WEEK 4

[bathymetric]

Another trial, another week, and still you're probably running lower on answers than you'd like. And on people - you lost three since last Sunday. By the end of this week, you'll have been here for nearly a full month, yet still the days crawl on.

You wake up Sunday, again with no memory of Saturday, but this time with a simple message on your devices: You may resume requesting items, if you like. Enjoy. Guess it really was just a stealth motive after all, but at least it's being communicated that it's over! That's something, at least.

And when you leave your rooms on Sunday, there's another new area to explore! This one is... certainly more ambitious in its construction than the last one, to say the least. But hey, you have a pretty neat place to host parties, if you feel so inclined! That's... fun...

Hey, you gotta find the fun in situations like this where you can! Silver linings, right?



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[ ooc: Welcome to Week 4! Remember to turn in AC here, threads for regain coins here, and if you feel so inclined you can visit Angel's office hours over here! ]

Comments

[snackooed]

I'll have you know that all cocktails are highly scientific. If you give me an idea of the kind of stuff you like, I'll do my best to work with it. If you don't like it, it's on the house, I promise.

[ ... ]

N-not that it isn't on the house anyway.

[drladysounds]

Anything with gin is right up my alley. You can't go wrong with that one.

[Not that Shelley is picky when it's about booze, really!]

[snackooed]

Well, let's see...any joe schmoe knows that gin goes with tonic, right? There's gotta be a way to spice that up somehow...

[ First things first, she'll need ice, so she'll get a big shaker full... ]

Do you have a favorite fruit, Shelley? I'll see if I can try something with that, if you'd like...

[drladysounds]

Any random joe knows that because the classics are the best -- but I'm into innovation. Revolutionize the industry of cocktails, Ema!

[Fruit, hm...]

Watermelon and strawberries. Those are the best ones.

[snackooed]

Watermelon and strawberry...well, I definitely can work with that. I don't know about revolution, but I think I can give you a scientific special.

[ Let's see, there should be watermelon juice back here, and there's definitely strawberry syrup? She sets out to work... ]

Have you been hanging in okay? I'm pretty sure everyone here could use something like this, and then some...

[drladysounds]

Can I be honest with you, Ema?

[It's a bit of a rhetorical question, but apparently Shelley does await an answer]

[snackooed]

Always. In fact, I'd be a little insulted if you weren't.

[ She seems more than sincere about that, at least! ]

Feel free to tell me anything. I promise I'm listening.

[drladysounds]

No, I'm not okay. At first I didn't mind being trapped here -- there was good company, and the place was kinda nice. But then people started dying -- people I liked. They were my friends.

[She sighs]

I miss them. I knew them for just a few weeks, but I miss them.

[At least Shelley has a bowtie to remember Alice by, but she wishes she also had something representing Lif and Aela]

[snackooed]

I know what you mean. It was only a few weeks, you're right, but they were people we were seeing every day. Obviously their absence is going to be felt, no matter who it is.

[ She keeps at mixing her drink, but she continues... ]

It's not right, and it's not fair, but...well, just because we can't see it, the sun still rises in the morning, right? We're still here, and we can make sure they're not forgotten...

[drladysounds]

[Shelley follows the mixer's movements up and down, just to have something to look at while she talks]

We should make a memorial, with statues and flowers and something nice etched into rock. Something so the entire world knows those five were here and now they're gone.

[Well, it doesn't have to be that, but the spirit is there: something so the world at large doesn't forget them]

[snackooed]

I think that sounds like a great idea. Maybe see about talking to Mira about coordinating something together. She's been making those paintings, and they came out really lovely...I think if you two put your heads together, you could make something to make sure that people couldn't possibly forget. You're both very creatively-minded, in that regard.

[drladysounds]

I'll bring the idea to Mira, but I have never been that good with my hands. The fine arts are beyond my reach, you don't want to be immortalized in a sculpture made by me. Unless you want to have a hunchback and probably a bad case of the cubism art movement.

[snackooed]

Well, she can handle the parts with her hands, and you can be the wordsmith. You did write that novel in a pretty short amount of time, after all, didn't you?

[drladysounds]

That's a good idea. I will immortalize them all with the power of the pen.

[Shelley smiles. Looks like having something to do has cheered her up a lot]

Look at that, I didn't need spirit drinks to have my spirits lifted. Thanks.

[snackooed]

If that lifted your spirits, something tells me that this will make you feel a little better.

[ Watermelon juice, lemon juice, strawberry syrup, two cups gin, three parts tonic...and a sprig of mint, for garnish! ]

Think it'll do the trick?

[drladysounds]

Let's see...

[Shelley swirls the concoction with appraising eye, it looks like she's satisfied. Time for the taste test]

When I become rich I'm hiring you as my personal bartender!

[Yeah, she loved it]