Week 5

[pleasureislanders]

[Well even despite your best efforts, a murder happened, and you found out that someone you thought was a good friend turned out to be someone who'd kill all of you if they had the chance. So that's a fun way to end a trial, right?

On the bright(???) side, the last bit of the island has opened up! You can go drown your sorrows elsewhere now! Isn't that great?

Look I'm trying my best to stave you guys away from the despair that is "trapped on a murder island", go have fun dancing or something.]

[ SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY ]
[ LOCATIONS | REGAINS | BIOS ]
[As a reminder, please submit your Week 4 activity check before July 22nd, 1 PM EST! Dead characters just have to check in.]

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SUNDAY

[pleasureislanders]

[tadaishi]

[There may be more of the island opened up, but Tadashi isn't checking it out right away. Late morning on Sunday, he can be found with a sword attempting to chop down one of the island's trees.

He still wants to build a boat, and now that he's not distracted, he can work better. Though...he's in no way a lumberjack, so there's very little efficiency going on.]

[diebartdie]

...didn't you say you were going to use the catapult to do this?

[Totally not spying on him.]

[prodigalhairess]

Hey! Think you could use some help?

[Rapunzel's been a busy bee today, going back and forth investigating all that she can on the island. It doesn't take long for her to spy Tadashi going to town on a tree. With a sword, and she kinda feels bad for him.]

Y'know, there's an easier way to do that.

[Rapunzel holds up something: ta-da! It's a hatchet!]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Wow, you really haven't ever held a sword, have you?

[Cassandra's been busy today, but there's still plenty of time to stop and snark! And honestly, it did not take long at all to spot Tadashi trying to chop down a tree with the worst form she's ever seen.]

[redloxy]

Can I help? [She just pops up next to him, looking eager.]

[prodigalhairess]

[Rapunzel has been determined to find some secret way off the island for a while now, and though she hasn't been successful yet, that doesn't stop her at all. She starts with the new areas first; the statue seems... suspicious. She'll spend a while just running her hands on the base, pressing at any little crack or groove she comes across. She'll even climb up to stand on top of it; any kind of suspicious marks or anything that stands out there?

Later, she'll be back at the clubhouse, combing the trophy room again. She's pulling off anything that's hanging on the walls, looking behind them, in them if she can. Do any of the taxidermy animals have horns or outstretched limbs? She'll pull on them, looking for hidden switches. Same with the weapons; if anything looks even slightly off, she's gunna poke at it.

Basically, at any point in the day, Rapunzel can be found combing the clubhouse, poking at random displays or peeking behind paintings or flags or tapestries. She is a princess on a mission and she ain't stopping.]

[pleasureislanders]

[...Huh. As Rapunzel investigates the statue, her hand will encounter a series of worn grooves that seem a lot like engraved words. It seems like part of this used to be a plaque of some sort.

Does she want to read it?]

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ At some point in the lobby there's a poorly-folded paper box left out with some slips of paper nearby! A note on the box itself reads as follows:

I don't actually know a lot of names, so I'm taking suggestions if you have any. I don't really want to be X-23 anymore. Thank you.

- X-23 ]

[madmadam]

23-X

[tadaishi]

Nozomi
Brianna
Imelda
Tomomi
Valerie
Nalda
Rin

[Only some of these have Meaning. Some are just names he's heard that sound interesting.]

[halloteen]

Galadriel

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Shampanier

[bottlerockets]

Abigail
Chloe


... Sorry, those are the only names I could think of.

MONDAY

[pleasureislanders]

[prodigalhairess]

[Rapunzel is making good on her continued determination to find a way off the island, or at the very least, to stop the murders, so she wakes up bright and early on monday with a plan! She runs to the door of each of the remaining survivors, pinning a quick note there before moving on to the next.]

I found something!! Meet me in the salon as soon as you all wake up so I can show you!! Also, we might have some way of making a plan to de-power the mastermind???

[And then she's off, waiting in the salon for the others to arrive.

Later in the day, after the discussions, Rapunzel decides to try her hand at the regain mask again. There are a couple of junk items, an adorable unicorn that looks like it came straight out of Vladimir's collection, and..... oh.

Oh.

This is... this is big. Rapunzel holds the cracked mirror in her hand, running a thumb over the edge of the glass. She doesn't dare touch the reflective surface, knowing what she'll see; something the others can't see. She can't let Cass's past be revealed like that, so she quickly scurries off to her room, doing her best to avoid the others as they wander the halls...

Finally, in the evening, Rapunzel is back in the kitchen, eyeing the selection of food stocked in the fridge.]

Hm... do you think we should prepare some food, just in case? Like, if we can manage to get a raft working, we'll need food so that we don't starve before we can find dry land elsewhere...

salon

[madmadam]

[Just gonna grab some snacks while we're here.]

At least you had the good sense to hold a meeting where all the food is. Now what's this business about the mastermind?

regains

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Raps? Hey, wait up.

[There's at least one person in this club that will probably make for a difficult person to avoid... especially when that person was seeking Rapunzel out herself.

Cassandra hasn't caught on to just what Rapunzel is whisking away in her arms yet, not from this angle. While she tails her friend... (girlfriend?), a item she already received from the mask was burning a hole in her pocket, and Cass could only imagine the look on Rapunzel's face when she pulled them out.]

I've got a surprise for you.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[This was a week for attempting escape. Cass had been up late at night, thinking, going over in her head the many ideas they'd already had, scribbling away each one until the surest one remained. It might not even work... but maybe they could at least prevent another murder from happening?

Once Rapunzel's meeting has adjourned, Cassandra retires to the club's regain mask. No flaming pumpkin this time. A couple apples though... a massive hot dog, some schmaltzy love letter, and.......... Oh.

Well.

This may seem almost funny. She sits among some interesting food, a love letter, and even a gold dubloon... But it's the beaded bracelets cradled in her hands that seem to capture all her interest.

The morning left Cassandra filled with energy, so she sets out from the club, finally putting her plan into action. The plan was simple: chop down trees, build a raft, and attempt escape. There were no shortage of trees around the island. And Cassandra's a quick worker, so once she finds a reasonably sized tree, she levels the blade of her sword against it and gets to work.

Because chopping down trees with a sword is something she can just do, apparently!

Or find her at the beach around the afternoon, sitting among a few logs she'd evidently dragged down to the sand. Looks like she's taking a break.]

TUESDAY

[pleasureislanders]

MOTIVE: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO RULE NUMBER THREE?

[neverhadafriend]

New week, new motive, am I right, folks?

[Genie pulls out an envelope and opens it, putting on a pair of comically small reading glasses. He reads from a slip of paper, frowning more and more heavily, before vanishing it away.]

So, you ask--what's the incentive this week to get someone to kill? Well, there are certainly many people you'd trade a life to get back, yeah? So, this week, if someone kills someone and gets away with it, we'll be able to bring any one person back from the dead! Doesn't have to be from this island--though, it can be!

[A beat. Genie looks distinctly uncomfortable.]

Look, under normal circumstances, I can't bring people back from the dead. Personal rule. But...they think they can.

[nobodylikesyouwhen]

[ X-23 seems... genuinely completely unbothered by the motive because taps forehead can't be tempted to bring anyone back from the dead if you've only ever had one friend and he's immortal.

By now she's scoped out all the new buildings, but she has Things To Do. In the morning she's in the library with the suggestions so far from her super professional name box, collecting them and some from books she has around her into a single list and sort of... contemplating it. Hm. Hmmmmm.

Later on, she actually stops by the Empress Lily for a while to.... oh hm. She's just going around and ordering a bunch of different fancy restaurant foods! That's a nonsense amount of food she's gathering!

If she notices anyone who isn't a mannequin, though, she'll wave you over. ]

Want some?

[ Much later on, though, she can be found sitting on the beach with... some kind of glass tank next to her? Is it... are those a bunch of grubs in there? ]

And you can be... I'll name you Jubilee, and you can be Julian...

WEDNESDAY

[pleasureislanders]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[A day later, and Cassandra is unbothered by the motive. Really, she's fine. The idea of bringing someone back from the dead hasn't plagued her all day, or night, even in her dreams!

Nope! She's fine. Just... just fine.

So fine, in fact, that she spends most of the day hard at work on the beach, focusing her mind towards assembling a raft out of the materials she'd gathered. Rope, glue, logs she'd chopped down earlier in the week, it all went towards assembling a base. The sail would be a different matter. At least she had something coming along.

Escape, however perilous, has to be possible. It's also something for her to put her mind towards. If she doesn't, she gets distracted.

Which happens, at a point around midday, when Cassandra is nowhere to be seen among her work in progress... but rather further up the shoreline.

She's huddled on the ground, legs up to her chest and looking at something in her hands, and talking to herself?]

-so whenever you hear this tune, you'll think of you dear, sweet mother. And the love I have for you...

[That is not Cassandra's voice.

CW: likely discussion of parental abuse for the second prompt.]

THURSDAY

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