week three | mingle

[marriagebroker]

No outright changes this week either. Week three rolls around, braced for impact as ever. The estate is still intact, the contestants are still motivated, things are looking good.

Well, aside from the fact you all had a blackout this weekend. That wasn't so good.

Either way, when Monday rolls around, Wei Wuxian seems to be in a cheery mood as he greets everyone Monday morning.

"Everyone, come here, come here. I have an announcement!"

Better go see what that's about, huh?

Boom Boom Room | Dates | Property Damage
Truth Booth Voting | Match Ceremony Voting

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[researcherstory]

[ So, so normal. But worry not. Odile is Also being normal! Absolutely preem. Look at her, not touching the cup of tea she made and instead sorting the fruit snacks by what she believes are similar colors! The lime green and watermelon green are, unfortunately, being put together. ]

Soon enough, our "vacations" will be at an end... is it too soon to ask what each of us intends for our future after?

[hexensabbat]

Way too soon! That'll bring down the mood!

[Ma'am....... you're Sorting.]

[researcherstory]

[ She doesn't like sweet things. What does it matter. ]

Like it or not, Ringo, this coming week is our last together. It would be nice to see if we can, perhaps, make plans for writing at the very least.

[hexensabbat]

Ehh... let's focus on winning the game. Past seasons have been pretty generous with that sort of thing, I think...?

And if they're dicks and don't do that for us this time, we can just use my wish for it. I don't need it.

[researcherstory]

[ She Said Writing For A Reason. ]

Nor am I in great need of mine, so it is very much up for grabs as well. Wouldn't you like to offer yours to the magnificent Jack Frost instead, though?

[hexensabbat]

Don't give him any ideas.

The last thing demons need are wishes.

[researcherstory]

Untold damages lie down that path, surely.

[ Merchandise that's all Jack Frost themed. Perhaps a new line of games that's entirely Jack Frost related. Movies. ]

Should we take stock of how many free wishes we'll have when [ not if, when, ] we correctly guess the rest of us? It may prove helpful for both parties: we who have no use for them, and they who may have need for more.

[hexensabbat]

That's not a bad idea.

[She hums, thoughtful, and reaches for a hot dog.]

Maybe we could pool 'em to help our compatriots who need extra wishing power.

[researcherstory]

My thoughts exactly. And should they feel they need to thank us in some way, I do have errands I need running.

[ Hahaha. Busy work for the willing. Still sorting these little fruits, reaching over for another pack to open that one.

... Nico wants to paint all of them as a keepsake... Mmm. She can't allow him to do that, at least not with her... ]

[hexensabbat]

... Uh... what are you doing, exactly?

[The initial sorting she marked up to nerves but this is a Lot of sorting of small snacks.]

[researcherstory]

Sorting fruit snacks.

[ Sorry did you think she would say anything else. ]

[hexensabbat]

[It's fine, she'll ask.]

... Why?

[researcherstory]

... To assist with strategizing once our two hopefuls have returned.

[ That's good enough. ]

I realize I'll have a few too many, of course, so do help yourself.

[hexensabbat]

Ohhh, fruit snack math.

[A nod, simple, and Ringo reaches over to sort a few matches.

Blue and green, then red and blue, then red and yellow.]

Me and Furina, Nico and Verso, Maya and Aventurine. The basis of all of our assumptions right now.

We're about to see how right we are on that front, at least.

[researcherstory]

[ This is going to be such an exercise for her. Not mentally, just remembering what shades go to what color. ]

Indeed. We will, at the very least, be safe to experiment this upcoming ceremony should our... confidence be found true.

[ ...

Which she has to decide who she'll be picking and, well. That's going to be a harried day for sure. ]

I have a few ideas as to whom mine could be, but they are, as ever, popular. I doubt I'll be calling them.

[hexensabbat]

[Hmmm.]

Pretend for a moment you're picking in a vacuum.

Then who've you got?

[Tone-wise, it's obvious Ringo is asking purely for her math, and not for the gossip. She is Dialed In.]

[researcherstory]

[ Good, they can both be Dialed In. ]

Yingying, Yi Sang, Poppy... The last reminds me much of my youngest companion, Boniface, and together we are the "Age Alliance" as they call it. The oldest and youngest of our party.

[ Fondly as she says it, she really doesn't mind. A pair of Rascals, they are. A small and silly basis, but there is reasoning behind it. ]

I hesitate to call anyone on my own team, given how little we know as to if there are any within each, but... The possibility is there, so I'd be a fool to discount it completely.

[hexensabbat]

[A pause to watch the verdict, and then Ringo grins, all calm satisfaction.]

Hell yeah.

Okay, good. So far, our logic holds.

Me and Furina. Nico and Versa. Maya and Aventurine is still an assumption, but I think it's a good assumption.

Statistically, your percentages are higher with Yingying--we know she's not with Yi Sang or Luka already. Feel confident about what you two have in common?

[researcherstory]

[ An expected result, though Odile's eyes don't lift from the fruit snacks. Too "locked in". She'll, ah, be more "here" when... the proper discussions happen....... even if she'll be quiet again until she's heard everyone else's pieces like usual. ]

In our differences as well. You may consider it something of a... "gut feeling", loathe as I am to rely on such, but it has worked out twice thus far.

[ Different than fee-fees. ]

[hexensabbat]

Yeah, alright. It isn't a bad choice, mathematically.

Leaves Serpilia and Shoko to still be tested, too... [Hmmm!! Moving some gummies around idly.]

Wonder who the last male-female duo is...

[researcherstory]

If Serpilia and Shoko aren't it, it could be Shoko and Luka.

[ Her mind is a-working... ]

At the very least, Verso said that Nicodème gave him the chance to rekindle his more artistic -- musically, at least -- endeavors anew, did he not? In that sense, a doctor and someone in need of medical care may fit the bill as well. If that were the case...

[ Playing idly... with the gummies... these colors mean nothing to her, but Poppy gets to be purple and Serpilia can be green. She Guesses. ]

I believe Serpilia and Poppy's strengths in technology may be a match in that case, for our missing pair of women. It seems "complementary" in that way so far.

[fireball]

[ somewhere she's tossing fruit snacks into the air and catching them in her mouth, but at one point, one bonks off of her forehead and onto the floor. she doesn't know why

...

eats it after a moment anyway ]

[researcherstory]

[ ......................

Just like Boniface... ]