[ 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

[incurse]

[ His priorities are so valid... ]

Tiger balm? What's that? [ ... ] Do I want to know?

[voring]

Woah, you've never used tiger balm before? It's great! It's like a jelly type thing that you rub on and it helps when your muscles are all sore and achy! But it has a super strong smell, too. Like, strong enough that not even a stinky corpse would get through it all the way, probably.

[He's gonna become everyone's old asian grandma peddling his tiger balm.]

[incurse]

[ Okay, so it sounds like the tiger part isn't literal...he can't be sure of anything with Obikawa. ]

Ohh, I've seen rubs like that before, in my grandmother's medicine cabinet. [ So, yeah. ] That's actually a pretty practical suggestion. A lot of people reacted pretty badly to the corpse at the investigation.

[ RIGHTLY SO!!! But they move forward. ]

[voring]

[Imagine if it was literal...]

Yeah! Tons of old people have it. Our landlady has like, a billion jars of the stuff! Since we're definitely gonna be handling stinky bodies again, we should get a whole bunch of jars, too.

[That may not help everyone... but it will perhaps help some...]

[incurse]

We could ask PB-san about it....

[ Wait, no, he's getting caught up in Obikawa's stinky ideas!! ]

Before that, though, we should ask him when we'll get more food again. All these cleaning supplies, but no new food?

[voring]

[HIS STINKY IDEAS!!! Good good, as it should be...]

Bet some of you guys regret not eating all that good free food during the trial now, huh? [HE'S RIGHT YET AGAIN!] But yeah, we definitely need to ask or we're gonna start seeing people get cannibalized for real, probably.

[THEY CAN'T BE THAT STAGE IN DANGANRONPA.]

[incurse]

[ GOD....no they gotta wait until like week four for that ]

Or maybe they expect people to die quickly enough that budgeting the food won't really be an issue.

[ Wow, that's a grim thought, even for him. ]

[voring]

[So true their month of food despair must come first.]

Oh, yeah. I guess that's true especially if they don't have any rules against mass killings or whatever, huh?

[Hm... Well that's probably fine...]

[incurse]

[ THAT'S PROBABLY FINE. ]

There's probably a rule against it. The show might end too quickly otherwise.

[ Ugh...why are they even speculating on this!! ]

[voring]

There isn't! I asked!

[THEIR RATINGS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO GOOD IF THEY JUST TPK'D WEEK ONE... Probably.]

Apparently something shocking like that would be good for ratings, too.

[incurse]

Really?! But — then the whole show would be over in, like...one episode!

[ How is that good television!!! Think of the missed potential ad revenue... ]

[voring]

Yeah, I bet it'd be like some never-before-seen kinda thing!

[The missed ad revenue would be rough but think of how much the people would lose it both positively and negatively! Any engagement is good engagement in this economy.]

[incurse]

I guess so...but let's stop talking about this.

[ It's depressing and he already has enough anxiety!! He doesn't want to think about a potential TPK. ]

Anyway, were you looking for something? Besides tiger balm.

[voring]

Sure, sure.

[He likes Yuta so he will let the TPK anxiety talk go... GOOD QUESTION THOUGH.]

Oh! Uh, yeah, I did... [Does he remember what that was now?? Clearly not, as he glances around.] Or maybe I was just looking?

[incurse]

[ Obikawa...you beautiful tropical fish... ]

Did you need to do some laundry? You might want to get it done before more people realize this is here.

[voring]

[BEAUTIFUL TROPICAL FISH.]

Yeah, they're gonna start putting in weird stuff like jello cups and bodies... [SAID WITH A SIGH.] I don't wanna do laundry, but you're probably right!

[incurse]

[ Those two things are not the same? Hello??? ]

Do you know how to use one of these?

[ JUST CHECKING. ]

[voring]

[They're so similar, though! Red stains...]

I do, yeah! I have to clean all my own clothes.

[incurse]

[ Oh, thank goodness Yuta isn't going to break the washing machines twice over, then. ]

That's good! [ ... ] Could you show me?

[voring]

[YUTA........]

...Sure! [The way he genuinely can't tell if Yuta has just never used a washing machine before or if he's trying to give a pop-quiz on how washing machines work. HE WILL WIN...]

You got anything you want to wash?

[incurse]

[ Maybe it's both! He is a man of mystery (source: no one) ]

Mm, one sec.

[ Editing magic makes it look like Yuta left and grabbed his dirty laundry in a matter of seconds. He's already back! ]

Okay, where do we start?

[voring]

[HE'S VERY MYSTERIOUS and even moreso with the magic of tv editing ooh, aah...

Pops open the door to the machine!]

Okay! So first you just gotta put the clothes in here. If you really wanna be picky, you can separate the colored ones and the dark ones out from the white and grey stuff, 'cuz the dye might bleed, but then you'll have to do more loads.

[incurse]

[ Guy who almost exclusively wears white and black...this is vital info. ]

Oh, I had no idea...okay!

[ Separating his whites from his darks now!!! Before throwing the whites in the washer. ]

[voring]

[HE COULD HAVE TURNED YUTA'S WHOLE WARDROBE GREY.]

Okay! So with whites you can add bleach if you want 'em extra clean-looking, like if you get messy stuff on 'em. You put the bleach here, and you put the detergent here. Then you just use this thing here to say how dirty the load is, and this one here if your clothing's delicate, and this one to pick the water temperature-

[Just pointing everything out as he goes ALL THESE KNOBS AND BUTTONS.]

Then you just pop the lid shut and hit the start button! Easy!

[incurse]

[ Right, bleach for washing blood out of his clothes! He gets bloodied up often enough it's probably only a matter of time, so this is Noted. Nodding feverishly, Yuta quickly follows the sequence of directions that Obikawa gives him and—bam!! The lid is slammed shut. ]

Okay! I think that should do it...

[ Presses the start button...the machine rattles to life. It worked! ]

Thanks, Obikawa-san! Even at school, there were people who helped with this sort of thing. [ Ijichi. Ijichi helped with these things ] So I never really learned for myself.