SUMMERTIME SADNESS - WEEK 2

[dormheads]

common room.

The common room is as bright and open as the rest of the dorm. Beanbag chairs and even more hammocks are situated around for any of your resting needs, because who needs couches? There are a few blankets on the couch just for comfort, but the temperature is never cold enough to need them because of chill. There's also an absurd amount of pillows.

The walls are decorated with paintings that are either modern art pieces or done by kindergarteners. There are also photographs tacked onto the walls as well, of seemingly random things like a vase of flowers, a mailbox, a bird on a tree branch. The photos are less about grand views and feels more like someone testing out a camera.

On a table is a welcome basket.

specialty room.

In the common room, there's a door that leads to what can only be described as an Occult Room for some strange reason. Unlike the rest of the dorm, this room is dimly lit and is crowded with items—a skeleton that may or may not be real, taxidermy animals, really creepy looking dolls, an actual coffin, etc. On a table to the side is a Ouija board, a few tarot decks, and crystal ball.

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[dormheads]

[ As always, there is tea. So much tea.

Besides that, new additions is that there is a pile of holiday decorations in boxes in the corner, with sticky notes attached that read PLEASE NEATLY DECORATE. THANK YOU.

Next to the tea are materials needed to build gingerbread houses. If one were to eat any of these, they'll really want to sing some Christmas carols for an hour. Hurrah! ]

SWEET ARCHITECTURE

[divineimpulse]

[byleth is peacefully building a gingyhouse. it has three walls and there are candy rats in the walls

It's looking pretty good! she sips a cup of tea she has nearby, and she's humming to herself.]

Fa la la la la... hmm hmm... hmm hmm...

[...

there's gingerbread crumbs on the tea saucer.]

[foreversweaterweather]

[ Meanwhile, Mabel is utterly absorbed in her own gingerbread house activities: a slightly lopsided, very heavily frosted and gooey recreation of the summer dorm. Also decked out in jelly dots and sprinkles and all sorts of other decorations. But now, Mabel is working on fortifying it. She's muttering to herself: ]

Maybe we can build a trap door in the ground right at the entrance...and use the hammocks as some of those net traps to catch intruders...Ooh, what if we gave the dorm giant gingerbread robot arms to smack any geese and murderers away!

[ she looks up from her gingerbread robot arm construction to see what Byleth is working on. ]

Ooooh, what's yours gonna be?

[divineimpulse]

[...]

It's just a normal house.

[extremely vanilla garbage. it's coming together like anything you'd see in a supermarket. it is not yet iced or decorated.]

...Are you making a plan of attack?

[foreversweaterweather]

Yeah! Gingerbread houses make the best blueprint for this sort of stuff!

[divineimpulse]

...Do they?

[foreversweaterweather]

Sure! You can build a perfect lil replica out of gingerbread, and then figure out how to make it even better! And then you can do it in real life!

[divineimpulse]

Couldn't you just... draw it?

[foreversweaterweather]

Yeah, but then you can only draw one side at a time! This way, you can see all the parts and come up with ideas in any dimension!

[divineimpulse]

[...]

That's true...

[foreversweaterweather]

The hard part is just making sure you don't eat part of your blueprints first.

[chosenwang]

[ is there an alpha rat He's practicing his piping on a piece of gingerbread wall the he pilfered from a pile. Trying to get it perfect before he even begins.

He pauses as soon as he realizes she's singing a carol. What? ]

Have you ever made one of these before?

[divineimpulse]

[she's still humming when he asks—but stops, and looks over, shaking her head...]

It's cute, though. An edible house...

[chosenwang]

Did you pick that song up from some where here?

[divineimpulse]

[...?

!]

I... was singing.

[chosenwang]

You were singing and it was pretty cute. Bet I could get some vouchers if I sell a recording of it.

[ hmm. can he profit from this ]

[divineimpulse]

I... don't know the song.

[selling? profiting??????]

I don't know why I'm... having, a merry little Christmas...

[she covers her mouth.]

[chosenwang]

Maybe someone cursed you. Did you run across anyone acting weird today?

[divineimpulse]

[she uncovers a little...]

No... everyone has been normal, but baby it's cold outside...!

[she covers her mouth again.]

[chosenwang]

Are you actually shy about singing?

[ Okay everyone is normal. Hmmm ]

What about the tea? Anything off about it?

[divineimpulse]

I only sing during choir... and I don't know these songs.

[...

she sniffs the tea, looking a little distressed about the possibility of tea betrayal.]

UPDATE

[dormheads]

[On Wednesday evening, there's a basket of beautifully arranged fruit from the orchard left in front of the Summer Dorm entrance! It just has Otome Yanagiya's name on it.]

[momming]

[ Oh. Wow.

Otome looks a little overwhelmed when she spots it, but sure, she'll bring it inside for everyone to share. ]

[foreversweaterweather]

a. RESEARCH (movie night!)

[ Once everyone's gathered in the common room, Mabel stands at the front of the room with a DVD case in hand that she wields authoritatively. She stares dead into everyone's eyes. ]

Okay! Now, this movie, The House Is Empty Except For One Person, is all about this kid who's alone in his house, and has to protect it from a bunch of burglars trying to break in. That's us!! So, I want everyone to take notes on stuff that we can do to make our dorm safer tonight.

[ The seriousness breaks, and she grins. ] And have fun!!! Especially while we're setting up traps!

b. you can reply to this or not, i just need this on the record (wednesday)

[ soooo the glitter thing hasn't happened, but Mabel is using the holiday decorations to brighten up the occult room. Tinsel lining the walls, ornaments shoved into the skeleton's eye sockets and dangling from its ribcage, a string of colorful lights lining the edges of the coffin, etc. ]

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[amain]

... Do we have anything to really replicate these things?

[ Wow this movie? It's. So much? It's so much? ]

[foreversweaterweather]

Sure we can! We just have to get creative. Like, uh...I bet we can do the doorknob electrifying thingy with a toaster! And we can set one of those ground traps that catch people in a net with the hammocks!

[amain]

[ Hmm... He tilts his head. ]

Hammocks might work?

[foreversweaterweather]

Yeah!! Hammocks are basically already nets, but for fun! They're easy to turn into tools of guerilla warfare. We just have to figure out how to tie them into a trap.

Do you know how to do that?

[amain]

I think I'm handsy enough to figure out.

[ And then it didn't happen in summer dorm. ]

[foreversweaterweather]

Oooh, really? Do it, then! Let's see!

[ she eagerly runs to grab a hammock and wrestle it out of its position

also like, bold of you to assume that the traps didn't act as a deterrent to any murderers, booby traps stay winning ]

[amain]

Uhm...

[ Wow. Way to be put on the spot?? Nier blinks several times before going over how a hammock is constructed. Huh. ]

We need something to hook this up, right? Then to trigger it...

[foreversweaterweather]

Usually in cartoons they cover the thingy with a pile of leaves so no one knows they're stepping into the trap. Maybe we can cover it up with a rug or something?

a.

[chosenwang]

Oh, it's that movie. We might want to skip anything we can hurt ourselves with... Maybe we can do something like the paint bucket attached to the string?

[ Just... maybe using a pot instead ]

[foreversweaterweather]

Do you think that'd be enough to keep people from trying to mess with us?

I think it's okay, as long as we only set the traps tonight and then undo them in the morning when we wanna leave!