WEEK TWO

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WEEK TWO

23 Villagers

Three people have fallen and a tower has risen. Along with it, some of the restraints on your mind have dispersed and a memory has returned to you - is it precious, is it painful? Is it cherished, is it loathed?

Mercilessly, dawn breaks on another morning. The rooster still calls, and the crops still need tending to. Rise and shine, Puffin Town! It seems like the residents are not the only thing that has chosen to rise, as a few more establishments have opened up for exploration. The sound of moo-ing near the farms may feel especially inviting here - how about making some new additions to your farms, to drown out your loneliness?

There is no festival just yet but if you question the ducks on it, some excited quacking will herald fun things to come later in the week. Some of the ducks will also wave the gift notes from last week; regardless of murder, being kind to your neighbors is still encouraged! Can't let our beautiful town sink into gloom and doom, right?

(( OOC: Murder proposals are due by Tuesday at 4 PM EST / 1 PM PST, for the current week's murder, but feel free to submit for later weeks if you like!

We have also added a page to report your Astera planting - this does not need to have been threaded, we're just taking stock on an OOC level.

Further, the Gift Mechanic has been updated. All turned in threads will now yield a character specific item as a reward! We're only dipping into the random gacha once all personalized rewards have been given out.))

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MONDAY

[mayorityvote]

[mareum]

[So the weekend sure happened, huh? Dongrang wishes it didn't, but life has a way of not going how you want it to. After spending Sunday recuperating from All Of That, he's finally back out and about early Monday morning.

First thing's first is chores. He can be found tending to crops and planting new seeds in the fields of Corpse Flower Farm until the sounds of farm animals catch his attention. He doesn't enter the Livestock Show at first, though. He simply observes from outside. Or...is he even observing? He's giving the animals a very, very blank stare. Uh.

Well, he does take some chickens home in the end!

After his farm work is done, Dongrang makes his way into town and discovers the food vendors. He spends a good amount of time here, exploring and observing all the food options. Some meat skewers and a cold can of beer prove to be revitalizing after the morning's stress.

He offers a small wave and calm smile to any neighbors who happen to be wandering the market.]

Have you tried the meat yet? It's absolutely delicious. These ducks are truly talented.

[One more new location captures Dongrang's interest: the wizard's tower. He's a nerd, of course it would. He remains there until nighttime, poring over the archives and picking out some books to read. What sort of opportunities would alchemy afford him, he wonders...]

[duckinghell]

[There's a duck here who is not part of the food vendors - a little guy dressed in a toddler-sized sweatshirt. But...oh no! It looks like it's tripped and fallen flat on its face in front of Dongrang and spilled its little ice cream cone over the ground.]

[It's making a little mournful duck sound. What's a sad duck to do...]

livestock show

[collisionheart]

[ Amy stares at the back of Dongrang’s head from a distance for a little while before she approaches. He can’t be happy about everything that happened… Erika can certainly be an unmournful force of nature… ]

This is… new.

[ Her voice is small. Her overalls are too big. That was an entire sentence. Nailed it. ]

Livestock Show

[jarcrash]

[ ... okay, so. Bibi kind of has the same reaction to it. Yesterday's memory makes especially the dogs playing around the stables a very strange sight to her.

Maybe we can both just stand here... looking blankly at the animals. A contest of who notices the other person first. ]

wizard's tower

[moonblades]

[Mio's intentions in coming here aren't quite as nerdily motivated. When a tower sprouts from the ground like one of their fast-growing flowers accompanied by such a painful, obtrusive blast, it basically begs people to explore it.

She's hesitant to interrupt him if he's mid-perusal, but when Dongrang pauses reading or moves to switch between archives, Mio looks up from the volume opened over her wrist.]

This place is much less intimidating than I thought it'd be, save how much there is to read. It'll take us weeks to get through all these books.

Food Vendors

[hyperbloom]

I haven't, actually.

[ Sup, Doc! Shinobu has no food on her just yet, as she's only just discovered the vendors, but she peeks over at what he has. ]

What did you end up getting?

Wizard's Tower

[theotherww]

[Walter happens to be briefly leaving the laboratory area to check if there are any extra alchemy books in his efforts to make the archaic technologies more capable of modern invention, but pauses and looks over the new face before reaching for a book.]

...tell me if you find anything less mystical. There's a lot of folklore texts in here.

wizard's tower

[truthdefiler]

[Erika enters, toward the end of his stay. She'd known he was there - it's important to keep track of people's locations when everyone is a potential culprit. She huffs a laugh when she sees him, and has to decide between rifling through everything herself or starting by asking him about it.

She's keen to make this more uncomfortable for everyone involved. (Except her.)]

Your thoughts, doctor?

Food Vendors

[illprotecteveryone]

I haven't, but...I wonder, ducks can eat meat? Is that normal?

[Monster ducks, maybe. It's a fantasy world, there must be some because there sure are a number of things in the early areas that are pretty much wild creatures that are monsters for whatever reason. There must be monster ducks somewhere.

But these ones aren't monsters, no? Huh. Carnivore ducks...]

[linearcrash]

[ Nine can be found in or around the Livestock Show. ]

It's a bit weird for birds to be taking care of birds, yo. [ He says as he watches the ducks feed the chickens.

Later, he can be found kneeling down by the chickens. ] Hey, they almost look like chocobos. Think they'll get hella big? [ Imagine. Giant chickens.

Nine can also be found at the beach or at the food vendors chowing down. ]

[enkiboo]

[ Here is Enkidu, checking the animals out, apparently. ]

...Chocobos? Are those some type of bird?

[jarcrash]

[ Animals are a bit of a complicated topic for Bibi, but they are also cute and fun to watch so here she is. Watching. Hanging out with a roommate while doing it isn't so bad either. ]

How big? I don't think they'll grow much larger, but I need to know about the massive poultry of your world.

[liberazoth]

[ we are also checking out the new animals, apparently, considering he and Beelzebub were wondering about where they were last week. ]

Chocobos...? About how big are you expecting?

livestock show

[collisionheart]

[ Amy blinks, hands coming back from the way she'd clearly been about to try to grab a chicken. ]

Maybe, but... really, is it any different from humans feeding other humans?

[revengier]

Chocobos?

[ He looks back at the chickens again, taking into consideration their size and general bone structure... ]

The Piko were a lot bigger than these are when they were babies, so I doubt it...

[ But hey, this world is full of surprises. ]

[truthdefiler]

[She has no idea what a chocobo is but using her brilliant mind she concludes it's a giant chicken, potentially made of chocolate? More research required.]

I hope so. They'll be tastier that way.

[illprotecteveryone]

...Chocobos? I'm not sure, they look like normal chickens to me.

[What even is a chocobo, Nine? Illuminate her with Final Fantasy fauna, please!]

[driftingknight]

A bit weird, but no more so than ducks taking care of dogs, I would say. At least the chances are higher that different types of birds might be able to understand each other.

[... wait. Does that make it better or worse?]

[sorathvau]

[With the sound of mooing heralding the morning, Beelzebub is curious to check out just what has changed about the town whilst he wasn't paying attention.

His first stop is the livestock show, and - to him - the main attraction. He spends a lot of time quietly feeding hay to the horses, stroking their snouts as they'll allow him. It's peaceful, pleasant...he looks rather morose as usual, but there's just a hint of softness to his face...

Beelzebub's trip around town is cut rather short by his return to corpse flower farm. He's brought that very same horse back with him, and from behind the mewing of a cat can be heard. Wordlessly, he sets the horse up in one of the stables, giving it encouraging strokes as he settles it in. The mewing increases in frequency and intensity until Beelzebub whirls around.]

Enough, Lucifer.

[...and he'll pick the little sand-coloured kitty up. Heart of stone, this guy.

He spends the rest of the day at the wizard's tower, cat in tow, checking out...pretty much all of the books they have there. Whilst alchemy is largely disinterests him, the books on spirits and fairytales seem to capture his attention.]

[enkiboo]

[ Well, that weekend sucked. Enkidu is not going to pretend it didn't! But, life goes on.

They are, as usual, out and about, exploring the town or just aimlessly wandering the usual facilities.

But for the most part, Enkidu can be seen at the beach, just watching the waves come in, staring out into the sea. They kneel down, cupping sand into their hands, watching it fall through their fingers. If someone comes on by, they tilt their head at them. ]

Hello, did you want to join me?

[ Join them in what, exactly? It's probably fine.

Enkidu is lastly seen at the Spa, later in the day, looking over all the details, and looking confused. ]

What's this place supposed to be for?

[moonblades]

[It's impossible to ignore the livestock show with all the noise coming from it, and Mio starts her day there, resting her arms on the top bar of a paddock fence (she has to stand on the lower plank to reach it) and watching cows lounge.]

Are those baby ones? They're so much smaller than the rest. [She never really thought about it that way; it was only recently that she really tried to dissect the way herds of monsters worked in the wild or that smaller ones grew up to be big ones.] That would mean separating them if you don't take the pair, though, and what if they're not ready to be parted from each other?

[In the late morning, after she may or may not be the new owner of a young cow and its calf, Mio can be found training down on the beach, using the sand for resistance. More specifically, she's sprinting the length of it and back again, doing her best to time the laps using her phone. Every so often, she'll go to the cliff face to try a stretch or an arm hang, but she mostly stays running.

Much later in the day, her sore muscles are getting a needed soak in the warm pool at the spa. Anyone in the women's changing room with her beforehand might have caught her checking the mark on her neck in the mirror before she finished changing and went out to the water. Though she's a little droopy from the heat, if she backs herself against a wall and rests her back against it, it's perfectly relaxing. She can spare herself a moment here, even if it never feels like the time to relax in this place. After a while, she's so still it seems like she could be sleeping, unless someone chances close enough to hear her humming slightly.]

[duckinghell]

[ This blue sweatered duck has set a scarecrow on fire.

There's a glimmer of expectation in its eyes as the scarecrow burns, and by god, it won't stop quacking.

While there aren't any crops around, the fire's still within the farmstead...bringing the attention of other ducks in the area. Thankfully, it doesn't take long for them to band together to put it out. And so the day is saved (?)!

It doesn't take a genius to guess what happens next to the duck in blue though: the scolding of a lifetime. Not that the duck seems to be particularly contrite after seeing the fire die down. Just...despondent.

What an odd duck. ]

[theotherww]

[Anybody on or near Chocolate Cosmos farm will be having to deal with a particularly disoriented and bothered Walter. He hasn't slept the greatest, so he's largely distracting himself via pouring coffee grounds onto some recently planted seeds and pacing back and forth on the premises.

There is some relief to be found for him mentally though when he decides to venture to that new wizard's tower and discovers the alchemy lab--oh, finally. The tools are a bit more archaic than what he's used to, but he's able to figure them out through some reading and his own knowledge and has some concoctions cooking in beakers. He's got some rubber gloves and an apron on as well, because lab safety is important no matter how archaic the lab.]

Alchemy is essentially a grandfather of chemistry. That's how this sort of thing is even possible.

[liberazoth]

[ That sure was a weekend, huh. After depression napping away most of Sunday, Vayne can be found in the early morning tending to the various planted seeds and crops of ghost orchid farms, maybe dipping a little into taking care of Keito's plot too if no one else has, since... well. You know.

Other than that, later in the day he can be found out and about in various places! Maybe you can find him contemplating deeper trips into the mines at the adventurer's guild, or going through the stands at gourmet's gallivant food vendors, trying out some of the snacks on offer.

Most of the day, though, he'll be found at the wizard's tower and alchemy lab, going through the bookshelves and perusing the tomes with a studious diligence, but also sometimes a sense of bewildered bafflement: ]

This isn't any kind of alchemy I've ever heard of...

[ hello? color and taste??? apple plus apple equals bomb?????? this sounds like the kind of recipe jess would put together. ]