CHAPTER 2 ; MINGLE

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The Story Continues... CHAPTER 233 Narrators Remain ; There’s nothing to shake up the feeling of helplessness and betrayal quite like some renovations. Residents in the castle will find a gentle rumble stirring them out of their sleep on Monday morning, and if they choose to find the source of the noise, they’ll notice a newly constructed staircase on the second floor. It stretches up, up, up and will guide the Narrators to a third floor with all types of new installments to the castle. Go ahead, crack open a book, try your hand at some potion mixing. What could possibly go wrong? Just as last week, the morning that the dining hall opens, the tapestries of Ann Takamaki, Soo-won, and Dave Strider will all suddenly catch flame from the bottom, burning up and up until the entire tapestry is gone. Anyone who ventures outside will also find that the scenery has warmed up considerably. Snow no longer dusts the ground, but rather the warm sun and pleasant chirping of birds greet you to the castle grounds. The area has also been expanded, a new jousting grounds available for play and recreation. A set of stables stands next to the grounds, but anyone who ventures inside will find only hear the occasional, phantom whinny of a horse and – find some rather large feathers? Interesting. Finally, partners will find themselves unable to rest peacefully yet another week. While no paranoia creeps over anyone’s shoulders, when night falls and they find themselves sleeping, they’ll instead see dreams – or rather, some memories of their partner. Apparently the Crafters would rather that you all get to know each other sooner, rather than later. Hopefully you don’t see anything you’re not meant to. Welcome to Week 2, everyone! Today we've introduce new castle locations and brought a new round of partner effects, so please review those, including the Outside section on the Locations page. If you'd like to have your characters interact with the laboratory, please feel free to PP the mods! We would also like to remind players to submit all of their Prologue PCs and new PCs at the Private Conversations page and review the weekly ooc notes for important details in the castle. Something exciting will be arriving on Wednesday, June 20th so keep your eyes peeled for that as well. full navigation. locations taken (statuses) stories (profiles) info & faq wishing well private conversations

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tuesday

[alttitude]

[Hey.

Jae-ha will be peering over Sousei's shoulder to look at the book, because he likes testing Sousei's personal space boundaries more and more with each week.]

Is it a good one? Shall we bring it?

[disilluded]

[Sousei shoves it back into the shelf and frowns.]

No.

[Nope.]

I simply did not notice it was the same that I'd taken before. Don't read into it.

[Sousei leaves Jae-ha alone, but does pivot on his heel to go stride to another book shelf.]

[alttitude]

[ . . .

Jae-ha follows.

But also.]

Are you extra moody today?

[disilluded]

[Yes.]

Do not be ridiculous.

[He's tired!!! This entire situation is frustrating!! He's getting Gross Green Dragon memories!!]

They could have allowed us access to this library earlier than this.

[alttitude]

[Oh, he's so moody.]

... Shall we grab a few books and get some tea then?

[sousei asked once if jae-ha has just started treating him like a child

the answer is

yeah sort of]

[disilluded]

[Oh my god Jae-ha. Sousei levels a flat look at him.]

No. Go do that on your own, if that is what you want to do.

[alttitude]

So no one can point out when you pull out the same book for a third time?

[lmao]

[disilluded]

[Hrm.]

Are you attempting to just irritate me further?

[alttitude]

It's an unfortunate side effect of pointing out when you're being stubborn and getting distracted enough to not notice that you're doing the same thing multiple times, which only makes you moodier.

[He did it with the festival too.]

I'm just trying to break the cycle early.

With tea.

[disilluded]

... [He does not like that this is logical.]

... Fine. A short break then.

[alttitude]

[ ♥♥ ]

Do you have a preference of tea?

And we might as well grab a book on the way out.

[so the time in the library was not completely wasted]

[disilluded]

Green tea would be preferred, but that aside, no.

[He doesn't care what type of green tea honestly, he's not a tea snob.

Also:]

Pick whatever book you want. They do not seem particularly useful.

[alttitude]

[Jae-ha hums, looking through them before having his fingers settle on the prettiest book he can find.

It's a book on Peter Pan.]

Let's try this. It has the Captain's title - [Captain Hook....] - so I imagine it must be interesting.

[HE HAS TO STUDY.

But otherwise they're apparently leaving the library!]

[disilluded]

[... Hm.]

Yes, I suppose that would be interesting enough to me as well.

[OFF THEY GO.]

[alttitude]

[tbh i'm skipping to the kitchen bc why wouldn't i

jae-ha's making the tea but he's left the book on the counter by sousei]

What were you looking through the library for? Anything in particular or any hint at all?

[disilluded]

Any hint at all. In truth, it was more curiosity than anything.

[A sigh, and he shakes his head.]

I was simply not sure what to expect of it.

[alttitude]

Well - they at least can get us up to date regarding the fairy tales. I'm not sure what half of these titles reference.

[more than half

more like all of them

but]

Did you see the one about Beauty and the Beast?

[disilluded]

Hm... no.

[There are a lot of books.]

Have you found a copy of it yet?

[alttitude]

It might be somewhere else in the library - there's... a lot to go through.

But it sounds like it might help give some form of direction, at least.

[disilluded]

It is something, if nothing else.

[Though really, what makes that one special out of all of these fairy tales? Why were they the ones to--]

It appeals to me, if nothing else, even if they were apparently "unsuccessful".

[alttitude]

Please don't surprise condemn me to purgatory with you.

At least take me to dinner first.

[disilluded]

[Wow.]

Nobody suggested that you were the Beauty to my Beast or vice versa. You might simply just die.

[THANKS SOUSEI]

[alttitude]

[ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]

Ah.

[Ah.

The teapot whistles.]

[disilluded]

[Uh huh.]

Though simply attacking them outright lacks some sort of finesse. Obviously, they are prepared for that.

[SO CANDID.]

[alttitude]

[Jae-ha levels Sousei with a long-suffering look.

And then goes to retrieve the teapot with a sigh.]

At least sound like you'd be sad if anything happened to me.

[asshole.

But he'll also move on:]

If it happened before? Probably. Repeating the same thing over doesn't sound like the best idea.