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Castle W Mods ([personal profile] whimsicalism) wrote in [community profile] castle_whims2020-10-04 10:44 am
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You're My Friend, They're My Friends (IC Intro)

Whatever you were doing before, wherever you were before this moment it doesn't matter. The world seems to grow dark around you: an almost inaudible giggle floats to your year before you lose consciousness completely. Other it belonging to a child there's no defining characteristics of the voice. Maybe you just imagined it? Even if you did, one thing is clear when you wake up.

You're not where you were before. The bedroom you find yourself is plush and well decorated, almost like a fancy hotel or apartment. That might be little comfort considering that it's clear that you don't recognize it. Before you rush off to explore your surroundings there's a message pinned to the door to the hall.

From the desk of the Queen:

Hello, my friends dear.

I can only hope you enjoy your new life here. For those you stirring from sleep, this is my promise that I will keep: I will let you go if that is what you desire but the price for it will be quite dire.

For my rules are quite clear that I don't wish you to leave. Yet I will, if you can take the grief.

If you wish to know my name and the reasons to my game, meet in the audience hall for tea. Tea, yes, a grand tea party for my grand guests! Cake and sweets are what we need to meet. In an hour we both will be there, no peeking before!

Signed,


Instead of a signature, there's a small feline paw print underneath as well as some strange sort of heart crest?

There seems to be others moving outside your room. Perhaps it's time to explore, to see if anyone else knows what's going on. Don't slip on the playing card (an ace of hearts, with the heart shape replaced by the strange crest). That there's a scribbled phrase of 'dormez-vous? dormez-vous?' on the card but surely one of the others slipped it under your door.

This Castle seems like a strange place ot live in... yet for now it's quiet and peaceful, even if the Audience Hall is locked.
rhododendronhoney: (worried)

[personal profile] rhododendronhoney 2020-10-07 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly! I can't even find a locked door or anything that might lead to one.
byzer0: (Will do us apart)

[personal profile] byzer0 2020-10-07 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but what's the point in dressing it up like that? Just say you're going to stab them or kill them. [ He may be making some assumptions here. ]

Someone who kidnaps people and wants them to kill each other is probably a murderer themself. It's an easy guess to make.
xxxx_me: ([Surprise] tiny teardrop)

[personal profile] xxxx_me 2020-10-07 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
I... I don't know. [And it's even scarier having to consider.

His hand trembles a little.
]

I thought the rules said that once the game ended, everyone just stayed in the castle...
xxxx_me: ([Determined] birds about to fly)

[personal profile] xxxx_me 2020-10-07 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[...

He pauses, considering something...
]

If... my friends were stuck in a world besides ours...

Could you help us with two gates? One to get everyone out, and one to get us home?
seventhlittlemonster: (neutral)

[personal profile] seventhlittlemonster 2020-10-07 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Well... I'm still here, so yes. It always works out in some way, somehow.

You don't seem too fazed by me speaking of it, however. Have you experienced stranger things?
littlebratziska: (really they just said she wasn't perfect)

[personal profile] littlebratziska 2020-10-07 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
[He is like literally twice her height and she is feeling real intimidated by that, though she is trying to disguise that as best she can. She misses her crop, and is making small, nervous motions with her hands in response.]

Hmph. Obviously you should also have a band across the top of your head, then, m-maybe around your... your horns.
littlebratziska: (her logic clearly states-)

[personal profile] littlebratziska 2020-10-07 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
[She is entirely recovered by now, but still does not deny it.]

Smug is not a flattering word perhaps, but I've always felt accusations of arrogance are tools that fools attempt to wield against those they are inferior to.

But very well, let us assume all you have said is accurate. What reason would this place have to function like your home? My home is nothing like what you've described.
littlebratziska: (Default)

[personal profile] littlebratziska 2020-10-07 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
The label should be on top and facing you.

[She walks over, takes the tape, glances at it, then pops it in the player.]
littlebratziska: (you deserved it anyway)

[personal profile] littlebratziska 2020-10-07 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
Hm. Logic dictates it must come from somewhere. Maybe the cooks simply do not want amateurs in their kitchen?
littlebratziska: (no you clearly did)

[personal profile] littlebratziska 2020-10-07 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
Why would I kill anyone? The courts will decide on any death penalty. Someone who acts outside the bounds of the law like that... they're just a common criminal.

And they may be, but I have yet to see any evidence of them being a murderer. If you don't have evidence, you'd do better to keep your foolish ideas to yourself and not waste everyone's time until you find some.
littlebratziska: (no you clearly did)

[personal profile] littlebratziska 2020-10-07 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
They said people could stay, or could be sent home. Either way we have no way to verify if that much is true, only blood too old to be from anyone who is here now, unless people are lying about how long they have been here.

[Or... the memory loss that was mentioned? What if it had been them. It would explain the portraits if they had been here for some time and somehow been made to forget, but... no, she's confident, she knows herself too well to fall victim to such a foolish thing. Nothing here seems familiar, anyway.]
undershadow: (pic#13477722)

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[personal profile] undershadow 2020-10-07 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... ]
undershadow: (pic#14328408)

[personal profile] undershadow 2020-10-07 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
Is that gel pen?
undershadow: (pic#14328243)

[personal profile] undershadow 2020-10-07 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
Pretty much what you just said? I mean, you have ducks, and then you have ducks.
undershadow: (pic#14328254)

[personal profile] undershadow 2020-10-07 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Lena" works. [ A beat. ] But also, a duck. Just for the record.
rhododendronhoney: (worried)

[personal profile] rhododendronhoney 2020-10-07 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
[...okay, maybe it's like how Fern could talk but the rest of her team couldn't?] And...those "other kinds" of ducks can't talk, either?
undershadow: (pic#13475679)

[personal profile] undershadow 2020-10-07 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ wereherons... ]

Well, they're in another castle. How do you know all this stuff, anyway?
undershadow: (pic#14328427)

[personal profile] undershadow 2020-10-07 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ Some dumb nickname she comes up with in the next five minutes it is, then...! ]

Mm, does anything about this feel necessary? It's all pretty extra. She's just... more.

[ This could be referring to the title or Franzsiska herself! It's a mystery. ]
rhododendronhoney: (worried)

[personal profile] rhododendronhoney 2020-10-07 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
...maybe. It still feels kind of strange, though...it doesn't seem like there's really space for a hidden room here, kitchen or not.
rhododendronhoney: (blushing)

[personal profile] rhododendronhoney 2020-10-07 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
Kind of? Not exactly the same...but I also had to deal with the city I lived in getting corrupted. It was the fault of a malicious god and the people he'd tricked into serving him, though...
undershadow: (pic#14328429)

[personal profile] undershadow 2020-10-07 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Why would they? They're ducks.

[ this is not going to get any less exhausting ]
undershadow: (pic#14328246)

[personal profile] undershadow 2020-10-07 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
So it's not just magic, it's stupid dream logic, and we have to live in it. Great.

[ god why is magic always LIKE THIS ]

You're taking this pretty well.
seventhlittlemonster: (distraught)

[personal profile] seventhlittlemonster 2020-10-07 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
...now that'd just get in the way. I'll try to make sure my head doesn't become a problem if it scares you that much...

[he felt maybe a little bit. sad that she doesn't trust like that. Every other kid where he came from trusts him.]

Do you have a name?
undershadow: (pic#14328428)

[personal profile] undershadow 2020-10-07 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Man, Webby would love this. ]

Sure. If your brother's Four, I'm guessing I already know your name...

[ But she sticks her hand out to shake regardless, like that makes any sense whatsoever! ]

But I'm Lena.
seventhlittlemonster: (nani)

[personal profile] seventhlittlemonster 2020-10-07 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
...A god? Gods are real where you come from? I mean, I wouldn't know if they were real where I come from because I've never seen one but I've read about them! [Maybe those days when he was an even littler monster reading old poetry to Mr. Stripey-Pants paid off after all!]

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