WEEK 3 MINGLE

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WEEK 3

Week three opens like the other two weeks, but when you wake up, you know there's been a change in the area. At first, nothing is wrong - but when you look at any window, you aren't greeted with the cheery sight of the outside - instead, there's just a cold, harsh blackness. Trying to leave out the doors is impossible, too - if you try, you just find yourself back on the couches in the lobby. On top of that....The Staff are beginning to act even stranger, their glitching out becoming more obvious. Sometimes, they seemingly go blank mid sentence and walk away, as if they were reset, and slur or stutter their words.

The weather is...well, non-existent, except for the courtyard, which is still pleasantly snowy. There is still music playing in the halls, and the cover songs continue with some low-key music for the week.

On Monday morning, another memory is returned to everyone. Another piece to the puzzle, one step closer to finding the truth of this place. Yet, it doesn't seem like you're any closer to solving this...

And time still ticks onwards, regardless if you're ready or not.


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WEDNESDAY

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[resortghosts]

[A little over a week ago, the knowledge that he not only needed to continue eating as a ghost- but eat well- came as a bit of a disappointment. But Medic persevered- if he needed to eat properly to continue interacting with his environment, then he was gonna become a fucking Health God.

... More or less.

Anyway, there's definitely an invisible man at the restaurant, unscrewing and inspecting pieces of an odd device- a few may remember him calling it his Medigun. There are four empty plates on the table beside him, stacked on top of each other, as well as one full plate that he's actively eating from whenever he bothers to put the screwdriver down.

He has been working for ten straight hours.

If the living focus, they can hear faint muttering and cursing. At some point a little after noon, there's a brief, elated shout when the Medigun sparks to life, a hazy smoke of red energy trailing from the barrel. It quickly turns to disappointed groaning when, yet again, the device refuses to budge from the lowest settings.

Later still, there's a man-shaped figure covered with pigeons at the animal cafe. He needs to de-stress a bit.

... Wait, not all of those are pigeons. How the hell did he get a bunch of birds of prey to flock to him, let alone sit calmly with his pigeons?

(the wildlife rehabber in me dislikes animal cafes that use wildlife but i cant pass this up)]

Animal cafe

[imstuck]

[Phil enters the cafe

Sees the swarm of birds

And turns around to leave]

[resortghosts]

[An eagle screeches from Medic's shoulder.]

restauraunt

[xenoqueen]

[...Who left a hunk of scrap metal on the table--? Oh, oh shit, that's Medic's. Ripley eyes the screwdriver floating about the device, occasionally dipping down to fiddle with some part of the device. Her eyes drift to the empty plates stacked on top of each other, then back to the Medigun.

After a moment, she walks over to pick up the dirty plates.]

Maybe you ought to take a break.

[resortghosts]

[The screwdriver jerks in surprise- or rather, the man holding it does. Medic didn't notice her coming.

The screwdriver is placed back on the table and Medic scribbles on a note.]

There has to be a way to make it work again. I keep getting so close!!!

[rosebridled]

[ Anthy had spent a lot of her time in her room when they'd only had access to the first floor, but with the second opened up, it's a lot easier to find her out and about.

Predictably, it's easy to find her in the greenhouse in the morning, watering the flowers, or reading up on some of the less familiar plants with a book brought over from the library. On this day, she's got her hands dirty planting some seeds in one of the empty spaces.

Later in the day, she'll be in the music room, playing a song on the piano as Chu-Chu sits on top and sways his head left and right as he dutifully performs the job of a metronome. ]

music room, naturally

[dolleyed]

[ Naturally, Kohaku would be coming here of all places - though he carries his own violin with him, so there is not much reason to come. It's simply nice to be surrounded by instruments - some of the equipment and even the instruments are unfamiliar to him, but they still put him at ease.

Finding Anthy already there is a pleasant surprise. Kohaku stays in the doorway and listens quietly, not wanting to interrupt. The melody is not super sophisticated, but it's also not unpleasant. 100% better than any of the music the resort ever plays from the speakers.

When Anthy is finished, he comes in properly. ]

It was about time they gave us something like this place, man.

[rosebridled]

Oh, Kohaku-san.

[ Smiles!! She still needs to show you her rubber chicken abomination. ]

I'm glad too. There are a lot of nice things on this floor.

[ Like this and the plants and animals! Not so much the rest of the stuff! ]

Do you think we could try to play something together?

[dereban]

[ Early in the morning, Inaba can be found at the library, grabbing several books of note - mostly things in relation to morse code and medical-related things. Oh, and cookbooks, too? What's that last one for... She knows they might need the medical notes for Friday, and the first one might be useful for communication, too. Especially given that the ghosts can't bring their tablets with them to trials. Not that she expects to get any solid answers from the ghosts with this, but at least it's a better way to communicate with them than they are right now. After that, she can be found in the arcade, playing a variety of games. She immediately zooms for some of the newer titles that don't exist in 2010 - some of the fighting games (which she'll challenge people to, FIGHT HER 1v1) but more importantly?? Inaba is at some of the claw machines. And she keeps. Getting prizes. She has so many stuffed animals. She is burying herself in them. To the point where she just glances at the nearest person and asks, a little nervous, a little tense: ] Do you want one...?

arcade;

[13thpromise]

[ Hi Inaba, he was in here again, because the arcade is a place full of games to play. Though he has to stop in his current one since she asks him that. ]

...Uh, sure.

[ He recognizes those stuffed animals from some of the claw machines, yep. ]

Do you play a lot of those games back home?

Library

[theycallhimmrpchan]

[Well that got his attention, he waves as he steps inside the library proper, taking a peek at the covers]

Need a hand with those books?

[When he notices one called morse code, he gives a soft hum]

That would be useful...

arcade

[whirlingmace]

[ It's a stuffed animal, what do you think? ]

I would! You're really good at these games, huh?

[ Cinque hasn't ever played anything like this before ]

arcade, laughs

[enter_the_darkness]

[ His mouth opens... and then closes. ]

What's the point of them?

Arcade

[duskhound]

[Guess who just so happens to love stuffed animals? Yes, it's this girl.]

Can I... Can I really have one?

arcade

[jumpedtheshark]

Eh? Are you really willing to share your loot like that, Inaba-san?

[If there are any black and white bears or pink and white rabbits in the pile of stuffed animals, Tsumugi sure is eyeing them though.]

[enter_the_darkness]

[ He's doing some actual exploring, today, of the entire second floor!

The first place he finds himself pausing in is the music room. It's inside there, he takes a moment to misuse the instruments - yes, all of them, every single one. It'll be obvious to anyone coming into the room, within seconds of stepping inside of it, that he either has no experience or no fucks to give when it comes to these things.

Spoiler: it's both.

Also, at some point, he discovered the Otamatones. The poor Otamatones did nothing to deserve the sounds he's making come out of them.

Vanitas will be found in each of the remaining places at one point, but the other place he pauses the longest is the animal cafe, where he can be found... trying to figure out how to Cat. A few of them seem interested in him, while he seems confused by them. The arcade ties with the cafe in length of time he spends there, but he's mostly just trying to figure out how video games work - he's... not very good at them, and that is apparently annoying him. ]

This thing is clearly broken.

[ Finally, on the the Child Day Care has him... pausing by it to stare. He'll be gesturing at it with his thumb, looking at anyone who happens to be passing by. ]

Why...?

child day care

[whirlingmace]

[ Guess what? ]

Hey hey! What are you looking at?

[ That's warning he'll get before she's there with her arm already sliding to link up with his arm. She does notice the leashes. ]

Do you think after all the fighting you've done and the trouble Sataling has found they decided we needed this?

music room;

[13thpromise]

[ Finally peering his head into this room today...and what is even going on in here with all of this noise? ]

...What're you doing? Are you trying to find an instrument you like?

child day care

[thejusticewagon]

...

I don't even know what's going on in there.

arcade

[jumpedtheshark]

I guess you're only really good at Monster Hunter World, Vanitas-kun...

[Tsumugi is doing her best to not laugh, but her hiding her mouth behind a hand really isn't doing much to stifle her giggles.]

[dolleyed]

[ When Kohaku heads up to the second floor today, he stops by the balcony for a bit to crouch down with the rats and watch them. ]

Hey, you little bastards, how's it going? Do we taste good? Must be nice being a guest of honor around here.

[ Despite the derogatory language, Kohaku's voice is friendly in the usual chatty way one may adopt when talking to animals. He looks like he's in an unusually good mood this week.

Later, he can be found in the music room - he's testing out various instruments (though not playing any full songs, just hitting some notes for pitch). Modern things like electric guitars seem to confuse him for a bit, but he doesn't have too much trouble figuring them out.

Once he finds the Otamatones in the closet though, he just slams the door shut again. ]

RATS

[whirlingmace]

[ Going to crouch down next to him. ]

Are you making friends?

music room;

[13thpromise]

[ Peering right in just in time to hear him slam the door shut to the closet...and just going a lot of ??? ]

What happened?

music room

[jumpedtheshark]

You don't like Otamatones, Kohaku-kun?

[What did Otamatones ever do to you?]