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]

Well it's his book and all. This sort of thing, this is his are of study.

Between you and me I never believed in ghosts really until he proved to me they were real, but it's always better to be safe than sorry. On the off-chance they were real, y'know. Best to take precautions.

[It makes perfect sense to him. People always said ghosts and spirits and spooks weren't real, sure, but if they were what would be the harm in putting down salt or knocking on the doorframe when you enter a house, just to be doubly safe?]

[outsidethecircle]

...So those things could be real, too?

[Dear god, the world is weird.]

[terribibble]

Could be, at least where I'm from. Stanford's a lot of things but he doesn't tend to lie, not about this sort of thing.

But it's just so silly.

[He can't believe this man used to be his best friend. Ugh.]

[outsidethecircle]

I... have nothing.

[Why is this so ridiculous?]

[terribibble]

In the grand scheme of things I suppose it's better it's silly and not, y'know, legitimately disturbin'.

[outsidethecircle]

Why do these things exist?

[terribibble]

[Uh. Well that sure is a question.]

Well, I, ah. Philosophy was never my area of expertise, you understand. Because isn't much of an answer but frankly I couldn't explain this to you evolutionary, I'm not much of a biologist either.

I mostly know my physics and, well. I suppose they exist because there had to be a universe out there where they did, because infinite possible universes means infinite possible things existin' in those universes. If that follows at all.

[outsidethecircle]

[Oh no. She kind of looks at him.]

I, uh, didn't expect you to answer that.

[terribibble]

Oh.

[He probably should have picked up on that, huh.]

Pardon. It's always been in my nature to try and answer questions, y'know. Solve problems. I should have figured you meant it rhetorical-like.

[outsidethecircle]

I understand. Sometimes I say things that I don't mean to say out loud, so.

[Anna, you're a kid. That's what they do.]

[terribibble]

Oh, I think most folks do that. Mouth moves faster than your brain and before you know it it's out there and you can't get it back.

[Or is that just him? No. No, it's definitely not, because Ford always had the same problem.]

[outsidethecircle]

Yes. Sometimes it just goes out there before you know it.

[Like when the rude girl sticks her face in yours and you insult her by accident even if you know she technically wasn't doing anything wrong. ...or when you ask what the meaning of everything is.]

[terribibble]

Well. I figure if it happens to everyone then it's nothin' to worry too much about, right?

[Which won't stop him from worrying the moment he actually puts his foot in his mouth, which he's already done several times -- the healing bruise over his eye is proof of that -- but still. It's the thought that counts. She's a kid, and the part of him that's been a father for several years now and wanted to be a father before that feels obligated to try and put her at ease.

It doesn't help that her quiet, overly-stoic demeanor reminds him a lot of Tate.]

And it wasn't a bad question, exactly. Just an awful hard one to answer.

[outsidethecircle]

[She gives a small smile at that.]

Probably not even if it's embarrassing.

[Mrs. Sasaki was always worrying about things. If not over Anna herself then over some other small thing. She didn't want the adults here to worry about her like that. It... didn't feel right, after all.]

Hehe... I bet. [She even gives a small chuckle at it.]