Week 6

[parasomniacs]

Week 6

Monday - Thursday

[ There is a particularly somber atmosphere in the quiet hotel. The day before ended with a terrible miscalculation and an innocent life lost in the name of the “experiment”. Emotions certainly ran high and it would not be strange for those effects to linger into the dawn of the new week. Until now they had successfully determined and executed three other murderers. But the fourth got away. They may not want to face the future yet—but the experiment stops for nothing. 

The opening of a new wing would probably be of little solace to them. But it's not long before they are granted a small distraction.

Early Monday morning -- before they’ve even had a chance to properly examine the new floor and it’s rooms -- a text announcement arrives, following a small jingle. The sound is new; different from the announcement tones used during the investigation last week. It’s just as loud and persistent, but there’s an annoying set of four repeated notes in a pattern that lazily imitates a song assigned to this notification.]

Hello participants. 

I hope you are doing well this morning and are well rested for the day ahead. There will be a meeting held in the lobby fifteen minutes from now. You will all be required to attend. Any person who is absent will be appropriately hunted down and brought to the meeting place by whatever means necessary. An important change has been made to the experimental proceedings, of which you must all now be made well aware.

See you all in fifteen minutes. 

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[forthemoment]

Monday

[If you finally want to get a handle on just what the hell happened with Mitsuko or maybe you're just wondering the new floor, in the afternoon she can be found in the arcade. Almost lazily she's drifting around the arcade games. Some shooting games here, some crane games here.]

Tuesday

[She's in the manga cafe, reading quietly some (non explicit, thankfully) yuri manga in a corner with some of the ramune from her previous room. Mitsuko seems fairly involved with her reading but occasionally she looks up as if keeping an eye on anyone else in the area.]

Wednesday

[Now that the bar's open the lounge is fairly quiet so she spends some time in there working on her journal. Maybe 'working' isn't the best word as she's just doodling what looks like to fairly mundane objects. A tree, an acorn...a fish, some bees.]

All through the Week

[Mitsuko can be found (usually) around the pool, trying to keep herself busy by swimming. She might also just be in the convenience store collecting (even more??) food. Or, sometimes, just trying to quietly watch. However, one thing to note is that she doesn't seem upset at all over the events of the weekend, the new motive, Kevin's death or anything really.

If anything there's a certain lightness to her steps. If you don't want to confront her at the Monday prompt, you can either jump her at the restaurant or barge into her room.]

Wednesday

[anindomitablewill]

[ These weeks almost could have seemed mundane if it wasn't for the ridiculous things that kept happening in them, and this one had one hell of a start to it. Pain was still fresh in his mind with everything that's happened, so he's decided to hit up the lounge area with the intention to settle down and do some drawings himself when he notices Mitsuko there.

He remembers how much of a hassle he'd given her on Friday, which is enough to have him go up to where she is and pull up a chair so he can sit in it adjacent to her. You know, in the totally normal way where the back of the chair faces the table, one arm draped over the back of the chair casually as he exhales a small sigh. ]

Do you enjoy doing a lot of drawing, Mitsuko? I never quite pegged you as the artistic type.

[ This was better than just coming outright and saying 'hey i was kind of an ass to you the other day..' right? ]

[forthemoment]

[Mitsuko's not surprised that he had been upset at her before and if that hadn't meant she might have died, she probably would have even enjoyed the attention. She hears him before she looks up. Her doodling stops and she taps the table.]

I'm not. [In fact, most of her drawings are.. not good. More like what you'd find on scrawled napkins or in between the margins of notes. Bears aren't exactly adept.]

It keeps the boredom away.

[anindomitablewill]

Fair enough. It's what I tend to do to occupy my time as well.

[ He brings up his notebook and places it on the table near hers, opening it and smoothing fingers along the page neatly. On the paper is a rather impressive likeness of none other than Noé himself. ]

If I were a good teacher, i'd offer that in drawing in way of an apology for how I had treated you on Friday. I admit you didn't really deserve it.

[forthemoment]

[...That's a good drawing. ]

I don't think I'm cut out for it, either way. I don't have the temperament for it.

[Looking down at her notebook she taps the table again.Though, even as she shakes her head there's something about the tenseness in her shoulders.]

Life is a series of moments. The past is gone already.

[Had it been a few weeks ago she might have let it go completely.]

[anindomitablewill]

[ Thankfully he's not the boasting type, but he at least knows he's got decent talent in drawing for what it's worth and why he does it quite often. ]

Oh? Then do tell me... I am curious to what you do have the temperament for.

[ Unlike the tone he took with her during the interrogation, this one's a lot more calm and at ease. Genuinely curious to what her answer would be. ]

As long as you're sure. My conscience just wouldn't sit with me if i didn't at least offer an apology after what happened.

[forthemoment]

[She shrugs but gives a little smile.]

I'm quite good with people, considering I managed to become class reprasentive.

[It had almost been too easy... Another shrug.]

We had fought and that was reason enough to suspect me.

[anindomitablewill]

That's indeed some impressive people skills. People like me could likely learn a thing or two from you, the way I see it.

[ It's half just plain flattery and half-truth because what are people skills anyway? Vanitas is aware he sometimes comes off as obnoxious from time to time - not as much as he had been back home but still - around others but he figures he's been getting better for what it's worth. ]

Ah... yes. That was quite the valid reason and considering the timing did look bad but it's not as if you can be quite blamed for that, seeing as we've all lost our composure at one point or another here.

[forthemoment]

If we were in a school setting I'd be happy to share.

[Sadly, most of the people left are men. She's not going to sweet talk herself into any high places here.]

Tempers flare in a place like this.

[She still doesn't take back saying that Conchita would be bad eating, though.]

Monday

[tibkins]

[She has indeed been wondering about Mitsuko for a while already, what after the whole 'not human' thing. When she encounters Mitsuko Shelley almost turns around to leave, flustered, but...then she turns around. Better to be straight with this, after all]

Um, I'm sorry. For most things we had talked during these weeks.

[You know, since Mitsuko is a bear and what not. Shelley has been feeling a bit guilty about that all, many things she had said weren't exactly bear-friendly, and suggesting Mitsuko to leave her home, all that. She even gets a bit more coarse than she usually is, although it's still pretty mild]

Guess I must have sounded like an huge bitch back then.

[forthemoment]

[That... That actually gets her to laugh and she waves it off.]

Compared to things I've heard my classmates say that was pretty mild.

[When almost every member of the school had been raised to hate bears just for existing, there's not a lot of sympathy for them. Not that Mitsuko took it at all personally. If you're in danger it's just natural to hate what was causing it.]

If that was enough to hurt my feelings I wouldn't have lasted a week among humans.

[tibkins]

Oh. Oh, good. [Shelley seems much more relieved now. Good!]

How did you even get a human disguise?

['Did you hollow out a real girl and are now wearing her skin?' is a tad too morbid to ask. Despite knowing Mitsuko isn't human, Shelley is very nonchalant about it all. So what if Mitsuko is a human-eating bear? It's not like it matters that much]

[forthemoment]

I made a wish.

[She... really can't say much beyond that, sorry Shelley.]

[tibkins]

...a wish. [Shelley's face contorts in a gesture of discomfort for a moment. Wishes are something she doesn't like to hear about anymore]

I have so many questions but I don't know how much patience [or willingness] you'd have for telling a stranger about yourself. It's not everyday I meet a bear like you. [So to say]

[forthemoment]

That's as much as I can say on that. [Contracts are very tricky things that not even Mitsuko would want to mess with.]

I can't tell you more about why I look human right now but let's see what you want to know.

[AKA she won't risk her human disguise but she likes talking about herself.]

[tibkins]

Is it a common thing for bears to sneak in schools and get on top of the class food chain, Ms. Class Representative, or are you just that exceptional?

[...geez, maybe she shouldn't use words like 'food chain', but what's done is done. Shelley mostly wants to know how relieved she should be the bears she knows only know to be awful and maul stuff to death]

[forthemoment]

I'm not the only bear in the school. Two transfer students and another bear were there too.

[Though, she puffs out her chest a little.]

Admittedly I was the one reaping in the most benefits.

[tibkins]

[...well, four is three more than she hoped there'd be. Maybe it's not as bad as she's imagining it. Maybe they're four exceptional bears]

Why are bears so interested in getting to school, anyway?

[forthemoment]

[That. That isn't a question you should want to hear the answer to.]

Why do bears go to the river when the salmon are running?

[tibkins]

Oh. Oooooh.

[Well that sure was an answer]

That's...descriptive enough. Wow. I'm so glad I don't live in your world.

[forthemoment]

That and this school is relatively close to the border between the humans and bears.

[Well, the more you know.]

It's not like they're unprotected or anything. It would be boring.

[tibkins]

Who thought building a school near a place full of smart bears was a good idea. [Rethorical question because really, who does that]

Are bears only in the school or are they getting into other places too?

[forthemoment]

The school was built before the Day of Severance. [...Still a really bad idea, though.]

I really haven't looked for them elsewhere but probably.

[tibkins]

Day of Severance?

[Sounds significant]

[forthemoment]

The day a large group of bears and human soldiers fought. I heard it was because that was the day Kumaria vanished or something like that.

[Kind of a big deal, yes.]