WEEK 3

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Karolina and Mulan are dead. The first, and hopefully the last, deaths of your stay here. Hopefully their deaths won't be in vain. Your third week here starts on a solemn note, and the mood here has taken on a significant downward spiral. If it's any consolation (it isn't), you'll find that you have two new floors to explore...even if one of those floors has about twenty STAY OUT signs nailed to it.

23 guests remain.]

[SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY]

{ooc: Don't forget to turn in your week 2 AC! As we're now officially in full murdergame mode, AC from here on out is extended till Thursday.}

Comments

[terribibble]

I... I don't know if that's the best idea. In this house, I mean.

[ilovepuppies]

Dude, this house is the perfect place for a seance! We could get all the ghosts in here and give 'em a piece of our mind!

[Or summon malevolent triangle demons, either way.]

[terribibble]

Well that's just the thing, I don't know if I'd like nearly a thousand ghosts all in one room. That's invitin' trouble.

[ilovepuppies]

Ghosts are intangible! They can all just stand in the same spot so they'll all fit!

[I'm pretty sure that's not what he's worried about.]

[terribibble]

[Not in the slightest.]

That's... that's just too high a concentration of ghosts.

Maybe if you do this you ought to invite just a couple.

[ilovepuppies]

Wow.

You are no fun.

[terribibble]

How is not wantin' to wind up possessed no fun? Y'know how dangerous it is to annoy spirits?

[ilovepuppies]

I annoy dangerous things all the time! And look, I'm still standing right here!

[terribibble]

[hHHHHGH]

You -- you just --

How do you do that? Not worry about anythin'?

[It's just a fundamentally alien thing to him. He can't comprehend being so doggedly optimistic, even as a man who focuses so much of his being on trying to be that very thing.]

[ilovepuppies]

[Makes an 'I don't know' sound.]

I have a million better things I can do than sit around and worry about it, that's why!

[terribibble]

Well -- well yes, but you can worry about somethin' even while you're takin' steps to fix it.

[If anything he'd assume worrying would kind of push you to be even more proactive about that. That's how it works for him.]

[ilovepuppies]

Yeah, but I don't!

Have you ever tried not worrying about stuff all the time?

[Seriously dude you're gonna give yourself a heart attack.]

[terribibble]

Oh sure. I've tried. You can't just turn that sort've thing off.

[Not without, like. Drugs. But he's not crazy. He doesn't need medication. He's not crazy.]

I mean I can be optimistic, y'know. Try and be hopeful. But that's not the same as genuinely believin' it.

[He cannot believe he is having this discussion here, now, with Star goddamn Butterfly. But she's so good at this thing he's been struggling all his life to manage.]

[ilovepuppies]

[JEEEEEZ she feels like she's talking to an even stuffier version of Marco.]

I bet you can! Everybody can! Try it! Be optimistic! Right now!

[terribibble]

[Ohhhhhh my god]

Alright. I'm optimistic whatever you summon [Because he's resigned himself by now to the fact that she's going to try and summon something] probably won't make things worse than they already are.