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WEEK 0: First Saturday

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[They're in the theater. Camille is stretching one of the unused balloons between her fingers. Weird. She's never given thought to how old party technology might be, but the lack of plumbing and electricity leaves her mildly surprised to find real rubber wonders tucked away in here.]

Well, we made it through the night. Think we should celebrate?

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[ for some reason ashlyn makes such a face at that. ]

I... guess?

[ ... wait, okay. she recovers somewhat. ]

I mean, we're still trapped, so. Maybe not.

WEEK 0: Monday ((Spoilers??))

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[Is it any surprise people are making themselves scarce today?

Camille may not know what's going on but she has, rather uselessly, thrown the old white robes back on and keeps to the fog at the edge of town. She's hoping to blend in with the haze, you see. Also to combat the light-up confessions that have been blinking on and off all day.

One particularly cruel line has sprawled over her shoulder blades, visible through the fog. It runs in the family.

This is the light Ashlyn may find her by.]

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[ cool, well, you look like a fucking ghost or something, so ashlyn is wandering over to see what white-robed woman is skulking in the fog.

but then it's camille and ash likes her and also has Zero Social Skills, so she doesn't think to perhaps leave her alone. ]

Hey. Testing the fog? [ obviously not!!!! ]

Week 0: Friday

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[ ashlyn is just standing by the bulletin board, looking at the new posters. ]

...

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[Camille approaches, sopping wet and leech-marked, haunted.]

Ashlyn...

Week 0: Saturday

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[ ash is hanging out outside, behind the theater. ]

That got... hectic at the end.

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[Good because Camille does not want to go inside the theater. It may be her home but she does not wish to be there.]

It got hellish at the end. No need to mince words.

[God, what she wouldn't do for a cigarette.]

WEEK 1: Monday

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[Enough depresso talk let's go brush cows.

Camille doesn't look wholly uncertain about being on farm property. If anything she's more stepping carefully with her boots. She has little reservation approaching one of the cows, extending a hand to sniff, and rubbing its head with a distant affection.]

Come on in. They're docile.

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[ she is here... a little apprehensively. but will approach the cow when she's beckoned and also give it a tentative little pet. ]

They're bigger than you expect.

Week 1: Friday

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[ ashlyn is standing... not right in front of the bulletin board, but nearby, like she looked at it and then backed up to where she is now and hasn't moved since.

she is just anxiously tapping one foot very very fast. ]

Re: Week 1: Friday

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Ash?

[Camille jogs up, having seen a commotion. Knowing there was some fuckery last night. She looks to the bulletin and goes very still.]

...All three?

Week 1: Saturday

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[ she's so fucking tired man. ]

It's almost... better we don't find them until the end, with how much chaos it causes. [ EXCEPT IT'S SO STRESSFUL TO NOT KNOW WHERE TO LOOK FOR HOURS STRAIGHT. aaaaaa ]

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[mood]

I don't know what we'd do without the barrier.

[Dilemma: shorten their lives with the accumulated stress of weekly nine hour trials, or shorten their lives by monster attack?]

WEEK 2: Monday (1/2)

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[They are absolutely minding their own ding dang business, being surly and unsociable as hell, when a void RUDELY and WITHOUT EXPLICIT CONSENT comes to SWALLOW THEM WHOLE.

Unacceptable.]

2/2 (TRANSCRIPT) ((SPOILERS, CW: child murder, teeth extraction))

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Alan loosened some cash to enroll Amma at the Bell School—$22,000 a year, not counting books and supplies—just nine blocks away. She made quick friends, a little circle of pretty girls who learned to yearn for all things Missouri. The one I really liked was a girl named Lily Burke. She was as bright as Amma, with a sunnier outlook. She had a spray of freckles, oversized front teeth, and hair the color of chocolate, which Amma pointed out was the exact shade of the rug in my old bedroom. I liked her anyway.

She became a fixture at the apartment, helping me cook dinner, asking me questions about homework, telling stories about boys. Amma got progressively quieter with each of Lily's visits. By October, she'd shut her door pointedly when Lily came by.

One night I woke to find Amma standing over my bed.

"You like Lily better than me," she whispered. She was feverish, her nightgown clinging to her sweaty body, her teeth chattering. I guided her to the bathroom, sat her down on the toilet, wet a washcloth under the cool, metallic water of the sink, wiped her brow. Then we stared at each other. Slate blue eyes just like Adora's. Blank. Like a winter pond.

~*&*~

On October 12, Lily Burke disappeared on her way home from school. Four hours later, her body was found, propped tidily next to a Dumpster three blocks from our apartment. Only six of her teeth had been pulled, the oversized front two and four on the bottom.

I phoned Wind Gap and waited on hold twelve minutes until police confirmed my mother was in her home.

I found it first. I let the police discover it, but I found it first. As Amma trailed me like an angry dog, I tore through the apartment, upending seat cushions, rummaging through drawers. What have you done Amma? By the time I got to her room, she was calm. Smug. I sifted through her panties, dumped out her wish chest, turned over her mattress.

I went through her desk and uncovered only pencils, stickers, and a cup that stank of bleach.

I swept out the contents of the dollhouse room by room, smashing my little four-poster bed, Amma's day bed, the lemon yellow love seat. Once I'd flung out my mother's big brass canopy and destroyed her vanity table, either Amma or I screamed. Maybe both of us did. The floor of my mother's room. The beautiful ivory tiles. Made of human teeth. Fifty-six tiny teeth, cleaned and bleached and shining from the floor.

WEEK 2: Thursday

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[hello forever enemy

Camille posts up wherever Ashlyn is after healing, coming in for a sit and putting a hand on her head.]

Hey, kiddo.

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Hey.

[ she's probably sitting near the swamp, still decompressing after getting swamp'd. her leg no longer has a hole in it, and the blood at her stomach isn't spreading anymore. but the scratches on her face remain, as do the chain-shaped burn marks.

also unfortunately she does flinch away from the touch.

but then thinks to clarify. ]

Hurts. Sorry.

WEEK 2: Saturday

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[ well. hi. who does camille look like right now?. ]

Hey.

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[Just the worst girl.

She looks up at Ashlyn, pulls a judgmental face, and flips her hair.]

Hi? What do you want.

Week 3: Monday

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[ we are at. spins the wheel. the big tree. ashlyn is peering at the stone plaque by the roots. ]

"I am that I am." What's that mean?

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[I do like a big tree.]

Something religious? Think it's familiar. [Camille tilts her head at the inscription, looking towards the bisected, desiccated nightmare huddled in the tree.] I hope it's not a prophecy or something. Imagine this guy waking up.

WEEK 4: Tuesday

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[Once her wits are about her again she will go looking for this very good girl. Where are you Ashlyn...]

...Hey.

[Also please don't freak out]

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[ ashlyn is actually looking for her too! on the initial arrival i woke up late it was too loud, so she kind of. wandered off at first. but here she is now.

so. hey. ashlyn just walks into her and hugs her. ]

Week 4: Sunday

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[ hi, ash is looking for her to make sure she's been swamp'd. where is camille at. ]

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[SWAMPED.

Currently at the Haunted House lying down on Tomi's old bed. She is missing an eye forever now but at least it's mostly healed and bandaged? She rolls over and smiles for Ash, groggily greeting her.]

Hey...

Week 5: Tuesday

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[ let's be. clothes shopping. idk. ]

I could really use a slow week. Where people weren't throwing curses around like crazy.

god i have been useless the past two days, REACHES FOR MY PRECIOUS ASH

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I feel like it's lashing out. Everyone's hitting their limit.

[Mother we crave chaos :c

Anyway it is no surprise that her emotion share is just. Grim. Bleak, low, grieving and self-loathing. Numbness. And yet Camille is here, flipping through the racks with a pensive look.

There's a thread of warmth in it all. Zigzagging under the muck and ruin is a fond streak, and it's tugged her to this very spot.]

I'm sorry I didn't realize you were the dog. I was never much for animals, and then Asa got hit with...well. Felt like that needed some immediate attention.

...You were pretty cute, though.

Week Five: Friday

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[ as per every friday, ashlyn can be found standing at the bulletin board, looking at the new posters and tapping her foot anxiously. ]

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[And lo, here comes Camille. I'm terribly sorry but there is a stringent scent to her breath, but you can probably guess what the problem is.

She looks at the posters in silence. Swallows. Looks back at the veil, a tear rolling out of her eye.]

...It didn't work.

Week 5: Saturday

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[ ashlyn can be found sometime after trial... sitting outside, behind the theater. it's her sulking spot. i'm sorry all of her starters are the equivalent of :) she's here come bother her!!! :) but alas. ]

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[girl what a mood.

Camille will find her. She's in a sulk herself, and shamefully has a bottle of whisky slung in one hand. When she spots Ashlyn she has half a mind to drop it. Where? Who knows. No convenient bush or barrels.

In the end she just pulls up beside her anyway. Sets the bottle on the opposite side, letting her head clunk against the wood.]

Said we'd talk, didn't I?

WEEK 6: Monday

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[sometime after all that mess.]

I'm so sorry for yelling. I've never seen fleas explode before.

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No, it's fine. It wasn't an unreasonable response...

[ like aside from it hurting ashlyn thinks just continuing to scream at everything that happened after would be reasonable too ]

Week 6: Thursday

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[ listen realistically ashlyn is just fucking sitting around by the swamp waiting for camille to be done healing

hi ]

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[emarges glowing like a firefly, much less crispy than before.]

Ugh!

[splashing uselessly to the shore]

Week 6: Friday

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[ ashlyn is... wow, surprise, sitting outside behind the theater. and she'll look up and give a lil nod in camille's direction at the sound of footsteps. ]

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[They do be slow and belaboured footsteps. Though the weird side-effects ebb and flow healing injuries do not, so she's still moving very carefully as she takes a seat next to Ashlyn. Back where they left off last week.]

How are you holding up?

WEEK 7: Wednesday

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[Voids them. Unless you want to rng a location...also throw literally any weekly effects at me i'm open]

Thanks for showing me around, Ash. This place is enormous.

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[ we are void'd. ]

Yeah, honestly I'm probably not the best guide. I've barely got a handle on it all, so... Revisiting everything helps me out, too.

Week 7: Saturday

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... It's hard to believe it's finally over.

[ and now all that's left is. going home. ]

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I'm still stuck on believing "it" altogether.

[WHAT HAPPENED THESE LAST TWELVE HOURS. WHAT WAS THAT.]

I'll be glad to put my back to this place, but...obviously there's caveats.