[ 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

in the time of the knivespocalypse... our doom is nai......

[pharmahoudini]

[Maybe we should ask for the house to be normal first. Either way it's a lost cause.......]

Maybe that means we should start making knives outta mannequins?

[This should sound more like a joke than it does.]

Dunno how much trust there was to start, but it's a wash at this point. [closes the fridge and opens the freezer, we're playing with non-fire here] You know when you keep opening the fridge thinking it'll refresh?

It's not doing that.

[incurse]

[ He's not so sure he agrees that there's no trust, but it sure isn't looking good, fam. He won't argue that point for now, though, when there's a more immediate concern before them.

Uh. ]

It's not? That's another bad sign...

[ He's going to peek behind the fridge to check if it's still plugged in. IS THEIR MAGIC FRIDGE BROKEN. ]

[pharmahoudini]

Guess it's not like we ever had a guarantee there was more food.

[Most TV shows would not outright starve the people on them but most TV shows also don't asphyxiate teenagers and throw them into the ocean mafia-style so what do they know.

He peers critically at the freezer. There really do be nothing useful in there. Maybe some frozen food or supplies. Luckily no human parts at this point.]

Might as well mess with Butterbur and see if we can break him down.

[incurse]

[ Even as Axel opens the freezer, Yuta winces a little, recalling the last time he saw it opened...yup... ]

Butterbur? [ who the—oh ] Oh, you mean Butterworth-san. Are you really sure it's a good idea to agitate the one person — er, robot — that's feeding us any kind of information about what's going on?

[ Yuta certainly isn't about to defend him, but it seems better to exercise caution at this point. ]

[pharmahoudini]

[Makes a gesture like, it's all good!! And then later the freezer and the kitchen and the entire house fucking break but for now small mercies.]

Buttersun, whatever you wanna call him. I mean, his programming's probably as crazy about ratings as he is, so he's just here to piss us off too if it gets better material.

Eye for a robot eye? Something like that.

[What's caution. He closes the freezer door because it sure isn't in there.]

[incurse]

[ Well, when he thinks about it like that, he's not exactly wrong...but also: ]

Aren't you worried about what might happen? If you go too far attacking him? After what happened to Tenma-san...

[ He goes quiet. ]

[pharmahoudini]

Hmm. Guess so? He's not wrong that it would be bad for ratings if he has to kill us. Even with last weekend...

[He doesn't outright say that it wasn't the how of killing Tsukasa rather than the why of killing Tsukasa that's part of that picture, but...

There's certainly more factors than just that.]

I'm good with pushing. We're not getting anywhere otherwise.