foolishmortals | It's all fun and games until someone dies

[On Saturday afternoon, Wander tapes 23 identical letters on identical stationary. He would have folded them and slide them under the doors, but the entrance to Fiddleford's room was coated in salt and possibly other condiments that hadn't been cleaned, and ruining his letter in particular would send the wrong message.]

GAME NIGHT TONIGHT

Dear neighbor, you are cordially invited to the game room this evening for a get-to-know-everyone party. There will be games! Food! Drinks! Icebreakers! Games!

I hope that we can all find the time to work together and see each other as friends!

♥ Wander and Sylvia

[The game room is less dusty in the evening with the addition of several paper chains hanging on the walls and a table laid out with cards, safety pins, food (chips and dip, Wander's triple pickle cream pie, and a cheese platter), and two pitchers of peach lemonade. Each card has blanks spaces for the participants to fill out: name and favorite food.

There's board games and a spot on the floor for group party games. Wander sets up a game for Spin the Bottle, though everyone is free to set up any game they want.

Have fun and hopefully no one will get murdered!]

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It's a great game! [It's an excuse for Wander to hug everybody.] Hugs make everyone feel better, don't they?

Yeah. They kind of do, though I know some people who need them more often than they'll really admit to.

[ Shaking her head at that but at least she's still optimistic about all this. ]

Do you play a lot of games like this where you come from?

That depends. If I visit a planet that's a-needin' party games, then sure I will! And some planets ask for help in other non-game ways. [Shrug.] And I just like spin the bottle.

Really? I can't even imagine what it's actually like... you know, going out and visiting other planets. I haven't really even left my country yet, besides being here and all.

[ This was certainly a conversation she never thought she'd be having; conversing with a friendly, talking alien? and playing a game in a haunted mansion. About then was when it came to her attention that the bottle had stopped moving and it was actually on Wander himself. ]

Huh. Look at that. [ Anna couldn't help but quirk a friendly smile as she knelt down so it'd be easier to hug him. ] I know a friend of mine would really love this game if he was here.

[There's a lot of people who said that have never left their planet, their country, their city. It's sad, compared to the galaxies where planets feel more like city-states and everyone has traveled at some point in their life. Well, they certainly do now since Dominator has been wrecking planets but Wander has a plan for that and he will deal with it once he escapes.]

So...is your planet also huge? I heard it takes 80 days to get around Earth, and Jupiter's bigger, but that's like my only frame of reference. [Also France is a human-populated planet, but that might be the size Wander is used to.

But wait! The bottle is pointing to him and that takes priority! He opens his arms and stands up.]

Well.. Yeah. There's a lot of countries out there and a LOT of ground you'd have to cover in that 80 days. I wouldn't mind travelling and doing something like that, actually.

[ It's the honest truth because seeing the rest of the world would be amazing in her eyes, seeing as she's spent her whole eighteen years of living in Arendelle and there was so much out there that she hadn't seen yet.

Though she is going to move to give him a proper hug; it's something she can do as easy as breathing, after all. It's only as she does pull back after a moment that she speaks up once again. ]

Do you have like... a favorite planet you've been to, then?

How can I pick just one planet? It's like sayin' you have a favorite kid, and there's never a right answer for that.

[He stands back and sits down cross-legged.]

But...there are some planets that I remember more often than others. Once we visited a brand-new planet that was still figurin' out what to be, her name was Janet. She was pretty lonely, but after she got her own moon [and nearly murdered Wander in the process, but no biggie.] she felt a lot better about herself, and she really started to become more than just a blank slate of a planet.

Oh, there's also this planet that was entirely covered in mushrooms! [He lifts his hands and rocks back at the last word.] Me and Sylvia got chased by a giant worm, but we managed to get out in the nick of time! [Wander nearly drowned.] It was one of the neatest-lookin' places I've been.

There's this one planet that was really high tech, me and Sylvia were there to watch the Great Jellyfish Migration. And actually, we walked up right to the middle of the school. I took an imaginary selfie of it, long story behind that.

...If I had my phone with me, I could show you some pictures.

[ Moving to sit down where she'd been before, it's clear Wander has her attention as he's talking about his different experiences. ]

So planets are almost like people and have their own personalities?!

[ Which is the coolest thing ever in her eyes. His stories about all this is really quite interesting and she's hanging off every word, though some of the terms he mentioned did go a bit over her head. ]

A phone? What... is that?

You can't always talk to 'em, but every planet has a personality. You just gotta slow down and listen. [Every place is special and memorable, it's as if everything has a heart.] Janet was special in that I could talk right to her.

[He lets his hands over in front of him, palms flat.]

A phone? To talk with people and take pictures and look up directions? Just a bit bigger than your hand?

That's incredible! It almost sounds like something you'd find in a book but... you're actually living it!

[ Maybe this whole 'being stuck in a creepy mansion with strangers' thing wasn't so bad? Well. Besides what they wanted them to do and being away from the people she cared about. ]

Yeah. It's the first i've really ever heard about them. Do you have a lot of them in your time?

[Shucks, it's nothing. What really matters is that the party is lifting everyone's spirits and preventing them from thinking of murder.]

Almost everyone has one. Not the kids, most parents don't want to spoil 'em, but it's almost impossible to go anywhere without seein' one.

It's all fun and games until someone dies

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