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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[octopups]

[Amdi's been pretty scarce since Sunday. He got two tape measures from Manaka on Monday, and on Tuesday he only appeared for the Alices' announcement and then went straight back to his room without saying a word. But as of Wednesday morning he is out and about and... surveying?]

[Well most notable at first glance is probably the fact that, for the first time since he arrived, he is wearing clothes. All eight of him have on very practical-looking leather jackets that are covered in pockets and conveniently paw-sized climbing loops. Between him he's packing both 2-meter tape measures, several sheaves of note paper, a whole mess of pens and pencils, and a 10-meter coil of "rope" (clearly made by ripping up and braiding his own bedsheets) which itself has accurately sharpied meter marks along its entire length.]

[And what is he doing with all this kit? Simple: he is measuring every room in the castle, down to the last centimeter. And between his ability to string his members out in a long line and climb on himself in a three-deep pyramid, he is doing a damn good job of it.]

[Want to help? Gawk? Ask what the hell even? If you are in literally any currently-accessible-to-him area inside of the castle he will be there at some point today.]

measuring in the library

[caligulass]

[...honestly, Veronica could kind of handle the duck person because that's just different, that's not weird.

The dogs... are weird. He's making a pyramid out of himself. What the fuck. She's distracted from her Zoobooks because honestly.]

...

What are you doing...?

[octopups]

[A couple of Amdi who aren't part of the whole pyramid operation look over towards her, mouths full of bedsheet-rope, though of course that doesn't affect his "voice".]

Measuring the castle.

[... yeah because that is a totally normal thing to do. Amdi plz.]

[caligulass]

...

Why are you measuring the castle?

[she doesn’t know. Maybe it’s going to lead to something useful, maybe it’s just a thing dog hiveminds do.]

[octopups]

[While she asks, the members in the pyramid finish carefully stretching out the measuring tape up to the ceiling and one puts a surreptitious pencil mark on the wall at 2 meters down. Then, the pyramid disassembles in an orderly fashion and the two who had been looking at her sidle over to measure from the mark to the floor, while another writes the measurement down on a pad of paper being held by yet another member.]

[Also he is doing all this with his mouths and paws. He is very dextrous.]

[Anyway a trio formerly in the pyramid now trot a few feet toward her to continue talking matter-of-factly. ]

The media room changed size a few days ago. I'm going to map out the interior of the castle and compare it to what we can see from the outside to determine if there are any other hidden volumes.

Dining Hall

[rhododendronhoney]

Find anything unusual? [Cori's genre-savvy enough to figure she knows why he might be measuring stuff, at least.]

[octopups]

[Currently Amdi is (literally) strung out along one wall holding up the long "rope", so it takes him an extra fraction of a second to turn one head towards her and another to actually talk. It takes a skosh for his thoughts to propagate all up and down himself at this range.]

Hey, Cori. Nothing really weird so far, but I haven't gotten to the media room yet.

[rhododendronhoney]

[Puppy rope...cute.] Oh. So no secret rooms, so far?

[octopups]

[He makes a pencil mark on the wall and starts carrying the rope around and through himself to stretch it out down the next section of room. It's the kind of ludicrously coordinated action that would take eight non-mind-melded creatures months of practice to pull off, but which for him is just another Tuesday. Or, technically Wednesday.]

Not so far, but I can't be sure until I measure the outside too.

[rhododendronhoney]

[She nods.] Which rooms have you done so far?

[octopups]

Um, the media room, the library, and the foyer.

bedrooms

[soverainty]

[Considering Amdi is literally eight dogs he's been surprisingly scarce -- you'd think eight of these guys, however small, would be hard to miss but the castle is large and their group is almost as large as most classes in school and ranging twice as far somehow even when all stuck to the same floor.

So when she finally catches a glimpse of Many Snouts sometime midweek Niko breaks into a smile and shuffles over to check out what they're doing. There's a blink at the mess of supplies; who knew eight dogs could get into so much stuff and essentially set up their own team? Nice. A small frown at the bit of rope, but...]

Oh... I guess Amdi-wan wouldn't use the room the same way as the rest of us, kind of like-- [kind of like Simba, but also Simba is Probably A Dead Cat or a Schrodinger's Cat so maybe that's inauspicious] But if you needed extra sheets, you probably could have gotten them pretty easily...?

[Maybe he's using bonus sheets, though, who knows. It's just an aside as she peers at the measuring going on.]

Are you taking notes on the castle?

[octopups]

[One of Amdi turns from his measure-the-widths-of-every-bedroom-door-frame operation.]

Oh, hi Niko. [Amdi sounds pleased to see her, but definitely not as chipper as he has before.]

[He seems a little confused at the first half of her question, but then she mentions the sheets and he looks at his coil of "rope".]

Oh. Nah, the castle is actually a little warmer than I'm used to back home, so I wasn't really using them.

But yeah, I'm trying to measure the whole interior volume. See?

[One of him finishes writing down the jamb-to-jamb distance in millimeters and the other one holding the clipboard in its mouth turns to show her. Incidentally, the "clipboard" is the ripped-off back cover of a textbook with a couple of bobby pins shoved onto it to hold the paper down.]

[Oh also all the text is in Future Space Norwegian.]