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Castle W Mods ([personal profile] whimsicalism) wrote in [community profile] castle_whims2022-09-18 12:00 pm
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WEEK FIVE

WEEK FIVE


There's one thing that belongs in Closetland: Monsters.

It was a monster that brought the students here to begin with, and it's a monster who controls their lives now. By now, some have even accused their classmates of turning into--or always being--monsters themselves.

The academy is just as cold as it was last week, autumn air seeping in through the unfriendly architecture and the artificial light seeming darker than before. The occasionally cloud of purple fog snakes through the hallways at ground level, a constant reminder of the new presence haunting the school and her role in the past five weeks of torment. Now that Kakuya is back in a body of her own making, the music room is silent, though the rooms and halls of the Academy themselves occasionally fill with a low, haunting flute melody. With the school's new overlord already wishing her ill, Nanami's already deflating power and free roam capabilities are more or less completely limited as well: She's just one more toy in the box.

The stairwell has opened into another new floor. Upon closer inspection, it seems to be the uppermost one. This is the top of Ira Academy, and while it likely bears some new answers and some new locations to try and find a solution to your plight, is there anything that can heal some of the rifts that formed from the accusations thrown at the last trial? Still, if you don't find answers, then you'll be here playing this eternal deadly game.

Is the devil you know better than the devil you don't?

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday
Regains | AC | IC Profiles | Locations | Mystery Information | Sheep Contact | Nanami Contact | Kakuya Contact
OOC NOTES


Welcome to Week 4! Nanami has joined the party! She no longer has office hours but still be contacted privately, as can Kakuya, who is no longer stuck in the music room. New locations are now open, and some minor adjustments have been made to the IC profiles and rules. Please hit the mods with a ping in Discord and put INVESTIGATE in your subject line if you're interested in exploring a new location. The SHEEP are still taggable, though you may find them in a...different mood.

You now have a week to make sure your AC in for last week and to start collecting AC for this week. Remember to submit your regains, and sign up for a spot exploring this week's mystery if you want to!

canreallymove: (say what?)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-09-21 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it might be a thought. Maybe sniffin' it?
temmapathy: (suspicious)

[personal profile] temmapathy 2022-09-21 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Seems like it. So even though she's kind of in charge she still doesn't have full freedom...
canreallymove: (can't prove it was me!)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-09-21 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, only one way to find out, right? Gotta check it out!
temmapathy: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] temmapathy 2022-09-21 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
And...I guess checking the mouth to see if there's anything weird there? [She bends to check the plush toy's mouth-see if it even has any chili dog stains.]
temmapathy: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] temmapathy 2022-09-21 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It's this new kind of paint some guy invented that was supposed to be super-black. It's pretty recent, though.
canreallymove: (let's do it to it!)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-09-21 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, one thing he will notice is that there is some "blood" on the knife and on the chest, but not as much as one would expect from being stabbed in the chest.

Hm.]
Edited 2022-09-21 15:52 (UTC)
violence_ensues: (Thinking)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-09-21 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Could they be measuring the mon- creatures?
violence_ensues: (Annoyed)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-09-21 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
He said body check, not murder mystery...!

[Adorabat, those... are the same thing.]
canreallymove: (AAAAAAAH!)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-09-21 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hilariously, there is some chili dog stains around the "victim's" mouth. He was definitely, uh, eating it beforehand.

But there's nothing overtly off about it. The chili doesn't smell wrong or anything like that.]
canreallymove: (let's do it to it!)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-09-21 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That, or the fear power the papers I found keep talkin' about.
canreallymove: (D'oh!)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-09-21 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Well...yeah. If someone dies, someone's gotta check the body...
violence_ensues: (Ooo)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-09-21 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[It clicks in Adorabat's head. She thought Dewey meant something else.]

Ooooooh. I thought we were gonna do physisals.

[Adorabat glances at the dead doll. ...This better not happen to Simon Norwell nor Cynthiphelle.]

I wanted big bro to teach me, but we got distracted with him teaching me first aid instead.
keyringwitness: (Cackling)

cw: emeto mention

[personal profile] keyringwitness 2022-09-21 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Sonic, you...

[Yasu is taken aback for a moment, shoulders slumped in apparent exhaustion. Then, they start to shake, as if she's crying, but on closer inspection-

She's laughing.]


YOU IDIOOOOOT!

You must be used to racing so fast that your brain can't catch up to your feet, let along your eyes or tongue. I was skeptical at first, but I'm really starting to believe that you can go faster than light given your apparent propensity to outrun the sound of what I'm directly telling you and even basic logical thought!

[More cackling. Yasu's words drip with red venom.]

So I need you to lis~ten close~ly for once in your life. I don't want to stay here, you buffooooooonnn! I'd be just as dissatisfied languishing in Kakuya's daddy dearest's vision of perfection for future uninteresting suburbanites as much as I'd be piggybacking atop one of you moralizing fools who think you know what's best for me and being forced to play pretend with one of your families. I! Am! Done! With pretending that I'm still some ordinary, scared little girl, that I'm even capable of being the sniveling, pathetic Yasu for a moment longer!

Sure, sure, surrrreeee, the taste of freedom was bitter, bitter enough for me to want to vomit up all my insides just so I could rid myself of my disgusting flesh and bone, but it's still freedom. I'm not Beatrice, but I have her legacy and her potential both, and I'll be damned a third time before I'm satisfied with shuffling off to be a side character again while all that pain festers and pushes me down the same path as I would've tread had I not come here. Dragging me off to live some wretched daily life again isn't the bliss you think it is; it'd just be an old hell with a fresh coat of paint.

So let me make myself clear, in case you haven't gotten the point yet: I'm not going with you, but you're not going to leave me with Kakuya... you'll be leaving Kakuya with me, and I'll decide a new destination from there.

[She huffs, crossing her arms as some of the manic energy that erupted apparently from nowhere fades.]

I hope that managed to penetrate your thick coating of quills, because if I have to simplify it further I'll have to break out the picture books. Do you FINALLY understand?
Edited 2022-09-21 16:29 (UTC)
keyringwitness: (Default)

[personal profile] keyringwitness 2022-09-21 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
And what happens when some idiot inevitably stumbles along and breaks the seal, or it decays over time? Kakuya has been sealed before, that much is evident from the visions from those objects we've found on Mondays. Yet some arrogant fool or hapless bumbler who doesn't know what they're doing, potentially both as evidenced by the Principal, will eventually find her and unseal her one way or another.

Sealing Kakuya is just kicking the can down the road for some other poor child to deal with later. I know I'm biased, but I really think that there is a better solution.

What Kakuya wants is to play games, as twisted as her definition is. That's the only way she knows how to interact with others, and it might be the only way she can because of her nature as a spirit. This presents a problem, in that when she wins, all of us die, but when she loses, she'll just want to play again.

So. [Yasu snaps her fingers.] To keep Kakuya from simply restarting the game once we win, we need to accomplish two things: beating her so thoroughly and utterly that she has to acknowledge that she has well and truly lost, and presenting her with some other distraction that she'll find interesting enough to stop bothering with this particular game.

I can take care of the latter. It's up to all of us to find a way to accomplish the former.
violence_ensues: (Thinking)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-09-21 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Adorabat raises a wing. Sorry to distract Yasu from her main point, but...]

What do latter and former mean?
keyringwitness: (Avoidant)

[personal profile] keyringwitness 2022-09-21 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
The garden, hm...? A good place as any to talk. Pity there aren't any roses, now that would be especially thematic.

[Flippant reference to the mystery that she once struggled to solve with Kuro (and eventually reached the solution of while refusing to give her any more hints than were already in the text), Yasu follows after her.

Once they reach the garden, Yasu stands amidst the illusory butterflies for a moment, perfectly still as they crawl across her and alight on her arms. It almost seems like she's the hologram, and that the butterflies are real.

The only motion that betrays her is the slight trembling in her hands.

Then, the moment passes, and she flicks a wax-sealed envelope (if nothing else, Beatrice's appreciation for dramatics is something that Yasu greatly admires) out of her sleeve and tosses it at Kuro.]


If anybody deserves to know my secrets, it's you. There always needs to be a piece that can counter even the strongest play, and there are none more suitable than you, partner.

[She's quiet. The bravado in her inflection is even more hollow than usual.]

Just know that once you open that, there's no going back.
keyringwitness: (Nervous)

[personal profile] keyringwitness 2022-09-21 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, um.

[got here there, adorabat]

Latter means my last point, former means my first. Does... that help?
keyringwitness: (Forlorn)

[personal profile] keyringwitness 2022-09-21 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't want to visit my cursed heart on anyone human, but... you're right. It would be my greatest sin to force that burden onto them.

[Yasu deflates at that, her witchly confidence fading.]
shinedsobright: (My multiverse of madness)

not here

[personal profile] shinedsobright 2022-09-21 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
violence_ensues: (Impressed)

[personal profile] violence_ensues 2022-09-21 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah! You make a good teacher!
temmapathy: (upset)

[personal profile] temmapathy 2022-09-21 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
What? No! I meant that if someone can't accept you as you are, it's their fault! Your heart isn't cursed!
copycut: (02)

[personal profile] copycut 2022-09-21 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Kuro catches the envelope, easy and casual. ]

Is that so? Well, I'm flattered you'd place so much faith in me. [ She turns the envelope around in her hands—but, she doesn't move to immediately break the seal. Idly, the presses the nail of her thumb beneath its lip. ] Don't worry. I think you know I'm not the type to move any direction but forward.

[ Still, she doesn't open it. ]

I asked to talk alone because I want to hear what you have to say, when you don't feel like you need to put on the face of a mean, scary monster for everyone. Is that what you gave me?
Edited 2022-09-21 17:14 (UTC)
panglici: (level gaze)

[personal profile] panglici 2022-09-21 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Why not level the playing field, if you're already changing one rule? Give me back what I woke up missing. Then let's play.
canreallymove: (can't prove it was me!)

[personal profile] canreallymove 2022-09-21 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's cool, though. I can still teach you if you still wanna learn, right?
temmapathy: (suspicious)

[personal profile] temmapathy 2022-09-21 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay then. Since she's near here, she might as well examine that rope around the neck. Is this detailed enough to have neck bruises as well...?]

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