You're My Friend, They're My Friends (IC Intro)

[whimsicalism]

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.

Comments

[seventhlittlemonster]

[Surprisingly, his body started to walk in the direction of the much louder noise.]

See, it works! [This monster works in weird ways... and hilarious ways considering that his body accidentally kicked his head as it came over.] AH! Y-Yes, I'm right here!

[Finally this weird performance came to an end, the body lifted his head before spinning it back on like a top.] Thank you, I've never been the loudest monster out of my siblings... They do a better job of helping my body get to my head.

[undershadow]

Annnnd it's working. Yeah, you got it--

[ Oh boy. Thankfully, this whole situation is too weird and unsettling for her to laugh! Once it's all over... ]

Yeah, no problem. This... happens to you a lot, then?

[seventhlittlemonster]

Once a day, I would say. [He had a feeling it was. going to be hard to get into this talking duck's good graces.]

[undershadow]

[ Lena stares up, which she's done with most of the people here but never to this specific extent. She feels like if a bonnet worked, he'd probably be wearing one right now, so her armchair advice goes unspoken! ]

Huh. Do all monsters pop off limbs, or is that more a "you" thing?

[seventhlittlemonster]

It's just my head, and it's just me. Every monster is different. For instance, my brother Four is like a green furry dragon with a nice hat. [If there's one thing that can be taken from this, his family seems to have... incredibly different and specific attributes.]

But that's not important right now, I don't know your name and I think we should be properly introduced.

[undershadow]

[ 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]

[He held out a finger and gently placed it in her hand to shake with that.]

Seven. [WHO'DA THUNK HIS NAME WAS SEVEN WITH THE THREE SEVENS ON HIS PERSONAGE AMIRITE]

[undershadow]

[ honestly that's almost cute... ]

Gee, who knew? [ It Is A Mystery ] So, is there an Eight or a Nine out there, or...

[seventhlittlemonster]

No, just One through Seven. (that's me!!) Except for that time when Three pretended to be a baby to grab our attention and we called him Eight... Even though we knew it was Three, we still played along because honestly, it was adorable.

[undershadow]

Mmhmm, so you're actually the baby of the family.

[ this... honestly this explains a lot ]

[seventhlittlemonster]

You could say that, yes... We were all born at the same time, I'm just the youngest... sep-tup-let? [He's gotta get used to busting out that word since his Momma taught it to him.] Though I'd say Five is more of the baby of the family, he still has trouble speaking properly. Though maybe that's just his lack of teeth.

[undershadow]

... And I thought the triplets were a lot.

[ truly, thank god the ducks in ducktales lay eggs so she doesn't think twice about the mechanics of this ]

Your mom's schedule must be packed. Is she bigger than you?

[seventhlittlemonster]

Actually... she's human. I think? There's still a lot of things we don't know about Momma except that she's very old.

[The vocabulary of this youngin can't emphasize how old she actually was, her face was as old as time, she's the platonic ideal a mysterious old Polish-slash-Russian grandma who used to live in the woods and practices witchcraft.]

[undershadow]

[ Oh. Oh no. ]

Oh. So she... made you?

[seventhlittlemonster]

I do think that's the best way to describe it. We had a father, but we never really knew him. Two takes a lot after him according to Momma.

[He really was just a little child in a giant body, knowing nothing about the world and only what his mother says.]

[undershadow]

Huh. You're really something, aren't you, kid?

[seventhlittlemonster]

I am just a little monster. That's it. I cannot change this.

["Little" is... a bit of a misnomer, just slightly.]