week one

[slowpokey]

WELCOME

Welcome to the Sweet Home program, a brand new experience designed to help you meet and bond with total strangers! You will be living with thirteen others for two weeks in a shared home, and shortly after our debriefing, we will go over your individual careers which you will take on while you're part of the program. There may be some trials and tribulations that you will face while you are here, but they're nothing that you won't be able to overcome with the help of your fellow residents!

As compensation for your time here, we will grant you any material object of your choice, whether that be a huge sum of cash, a weapon, or an ancient artifact. We deeply appreciate your cooperation, after all!

Enjoy your stay, Sweeties!

WEEK ONE

The day after your debriefing, a staff member escorts you to your destination. All you have on you, other than the clothes on your back, is a cellphone, which you were also given a tutorial on during your introductory period. The Sweet Home staff even went through the trouble of setting up social media accounts for each of you! How nice. (Whether or not you retained any of that is up to you.)

A cobblestone path leads the way to the front door of a large, newly renovated home. You take your first steps onto the property, open the door. One by one, people start to enter the house – your new housemates, all of different ages, appearances, from entirely different worlds. This is the day of introductions, settling in.

On the kitchen counter are a few things: One of them is a paper with everyone's room assignments, though there's nothing that appears to be really enforcing this. All you get regarding this is that list, as well as separate room keys, one for each occupant. Speaking of keys, you also get a house key attached on the same keyring! And the last set of keys, of which there are only three, are…car keys, if you know what those are. One for each vehicle in the garage.

There are also some icebreaker questions provided to help you get to know your new housemates. Again, there's nothing enforcing this, but they are there if you feel like chatting it up with others.

Otherwise, there is no work on Sunday. This is the day you get to settle in and get to know your fellow participants!


🌼 🏠 🌼 🏠 🌼 🏠 🌼 🏠 🌼

Once Monday comes around, it's time to start working! Each character will start off with an allowance that will allow them to get some clothes and basic necessities, but will get paid at their jobs with the town's currency by the end of the week. Shifts are varied, but there will always be downtime before and after to hang around your housemates. That being said…there seems to be a rise in some strange things happening to everyone in the house at different times throughout the week. Some of these seem to be just pure happenstance, but other incidents seem to feel more impulsive. Some even seem to be caused by some sort of magic? How strange…

SCHEDULE

Here is the Schedule of Unfortunate Events for Week One. This will not be posted anywhere ICly.

MONDAY, SUNNY ☀️
– Gaku, you will gain a musical instrument – a recorder, to be exact. How you acquire it doesn't matter, but should you choose to start playing it? Oh god, it's so bad that one of your neighbors will come over and complain about it.
– Lia, you will be especially clumsy today. It seems like you can't stop bumping into things, knocking stuff over, etc. The clinic is here if you end up with any injuries.
– Caelus, an unknown number will send you a mysterious text message. If you end up forwarding this to at least three other people and get them to forward it themselves, you will be granted good luck for the rest of the day. Otherwise, you will have bad luck.

TUESDAY, SUNNY ☀️
– Demi, you are dissatisfied with how some parts of the house are decorated, so you will take matters into your own hands. Whatever that means is completely up to you. :)
– Émilienne, you will be chased by bees just before you start work. They will not sting you, unless they think you are hostile. However, they'll chill around you for the rest of your shift if you don't do anything to make them go away.
– Chuuya, you will be especially hungry today. Any meals that you purchase or make yourself don't seem to be doing it! What will, however, is eating food that your housemates have made (or purchased). Time for some food theft!

WEDNESDAY, CLOUDY ☁️
– Elysia, a kid will throw a basketball at you right as you step foot outside of the house, and it will hit you right in the face. (Whether or not this was done on purpose is up to you.) You can get it treated at the clinic, but a red mark will remain even if you get it healed. The mark will stay on your face for the rest of the week.
– Lacy, you are exceptionally cold today. You need to seek warmth, but it's that from others. Staying under a blanket by yourself won't do the job. Time to share!
– Wanderer, you feel the urge to order delivery for one of your meals. Should you do so, the ETA will keep getting more and more pushed back, and the company won't want to refund you. They're quite argumentative with you, actually.

THURSDAY, RAINY 🌧️
– Kratos, the first electric appliance/device you try to use in the house won't work. It will not work until you ask nicely. Every time you insult it, it will whack you with its cord.
– March 7th, you will play some music on a stereo inside the house, and somehow make the volume so loud that it nearly blows the speakers. The remote control is nowhere to be found...in your immediate vicinity, anyway.
– Dagr, you will feel compelled to watch a B-movie, with or without anyone else, and feel the urge to give your scathing (or glowing) review of it to anyone in your vicinity. If they disagree with you, you'll feel compelled to throw popcorn at their face.


FRIDAY, STORMING ⛈️
– Trahearne, the first thing you will drink today is laced with tons of energy, no matter what drink it is, and will make you extremely energetic for four hours.
– Zhongli, your phone glitches and won't stop calling random people in the house at random hours of the day. It also won't hang up until after you've talked to them for at least a few minutes.

⭐️ Surprise! The power at the house will go out at approximately 5:00pm due to the rain. Better prepare for a chilly night…or two, with how hard it's storming.

ICly, characters will be completely unaware of what's to come, other than perhaps upcoming weather changes, which can be found on their phones as well as the weather channel on TV. This schedule is for OOC purposes.

OOC NOTES

– Most prompts are pretty open-ended. There aren't really strict rules on things like outcomes, severity of injuries, etc. Feel free to get creative with how you'd like to play out the prompts given to you.

– Likewise, there are no rules such as "You can only post on Monday on Monday OOCly". If you want to start making forward-dated top levels, feel free to! The day headings are only there for the sake of keeping a nice timeline of events.
– Since day heading format may be unfamiliar for some of you, I'll give an example. March 7th wants to have a baking cookies prompt on Monday, and a silly prompt on Thursday. I can comment to Monday's header with a top level of her baking cookies, and then comment to Thursday's with a silly top level. Here is an example for your reference.

– The phones will function like modern day smartphones. Yes, there are apps similar to Twitter and Instagram, though you'll only really be able to follow each other.
– Network posts are allowed on this log.
– NSFW is allowed, but please tag it accordingly.

Do your gossip summaries!
The link to submit them is here.

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Comments

! Surprise Event

[slowpokey]

[ It's around 6:00pm on Wednesday, when a notification pops up on everyone's phones. This one takes up the entire screen, unlike the usual notifications which can be deleted easily: ]

Hi, Sweeties! It's us, long time no talk!
Hope you're all enjoying your stay. We've got a surprise exercise for you all to help you get to know each other a little more! Ready? This is the Two Truths and One Lie Exercise!

Simply put, we've constructed profiles with a little information about each of you. Take this time to scroll through everyone's profiles, and let them know what you think is the lie. Additionally, you can write them a nice note, ask them a question...but you also have the option to be anonymous. ;)

Go, go, go! Scroll away!

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OOC: Go ahead and make profiles for your characters! I made a very basic code for y'all to use here:

<center><img src="URL at least 500px width" width="500"> <font face="arial"><b>character name</b> | hometown/world | age <b>trivia:</b> write a fun fact about them here list the two truths and one lie here</font></center>

You can write whatever you'd like OOCly, make it as funny as you want! ICly, characters won't have a say in these. Submit them under this top level for organizational purposes! Please indicate if your character is commenting anonymously. And yes, everyone can see everyone's comments!

[associative]

gaku yaotome | tokyo, japan | 22
trivia: His favorite food is soba.

-He can play the guitar.
-He's never driven a car.
-He knows how to dance.

[meanspirited]

the guitar? it can’t be any worse then you on that plastic tube, anyways.

[lavieenrouge]

Being driven is so much better than having to learn to drive anyway~

[meanspirited]

| Inazuma | <500
trivia: He’s traveled to nearly every corner of Teyvat - even the Abyss!

•His joints are ball-jointed.
•His first published article was about Sumeru’s dependency on the Akasha.
•He’s enrolled in the Vahumana (aetiology) Darshan of Sumeru’s Akademiya.

[versioned]

I don't know what most of this Sumeru stuff is, but is it the second one?

[lavieenrouge]

Are you truly like a doll? The rest of these seem to all be telling us how smart you are, so it seems out of place!

[sidebraid]

lacy | england, planet earth / anther | 22+
trivia: she was a normal human woman who got taken away by flower fairies and turned into one herself,
now she looks like this sometimes (and does her best to hide it)

• she has a beautiful singing voice
• her favourite food is anything meaty
• she was abandoned by her parents and raised by her grandmother

[associative]

[ He doesn't want the last one to be true, but he thinks it might be so... ]

Let me guess
You don't like stuff with lots of meat

[lavieenrouge]

["Like this" huh? Gonna gently click that link, and--

Two truths and a lie whomst???]

Ah, life is so unfair... you're simply adorable twice over!

[versioned]

march 7th | astral express | ???
trivia: March 7th doesn't remember anything about her past.

💕 Named herself March 7th
💕 Caelus is one of her buddies from the Astral Express
💕 LOVES trash cans

[associative]

I'm gonna say that you loving trash cans is a lie

I hope it is

[pactmarshal]

I'm assuming you did not name yourself March 7th?

[lavieenrouge]

My darling... trash cans...?

[She's hoping that's the lie...!]

[pactmarshal]

Trahearne | The Grove, Tyria | 20
trivia: He is very flexible (ask him to bend over!).

🌱 He is the first sylvari. Ever.
🌱 He plays a leading role in governing and protecting his home.
🌱 He has never changed his clothes in his entire life.

[meanspirited]

you look like an overgrown aranara.

[associative]

What LOL

I don't know what to choose

[lavieenrouge]

Émilienne Toinette De La Fontaine | Paris, France | 460 or so
trivia: She is a vampire!

🌹 She is from clan Tremere.
🌹 When given the choice of roughing it or meeting final death, she took a long nap instead.
🌹 She once dabbled in cult activity because a girl was cute.

[bindingregrets]

Did you 'dab' in 'cult activity'?

[associative]

Is the first one the lie

[ Look, he thinks the third one is true because she hit on him immediately and the second one just sounds cool. ]

[lapides]

Zhongli | E̶̢̖̙̞̼̥͓̞̯̼͈̠̲͂̍R̴̢̨͔̮̮͕͎͔̗̤̦̪̦͚̅Ŕ̸̡̡̡̟̤̠̝̫͇̘̂͌̌͒́̅̏́̄͋̚͝͠ͅO̴͈̱͗̎̄̿̃͂̓́͐̿͋̏̚͝͝Ṟ̸̡̟̙̈̇̍̑͋͋̔̌̋́̌̚͝͝͝ | E̶̢̖̙̞̼̥͓̞̯̼͈̠̲͂̍R̴̢̨͔̮̮͕͎͔̗̤̦̪̦͚̅Ŕ̸̡̡̡̟̤̠̝̫͇̘̂͌̌͒́̅̏́̄͋̚͝͠ͅO̴͈̱͗̎̄̿̃͂̓́͐̿͋̏̚͝͝Ṟ̸̡̟̙̈̇̍̑͋͋̔̌̋́̌̚͝͝͝


trivia: He has an excellent memory!
🔶 Got a wallet as a birthday present.
🔶 Enjoys celebratory seafood dinners.
🔶 Has friends in very high places!

[lavieenrouge]

I certainly hope whoever gave you the wallet didn't give it to you empty. That's terribly bad luck, you know.

[She's making some assumptions here...]

[flamechaser]

Elysia | ■■■■ / Earth | ■■■■
trivia: She's the founder of the 13 Flame-Chasers but decided that the leader position was better suited for the Hero of Humanity.

She was born as an "accident" by the universe.

She's made up of data!

She's unable to gain or lose weight no matter how much she eats.

[associative]

Is the first one a lie? I feel like the second and third one make sense together.......

[lapides]

An "accident"? Curious. Things are rarely accidents in the universe in the grand scheme of things, but it is also a matter of perspective.