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week one
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!
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…
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.
– 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.
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– 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!
– 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.
– 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.
– 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.
– 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.
The link to submit them is here.
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Weird. I wonder if this has to do with some of the other strange things that have happened around here.
[ Like his terrible recorder. ]
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Might do. But I just wish it came with an instruction manual ... ( She embraces herself, realising how cold she truly is. When she speaks, the words tumble out in a slight stutter as she shakes. ) Just can't figure out how to g-get warmer ... it's agony.
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[ But she said he was warm, so? Gaku places a hand on top of her head.
Does that do anything? ]
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( It certainly did do something. Lacy brightens at his touch, feeling completely normal again, but only on the spot that Gaku has his hand resting. He's absolutely radiant ... it's so soothing. )
That feels so nice, but ... I can't have you standin' around all night with your hand on my head, can I?
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[ He takes his hand off her head and reaches for her hand instead, pulling Lacy into a hug. ]
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( Oh! My god!!!!!! Well - suffice to say, Lacy immediately catches Gaku's body heat and burns up. She's honestly caught off guard with a little nervous tremble, awkwardly allowing her arms to dangle at either side, unsure of whether or not she should hug him back. )
... ( After a moment, she returns to earth. ) Gaku...! T-This is absolutely fixing my problem, but-! If anyone comes in, they'll get the wrong idea! ( Ah, she certainly is the woman of infinite worries ... )
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Then we'll explain the situation.
[ Sure, it sounds far-fetched, but it's true. ]
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Won't they think it's an excuse?!
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Maybe. But we'll know it's the truth. Isn't that the important part?
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2/3
Unless we went up to one of the rooms instead ...
3/3
T-Then again, that might look even worse! I know where my mind would leap if I saw the two of us in bed together! Oh, but it seems like the only way to properly do this without anyone lookin'! Sofa or bed? What's worse?!
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This whole situation is a bit embarrassing, but her reactions make it easier to deal with. ]
Well, you need to pick! Sofa or bed?
1/2
2/2
( DEEP BREATH. )
I'm really sorry, but it's gonna be the bed option. Just 'cos it's ... you know, hidden behind a wall, and a door ... bit more private ...
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What are you apologizing for? Let's go.
[ He pulls away from the hug and takes her hand, leading her up to the bedrooms. ]
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( tHE HANDHOLDING IS MAKING HER FEEL LIKE THIS SPECIFIC SPONGEBOB MEME ON THE INSIDE )
Um ... this one's my room! ( Lacy pushes the door open, leading Gaku over to her bed. At least it's a double. She awkwardly perches on the edge of it, glancing up at him with bright blue eyes. She knows what they're here for, but she can't quite hop into bed yet - sitting as tense as a board. A very, very cold board. )
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He lets go of Lacy's hand and goes to sit on what he hopes is her bed. ]
Uh... you standing like that is making me nervous. We're just cuddling, right?
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Yeah! Yeah. Um ... ( Finally, she takes action: Lacy lifts the sheet up and wriggles underneath it, leaving some space for Gaku to join her. )
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How's that?
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... Really sorry to do this, but I don't think there's any other way for me to get your body heat.
( In one sweep, she throws her jumper over her head, leaving her in her bra. SORRY GAKU!! But when his hand lands on her shoulders, she'll feel warmth at long last. )
Ah...! There. ( Sigh. ) Sorry that you have to see me like this ...
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Honestly, Lacy doesn't need to apologize at all, but Gaku refuses to look down at her simply because he can't handle it. ]
It's fine... don't worry about it...