week 1

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Week 1

[With the introduction to the relationship experiment and their overseeing hosts done with, the Champions are left to their own devices to explore the first floor of the mansion as they please. Cece and Kip will pop-up every once in a while to chit-chat but for the most part they're somewhere inaccessible.

Each morning the Champions are awakened promptly at 7 am by PAL's even, almost laid back voice announcing the time and each evening at 10 pm to announce when the kitchen is closing for the night. Unlike the Overseers, he doesn't seem to be one much for conversation.

Enjoy your week, Champions.]

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[ooc: welcome to week 1, everyone! This first week is a peace week which means there will be no murder this weekend! Feel free to start submitting threads for the benefactors]

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rest area

[daughterofthemark]

[Seeing Clarith asleep in the rest area, Arianna just...

Kind of...

Plops down and joins her, falling asleep too.]

[desperateprayer]

[ Well, the movement will wake Clarith a little. And then she'll make sure Arianna is covered up. Don't want anyone catching cold, okay. ]

[daughterofthemark]

[Apparently she wasn't entirely asleep yet, because she stirs a little and smiles.]

Thank you.

[desperateprayer]

Y-You're welcome.

[ ...She doesn't mind this. She'll sit up and keep watch so any of the pervs don't bother you, Arianna. ]

[daughterofthemark]

[What's a perv? That doesn't sound like a word.]

You're so kind to everyone.

[desperateprayer]

...I j-just like to be useful is all.

[ That's it. ]

[daughterofthemark]

Then I am pleased to tell you that you are.

[A perv is someone who likes to be useful? Interesting.]

[desperateprayer]

[ Arianna no ]

...Th-Thank you, Miss Arianna.

[daughterofthemark]

["I have an announcement to make, everyone. I am a huge perv."]

You seem much more comfortable now as well.

[desperateprayer]

I-I do?

[ ARIANNA NO ]

[daughterofthemark]

In comparison to how you were before. At the very least, you seem as though you've gotten used to the rest of us.

[desperateprayer]

...M-Maybe I have. N-No one here... Hurts me...

[daughterofthemark]

[...and Arianna sits right up, because there are some implications that not even she is dense enough to miss.]

Dame Clarith. Who has been hurting you?

[desperateprayer]

...I d-deserve it. For being a Netsuma. W-We're demons.

[ ...She's trying to get better, she really is, but... ]

...I-I'm lucky the village... Has t-taken me in...

[daughterofthemark]

[C O N C E R N.]

But your profile says you're human.

[desperateprayer]

...I-I'm not treated... Like I am...

[daughterofthemark]

...instead, people hurt you, and call you a demon?

[desperateprayer]

...I-I'm a demon child being punished for my mistakes. I... Shouldn't be alive. Someone like me simply... Shouldn't exist...

[daughterofthemark]

No, I won't believe that. Everybody has the right to exist.

CW: Abuse

[desperateprayer]

.........N-No, it's... All right. I... When I was younger, the villagers... Would threaten to crucify me... A-And burn me... Because of my heritage. Netsumas are... All demons. We deserve to be punished for existing.

[daughterofthemark]

No! I cannot approve of treating a kind woman like you in such a way!

[THIS IS THE WORST STORYTIME EVER.]

[desperateprayer]

......I'm distant and I don't trust easily. I'm clumsy and timid. I don't... Get along with people, a-and I'm fearful... ...I-It's all right.

[ ...Arianna is too pure for this. ]

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna is too sheltered, too distant from the world's problems, to make the connection that Clarith likely is the way she is because of the way she's been treated, but she knows none of that sounds to her like a reason to be so horrible to someone.

She reaches out and gently takes Clarith's hand.]

It isn't. Nobody should be treated that way.

[desperateprayer]

[ ...Why is she being so kind? Why? She doesn't... Understand. But... Something about Arianna... Really reminds her of Mikaela... ]

...Thank you.

[daughterofthemark]

[It's the cuteness, isn't it?]

I merely speak the truth.