week four | mingle

[marriagebroker]

Final week at the estate! Final week with your friends. Final week with your beaus. Time to make the most of it, everyone!

In fact, to celebrate this fact, today there is a cake. It's nothing special, just a nice little cake to enjoy with your morning coffee or throughout the day. Yay, cake!

And when Wei Wuxian arrives that morning, he is going to call out once again for everyone to join him, near the cake.

"Everyone, I have another announcement!"

Hell yeah, announcements.

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

Comments

[crimsin]

Merci beaucoup, monsieur overseer! I think that sounds lovely.

[ Who let this guy in here? Please, as if you all would be rid of him. ]

Now we must figure out who would give us the best chances of putting the rest together. Our biggest outliers, so to speak.

[ordimame]

[who WOULDN'T let him in here???]

. . . if we continue with the assumption that Poppy and Yingin, Rom and I, and Maya and Aventurine were our lights from last week, then we should use it on. . . either Messmer, Odile, Serpilia, Shoko, Luka or Yi Sang. Right?

[crimsin]

That seems correct to me, but that still leaves us quite quite the pool. I know many different combinations were tossed around after the ceremony, and I am not sure how... well, sure anyone is about their guesses.

[ordimame]

My gut still says it's Messmer and Odile, Serpilia and Shoko, and Luka and Yi Sang.

[please ask him how many times his gut has led him astray]

. . . but I don't know! I'll let some of the math people tell us who our best bet is.

[crimsin]

And how successful has your gut been at predictions so far?

[ Not trying to throw shade... yet. Probably. ]

1/2

[ordimame]

[GCK]

[ordimame]

-- don't worry about it! Just trust me!

[crimsin]

That does not inspire confidence.

[ordimame]

W-- well, it's not like we have no means of testing my theory. . . we have a hint and a truth booth. If I'm wrong, then--

[. . .]

I guess it'll just be one more for the list.

[crimsin]

[ Ruffles his hair. ]

You are doing your best, mon ami. No one can fault you for that.

[embellwish]

I think it might be a good idea to use it on Luka or Serpilia. Neither of them got picked in the first or third weeks, so we don't have very many times that they've sat with someone intentionally.

[ Which doesn't leave much for them to go off of, really. ]

[beatmatching]

[ fistbumps serpilia

okay no he doesnt but he does in spirit. ]

I have the most exclusions along with you, too.

[embellwish]

That's true. It would narrow things down even more. But you also seem pretty confident it's you and Yi Sang...

[ so.... maybe luka doesn't need the hint???? ]

Do you want the hint?

[beatmatching]

I wouldn't say I want it.

[ that's too lofty an ask and he doesn't feel that strongly about it. ]

If my match is male, I'm pretty confident it's Yi Sang. But if it's not, then I could see Shoko too.

Realistically, we should be trying to figure out the last male-female pair.

[embellwish]

In that case, knowing something about Serpilia's match might be the most helpful...

[ who knows what the hint might be, though! it could reveal gender, but it could also reveal something arbitrary about them. ]

I wouldn't say we're lucky we have the most exclusions, but we really benefited from going first. Now that we're at the end.

[ Otherwise, they might've wasted time theorizing about their potential match up. ]

[beatmatching]

[ luka nods with a small hum. he doesn't regret going into the booth first at all. ]

Do you really think your match is Poppy?

[embellwish]

[ At that, she hums. ]

I think we have a chance. She's hardworking and really wants to help me, [ Which is very sweet. And comforting, because her solutions feel much more tangible and hopeful. ] And I think I can make her feel more confident.

Although... Yi Sang and Odile, and Edamura and Rom, seem to know each other better.

[ordimame]

Luka seems pretty confident his match is Yi Sang, so maybe Serpilia?

[embellwish]

[ a nod! ]

Plus, I think it might be nice for her to get to have something special.

[ordimame]

[. . . aw. Yingying!!]

That's pretty sweet. I agree, too. She deserves it!

[reverso]

[Straining his brain cell... the work he does for you guys.]

Hm. I wonder if we should treat this hint as separate from who we decide to send to the booth, too. In order to get the most out of it, if we can.

[crimsin]

[ You're doing amazing sweetie. ]

If the hint is good enough to make a sure match off of, I think that is probably wise!

[reverso]

[☺️]

In which case, we should probably continue focusing on our biggest unknowns. From all the chatter, I think that may be Messmer and Odile.

[Unless something's changed! Anyone can correct him, if so.]

[crimsin]

[ Nodding! Nico seems to be right there with him, so if they're both wrong at least they're wrong together. ]

That is my thought as well. Perhaps if their hint does not point to each other, we can send the other to the booth.

[reverso]

Precisely. And et voila, two answers for the price of one.