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

[ordimame]

Yeah! Either her or Serpilia, but my gut says Odile.

. . . if she is okay with it, then I'll vote for her and Messmer this week.

[hexensabbat]

[Plops a hand on his shoulder.]

Good luck! I can't vote, but I'd be on board if I could!

[ordimame]

You make me feel so important when you put it that way. . .

[hexensabbat]

You're very important, Edamura.

Never let anyone tell you otherwise.

1/2

[ordimame]

[H. . . HEY????]

[ordimame]

[FFFFFFFT]

[. . . genuine. . .]

Thanks, Ringo.

[nrangel]

Actually... I think maybe it should be me and Messmer? If we confirm it's not the two of us then we know for sure it's Yingying and Poppy and me and Shoko. If we confirm it is us then it's Poppy and Odile and Shoko and Yingying. Either way the answer to that truth booth guarantees us an final result.

[ordimame]

I think, regardless of who we send, we'll get a confirmation either way. . . if we send Odile and it's not a match, then it has to be you, right?

[nrangel]

True! So in the end it doesn't matter that much, except...

Even though Messmer doesn't have much of a choice but to go up there if we want our answer, Odile does.

[ And she remembers Odile's own reservations about Messmer when Serpilia asked, so she's not as confident about this as Edamura is. ]

[researcherstory]

I have no qualms either way. It will simply be the quietest walk we've had yet, which I am certain Messmer will not mind in the least.

[ They are pleasant company for one another, without need for many words. That much has been proven. World's most boring walk. ]

[ordimame]

[hmmm. . . looking between Serpilia and Odile]

. . . I don't want to send you if you really don't want to go. . . "no qualms" is a lot different than "I actually want to." Right?

[researcherstory]

It is, but I would have said the same for anyone else. Since Serpilia feels a stronger desire, let's go with her.

[ The people she might have asked are proven or otherwise assumed, anyway. ]

But if we were truly playing fair, we would see who Messmer would choose.

[ordimame]

That's not a bad idea. . .! I do feel kind of bad that he is a given.

[a small smile]

But anyone who walks up with him would be really lucky! He is pretty cute, you know.

[researcherstory]

It would have been a given for myself too, if we had used the hint that way. But at least between those left among us... I would have a good idea of who to choose, if the result was still the opposite sex -- if being the keyword. Had it differed, I would be without answer.

[ Her numbers... ]

Regardless, you're right. He can be rather cute.

[ordimame]

[folds his arms and nods, chin lifted, features firm]

I'm glad you see it too, Odile.

[the allure of Messmer's gap moe]

[researcherstory]

[ He made a snowbird with her how can't she think him cute. ]

How you've grown, Edamura. Hard to imagine you the same high strung young man who was losing his mind over Nicodème.

[nrangel]

I don't really mind that much either way.

[ Though this is what clenched it for her that it probably wasn't her and Odile. She can't get a read on her preferences all that well. ]

That might be the best call. I think regardless we can narrow this down easy peasy and nail our votes for the matching ceremony.

[beatmatching]

I agree. Even disregarding that, you have less data than Odile because of the random pairings in ceremony one and three.

[nrangel]

That's also true, huh? No one ever seems to want to pick me.

[ The sigh is dramatic and mostly seems made in good humor. ]

[beatmatching]

[ pokes her cheek in play. ]

If you want it, you should have it.

[nrangel]

[ A small laugh at that poke. Cute of him. ]

Well, on the off chance it is me and Messmer I do get to spend a couple of days in the perfect match suite, right?

[ With the girls. ]

So no downside here for me. I find out information I want either way.

[beatmatching]

That's the opposite of a downside, isn't it? Just get him earplugs.

[ nm we must send serpilia to the suite, she deserves this. ]

[nrangel]

Earplugs, huh? Just how loud do you think we are?

[ Not gonna try to hide the fact that this would be part of the plan though. ]

[beatmatching]

There's three of you. What's that saying, the more the merrier?

[ it's just math. ]

[nrangel]

Weeeell, that might be true.

[ Hehe. She'll be good and not given details though, both for Luka's sake, and also for Ringo and (mostly) Furina's sake as well. ]