week 05, wednesday, 8PM-???

[hopefragment]

[What's up it's sleepover time. Feel free to assume that if you're a teenager (or Poland, or Urashima), that Hinata extended an invitation to hang out with him and Roxy and whoever else wants to come for a sleepover. No obvious weapons will be allowed, and if anyone shows up with one that he can see, he'll politely ask that they leave their weapon in their room and come back.

No Glitter Allowed other than what's invariably trapped in their clothes (and Hinata's hair).

He's been gathering things all afternoon to try to make it a nice party with absolutely no murder involved. He stole a good amount of snacks, drinks, and candy from the general store and kitchen, as well as some paper and pencils from the police station. He'd even made a trip into the schoolhouse for construction paper, though he hadn't spent long in there. Unfortunately there's not much available in the way of games, so he's hoping they can do things that are mostly verbal or don't require props. Charades...?

One thing of note is that it's a good idea to take your shoes off when you come in! Through the afternoon, he's been dragging mattresses and bedspread from both Alisha's and Poland's room to spread all as many as will fit end to end, creating a massive comfy place to sit and invariably crash. His own bedframes and box springs have been kind of awkwardly shoved against the wall beneath the window, the rest of the furniture moved against the walls to allow space.]

[feel free to use this post as a general mingle! make toplevels, threadjack, you know the drill. if you need me for anything, feel free to ping me @ blutundeisen]

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[hopefragment]

Uh... guys?

[Carefully standing up and watching the candy with no small amount of concern. Is anyone bouncing further down the mattresses...? No...?]

Do you see that?

[symbologic]

[Staring at the candy, eyes widenig a little.]

I...do, yes but...how is that...

[HAPPENING???]

[princessantly]

A spirit...?

[ Look, she comes from places where she can't see seraphim without help, this isn't actually too shocking. ]

[sobowtor]

Should we capture it for questioning?

[Poland's armed with her vodka glass like she's about to catch a bug or something.]

[muties]

[ sniffs her glass of oj just in casse. ]

It probs was jelly of all the kissing games.

[vicedirector]

[ Seemingly satisfied with the amount of attention it currently commands, the candy begins to roll; back and forth and up and down.

The space it does it in is rather small, though - the candy doesn't go beyond the boundaries of an area close in size to that of an A4 page. ]

[symbologic]

[Faize looks up to the ceiling. Is there anything up there that might explain why we apparently have dancing candy in the room now? Ghosts are real here, apparently but...ghost candy? Come on now...]

[sobowtor]

Wait- wait. I have a plan.

[Poland refills her vodka glass and gingerly shoves it in the vicinity of the candy before backing away again.]

...never have I ever been a ghost.

[hopefragment]

Poland!

[Hinata just kind of backs away a step or two. What if the ghost gets pissed off??]

Someone, uh... check for wires or something.

[Not volunteering though, fuck that.]

[princessantly]

I think it's too small to be drinking legally!!

[ ALISHA... ]

[hopefragment]

...I think like, half of us are underage already, you know!

[Alisha, your priorities...]

[sobowtor]

We're in fake Lithuania where the drinking age is none so-- when in fake Lithuania do as the fake Lithuanians do!

[dereban]

[ Flatly: ]

But the ghost is fucking dead. I do wonder if we can communicate with it... do you think if I drew an ouji board, that would work?

[vicedirector]

[ Two bounces! ]

[dereban]

That's definitely a yes. Just. Give me a second.

[ To pretty much draw this on a scrap of paper and place it on the table.

Of course the ouji board itself might be slightly altered to include hiragana/katakana along with the English alphabet. ]

There. Now you can roll the candy onto the letters instead of writing it out.

[vicedirector]

[ oh thank god

T H A N K Y O U

T A K E S E N E R G Y ]

[hopefragment]

Then... what's most important for us to know? For you to tell us?

[hopefragment]

Uh... here.

[Passing across his notepad and pen, since, y'know, this is his room with his shit in it.]

[symbologic]

[What do you think he was using his elf eyes for, ding dong?]

[But alright, assuming there's not like...a severed hand up there on the ceiling or anything, Faize will swipe a hand through the air above the candy as well.]

[vicedirector]

[ Nope, no wires!

Sadly, the shot glass goes ignored - and the candy switches to rolling out hiragana.

あ　い　う　え　お ]

[hopefragment]

Wait, hang on...

[Oh no, is this Japanese horror... Hinata shifts a little since he's sideways, tracing the path of the candy with his finger a good distance back from it.]

A, I, U, E, O, [he sounds out easily once he traces it himself, clearly surprised.] That's Japanese, that's the first five letters of the alphabet.

[dereban]

Why the fuck is it in Japanese?!

[ LIKE WHAT THE FUCK ]

[sobowtor]

Well.

It's a hotel.

People from all over stay in hotels.

[sobowtor]

And die in hotels apparently.

[symbologic]

Well there aren't wires of any kind that I can find. So it would seem as though Alisha's assumption may be correct. It may be some manner of spirit...

[Just squinting at the candy as it rolls around in completely unintelligible patterns. Weird!]