WEEK 6

[whimsicalism]

Only one of your group died last week but the castle feels empty somehow. Whatever your thoughts on Alice were she did seem to curb the Cat's--no, the Storyteller's--impulses somewhat. Even if the Storyteller gave an end date for the game there seems to be a sinister air around the castle now. There's an area for the adventurous, at least?

Still, it likely won't help heal the wounds from last week... though, apparently, the Storyteller has decided to refill the library.

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[Hello to week six, the last normal week before endgame! Don't forget to lose a memory. There's no AC this week! You can find the Storyteller at the audience chamber if you really want. As always you can turn in your threads for fabulous prizes!]

Comments

[xxxx_me]

I found a bloody combat knife in the hunting lodge. After messing around with the clock, I saw what happened when Kirika killed Alice. They were the last two left and they went on the elevator... but then Kirika attacked. Alice got the knife and managed to stab her back, but Kirika rammed her head against the door over and over, so...

[That's that's fun.]

Kirika was upset she forgot Oriko, and she was convinced Alice was the Storyteller. ...Both of them must have died around the same time.

[...]

Last week, I also noticed something in the Build a Friend store. There was some fabric there that matched a pouch Yuniko got. I guess someone's been sewing? There was fabric for Queen Alice's dresses there, too.

[octopups]

So... so Queen Alice really has died before, then? A-and she was brought back?

So it's... really possible?

[xxxx_me]

Three times, I think. She died in the war and then she died again in the... grail war thingy? And then again here.

Dying to Kirika must have been the time she forgot between that game and this one.

[octopups]

Y-yeah, died here, I mean. We already know people can come back here after dying in the place where they came from, right? Like... Oriko...

[xxxx_me]

[Nodding.]

...I wish we could've let her have fun, instead. Maybe she would've been able to move on like that.

[octopups]

[He droops a couple of heads sadly.]

If it weren't for the... the punishments and the murders, and all of that... I think we could all have been having a lot of fun.

Why'd it have to be this way...?

[xxxx_me]

Cheshire Cat.

[octopups]

[All of him chin up to stare at Allen blankly.]

What?

[xxxx_me]

Cheshire Cat. The Storyteller.

I think it's probably her fault.

[octopups]

Oh. [He mostly looks away again.]

... I wonder why she feels like she has to do this. She... she doesn't seem that bad, sometimes.

[xxxx_me]

She doesn't?

[Idk man so far she's been pretty shitty!!]

[octopups]

Well, um... [Cagily] She did used to be part of Alice, you know? And Queen Alice was pretty nice.

[xxxx_me]

That doesn't make her nice, though.