week 3

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WEEK 3

Another week gone and it's still Christmas! Or is it? The paint on the walls is beginning to crack and fade, with especially large chunks in character's bedrooms revealing scratched words like "cantgetoutcantgetout" and "god help me i just want to go home i miss my home i miss my mother i miss" etc. Yikes! The locations page might be updated throughout the week as characters discover more. Seems like now's the perfect time to investigate and hope you'll get closer to finding out what's going on here. There's always more places to look and more things to find!

As a reminder that this week's activity check is now live! And as usual, it's never a bad time to submit threads for regains! Have you been naughty or nice? Naughty children still get presents too, don't worry. And if you'd like to check-in on Thursday night, you always can! You never know what fun you might run into.

So go exploring, find something new and pay no mind to the creepy writing on the walls. We're sure everything will be fine! After all, nothing ever goes wrong on Christmas, right?

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Comments

[brasco]

Don't they make those poisonous puffer fish dishes that don't kill people? Come on, I believe in you. If anyone could make something out all this garbage, it's you!

[IT'S POSSIBLE HE FEELS BAD ABOUT ALL THIS . . .]

[secretingredients]

[ Did you say random food fact? Because you know he's full of those. ]

Puffer fish, called fugu in Japanese, is a delicacy that when prepared correctly, is extremely delicious. The liver, which is the most poisonous, is also the tastiest part. [ Thanks, Wikipedia. ] But you need over three years of training before you're allowed to even touch the stuff! I haven't had nearly enough training for that, never mind rotten meat!

[brasco]

How have you not gotten that training yet, you've done this for years . . . Anyway, c'mon, nobody'd be stupid enough to just eat the stuff outright. You might as well experiment a little, right?

[secretingredients]

I mean, yeah, but I haven't been training in puffer fish this entire time.

[ Obviously. ]

I guess I could try fermenting some of these things... [ That seems to improve his mood a little! ] Ooh, or I could bury them! Did you know, in Iceland, they bury rotten shark that's made by putting a gutted shark into a hole in the sand for 6-12 weeks? It's called hákarl and it is a delicacy!

[brasco]

Yeah, there you go! We'll have the American version of whatever that is. Put a rotted goose into a hole and let it . . . I don't know, rot or whatever it is . . . anyway! Point is, it's gonna be great, I believe in you, we're definitely gonna still have food by next week and not starve.

[secretingredients]

Okay, yeah!

[ He's gonna have to follow the Inuit's lead and bury some stuff in the snow, but that's cool. ]

I mean, worst case, there's canned beans in here, right? And I think pumpkin for making pie...

[brasco]

Yeah! I mean, we're . . . probably not gonna starve.

Ooh, maybe there's hot dogs!

[secretingredients]

Right! There's gotta be some stuff that hasn't gone bad.

[ Wishful thinking... ]

Uh, I hate to break it to you, but hot dogs can totally go bad. I guess unless they're canned?

[brasco]

. . . I'm preeeeeetty sure they can't go bad. Like mac and cheese.

[secretingredients]

[ Thug stares. Just. Blinks.

"Those can go bad too," he almost says, but he won't wreck Brasco's dreams. ]

Yeah, okay. Let's see if we've got any of that stuff in the pantry somewhere.

[brasco]

Yeah!

[HE DOES HIS BEST IT'S NOT HIS FAULT HE CAN'T COOK]

God, what I wouldn't give for a fruit roll-up, though.

[secretingredients]

Yeah...

[ Thug does not eat fruit roll-ups but he feels for you, buddy. ]

You think they had those back then? We might have some fruitcake saved up, that stuff never goes bad.