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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Comments

[tacticalespionageaction]

And that's all you needed?

[resortghosts]

Indeed.

... There was a good bit more than I would have expected from those kinds of wounds, though. And the fact that it managed to persist despite the Apprentice's significant spiritual power.

[tacticalespionageaction]

And what does that mean?

[resortghosts]

Well, considering the result was a fully formed larval form of the creature, I am beginning to suspect that is how it usually reproduces.

[tacticalespionageaction]

It makes children from corpses?

[...]

Are we going to have more puppies?

[resortghosts]

No, I think it deposits its energy in living beings. Like eggs.

Are you familiar with ichneumon wasps?

[tacticalespionageaction]

Are they different from regular wasps?

[resortghosts]

Oh, quite.

You see, instead of creating a nest or digging a hole to lay their eggs in, the females of these species lay their eggs inside the bodies of other insects. These larvae hatch and then feed on their unwilling babysitters. Thew grow and grow while their host grows ever weaker, devoured from the inside out.

[tacticalespionageaction]

That's...nasty.

[Really, just gross.]

The Barghest does the same thing?

[resortghosts]

In theory.

I will have to raise the pup to adulthood and offer it some animal hosts... see what shakes out.

[tacticalespionageaction]

Adulthood, huh?

[Of course, the puppy wouldn’t be a puppy forever.]

How long do you think that’ll take?

[resortghosts]

Well, it seems to be growing at an accelerated rate... a normal dog reaches sexual maturity between six months and a year... We probably only have two to three months, logically speaking.