☆ WEEK THREE

[raisingproject]

Magical Girl Raising Project

Monday-Thursday, Week 3

16 REMAIN...?

It's been a ride. One where they all messed up and two innocent people died in the end. Of course, nobody knows who the killer is, with the exception of Fav and his master. Nevertheless, things seem to feel a lot more solemn and melancholy this week, and Fav's announcement does not help, either.

"Come downstairs. I have something to show you all, pon."

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This is the mingle for week three, which covers Monday (4/3) to Thursday (4/6). When posting toplevels, please specify the time and location. If you plan on having any private conversations, please notify us in the link given below.

↪️️LOCATIONS
↪️️ROOMING ASSIGNMENTS
↪️️PROFILES
↪️️ITEMS
↪️️PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS
↪️️FAV CONTACT
↪️️BACK TO THE NETWORK?
↪️️BONUS AC

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MOTIVE

[raisingproject]

First of all, I'd like to congratulate our killer, pon. Since they got away with murder, candy will be added to their totals, pon. That amount will not be shown with their totals, pon.

Second of all, I would like to show you something, pon. [ And a screen will be pulled down, showing... Renji, dead near the river area. ] He tried to touch the impurity, pon. This is what happened to him, pon.

Third of all, tasks are put on hold for the time being, pon. Your magical phones seem to be glitching out for tasks, pon.

And fourth of all: since murder is the only way to get candy now, we've decided to offer an incentive, pon.

[ And the screen will now show people you love, people you miss. More specifically, one person per character, excluding those who are already dead. They are all tied to chairs wearing frilly dresses - as if they were dolls - completely gagged. They seem rather out of it, too. ]

Kill someone by the end of the week... or else I'll kill them, pon. Anyway, onto the candy rankings:

Kaine: 4,291
Zack: 2,103
Edna: 1,823
Nagi: 1,648
Miach: 1,558
Moeka: 1,262
Joshua: 1,247
Recette: 1,232
Eruna: 1,087
Tamamo-no-Mae: 997
Dahlia: 897
Chiaki: 877
Taiki: 847
Szayelaporro: 797
Seraphina: 797

[buylowsellhigh]

[Recette freezes up at the small form of Tear being bound up like that.]

T-tear....

[Don't mind her running up to press her hands against the screen that's been pulled down.]

Tear!!!!!

suicide mention cw

[imitationsoul]

She died with me.

[ She's staring at that screen, her face not betraying any emotion but her voice somewhat urgent. ]

Tuan died with me, we crossed to the other side together. There's nothing you could do to her that she wouldn't be prepared for.

[ And the urgency leaves her voice again, she has evidently gotten over the initial shock. Now she speaks with an air of superiority again. At least outwardly. ]

Is that really the best you could do?

CW: Intention of murder?

[zackthekiller]

[Zack didn't think he needed another reason to seek revenge. Fav's game is already pissing him off to no end.]

[But seeing Rachel Gardner among the hostages, looking even more lifeless than usual...]

[Zack cries out in a rage as he swings his scythe at the screen. Yeah, he's mad, but his reasons may shock everyone.]

Fuck off! Nobody fucking kills Ray but ME!!

[sedatedkiss]

[Joshua's one that's been calm despite all of this. Sure there was the arcade, but even that pales in comparison to the expression he shows now.

Then his eyes go blank and his voice? Well, it's monotone. It's... creepy.]

Hurt one hair on her head and I will kill you.

[crossingout]

Nagi...

[ She speaks the two syllable name just as it falls from her lips, her eyes wide in a mixture of shock and fear as she just stares at the girl who looks a bit similar to her. She can even feel the tears starting at the edges of her eyes, too. ]

Nagi ane-sama?! No! This can't be, if ane-sama is here, who's protecting Kannagi?!

[perfectbeing]

[Meanwhile, in the midst of all this shock and horror, Szayel is...

Laughing?

He's fucking laughing.]

[hawthorned]

[Anyone looking at those who've been taken hostage will see that there's a girl amongst them who looks exactly like Dahlia save for her dark hair. Dahlia though? She doesn't seem upset in the slightest. As she walks away from the screen she's audibly muttering:]

She makes a pretty doll.

[ladiesfirst]

[Anyone who saw these photos at the first trial will be able to recognize one of the hostages, as well as why Eruna suddenly starts attempting to grab, punch, do something to Fav here despite them being a hologram.]

Where is she?! If you hurt Seisa-senpai, I'll make you regret it!!

[enthrallingly]

[Seraphina has bitched and moaned and complained before. But any anger she has shown until now cannot compare to the look on her face right now. Despite herself, there is something very serious about the way she's upset about seeing him here in this situation.]

No one has the right to touch Sir Killia but me!

[It's incredible because she can accept, hatefully, what they have done to here-- but there is one person in all the worlds that matters more to her. And she refuses to be okay with this.]

[theotherother]

[He really doesn't want to go downstairs after yesterday, but this morning Kaine's legs and his brain appear to be having a disagreement. He's hanging back, close enough to listen, but keeping his distance because yeah, no, he's not socializing.

The hostage motive...does nothing for him, honestly. Sure, Pete looks like he's having a bad time, but it's fine. It'll be fine. He's gotten through worse. Hell, the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, and probably whatever's left of the X-Men and god knows what else are looking for the guy. It'll be okay, Peter's got friends. They'll help him.

So he'll just kind of look at it for a while, but not really...caring. Sorry, Fav.]

[shining_finger]

[Are the people in the video moving? Visibly breathing?]

[partyleader]

No... No...

[Nanami stares at the screen, at the teacher she holds so dear tied up with unfocused eyes. It's so unlike her that Nanami's breath quickens in her panic.]

Sensei! Let Sensei go, you can't do this...!

[yourdreamismydream]

[The moment Taiki sees this girl on the screen, something in him snaps.

No no no no no no-]

Akari!!!

[Why is this happening again? Is it... Is it because of him? Is it his fault? Is that why she keeps getting taken away?]

How dare you... [He grits his teeth, hands balled into fists tightly at his sides. Taiki knows by now that there's no reasoning with Fav, but anger clouds his sensibility.] How dare you involve her in this... [He doesn't even realize that he's shaking, teeth digging too sharply into his lip. And even now he knows it's pointless to say, but the words slip out anyway.] Give her back.

[mikooon]

[Everyone knows who is on Tamamo's screen.]

That's a lie.

[No way. She's not believing it. Her master-- does he even have a corporeal body? She's trying not to believe it. Hell, as much as she hates it, Nero would've protected him with her fucking life. Altera would've destroyed anyone who came too close. Unless, they, too...]

Prove it to me, Fav.

[hawthorned]

monday morning/afternoon - hospital
[She's been wondering when a medical facility would show up, ever since it became apparent that new places would appear at the conclusion of every trial. After all, no town is complete without some kind of hospital, right? Right. But in any case, she'll be looking around the hospital wards with a pink camera around her neck and looking around for things. She'll be seen at the nursing station, trying to snoop around for medical records and files and also in the med room.]

wednesday afternoon - restaurant
[This is a welcome break from three weeks of room service and snack food from the store. Even so it's a little creepy that nobody seems to be around taking orders or handling the food. Dahlia can be seen peering around the bar, trying to get a glimpse into the kitchen in the back.]

thursday afternoon - police station
[Ugh. She hates this building, and while she's usually quite good at keeping dislike or discomfort concealed, the place is making her skin crawl. But she can't exactly not look around here either. She's looking at the posters of missing people with a bit of a frown, while periodically looking over her shoulder.]

wildcard - feel free to pick a day/time
[Dahlia will be around exploring, maping as usual. This week though, she has a pink digitial camera with her and she'll be taking pictures of anything that seems interesting]

Monday afternoon

[imitationsoul]

[ After Miach is done acting sentimental about the events of yesterday, she's off to giving cursory glances around the most interesting new areas. The hospital is a location that gives her mixed feelings, but it's also inarguably the most relevant new building around. At least it's all old medical equipment - the kind that even Miach may make use of if needed. Sparking her own curiosity with that thought, she quickly heads for the place she's most interested in - the med room - and... spots a familiar redhead there. ]

This gives me a sense of deja-vu, I must say.

[imitationsoul]

Monday
[ First that trial, now this motive that has people heated and Miach brooding... She doesn't waste time returning to the north apartments after the announcement is over. At the stairs, she pauses, and then climbs up to the third floor instead of the second, on which she lives. Miach makes her way through all debris and obstruction and voilá finds the door to One's apartment unlocked.

For a while, Miach just quietly paces through the rooms. Her expression is calm, just lost in thought. She doesn't think she's sad about One exactly, but she does think it's a pity. By one's Japanese notes and textbooks, she lingers. They spoke about this, learning Japanese, to read books from the school....

Miach picks up the notes one had taken, turns them in her hands... and doesn't set them down. This, along with one of those textbooks, she'd claim as a memento.

On her way out, Miach does her best to block One's apartment door with a more solid barricade of furniture. ]

Death is meant to be private. Maybe this is better than a stuffy old grave.

Tuesday
[ The gachapon store is full of surprises. Tuesday midday, you may note Miach walking out of it in her magical form, carrying... a fully grown living Iguana. If she finds you staring, Miach will just give you the facial equivalent of a shrug.

Later in the day you can find Miach in two different places, alternatingly:

When she's in the north apartment complex she's on the second floor, cleaning out the room next to hers. Lots of stuff is just carelessly going into the hallway here, sorry. The iguana sits in safe distance from this.

She can also be seen in the park collecting large amounts of greenery as food for this new pet she involuntarily obtained. ]

Wednesday
[ With that taken care of, Wednesday is finally the day for an in-depth exploration. Miach has gone by a lot of places in the past days already, but this is the first time she's entering the Dollhouse.

Join her on an exploration through all the rooms of it? She doesn't seem comfortable, but she's not leaving before she's seen the whole thing. ]

Wild Card
[ Catch Miach at the corner store, in the middle school, in the hospital, in the restaurant, in the public baths, in the park, in her apartment... Any place is fine, any day is fine. ]

wednesday

[raisingproject]

[The dollhouse is fucking creepy as the moment you enter, you'll see that it looks like a normal house... with the exception that the people that are inside are familiar to the entire cast, dead or alive. Except for the people from the motive, of course.

They're not tied up, but rather, they look just lifeless. Some of them look like they're having a tea party!]

[perfectbeing]

[After the absolute ride of a trial over the weekend, Szayel's mood was mixed to say the least. He made it out alive, and the voting results were pretty incredible (even if he received votes himself). But he wasn't foolish to assume that there wouldn't be any repercussions from it. After all, One was not the culprit. It was likely that all of the suspects would be looked at differently from then on. He'll have to be on a higher alert than ever.

Then the Monday announcement happens and. Well.]

Monday

[Needless to say that Szayel is in much higher spirits today despite the mess going on, and after he's done exploring around the river with Miach he'll turn his focus to the new locations. He takes time to at least acquaint himself with each building but spends the most time in the hospital, specifically the morgue. This is where he can be found in the afternoon.

After all the corpse-touching he's done so far, it's no surprise that this location in particular would catch his attention. He's curious, after all, to see if this is actually where the bodies of their fallen "friends" have ended up. Perhaps it could also shed some light on Town A's history?]

Tuesday

[With his cursory (and thorough in the morgue's case) investigation of the new locations completely, Szayel takes time on Tuesday to continue his documentation of the impurity. He can be seen at the second floor of the inn, apartments and river throughout the morning, examining the black masses from a safe distance and jotting down notes in that notebook of his.

As the afternoon passes and evening falls, Szayel takes a trip to the new area of town in order to try out the restaurant's food. Even if the food ends up being terrible, it's at least nice to experiment with something new for a change. The ambiance is nice too, at least.]

Throughout the Week

[If anyone is even around the karaoke shop late at night, they may catch a glimpse of Szayel...actually using one of the rooms... He's here for investigation and science, really.

At least his singing voice isn't...terrible...?]

Wild Card/Open

[Other than the specific prompts, Szayel can be found in various places around town. His most-frequented spots are the inn (his room or the bath house), the park, the hospital/morgue, the apartment complexes and the river area. Feel free to run into him anywhere.]

morgue!

[raisingproject]

[The morgue seems to have 22 lockers separated in rows of two -- one above and one below. There are five lights that are green on the left side and one all the way on the far right side. Where to first, my good man?]

[buylowsellhigh]

Monday

[Recette grunts as she finally sets this....thing. down in the front yard of the Sakura Inn. Is... is that a bronze statue of some weird amalgamation of a vacuum cleaner and a umbrella? Boy it sure is. It's heavy too; Recette had to transform to lug it all the way here.]

Right... Carving, ho!

[The enhanced strength of her magical girl form definitely helps in this task.

By lunchtime, she'll have a somewhat neat row of names on the vacuum part of the statue.

Dia Kurosawa
Beyond Birthday
Eliza Owens
One
Renji Abarai
Snow White
Ripple
Nemurin
La Pucelle
Top Speed
Ruler
Tama
Minael
Yunael
Swim Swim
Calamity Mary
Magicaloid 44
Hardgore Alice
Weiss Winterprison
Sister Nana
Cranberry ]

Phew....

[She's left room for more on the statue. Just in case.]

There's so many....

[And Recette doesn't even know about that notebook with all those other names in it.

For the rest of the day she can be seen doing a cursory check of all the new areas while wielding a notebook from the middle school that she's scribbling notes down in.]

Tuesday

[In the morning Recette can be found in the Hospital Med room trying to put together a few emergency first aid kits. Sure they'll PROBABLY never actually find someone before their dead- They'll help. She's sure of it.

Later that day, she's thoroughly looking through the Nursing Station, searching for anything at all that's out of place or even the slightest bit suspicious.

Near the end of the day Recette is hesitantly having a stare down with the Morgue Door

She... honestly doesn't WANT to look in there. But... she's gonna help.

But she doesn't have to do it alone.

Plus she doesn't really... know much about... bodies...

Someone might wanna interrupt the really intense staring match going on. She hasn't blinked for the last several seconds.]

Wednesday

[Recette is quite frankly CREEPED THE HECK OUT by the dollhouse. But... at the same time... it's nice seeing her friends again. Though she uh.... really preferred the game to this.

Recette takes a few pictures of the dolls for later reference. Gosh phones were super convenient.

She pauses to look over Louie, Charme, Caillou, Tielle, Elan, Nagi, Arma, Griff, The Guild Master .... heck, even dolls of Alouette, Prime, and Euria were there.

Recette didn't realize she was crying until she felt the tears roll down her face.]

...Okay... I have time.

[She searches out an empty chair and drags it over to the table where all her doll-friends are arranged into having a tea party.

All of them sans Tear.

The painful feeling in her chest was back again.]

Thursday

[Notebook in tow, Recette is all up in the Police Station's business today.

She can be seen Taking photo's of the missing children posters. She lingers a bit too long on each one to try and memorize the faces. This kind of stuff is just... super sad to her.

Once that's done, she makes her way to the Cheif's office time to look through the desk and files! Recette figures she'll work her way down from there]

nursing station!

[raisingproject]

[The first thing that Recette will notice is that there's something glowing in this part of the hopsital. It's not blinding, but it's definitely there.]

[theotherother]

[Tuesday]

[We're skipping Monday here because Kaine probably spent in his room, thinking about the fight to the death and angsting and there was probably about the same level of overdramatics as you'd find in a spooky CW show. So let's skip all that.

On Tuesday, he'll head out to check out the new locations and some other places. Not because he wants to explore. But because he's considering relocating. Because he's overdramatic and the last time he killed someone in front of other people, he had to leave. That's just how it works.

The dollhouse is getting skipped because fuck that place. So instead on Tuesday, he's just going to check out the police station. And wow, if he didn't feel shitty before, he sure does now. So exploring takes a back seat to just sitting down on a bench and mulling over things he dwelled on the day before. Great, and here Monday was supposed to be his sit around contemplating life being shit day.]

[Wednesday morning/afternoon]

[Okay, take two. Today, he'll be checking out the hospital. Not really an ideal place for him to poke around for...a number of reasons. But he's here, and kind of wishing he wasn't. Still, it beats the dollhouse, seriously if nobody's set fire to the fucking place by now, he doesn't know what's wrong with everybody else.

Anyways, he's mostly sticking to kind of poking around the patient rooms, he's staying the hell out of the morgue. No way in hell is he poking around a morgue in an abandoned hospital full of spooky sounds. That's just asking for bad shit.]

[Wednesday night]

[In something that is surprisingly normal, and not full of him kicking himself all week long, he'll be in the restaurant here, eating dinner. At least the empty restaurant isn't judging him. Not that...anything's judging him at the time this is being written, but still, he knows judging is going on! It's just..how he is.

Anyways, he'll be eating his dinner in silence and can't really make up his mind if he hopes that continues or not.]

wednesday night

[hawthorned]

[Be careful what you wish for... and also be careful what you don't wish for, Kaine! Dahlia walks into the restaurant about fifteen minutes or so after he's seated. She doesn't quite realize he's there at first, but she spots him after she hands in her order at the bar.

She feels a little caught now actually. Irrational as that is considering she's done nothing wrong. But she's also not stupid enough to assume Kaine doesn't hold her partially responsible given what she said at the trial. She lingers at the bar, even though her food is already at one of the table. She's not sure if she should just leave before it gets more awkward.]

[zackthekiller]

Monday Afternoon
[After that shocker of an announcement, Zack's been trying to comfort the two pokemon he adopted. Crown's taking the news well enough, like he didn't see a point in getting too attached to the humans.]

[Dragon, on the other hand, is so stricken with grief that he burrowed underground and refuses to come out. People may run into Zack sitting in front of a small hole in the ground, holding a bowl of breakfast fruit he ordered from room service. He's holding a grape over the hole in an attempt to coax the diglett out.]

Come on, little guy... I can take care of ya...

[Sigh.]

Tuesday Morning

[Now that the awkward introductions are out of the way, Zack gets to be a bad influence to a little girl's pokemon. How? By raiding the hospital for actual bandages! It's not exactly ethical, but he's been using ripped up bedsheets for weeks. WEEKS! Surely, there are actual medical supplies here, right?]

Tuesday Afternoon

[Next stop on the investigation trail is the police station. Not the best place for a violent person like Zack, but fuck the police.]

[...Or, not. The police have probably fucked off already. Guess Zack will start looking at the missing children posters.]

[Aiding in his search is Crown the deerling, whom Zack may have bribed with ceasar salad earlier. Crown is sniffing around, not really caring about much unless something would catch his eye.]

Anytime else

[Zack may also be found wandering through town with his scythe (like always), or wanting to order from the resturant, or heckling the kareoke singers. If you're lucky, you may spot him in the park, trying to figure out how the hell pokemon training works.]

tuesday

[raisingproject]

[Don't worry, Zack. You get your medical supplies this time. And all the medicine that you'd like, too.]

[shining_finger]

Tuesday afternoon

[On Tuesday Moeka can be found in the dollhouse, looking at the dolls from different angles and poking at them a bit. After a while, she straightens up and makes a noise of satisfaction, like she's proved some kind of point. To herself, anyway.]

Thursday night

[Moeka has chosen a time when she hopes no one else will be there to check out the hospital, looking through the med room to see what medications there are. But of course, who can say when anyone is likely to be anywhere under these unusual circumstances.]

Whenever

[Moeka doesn't get out much, and with no tasks she has fewer reasons to leave her room than ever, but she can still be found at the corner store, and once or twice at the restaurant (it's more effort going all the way there, though, even if the food is better). Occasionally you might even find her at the arcade—though she's still avoiding the game with her face on it.]

[crossingout]

[ After the shitshow that was the trial and then subsequently figuring out that her older sister got kidnapped, Zange... decides that she has to do something as a distraction. Anything, really, is fine. Hence why this week, she decides... ]

✞ it's picture perfect ( monday, dollhouse )

[ There's only one person who she knows she'll be seeing at the dollhouse and that's when she decides to play with the doll that depicts a rather young teenage male as she plays with the arms just a little bit, doing a mock male voice. ]

"Why, Zange-sama, I love you and I always have."

Ah, thank you, Jin-kun, but I can't accept. I have feelings for another man, and his name is--

[ A beat. ] Just kidding. I don't have anybody like that yet.

[ Someone please stop her and this madness. ]

✞ that's hell you're walking into ( wednesday; arcade )

[ Some, if not most of the games are creepy, but Zange's at the Love Live cabinet now that all the creepy NPCs seem to have somehow disappeared and she's playing this. She guesses. A good distraction.

And not only that she's so distracted that she ends up playing a particular song repeatedly until she manages to full combo it. Good luck trying to talk to her. ]

✞ double date ( thursday - with taiki, eruna and edna. at karaoke )

[ First things first: text Taiki the following words: ]

Meet me at the karaoke place, it's really important!! SOS!!!

[ And then, to Eruna and Edna: ]

Hey, are you two busy today? We should all go and relax a bit at the karaoke place! Even make it a date. ♥ Meet me at 1 PM, okay?

[ And now to let all the pieces lie into place... ]

✞ wildcard

[ Pick your poison and if you need me for a private conversation, hit me up at endlesseight! ]

[yourdreamismydream]

[The word "SOS" bounces around in his head, makes his throat tight and the breath saw a little too fast in his lungs. This stupid game is already trying to take Akari from him, so if he lost Zange too he- he would-

He shoots off a quick text saying he'll hurry over right away, and then Taiki is running as fast as he can, knowing exactly how to angle his limbs to maximize his speed. Some things are hard to unlearn, even with panic thrumming in his veins.

The moment he reaches the karaoke place, even before his eyes fall on her, the first thing Taiki will do is yell.] Zange! Are you here?! Are you hurt?!

[breakingthrough]

monday afternoon - restaurant

[The new restaurant catches her eye so-- she decides to give it a try. Seeing Fav's new little stunt of dragging Sorey into this mess as her hostage left a bad taste in her mouth. So she was going to do her best to wash it down with some real food. Taking the menu to one of the booths, she starts looking it over while she thinks.]

This is just another attempt to get someone to act. [Edna smiled wryly.] Still... if I killed someone to save him-- he wouldn't like that one bit. Everything has to be difficult with that kid. I guess I'll just have to find another way.

[Although she's talking to herself, feel free to join her. She certainly won't mind the company.]

Better be careful though. That's not a bad threat he's waving around in front of us. I wouldn't be surprised if someone felt they needed to do it.

tuesday - dollhouse

[After their cute little ploy of a motive, Edna did not expect that coming into the quaint little dollhouse meant that she would see more of her friends dressed up in frilly clothes. Everyone from Zaveid to Mikleo were present in the form of dolls. Anyone who played the game or saw the design on the outside of the game console would recognize the individuals. The sight of them brings a crooked smile to her face when she sees the dresses the dolls were put in.

To Zaveid in particular she chuckles.] That's a good look for you.

[Or you might see her doing her part to put Mikleo in an embarrassing pose.

Hey. If they were going to do something creepy, she was at least going to get her fun out of it.]

[buylowsellhigh]

Ehehehe..

[Recette giggles at the poses and points to the doll of Zaveid.]

He'd look even better in the dress if we braid his hair.

[It's long enough. She's had so much bad influence here.]

[ladiesfirst]

[room 22; sometime on tuesday?]

[Eruna was pretty much nonexistent the first day until Monday evening, there is a card that suddenly gets slid under everyone's doors.]

Hey, this is Zack and Eruna here! We'd like to request everyone to gather for a meeting sometime this week to discuss the motive as well as any information that's been found regarding how to get home!

However, we suggest that you do not mention this meeting happening over the network. We want to make sure that Fav and the Mastermind don't hear about what we talk about during the meeting, and we have reason to believe they can hear us talking sometimes when we have our phones on regardless, which is why we're also going to ask that you turn your phone off before going to the meeting and keep it off during the meeting!

We'll be waiting at the indicated time and place!!

[The indicated place is room 22 of the apartment complex that Edna has a key for, and anyone who arrives will find that Eruna has set up a board with the words "The Official First Meeting of the Going Finding Home club!"

Today's Agenda:
-- Sharing any and all information regarding the town, Fav, the Mastermind, or anything else that might be relevant in helping us get back home!
-- Ghosts??? What to do about the mysterious envelopes we got at the last trial
-- The Motive: discussing any alternative methods to attempt getting around it or having to hurt anyone this week if possible!
-- Anything else worth bringing up too!

There is also some food and drinks being provided too, so if you for some reason don't care about joining the conversation, at least there's that?]

[crossingout]

So I was curious in a few things: who here believes that this motive is actually real? I went to the dollhouse and I saw Jin-kun made out of wood. Did anybody else see any "dolls" [ she's saying that word with a bored inclination ] that they know around?

If ane-sama dies, my entire town is practically dead, after all.