week 4

[airlockedmods]

[Just like the previous week the status quo is restored with frighteningly quick efficiency. PAL still makes the morning and night time announcements through the PIP on each Champion's arm, and still the Champion unitards are freshly laundered and re-hung each morning in their closets. Even the glass roses Choromatsu and Takumi broke after the trial in their fit of anger have been replaced with fresh ones. All signs that there was anything amiss this weekend are completely gone.

There's a new floor to explore, their "reward" for a job well done.]

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 3, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

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[serrata]

Is there anything else of yours you think might come up in the dumbwaiter? Maybe we'll just have to keep an eye out for each others' belongings.

[daughterofthemark]

Well, if they had my clothing, it's likely they have my armor and my staff as well.

[arianna you're not getting your staff that is an actual weapon]

[serrata]

So, if anything like that comes up in the dumbwaiter, I'll bring it straight to you. Promise.

[ she just prays she never gets this princess' underwear. it feels like a sin she might never redeem herself from. ]

Should we make it a proper swap, then? I might as well see if these really are my pajamas or not.

[daughterofthemark]

[Imagine if Arianna got Yuuri's underwear too. "WHAT DOES THIS MEAN"]

Of course! Shall I retrieve them for you?

[It might be more straightforward for them to both go back to room 2 together but she doesn't want to make her do extra walking or anything.]

[serrata]

[ standing up from her seat as she speaks - ]

No, no, I'll come with you! It'll save you walking there and back if it turns out they happen to be someone else's.

[ surely there's no way this could turn out to be not in her favour ]

[daughterofthemark]

[Surely! Arianna could not be plotting anything, since she has the approximate underhandedness of a popsicle.]

All right! It's a visit, then.

[...and they arrive quickly, because room 2 isn't far.]

[serrata]

[ And in she goes! Surely Arianna is a trustworthy enough girl for Rii to go in without a second thought. ]

Are they still in the dumbwaiter...?

[daughterofthemark]

[And then Rii got murdered I MEAN]

No, I removed everything.

[She motions to the desk at the back of the room, where the pajamas can be clearly seen, neatly folded, along with a helmet-size fishbowl full of assorted stupid shit.

Also Mai's bed still looks exactly as it did the day she was executed, if she's curious.]

[serrata]

[ WELL THAT'S DEPRESSING

Yuuri makes her way over to the bed and picks up the pajama top -- she shakes it out to get a better look at it and then her smile returns. ]

We were right -- these are definitely mine. [ picking up the shorts and the little cardigan now, too. ] I'll finally have something to sleep in that isn't those unitards -- thank you, Arianna-chan.

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna is trustworthy and has the approximate underhandedness of a popsicle, but occasionally she has been known to act on impulse. And at this moment, an impulse tells her to close the door.]

So, Rii-san.

[serrata]

[ She looks up from her little bundle of clothes with a smile and... suddenly, things seem ominous. But it's just Arianna. So what could be the problem. ]

... um... yes...?

[daughterofthemark]

How was last night?

[DID YOU AND SIR JUNPEI DO THE FRICKLE FRACKLE?]

[serrata]

[ ... oh no. not again. ]

... W--well... what about last night... exactly...?

[daughterofthemark]

Sir Junpei. ♥

[The heart is practically audible.]

[serrata]

[ IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN ]

W--well, I... it's not like I was planning for anything to happen, so... um.

[ goodness, that's a red face, miss wakasa. ]

Wh--why do you ask?

[daughterofthemark]

Is it not normal to be curious about what a friend and her crush have been doing together?

[serrata]

We haven't been doing anything!

[ ... says the woman who spent the entire weekend alone in room 8 with him. Sounds fake to me. ]

[daughterofthemark]

You have been in his room for over an entire day doing nothing whatsoever?

[...she might possibly believe that if Yuuri insisted on it enough, because Arianna, but right now nope.]

[serrata]

Yes! Nothing-- nothing like that, anyway!

[ SHE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE ASKING, MISSY ]

[daughterofthemark]

Then what sort of things did happen?

[she wants Details]

[serrata]

Nothing-- nothing's really been happening, we just... well...

[ ... She's thinking of Junpei's hand in her hair, the heat of his breath against her mouth, his arms curled around her and without even realizing it a faint smile's crept up on her face. And really, doesn't that answer the question without her having to say a word? ]

[daughterofthemark]

I see.

[:D :D :D :D :D]

[serrata]

Oh, that's enough.

[ she swats playfully at Arianna with the bundle of pajamas in her hands but there's still a smile on her face and she doesn't really seem that annoyed. ]

You're still a little menace through and through.

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna falls over dead. Pajamas, her one weakness.]

I begin to suspect my "menace" consists of seeing through you.