WEEK 4

[whimsicalism]

Even as the castle--is it even right to consider as a 'castle'?--continues to grow more accessible more of the group is whittled away. Even your own memories fade as the Alices continue their 'game'. As the new nautically themed area opens new residents of the castle seem to have appeared. A family of living dolls has moved themselves into the dining hall while a lovesick apple tree familiar from Friday seems to have taken root in the garden. Along with the graveyard in floor three the Alices seem to want you to remember your fallen friends in some very... different ways.

Maybe the upcoming holiday will distract the Alices from moving their game along? Only time will tell.

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[Welcome to Week 4! Don't forget to submit your memory losses and your weekly AC here. The Alices can be found in their audience hall. As always, don't forget to turn in threads forfabulous prizes.]

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WEDNESDAY

[whimsicalism]

MEETING

[seventhlittlemonster]

[As someone who isn't in charge of a sector but is incredibly close to a leader of a sector, he decides he should be the one to organize it this time... A big task, no doubt, but still he places posters regarding the meeting in places that people could probably see. Including on every door in the bedroom suite.

After lunchtime, The Good Ship Unicorn is the meeting place today. Impractical, but hey, the rowboats can help burn off those calories!

Everyone takes their place upon the main deck and from there, the meeting starts.]

Aaaand that should be all of us! [He sat crisscross in front of the group with his leaders and sectormates at his side.] A new area open, a new motive, new phenomena, and yet more people worthlessly dying on Monday because they think "Hm! Maybe the Cat DOESN'T have powers that are equal to or above ours!"

Needless to say, STOP TRYING TO KILL THE QUEEN AND/OR CAT! Because no matter how much we send at once, no matter WHO tries to kill her with WHAT powers, she will kill us first. I'm not afraid of any other monster, but that thing... [he referred to the Jabberwock] It scares me...

Of course, I don't expect that me saying it will stop anyone in the future, but my second point. The wish-granting, I've actually seen it tempt others this time. But... You ever heard of what genies do? They twist your wishes in the cruelest of ways. Don't fall for what the Cat tells you.
I know that when another murder happens, it will be yet another cause unrelated to the wish...
But food for thought...

Speaking of cats, the tRaGiC deaths of Natsuo and Youji Sagan has revealed to us that anyone with powers has their powers back... Goodness help us, do we have to explain how much this complicates things this week?

...I made a makeshift table out of a barrel for you to lay your findings on.

CLUE DISCUSSION

[seventhlittlemonster]

[There wasn't much on this floor but it's the thought that counts!!]

[xxxx_me]

[He's so sleepy... he yawns widely, sitting leaned up against one of the walls.]

Mm... The Cat's keeping secrets from Queen Alice, even though she shouldn't be able to. We think the Cat's killing us and using our souls to heal Queen Alice. But Queen Alice says if that's what's happening, she might not be able to stop the Cat...

[seventhlittlemonster]

[...He could only nod in response. The hardest thing about this whole game was seeing that the queen had lost her will to do it but the Servant keeps it going. There was nothing they could do about it.]

[ballooncaged]

Wh... What?

But there were already dozens of people killed in the last game! That's insane!

[strictura]

Ah... That sounds pretty much like what we were thinking, doesn't it? Is she not able to stop it because her own strength depends on the Cat, or...?

[ It seems like she should be able to order her to stop by virtue of her being the master and the Cat being her servant, but he also knows enough about lying garbage servants not to trust it to work that way.

... ]

Did you not sleep well last night?

[strictura]

It seems that when it gets close to Halloween here, there's a weakening of the barriers between life and death, and reality and dreams... and between this castle and the rest of the world outside it, though I wouldn't recommend testing that by trying to escape.

The ghosts you might have seen around the graveyard in the new area are apparently actually monsters that got in from outside the castle, because the barrier is weakened right now. They're likely to speak to you and try to scare you, by the way, and they're not confined to that one floor, so... please be aware of all of that.

This may also explain why those who have supernatural abilities are able to use them again, in which case that's likely also temporary.

[seventhlittlemonster]

[SPOOKY]

...Sound reasoning, and thank you for bringing that to our attention. [like zoinks scoob]

[soverainty]

Hmph. Supernatural abilities, huh? Lame.

It all sounds like something they would do, though. Didn't they try to have that stupid Halloween party a while back? And who's going to get scared by cardboard monsters, exactly?

[Giving the rest of the gathering a Look......]

[scratchitti]

So I'm sure you all saw me go in to talk to Alice after her offer. No point hiding it at this point.

I tried to press and see the limits of her power but... she didn't really seem to know herself- it's all the Cat. I can say she looked... really freaked out by the idea of someone actually talking about going through with it, even hypothetically.

... also I think if someone invited her out to do stuff with us sometimes she'd probably really like it.

[imozon]

I...

[Dark Dream closes her mouth.]

[seventhlittlemonster]

...I would love to, but I fear for every party's safety.

[So that's what all of that was about.

Seven understood clearly now.]

[ballooncaged]

...forget about being nice with her or not. I don't want to do that if she's seriously supposed to have weaknesses and be bound to some place.

new crime scene!!!

[prescience]

It seems there was finally enough evidence to see what happened in the library, even though the scene was uncovered several weeks ago. Two people murdered in the same night...cousins, I believe, if the timeline is anything to go by, and the first murder of the previous round.

I have the belongings I found; I'd be happy to leave them with whoever would like to look into it further.

[Also there was literally just a chainsaw in the digsite so like? Have fun with that one.]

[battlestations]

And one of those is a chainsaw...?

[what the hell round zero]

FREE DISCUSSION

[seventhlittlemonster]

[no littering the water!!]

POWER TALK

[imozon]

Since people have their powers back, sort of, I think we should talk about what they all are.

[soverainty]

1.0 | ARRRrr You Spunkier Than A Fifth-Grader? (Pirate Playground)

[Sometime after the meeting, when everyone has probably spread out again and some might have gone back to double-check their new pirate-bay-slash-One-Piece-diorama, there's a commotion coming from smack dab somewhere in the middle of that playground. It's... cackling? And also sprays of sand?? And also, if you get too close......

Well, you might just get a water balloon to the face, because Niko is out here testing two or three of the cannons, while perhaps unadvisedly actually sitting on one and laughing her ass off. She's firing off water balloons like nobody's business--!!

--and they're all flying at the poor cardboard ghosts in the graveyard?? Why is she bullying the dead and deceased. Why is this happening. Also, if you look closely at the water balloons being fired, they are all oddly-cute caricatures of people here. Maybe even... YOU?]

C'mon, it's like firing at wet tissue paper around here! Get a little livelier, all right? What's the point of these cannons otherwise?!

Ahh, this is more refreshing than a swim, I swear!

[Stop her? Run away screaming? It's choose your own adventure time!]

2.0 | Why Is This Just The Pyro Prompts Bonanza (Festival Stalls)

[... Later finds Niko in a somewhat more pensive mood on a different floor (though more pensive than Cackling Cannon Chaotic ain't hard), now that it's evening (though it's really always evening here) she seems to be more interested in assembling some fireworks on the outskirts of the festival stalls under the fake evening sky.

It's hard to tell if this means the fireworks are going to be outdoors or not, but it could probably be worse than shooting them off in a more open area like this.

She's humming a jaunty (possibly piratical) little ditty as she works, stacking up her wares from the vending machine.]

Well? Do you think I should light them all at once, or a handful at a time? Guess it isn't the season for it, but time is an illusion here anyways.

[It sounds like a private joke with herself, somehow.]

water balloon times;

[golden_king]

Hey, I've got a better idea. It's no fun JUST hitting stationary targets, right?

[ a portal opened up and a few golden colored water balloons head her way. water balloon fight!!! ]

firework tiems

[octopups]

[Amdi had planned to come sit by the picnic pond for a while to think about Franziska. When the first of him comes out from around a row of stalls and sees Niko and her fireworks, the member stops and the rest of him catches up to stare at her, timid.]

[Then he metaphorically squares up his shoulders and starts to trot past her, heads held high, ostentatiously not looking at her with even one set of eyes.]

[battlestations]

[Locking eyes with an Oriko balloon as it flies toward him, Nigel dodges it at the last second]

You'll have to try harder than that if you want to hit me!

[w-was he talking to Yuniko or IT...?]

[undershadow]

[ While Lena shows up to the meeting, she spends more of her day in her room than not. Earlyish in the morning, however, you can find her standing in the portrait gallery, looking up at the various likenesses and profiles it has to offer. It hasn't even been a full month, and eight of them are dead.

Three days left until Halloween. Two days left til Friday. One exhausted duck standing directly in your path on the way to breakfast, just zoning out completely. ]

[strictura]

[ ...That seems fair, honestly. He pauses to look over the portraits too. ]

We've already lost more than the last group had at this point.

[undershadow]

[ She looks up, momentarily startled, before relaxing back into the tiredness. ]

Yeesh, tell me about it. Looks like she really knew how to pick 'em this time around.