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.

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

[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!]

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[strictura]

[ He'd fallen behind on it last week, but this morning, Nagisa is at the entrance to the dining hall catching up on updating the calendar on the wall in advance of the week's meeting. He fills in the last two deaths, including Alice, and writes in "LAST DAY (?)" on the 20th, the deadline the Storyteller had given them before the last trial.

Once all the updates are in, he stands back and frowns thoughtfully at it. They don't have that much time left, and yet all they've really been able to do this week is wait.


Sometime in the afternoon after the meeting and some reading, he's back in the dining hall again to put the few coins he has right now into the vending machine. The popcorn and game are fine but not particularly interesting; but he stops for a moment when he gets to a familiar handmade booklet... before tucking it under his arm and collecting the rest of his things to go.


And at night, for a while before he goes to bed, he can be heard through the door of room 6 practicing his guitar again. He really doesn't have any actual talent at this, but he's been working hard to learn anyway (because he works hard at learning everything, and because he doesn't want to disappoint Mizuki), and by this point he's gotten enough chords figured out to at least produce something that sounds like music (a little like the chorus part here but much slower and more awkward). It's a nice distraction from his nerves, in any case. ]

[xxxx_me]

[Peeking into his room as he plays.]

You play music?

[strictura]

[ He stops and looks to the door, face turning slightly red. ]

Ah-- was it that loud?

[ He shakes his head. ]

No, I never did before this... it's hardly a talent of mine, as you can probably tell. Okiura just gave this to me with a lesson book as a gift a while back, so I didn't want to let her down if she thought I could do it.

[xxxx_me]

[Stepping inside if he doesn't protest it!]

Is it fun?

[strictura]

[ Come on in. ]

Fun?

[ Considers this... ]

Sort of, I guess? I can see how it could be once I'm better at it, anyway. And thinking about this is more pleasant than thinking about other things sometimes.

[xxxx_me]

[...I-is fun really that foreign to him...]

Is there other stuff you like doing? Stuff that's fun.

[strictura]

[ Look, he's had fun before, in limited quantities, he's just not sure this constitutes it because right now he's mostly fretting (guitar pun) over being good enough. ]

Hm...? I mean, there are some games I've enjoyed... and reading can be fun sometimes.

[ When you're not being forced into it. ]

[xxxx_me]

Which games did you like?

[strictura]

I like strategy games like chess and Risk, but I haven't played them much since my friends aren't really into board games. For video games... I like RPGs the best, but some first person shooters and even basic things like Mario can be fun sometimes. [ ... ] And real world games have their time and place.

I just usually have more important things to be doing.

[xxxx_me]

We have a lot of free time here, though. If you want, when you're tired of playing guitar we can see if there's any games like those to play.

[He would offer to play at chess, but if Nagisa actually likes strategy, he's pretty sure he wouldn't pose much of a challenge.]

[strictura]

That sounds nice. I think we're going to stop having free time pretty soon, though... we've only got a little over a week to find the right book to destroy the Storyteller. It's been frustrating that we still haven't been able to do anything about it.

[xxxx_me]

Then let's make sure to play while we can so we're ready to work hard.

[strictura]

...Yeah. You're right.

[xxxx_me]

I'll sit and listen until you're ready.

[Settling down to do so!]