This is fine. It's fine. We're fine.

[sharpasanarrow]

[Well that was.

Something.

Underneath everyone’s door they’ll find a slip of paper, in shaky calligraphy, that reads:

INVITATION

Meet in the Dining Room.

Do not bring alcohol of any sort.

Upon arrival into the Dining Room it’s clear that this is very much...not a party.

The center of the room is cleared of all tables, and instead has all the chairs arranged in a circle, facing inwards. On the tables pushed to the side are jugs of water, cups, plates of saltines, and several hastily-made pamplets that read on the front ”How to cope with Child homicide” that contains an advisory list:

1. Try not to think about it.
2. Do not get hysterical.
3. Crying is permitted, but keep it within a reasonable volume. (For the consideration of fellow mourners)
4. Maintain civility
5. Do not plunder the belongings of the deceased.
6. No drinking or gambling your sorrows away. Set an example.

Standing in front of one of the chairs already is Mr.Arrow. He clears his throat as people start to slowly come in.]

I gathered you all here because I believed it would be conductive to group morale if we all worked through our feelings regarding recent events. Talk about your feelings with one another, but not with me.

[He steps back a little, out of the circle of chairs, in what seems to be an invitation for people to sit down and discuss with one another.]

Comments

[sneezelikeakitten]

Mabel! [OH NO OH NO OH NO PLEASE SAY IT AIN'T SO] Are you with Stan?

[Please say no]

[scrapplinghook]

Of course I am! We've been looking out for each other for the past few weeks, after we got dragged into this super creepy manor place.

[whoops.... sorry for crushing your hope there dipdop....]

[sneezelikeakitten]

[kghkwrejhndsvkjrnkvjnrkjdnvskjvwndscsvdkasj ddmrsd ERROR DIPPER.EXE HAS STOPPED FUNCTIONING







All hopes crushed]

Please don't die.

[scrapplinghook]

[... Ah. Okay. Mabel's smile fades at that, and she just sort of. Fidgets with the mirror a bit.]

Some people here already died. It was really bad.

[sneezelikeakitten]

Mabel... don't trust anyone but Stan, okay? Some people seem really nice and great and all, but people have come here to the Underworld who were killed by friends.

[Don't. Trust. Anyone. Except family.]

[scrapplinghook]

[... Dipper you're trying to tell the girl who made friends with the MAILMAN to be emotionally distant. That ain't gunna work.]

But what if most of them don't do anything! It's not fair to them to not trust them just 'cause of something they MIGHT do!

[sneezelikeakitten]

[He just doesn't want Mabel showing up here. He misses her BUT NOT ENOUGH TO WANT HER TO DIE]

Mabel, I trusted someone named Goofy. He was a dad, and really nice, and he killed a man because he thought Merlin was the reason I died. Preston Northwest killed a girl who mistook him for a butler!

[scrapplinghook]

... Well okay, but did anyone there really trust Pacifica's dad? He's like.... king jerk. If Bill wasn't a thing then he'd be the Jerkiest Jerk evee.

[sneezelikeakitten]

Actually, some people here like Ratigan liked him. Then again, Ratigan kept saying he wasn't a rat... maybe evil people really are drawn to each other.

[scrapplinghook]

You got an evil rat? We have one that can cook! Your friends must be really weird.

[But she still wants to hear all about them!]

Still... I'm not gunna ignore everyone just 'cause they might kill someone. I mean... everyone thought Grunkle Stan was a bad guy, but everything turned out okay, right?

[sneezelikeakitten]

Ratigan is not my friend. My friends are........... pretty much all girls. You'd like them. Two of them are demigods.

[No more talking about Ratigan.]

Grunkle Stan was a little bit of a bad guy. Remember that time they read all of his crimes out loud?

[scrapplinghook]

Demigods ??? What kind?!

[OH BOY SHE ALREADY CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THEM.]

... Okay you got a point there. But he never killed anyone! And he really wasn't trying to end the world that one time!

[sneezelikeakitten]

Daughters of gods. Reyna is the daughter of the Roman goddess Bellona, and Thalia is the daughter of Zeus. They're both really strong. Thalia is a lot like Wendy, actually...

[Thalia might be more Mabel's type.]

True. He wasn't a super villain, just a con man.

[scrapplinghook]

[The names kind of... go right over Mabel's head, but she knows that people like that are normally super cool, so...!]

Do they have superpowers??? I bet if you guus tried to break us out you could do it in no time, with superheroes like that and your big nerd brain!