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foolishmortals2017-07-09 11:31 am
grimgrinningghosts) wrote in foolishmortals2017-07-09 11:31 am
WEEK 5
[Wander and Sylvia are dead, the Ghost Host was snuffed out like a light, and Tarzan is nowhere to be seen. It seems like in an instant everything is changed, not just the circumstances, but the mansion itself. It feels like it's gotten significantly colder in the mansion, and you might also start seeing bugs out of the corner of you eyes, darting away into darkness the moment you try to focus on them.
And, starting this week, any and all ghosts are eerily absent but at the same time, no matter where you go, you feel like you're being watched by something. To make matters worse, the attic doors have been nailed open.
But there are some bright spots in this week. When you wake up on Sunday, you'll find that you have a brand new tuxedo hanging up on your bedroom door, in your exact size. Later, if you're curious enough to try going from the second floor to the attic, you'll find that there's a whole new floor to explore, but this time it's just comprised of two rooms: a smallish but serviceable laundry room and an expansive casino with an attached bar.
Don't tell Jiminy about this he will have a heart attack.
Feel free to explore, but maybe you want to keep away from the Stretching Room for awhile. Somebody cut the noose on the hanging corpse.
17 guests remain.]
{OOC: Don't forget to fill our your Week 4 Activity Check!}
And, starting this week, any and all ghosts are eerily absent but at the same time, no matter where you go, you feel like you're being watched by something. To make matters worse, the attic doors have been nailed open.
But there are some bright spots in this week. When you wake up on Sunday, you'll find that you have a brand new tuxedo hanging up on your bedroom door, in your exact size. Later, if you're curious enough to try going from the second floor to the attic, you'll find that there's a whole new floor to explore, but this time it's just comprised of two rooms: a smallish but serviceable laundry room and an expansive casino with an attached bar.
Don't tell Jiminy about this he will have a heart attack.
Feel free to explore, but maybe you want to keep away from the Stretching Room for awhile. Somebody cut the noose on the hanging corpse.
17 guests remain.]
{OOC: Don't forget to fill our your Week 4 Activity Check!}
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Oh -- well. How we think about them, mainly, and how our understanding of them has changed over the years. Like for instance the chapter I'm on's all about Mars, and how one of the first people to study it thought he saw canals on its surface and that's what planted the idea of life there in people's heads to begin with.
Which. You. May not be familiar with, I'm realizin'.
[TIMELINES STRIKE AGAIN]
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I can tell when the seasons are changing by the constellations...?
[Buddy he can't even read and you're expecting him to get War of the Worlds theory]
that icon is so perfect for this. help him
Well, that's... that's not a bad skill to have, bein' honest. Not a lot of folks in my time can actually read stars or find constellations on their own anymore unless that's their job. Now we study what they're made of, how they move, what's out past them. Most people couldn't point out Venus to you in the night sky but they'll know what the atmosphere's made out of.
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What is an atmosphere]
...Is everyone in your time as, ah. [elite] Well-read as you are?
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Oh, uh. Well not everyone, no, but most kids get basic schoolin' at the very least. Depends on where you're from. If I'd stayed on the farm things would've been a lot different.
[Not that his family wasn't educated, oh no. It's just that most of them never felt the need to pursue it outside of their rural lifestyle, because that lifestyle already suited them just fine.]
I was the first in my family to go to college.
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He stares at him and blinks a couple of times.]
Um...
[By the end of the 18th century, about 350 universities in France taught a total of 50,000 young men from ages 10 to 20.
Out of a population of 30 million.]
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I know. I know things've changed a lot by my time and it's a lot to take in. I'm not tryin' to talk nonsense, I swear.
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No offense.
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Though y'know I don't want you to think it reflects negatively on you. Or that anyone's goin' to judge. Everybody's got their strengths and not everyone's strengths are academic. And between you and me bein' academically smart doesn't mean you're smart all around.
[He glances very pointedly over at Ford 'absolute social idiot' Pines.]
There's somethin' to be said for plain common sense.
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Well, if you're willing to let "the fool" be a voice of reason around here then we're all up the creek, aren't we.
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[For instance, Lefou didn't have a complete freakout and destroy his room day one. Just as an example.]
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I appreciate that. Really.
[He reaches over to pat Fiddleford's shoulder.]