WEEK 5 MINGLE

[foundationmods]

WEEK 5

They said it was a break week, but two of your number were lost anyway last week. While you're all tired and still recovering, the speakers crackle to life with the voice of The Lady.

"Attention, Guests. The game is back on. Break week is now over. Happy Holidays."

The Staff are still like they were last week - only this time, the orders almost always go wrong, if they even manage to go through - the Staff are vanishing constantly. Meals are also getting affected - they're still perfectly edible, but they're not as delicious as they once were, with seasoning and other things occasionally being off. The Sign warning people to not take knives is still on the kitchen door, but The Chef seems incredibly tired, often resting on a chair in the corner.

The Resort is still furnished with Holiday items - but after Medic's christmas protest, there are more items related to other holidays up, and it's much more balanced - objects and colors of multiple holidays side by side in harmony, with the mistletoe still up for any needed smooching. There are, however, more wriggling...things, and there's even an entire 'tree' made of eldritch tentacles with glowing balls of light on them that wink in an oddly hypnotic fashion.

The weather is still nothing, but the courtyard seems to have switched to a much warmer clime, which while still a little cool is pleasant enough to sit outside in. Finally, the music this week seems... almost ominous...?

On Monday morning, another memory is returned to everyone, one more traumatic this time instead of gentle like the others have been. Yet, you feel as if you know a little more about your time in this world, now. Not everything, but...enough.

Enough to see this game through to the end, at least.


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Comments

[resortghosts]

I'm already thinking about learning more about sword fighting if this sort of shit happens again. Neither myself or Nanase are combat-oriented, so it could have gotten real bad even if we honestly didn't expect it. . .

I'll try to keep myself out of trouble, but I also need to try to keep the others out, which means that trouble might follow me regardless. I'd like to hope that I won't have to do something like that ever again, but I have very low hopes.

And yeah, they do look pretty recent. Not sure why they ended up in that room in particular (probably the creature found it interesting and took it back with them?) but I guess that part's not really important.

It's possible that it could be referring to us?

[There's an actual, lengthy pause before more text fills the screen:]





Or it could be referring to the three monsters - the Jorogumo, the Barghest and the Doppelganger, since I believe they're considered as Guests as well? It might be worth looking into and possibly asking the others outside our group about it. I think the latter is more likely here, though, but that's my thoughts on it.

[13thpromise]

pick up some sword fighting then or basic moves either one can definitely help in a pinch
i guess that make sense though if they were referring to those three...and maybe us too because they forced us to participate in this game so they have our "help" whether we wanted to give it or not

[ Yeah he's salty about that, fight him ]

but it also looks like because theyve been getting so sick they cant form the captain together and all that
which explains why the lady said those things last trial

[resortghosts]

Yeah, sword fighting seems like my best bet right now since I can probably get some help on that from our end, since we have two sword fighters that could possibly help me?

I learned a little bit about the basics from Owain, but I have no idea if I'll be able to use it in actual practice. Also I'm going to need an actual sword. I'll check the storage to see if I can't find anything workable.

There is one thing I'm wondering that's somewhat related to the "game". . . though but I don't think it's important to this current discussion and I'd rather not discuss it publicly for everyone to see, so do you mind if I contact you later?

[Curiosity killed the cat and all that.]

Yeah. I know at the last meeting we were thinking that the Resort might have some sort of food poisoning on top of having the Outsider inside their brain. And the fact that the Outsider doesn't seem to be satisfied with regular food anymore is a little concerning, too.

[13thpromise]

thats good i hope that it works out then
i dont really remember seeing any swords lying around and the staff is kinda really out of it so i think going straight to storage really would be the best bet
and okay sure i dont mind

[ Funny that apparently the oil thing is like a cat too... ]

right...
if the outsider doesnt like regular food anymore does it mean hes been changed somehow

[resortghosts]

I hope so. I'll check the storage out and see what I'll find at some point later. And I'll send over the message right now so you don't have to wait for it. Shouldn't be too long of a thing.

[And he'll get a private ping!]

Well, he can still eat regular food and I think it would be bad of him to just stop eating altogether, but I think him being there might have changed him a little, yeah. He should be 'fixed' if we get him out though...?

[13thpromise]

alright

...really it sounds like the secret to solving literally all of our problems is just getting the outsider out of where he is

[ And that's not an exaggeration. Stopping the game, the killing, the sickness, and now Outsider's other problem. ]