week four | mingle

[showhost]

Welcome to your fourth and final week, teens!

There aren’t many changes around the house today: it seems everyone is dialed in on what needs to be done and the upcoming week. Everything that was on the fritz last week is now back to normal, aside from the Dress Up Your Blorbo curse. You can still do that at will.

Anyway, it's fine that all seems quiet.

There’s plenty going on anyway this week.

Dates | Embrace Space | Property Damage, etc | CR Event | A Thing
Truth Booth Voting | Match Ceremony Submissions

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[holynights]

[Upon piling into the kitchen, the contestants will find a young woman dressed in red and sporting a jaunty festive beret and traveling capelet. She’s thumbing through a fat stack of cash and reading a note hastily scribbled on printer paper. With a sigh, she folds it in half.]

Ho ho ho. Buon Natale. You have been visited today by three spirits. The final is the spirit of things yet to come.

I mean, of course, our production bills.

Are you aware of the average repair cost incurred during a ten-episode season of reality television?I come bearing word from the second greatest power in the world: money. The garden shed production cheaped out on for the Truth Booth cannot withstand the oppressive demonic energy of an incubus or the fabric of reality would shatter. In the event of a correct match the structure would simply explode. While I would be glad to see something so exciting, our worker’s insurance denied our last claim. Please proceed accordingly.

[Congratulations. You have unlocked your IC restriction to keep Cal out of the booth and have your state-sanctioned encouragement to wrap up your TB final discussions.]

Oh. There are chocolates as well. I had hoped to curse you with mistletoe, but this is what you get. Ahem. Please enjoy and share with one another so your hearts may be full.

[There’s an entire spread of different confections and related foods for each character.

Anna - Fluffy whipped mocha crème bonbon with white chocolate drizzle and espresso bean and chocolate shavings.
Asa - White and dark chocolate swirl bonbon filled with blood orange compote.
Dorothea - Silver-leafed milk chocolate flowers with an amaretto whip filling and wafer bottom.
Akechi - Marshmallow spice cocoa: a hint of chili in a rich dark chocolate shell wrapped around a melted marshmallow.
Josuke - Wrapped hazelnut-vanilla truffles dusted with gold and silver luster dusts.
Kat - Whore lemon wedges. Mile-high seven-layer bars.
Lessing - Tart lingonberry compote with unsweetened clotted cream on the side, with dark chocolate cups for sharing with others.
Maomao (to be sent home) – A trial roulette of various chocolates filled with trial doses of: emetics, alcohols, venoms, and antipyretics.
Mark - Triple chocolate bombs: Dark and mild chocolate shells around a warm cocoa filling when cracked.
Minami - Strawberry wafer crisp cakes rolled in graham cracker, served with whipped cream.
Ritsuka - Milk chocolate molded into the shape of a small cup and filled with orange honey cream.
Ryuji - Semi-sweet chocolate skulls set with chocolate covered pretzels and nuts, decorated with edible colored icings.
Sanji - Simple-but-elegant dark chocolate spheres with red wine-flavored cream.
Steve - Postmodern caramel turtle: candied pecans rolled in caramel, dusted with salt, and double-rolled in milk chocolate.
Tsukasa - Lemon-honey cream in a milk chocolate shell, decorated with edible gold leaf.
Wednesday - White chocolate ghost figures stuffed with matcha green ectoplasm cream.
Will - Layers of wild blueberry and lemon-flavored white chocolates in a five-tiered stack.

If I missed that your character isn’t a huge fan of sweets, like Lessing, feel free to substitute in a more appropriate dish.]

[aspirings]

[why like this, production]

Er... thank you, Caren-san. [he thinks

he's taking his chocolate anyway.]

[holynights]

Of course. I'm happy to offer my assistance in these times of strife.

[She taps him on the head with her stack of bills.]

Out of kindness towards you, I will forego the exorcism. Also, I am retired.

[aspirings]

[this his whole-ass paycheck you have there, Caren.]

Ah. Yes. Thank you. I'd appreciate you not... doing that.

[inparfait]

[ sniffing his dessert suspiciously. ]

I knew there'd be an exorcist somewhere.

[makeine]

[ ................

anna feels kind of bad for tsukasa having so many people coming through his season now actually--

but never mind this one's her new favorite overseer she brought SWEETS and something tart which is yummy too. sorry. anna definitely isn't going to be part of discussions but now it's because she's stuffing her face. ]

[holynights]

I do appreciate a woman with a voracious appetite.

[See, Asa, there's a way to compliment or comment on these things without getting jumped. You just need a little plausible deniability and an air of kind piety.]

[makeine]

[ there SURE IS, ASA, and anna gives her a pleased look. ]

D'ja make sheese yershelf?

[singurarity]

So we can definitely say Minami and Tsukasa are set in stone. Oh, good.

[ Brightly, looking at her lil chocolate... grail? Holy chocolate grail?? Cute.

ALSO HI CAREN!!!! ]

[holynights]

[HELLO FORMER MASTER!!

Let's neither of us talk about Castoria blowing her up with garbage chocolate, please.]

I would be able to endlessly run these competitions if only I had one... Don't you think that would be wonderful?

[singurarity]

I think it wouldn't be boring?

[ Very Diplomatically. ]

ok kat's actual thoughts for catherding purposes

[gravkitty]

Here's what it sounds like... we either gamble on a pair that's never sat together at a ceremony before, or we confirm our last light.

The first one is really risky... if we get it right, we're in a better place. If we get it wrong, we're in a lot of trouble. The second is safer but will have us guessing more either way.

I can't vote for myself... so for a pair that's never sat together I would vote for Mark and Anna. For a pair that has, I'd do Sanji and Asa. But I'll go if I'm chosen!

[makeine]

[ thumbs up!!!!!! ]

[gravkitty]

... You really meant what you said about not talking, huh?

[Should she be worried? She seems a little worried.]

[singurarity]

If I could vote, I'd probably go for Mark and Anna-chan. I know you said it's risky, but given what everyone's worked out so far, it stands a good chance.

[hgeegh]

[He nods.]

Yeah. It'd be in our best interest to send in a strong match, and those two fit the bill.

[gravkitty]

Yeah, everyone's been very convincing!

... I'd usually do something big and risky instead of playing it safe, anyway. I kinda leap before I look... at least this time we've talked it out.

[haircared]

[ YIPPEEEEEE YUMMY CHOCOLATES ]

I'm just gonna say it, I think we should vote for Mark and Yanami.

[ Said while he is chewing on his delicious truffles... ]

Will and Mark convinced me. Either way it falls, I think we'll have a pretty good idea of what the other matches must be. Will said if we assume the week two matches are Ryuji and Wednesday, Will and Akechi, Ritsuka and Lessing, Sanji and Asa, Minami and Tsukasa... then if Yanami and Mark are right, then there's only one way it can be. Me and Kat, and Steve and Dorothea.

If it's not them... the last match ups don't really work out based on the other assumptions. Cause Mark wouldn't be able to be paired with any of the remaining girls — Yanami, Dorothea, or Kat. So if it isn't them, won't we know our assumptions must be wrong?

[gravkitty]

Oh! That's right. If it's not them, we'll get more information than if we sent another wrong pair, at least... [Though they'll still be losing a lot of their gambled ground.] Knowing Mark's with a girl is a pretty big help, at least.

[willandaway]

[nods]

I think both of those have the same strategical significance. I'll be voting for Mark and Anna— Josuke made a good argument for it.

[makeine]

[ ...

putting one of her bonbons to his lips. ]

[gravkitty]

Are you thinking that if one of them is right, then the other has to be right, too?

[That... probably makes sense? Or maybe she's started thinking so much that now Kat's overthinking and overcomplicating things...]

[titlecard]

[ just kind of listening in. ]

If everyone thinks it should be me and Anna going in, then I'll throw my vote away to help make it happen.

[hgeegh]

[Sanji no longer has tissues stuffed up his nose.]

Ah . . . What a beauty!

[Not only that, she brought chocolate and is talking about filling hearts by sharing it! A woman after his heart.]

[inparfait]

Hehehe, that's right, that's right ☆.

[ that is like one of the biggest compliments he's heard here, yay!!! ]