Week 5

[grimgrinningghosts]

[...So that was a mess. All of it was a mess, and things don't look to be improving any time soon. With tensions at an all-time high and conditions worsened, it seems pretty safe to say that this whole week promises a great deal of foreboding atmosphere.

But, hey, things aren't entirely bad. Just as Randall promised, you're now able to leave the Manor! 

Just don't stay out there for too long. There's still a lot of you, and you just can't afford to lose numbers.

24 guests remain]

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[OOC: and don't forget to fill out this week's activity check!]

Comments

[athleticallyinclined]

[ Even Gaston can recognize a shrine when he sees one. Not to mention a young man in need of a role model.

He comes up behind Hiro and claps him on the shoulder, gazing at the carefully arranged pictures and assortment of tokens. ]

Ah, the past. So hard to let go...

[upgradeit]

[Oh. It's Gaston.]

Yeah, sometimes. [It's fine, his dead brother doesn't consume his waking thoughts or anything.] Moving on is always a process.

[athleticallyinclined]

[ Lucky you. ]

Yes, yes...

[ He's already losing interest in the shrine. ]

All those...people...that were here...and now they're not...

[ And we? Miss them? Is that how it works?? ]

[upgradeit]

Did you . . . need something? Like, from me. Specifically.

[He doesn't really get why Gaston is talking to him?? He's willing to talk to Gaston now, though, because at least Gaston is. Well, there's been Improvement so maybe he's not totally irredeemable? That's something, at least.]

[athleticallyinclined]

The question, my boy, is what you need from me.

[ LOOK HOW SELFLESS HE'S BEING, it's amazing. He claps Hiro on the back hard enough to make him stumble. ]

Look at you, a strapping young lad. It's time to stop mourning the past and start looking to your future!

[upgradeit]

My . . . future? [He doesn't follow, sorry.] In this murder house?

[athleticallyinclined]

Wherever life may lead you!

[ Which is probably just this murder house, given the odds, yeah. ]

Tell me, has anyone ever taught you how to shoot a gun?

[upgradeit]

Uh, no? I don't really need to shoot things in my daily life that often.

[He's a nerd, Gaston. He doesn't need to shoot things???? Or hunt????]

[athleticallyinclined]

Did you know, I thought the same thing when I was your age?

[ This is untrue. ]

It's not until you hold the iron in your hands, smell the powder, feel the power of it all that you really realize it.

There are so many things that need shooting!

[upgradeit]

[That seems . . . incredibly fake, but Hiro is kind of waiting to see where this is going.]

Like what?

[athleticallyinclined]

[ Nowhere good. ]

Ducks, for one.

[ He leans in close and winks. ]

Tell me you wouldn't like to be the one to make the killing blow.

[upgradeit]

[Is? Is Gaston suggesting they kill Negaduck?????? He's down but also like.]

No, he'd probably enjoy that. [Just saying.] And that's just not fun.

[athleticallyinclined]

Enjoy dying?

[ He raises an eyebrow at Hiro. ]

No one enjoys that, I assure you.