RECORDING 4: THE SECOND WEEK

[foundationmods]

A second week in this place begins, with less of your number among you. With first blood - and oil - spilled, it now seems as if it'll only be a matter of time before the worse eventually happens once more. Thankfully, it seems as if the Miasma is content to remain at the same levels it did before, so arguments are unlikely to break out, though tensions are surely high after everything that's already occurred.

Speaking of which, the temperature remains a consistent comfortable early to mid 70's in the house. It appears at least that you'll be here in comfort..? Though it appears that the rooms have changed, so hopefully you kept anything essential in the static area.

Yet, something feels...wrong. The house feels as if it is laughing at you, when you awake...

...What new horrors await you this week?


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[oxidegreen]

[Greenhouse]

[Well... it's worth a try, isn't it?

Marona can be found going through the packets of seeds, opening a few and carefully planting them in a few of the planters. And once that's done, with a seed still in hand...]

Rapid growth!

[...Well. It doesn't completely work. But it also doesn't completely fail? Her attempts at growing anything that would be good for making actual meals bears no fruit (or veggies, rather), but there is cilantro and aloe now fully grown in the soil.

Y-yaaay. She stares at the plants and... in some cases, soil, her expression puzzled.]

...Why didn't it work...?

[Children's Bedroom]

[She pauses when she gets here in particular, taking in the full effect of the room. After a moment, she wordlessly walks over to picks up one of the stuffed animals, examining it.

Are these the types of things she would have grown accustomed to, she wonders, had her parents survived that day...?]

[tangentlion]

[Guess who's here, Marona!! He claps slowly]

Wow. You can really keep the (density x volume)s fed with herbs and burn lotion.

[oxidegreen]

[Sssigh why did you have to exist again.]

I don't blame Ms. Olympia for throwing you through the wall.

[tangentlion]

[you know you missed his smiling face]

Well at least your MREs can taste like soap now.

[oxidegreen]

Does focusing on my failures make you feel better about yours?

[tangentlion]

You bet your asymptote it does.

greenhouse

[finalring]

Eh?

[ he's just walking past, sticking his head into the room to see...marona? ]

Are you trying to garden?

[oxidegreen]

...Something like that.

[Two things have grown, at least? Even if they aren't proper food alone...]

[finalring]

Woah...wait, you already grew something?

[ he's seeing it! he doesn't know that her attempts at growing actual vegetables failed, so he's rather impressed ]

That's pretty neat, miss Marona. Are you using magic to accelerate the growth rate?

[oxidegreen]

I tried to. These are the only ones it worked on.

[For some reason.]

[finalring]

[ oh.... ] What else did you try it on?

greenhouse

[notbymyside]

The aloe will prove useful, at least. It can be made into a medicine.

[He's trying to encourage her efforts okok]

Re: greenhouse

[oxidegreen]

[Thank you Ango you're so much better than CERTAIN GRIM HEAPERS.]

It can be used for burns, can't it?

[notbymyside]

Yes, it can. It can also be used to hydrate a person in a pinch, if we run out of water here.

[oxidegreen]

...I see. Hopefully we won't need to rely on it for that.

greenhouse

[tsunderine]

Ah, these aren't the worst things in the world that grew... You don't mind if I take them, do you?

[oxidegreen]

What are you going to use them for?

[It's not really accusatory, she's just curious what use they are.]

[tsunderine]

Medicine.

[oxidegreen]

What kind of medicine?

[tsunderine]

Mostly personal stuff.

It'd be for myself, but... at least it'd be nice.

Greenhouse

[impyroverished]

...what exactly should have happened?

[He arrived just in time to see cilantro and aloe pop up from the soil, and thought that was exactly what Marona had wanted. But no?]

[oxidegreen]

All of them should have grown.

[But... there's only two plants there. Hn.]

[impyroverished]

[All of them...so only two grew, while the rest stayed inert. Hm, strange. Emil approaches the plants, prodding the leaves with a finger]

I don't really see how these two are similar in any way, but maybe these have a similarity the others don't?

[They don't look remotely similar, really]

[oxidegreen]

Or maybe the curse is preventing it somehow.

[impyroverished]

Then why are these two growing? It can't be they're anti-curse plants. Curses don't exist.

[.........]

Except in here, I guess...I still haven't fully processed that.

[At least he has accepted it exists in this mansion]