlestations]

So what, you think it's a living statue?

[rhododendronhoney]

Not necessarily. Just because there's statues of them doesn't mean there aren't also real ones, you know?

[battlestations]

Fine then. What else do you know about the real ones?

[xxxx_me]

Yeah, that's why I asked what he looks like. I thought that maybe he looked like a person, but he really does look like a monster.

[Apparently.]

[battlestations]

Makes sense. I guess he sounds cute, but we better not let our guards down.

[rhododendronhoney]

Ah, she also told me that, about how the monsters won't attack the dead.

[A pause.] Also, Roary sounds like a shishi...they're usually guardians, but they also tend to come in mated pairs...

[xxxx_me]

Shishi?

[rhododendronhoney]

Stone lions. You can see a lot of statues of them outside various buildings.

[xxxx_me]

I don't think I've seen that before.

[rhododendronhoney]

Well...not every country has a lot of them, I guess. I've never seen a real one myself, either.

[strictura]

[ Winces at that title, but that aside... ]

Wait, so does that mean we're at a high risk of being attacked by monsters as long as we're alive here?

Also, do you know what that meant, about her being gone for a long time?

[xxxx_me]

[???]

It sounds like it... I'm not sure what she meant by being gone for a long time, though. It sounded like she was talking about how she didn't know where she was between that game and getting here, but now I'm not so sure.

[littlebratziska]

How can you be safer if you're dead? What a foolish thing to claim - of course, as you can only die once, but at that point it hardly matters!

[xxxx_me]

Well... Queen Alice is dead. And she did say she's going to bring people back again.

[Not that he necessarily believes that, but it does track.]

[imozon]

What?!

[xxxx_me]

-Huh?

[DID HE SAY SOMETHING STRANGE?]

[soverainty]

I'm starting to lose track of what death is supposed to mean here... Maybe that's part of the game?

[It's not particularly addressed to anyone but she gives Allen a briefly sheepish look before properly focusing on the rest of what he's saying. Her hands are wringing themselves a little in front of her, though, all clasped; all this talk of death and mass executions and monsters, you know.

Not all that good for the average small girl's kokoro, and all.]

Alice-tan didn't seem to want to say anything about him, so it's good that Alice-chan is more honest... Come to think of it, I'm not sure why Alice-tan was so mad about it.

[xxxx_me]

Queen Alice didn't seem to know why, either.

[soverainty]

It sounds like Alice-chan gets along better with Roary... and they’re both cats, so maybe—

[She can’t seem to decide what expression to make right here, so all that comes out is a vaguely confused laugh, brief.]

Alice-tan thinks Roary is a threat to her... cat life?

[#wetried]

[xxxx_me]

...Maybe she's jealous that Queen Alice likes Roary instead of just her?