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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[hexensabbat]

[Oh. He's hammered.

Ringo glances over at Furina, and then clears her throat.]

No, no, neeever, Aventurine! We're just borrowing it! You know, the Honeymoon Suite's swanky, but there's no cheap-ass sauna!

[nrangel]

[ A little drunken wandering brought her over this way too, and-- ]

So you get a swanky stay, and you're stealing our cheap sauna? Cruel.

[ She sounds more amused by the attempt that upset. ]

[gamboler]

[ Thanks for the backup, Serpilia. Team Serpiline (Serpentine? Messmer mention?) engage. ]

After stealing away my sweet sunshine? The absolute nerve. Serpilia, are we going to let them get away with this?

[ Or



are they going to help because it sounds funny? ]

[enscene]

[Oh, he’s hammered. She looks at Ringo, too, then steals herself.]

I don’t even know for sure that you like this one that much!

Once it’s gone you won’t even miss it, since you DEFINITELY aren’t allowed to set foot anywhere near the other estate!

[nrangel]

[ It does sound pretty funny potentially, though Serpilia is going to pull a move she learned from Verso the other day, and fake scandalized gasp with her hand to her chest. ]

Stealing your sweet sunshine, then rubbing it in that he's kept so far away from you. You're pretty brutal when you want to be, Furina.

[ And yet it still sounds like a teasing compliment when she says it. ]

[hexensabbat]

Hey! Hey! You should be on our side!

For... reasons!

[gamboler]

And what reasons might those be?

[ He's willing to be the bigger person and hear them out! ]

[hexensabbat]

[She just gestures for him to come closer.

Come closer, Aventurine.]

[gamboler]

[ He's leaning closer...not realizing the imminent danger he is probably putting himself in. ]

[hexensabbat]

[Yeah she slings an arm around his neck to drag him closer and says something right up against his ear.]

1/2

[gamboler]

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[enscene]

[Okay, maybe she could have disseminated the details of her plan a little more clearly? She had the brilliant idea before she really went around outlining it.]

But! You’ll have the nice one with a much bigger capacity! I doubt this flimsy thing could hold one person comfortably, let alone two!

[nrangel]

[ Give her a second to faux consider that. Things are a lot funnier right now that she's three sheets to the wind. ]

What if I wanted some time for myself though, or maybe some really intimate time with someone else?

[hexensabbat]

... Whoa. Do you?

[This is far more important information than the sauna was.]

[nrangel]

Hmmmmmmmmm.

[ There's a melodious quality to her drawn out hum after Ringo asks that question. ]

Do you think there's anyone here I would want to take into it with me?

[gamboler]

[ something extremely lewd and gay is happening over here, should he look away ]

[nrangel]

[ You allergic to yuri too, Aventurine? Just watch the show and enjoy, buster. ]

[hexensabbat]

... Here?

[HERE, HERE?]

Like--right here?

Because I've got my hopes in that case, yeah.

[nrangel]

[ Give her a second, quick blinking. She's misreading this right? Drunk mind with a crush has to be misreading this? ]

Your hopes for what?

[ Except the honesty is up a little right now, and there is some hope in her own voice and expression asking that. ]

[enscene]

[Tiniest eep noise.]

[enscene]

[A little fussy whine, clumsy and earnest. Come ooonnnn, Serpilia, work with her here!]

If you saw how the two of us were living over there, you'd understand! We're absolutely desperate. Think about how absolutely desperate things will be without Aventurine, too! And you. [Despite eyes that get very big for various unnecessary luxuries, Furina has never seemed particularly fussed about having the perfect living conditions. So maybe she's trying to go somewhere with this.]

[nrangel]

[ It would probably be a lot easier if the two of them weren't drunk in some ways, though perhaps more difficult in others.

One way it's easier is the way Serpilia's inhibitions are running low enough for her to go and lean against Furina's side a little as she croons out a: ]

Awww, Furina. You miss my company so much you're replacing me with a cheap sauna, huh?

[ Definitely teasing at least. ]

[enscene]

[A tinier eep than the one Ringo will get in a few minutes, and tinier still than the third one that'll come moments later. This is basically a mouse noise as Serpilia leans into her personal space.]

First of all, I don't want to replace you with a sauna or anything else! This is definitely the kind of thing I'd buy and then think about returning the next day... And second of all... second of all...

[gamboler]

If you were going to miss my presence so much, you all should have made more of an effort to vote for me today! Such a cruel roll of the die...

[ A beat... ]

But perhaps we could take fate into our own hands, if you're so put out about it.

[enscene]

[She pokes a finger at him, then... leans in, actually, so she can poke it right against his chest.]

You know that we don't even get to cast votes anymore! We're basically sitting ducks in this situation. We've returned to participate in deliberations, but we're essentially your box seat audience right now.

[Furina much prefers to put it that way, rather than leaving it to fate. She's had enough of its hand hanging over her head, fingers twined around a guillotine pull. But she also knows that fate isn't so easily controlled or circumvented. Oh, how she knows it. His laissez-faire proposal almost makes her snort.]

And just how do you propose we handle that?