WEEK 2

[grimgrinningghosts]

[One week. One week spent in the Haunted Mansion, and nothing seems to have changed. The hinges still creak in doorless chambers, strange and frightening sounds still echo through and you still occasionally catch a flicker of candlelight out of the corner of your eye. You might be slowly becoming familiar with the mundanity of this communal life, and we've recognized that possibility.

Something has to give.]

[SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY]

{ooc: Don't forget to turn in your week 1/intro AC! As per murdergame tradition, this begins our new weekly schedule - Tuesday and onwards are locked for the motive. Everybody's just working for the weekend.

Additionally, a few people this week are going to get tagged by...something. If you'd like to opt out of this, please let us know.}

Comments

[terribibble]

[This is just confirming all the unhealthy paranoia he already had, honestly, and he is not about it. At her words he pales visibly.]

Yes! Yes, it is weird, why would you want -- why would them gettin' into your head be better?

[thetimebomb]

Uh, because at least if it's creepy, at least it's not stalked me for my whole life across several galaxies creepy?! Grop do you think being stalked is the better of the two options here?

[terribibble]

Because if they're in your head then, then -- then there's nowhere safe at all.

[thetimebomb]

Buddy we lost all rights to feel safe the moment we woke up here.

[Seriously Fiddles it's not a mystery.]

[terribibble]

[RIGHT, BUT LIKE,,,]

It's... it's different. If they can get into your head then, then they can make you think things, do things, they can see everythin' you think a-and always be one step ahead of you...

[And what if they can see everything he erased away? What if... what if they find a way to bring it back, just to fuck with him.]

If they can get into our heads then there's no point havin' any hope at all.

[thetimebomb]

Whoa, Fiddles, I said nothing about them making us do things. I was just thinking that maybe they read through our memories before we first woke up here.

[You might be overthinking this, Fidds.]

[terribibble]

[DO YOU NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT GHOSTS]

And I'm sayin' if they can do that then there's nothin' stoppin' them doin' whatever else they please. Especially if they're spirits, because that's what spirits do, they, they possess you and turn you wicked.

[thetimebomb]

[LOOK AT BEST HER INTERACTIONS WITH GHOSTS ARE VERY MINIMAL.]

If they can do that whenever they want, why haven't they done that by now, then? Why bother with the motives if they can just possess us and force us to murder each other?

1/2

[terribibble]

That's --

2/2

[terribibble]

... A good point.

[Okay. Okay. Deep breath. Remember: panic, bad. Calm, good. It's been over a week. He's been outside the salt circle enough that they could have if they wanted to.]

[thetimebomb]

[She looks very smug at Fidds agreeing with her.]

See? If there's anything we should worry about, murderous ghosts aren't one of them.

[terribibble]

[Don't you smug at him, he's just trying to live.]

Right. We just have to worry about... but no one here would.

[Gotta keep saying that. If he says it enough he'll believe it.]

Do you really think they're goin' to keep us here forever if no-one... if no-one gives in?

[thetimebomb]

[Her smug grin falters.]

... I dunno. I feel like they'd have to give up eventually. Even if they said they were going to keep us forever, I think they'd have to realize eventually that it's a lot more effort than it's worth if we didn't kill each other.

[terribibble]

And we won't. We definitely won't.

[Right? Right.]

So... so we just have to hold out until... until they give up. However long that takes.

[He takes his notebook out of his coat and underlines something. You know. Just to reinforce it.]

[thetimebomb]

I'm sure it'll take one month, maybe two at the most. After that we'll be able to leave and pretend none of this ever happened.

[terribibble]

[His first instinct is to protest that that's far too long to have to survive in a place like this, but he beats it down. No. No. It won't help.]

I sure hope you're right about that. For... for everyone's sake.