CHAPTER 2 ; MINGLE

[themodsgrimm]

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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[thesettingsun]

[it's got a cute fox on the cover]

Does that justify everything they want us to do?

[Murder, mostly.]

[selfinserting]

[He looks at the book for a few moments more, turning it over in his hands as he thinks about how to answer that question.]

What they want us to do is... horrible. It's awful. [Even so...] B-But what if not playing along is, um, w-worse?

[thesettingsun]

...If you'll do something awful either way, then I think most people would rather hurt strangers here than let their friends at home be hurt.

[Most people with any sense of priorities.]

[selfinserting]

[He takes a breath, holding the book back out to Dazai.]

I-It's not just... about strangers or friends. It's about the, the amount of people, too.

[thesettingsun]

How many strangers are worth the life of a friend? Two strangers to a friend? One and a half?

[Dazai is always going to prioritize his important people, and he won't apologize for that.]

[selfinserting]

That's not...

[He shakes his head.]

I-It's not, um, it's not about that for me.

[thesettingsun]

Then what is it about?

[Where else do numbers come into it?]

[selfinserting]

It's not about how many friends or how many strangers or anything. That... doesn't matter. It's more...

[A pause.]

Even if my friends were here and there were just strangers back home... It's an, an entire world of people with hopes and dreams and, and people they love and care about. It's - hard to think about, but...

[thesettingsun]

...That's still a matter of numbers. You just don't want to think of it in those terms. 'A whole world' is just a very large number of people - there's a number where you'd sacrifice your friends for strangers and a number where you wouldn't.

[selfinserting]

It might be numbers, but... I don’t want to think of it in terms of, um, friends or strangers. Just - how many people we can help, whether we know them or not.

[thesettingsun]

Most people who say things like all lives being equally valuable to them are lying to themselves.

[Just. Putting that out there.]

[selfinserting]

...I'm not.

[He absolutely is.]

[thesettingsun]

Mhmhm.

[He doesn't believe that, but he doesn't have much else to say.]