[ week two: mingle ]

[murderhost]

MINGLE LOG

We're back, everybody! Fresh week, fresh house, fresh murder. It is indeed a fresh house as when people wake on Monday morning they'll see that — everything is fixed! The windows, the table, whatever property damage that was inflicted last week is all cleaned up and reset. There is no SOS on the roof anymore. None of that. Anyone who stayed up all night on Sunday will have seen the mannequins diligently cleaning and repairing the house during the course of the night, finished by dawn. Yay!

They've also opened a new room in the house. A cleaning room — there is a washing machine, dryer, and various cleaning supplies in the room. Mops and brooms and dustpans and swiffers and all sorts of things! There's even a basket for collecting dirty laundry too.

And then in the morning, they bring in a few things to note, dumping it all in the living room.

• A assortment of feminine clothing — dresses, skirts, blouses, etc
• Included in that pile of clothing are twenty-five sailor uniforms of various sizes
• Make up! Quite a bit — enough to last the rest of the time
• So many packs of underwear. You had underwear last week but like, this is better
• A tablet with Candy Crush and Infinity Nikki on it. There is nothing else accessible on it. There's a sticky note on the cover that says FOR ECHINACEA
• A gun with one bullet is on the coffee table
• A spear is laid across the coffee table as well

That said, it doesn't seem like the food restocked. Huh...

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PROPERTY DAMAGE | PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS

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Comments

[voring]

[His brain is too strained, he needs a cookie to replenish. A little bit of a surprised look, though...]

Woah! You work for the government? You seem like you'd have a way cooler job than that. Like being... I dunno, a guy who designs fire-proof fire engines! Or a pilot of new flight tech! Or maybe someone who got rich during the gold rush?

[WRONG ERA.]

[combathatchet]

[Wow this sure is informing how Obikawa sees him]

Nope, I have a very uncool job. I got strong-armed into it when I was younger, and I've been stuck with it since. But it pays the bills.

[(And it helps people, that's the main thing.)]

I'm glad you think I'm cool, though. [Because clearly that's what he meant.]

[voring]

Yeah! [He DOES think Leon seems cool... Like a firetruck human...] Now it just feels like it's a waste. You should quit your job and join a band!

[Become a metal singer for an Icelandic symphonic opera group!]

[combathatchet]

[Now he gets to be a rock star... Oh, to live in this reality existing in Obikawa's head.]

Aren't I too old for that?

[voring]

[It's what the fans want...]

Are you? [It's less a rage against the ageist machine statement and more the statement of someone who cannot tell people apart in many meaningful ways.] It's not like your hip's gonna pop out if you do a little dancing on stage, right?

[combathatchet]

...Probably not. But consider.

[Holds up a finger.]

I don't know the first thing about music.

[voring]

Woah! [SOMEHOW THIS IS SURPRISING.] We're gonna have to get you another job, then...

[combathatchet]

[HE'S NOT THAT TALENTED, OBIKAWA]

Maybe one of the others, then? Except the gold rush guy; I'm a little late on that.

[voring]

You can start a new rush for something else! There's always more things to find inside the earth.

[ARE YOU READY TO BE A PIONEER, LEON?]

[combathatchet]

[WHAT WOULD HE DIG UP]

You sure I can't just stick with what I'm good at?

[voring]

[The bodies of their friends...]

I mean, I guess, but isn't that boring?

[combathatchet]

Sometimes a job isn't all about the fun you'd have. For me, it's about what I'm managing to get done.

To each their own.

[voring]

Sounds boring, but I guess that's why everyone lives their own lives, huh?

[combathatchet]

You say that, but aren't you just a janitor?

[Like, to each their own, but it's not like most people would find that thrilling work.]

[voring]

A station janitor, yeah! I get to meet all kinds of people that way, 'cuz everyone travels through the trains!

[Or perhaps he is just easily amused.]

[combathatchet]

[Maybe. But there's nothing really wrong with that, either.]

So meeting unique individuals is enough to keep you from being bored. You must be having a blast here, then — minus the murder part.

[voring]

Yeah, that part's not great. [If only because everyone else is clearly deeply concerned about it and it brings down the VIBES, MAN.]

But the rest is good, yeah! There are all kinds of people from all kinds of places, and even I'd have probably never met them if we didn't end up here.