sweethomey | WEEK ONE

WEEK ONE

Welcome to your new home!

"...Sweet Home: Strangers Strike Back. Airing this Sunday on Lulu."

That's how the video ends. That's how the entire presentation ends, the one that you've been given with a breakdown of what you're doing here, how to earn your wishes, and most importantly, how to use your phone. They promise you that you will go home in four weeks, and hopefully, you won't go home empty-handed, and that your hard work will pay off. Either way, your actions will undoubtedly make for a satisfying finale, and wonderful ratings week after week!

The price in exchange is, well, your privacy. Cameras will not be monitoring you 24/7 (they can't air super inappropriate content, after all!!!), but enough to capture what could potentially be your best and worst moments on the show. Maybe if you plead hard enough, the producers will be merciful and edit out some of your shame, but for the most part, it's best to be ready for anything.

Which includes your introductory day! How exciting. You arrive at the house on a bright and beautiful Sunday morning, and your arrival happens by waking up in a twin-sized bed. Those phones that you were told about are either right next to you or in your pocket; it buzzes with a very interesting song that's certainly telling you to wake up. It will not stop playing until you are awake.

With the alarm, though, is a notification on the screen: "TOUCH TO OPEN!" Tapping the screen as instructed will give you a set of instructions - though, if you don't open it yourself, it will do it for you after a minute. Those instructions are:

HELLO! WELCOME TO SWEET HOME DAY ONE! :)
PLEASE PROCEED TO THE KITCHEN! FUN REFRESHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES ARE WAITING FOR YOU ALL! YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE WILL COME TOMORROW. FOR TODAY, HAVE FUN AND GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER! <3333

The kitchen is filled with various snacks. Chips, cookies, cake, blood for vampires – you name it. It's there. It's entirely possible they went a little overboard…but there's something interesting about the snacks. Everything is in a locked transparent case, enticing you to unlock it by how tasty it all looks. How do you unlock it? It's simple, according to the little notes left on the cases. "TO OPEN, INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO SOMEONE IN FRONT OF ME!" The cases are indestructible and will not open until you do this simple task.

Board games are present with some classics like Never Have I Ever prompts, Monopoly, Candyland, you name it!

There's also some music playing in the background on a set of speakers. This is free for you to mess with and shuffle through the modern-day playlist. In fact, pretty much everything in the house is free to tamper with.

Anyone who partakes in at least 2 joint activities with different people (board games, snacking, fighting, dancing, getting up to no good...anything, really) will be rewarded with a complimentary bath bomb on their bed on Monday morning!

Take a look around the house, get to know your housemates (and roommates), and relax on this fine and wonderful Sunday!

OOC Note: The bath bomb reward is not going to be mod-sanctioned, go ahead and just assume your character received one if they interacted with 2 or more people on Sunday ICly.

Also, characters will receive a weekly stipend with enough money for groceries and a few luxury items. You can choose to do whatever you want with this cash, though.

Weekly Challenge

Come Sunday evening, though…that's when the Challenge is issued.

A notification appears on your phone that says "CHALLENGE!! OPEN ME." Doing so will reveal the following instructions:

Did we mention that we forgot to get commercials? Oops! For those who don't know, commercials are advertisements for viewers to try and scam people into buying things they don't need. This time, however, you're going to scam people into buying things that they probably need, for the entirely wrong reason!

Your task this week is to film a commercial with at least one other person. You are to take one of the household objects in this house and give it new meaning. That hairbrush over there? Use it, and it'll turn your hair any color, style, and texture that you want it to! Ooh, how about that washcloth? Wiping your face with it will apply makeup to perfectly suit the occasion! Y'know, stuff like that. It's not actually real, but we think it'd be funny, so work with someone and get it done! Remember, your wishes are your rewards, along with some other fun little prizes! :)

Commercials will all be played on everyone's phones AND the big screen TV next week Sunday! Get excited!

You can film your commercials using your phones, as they are state-of-the-art technology. There are phone stands/tripods/etc. that can be found in your bedroom closets for you to use. Go wild, go ham, be entertaining and have fun!

OOC NOTES: The challenge thread must have a minimum of three comments per character, though I encourage threading beyond that for the sake of cr. I will accept in-progress threads as a completed challenge turn-in. There will be a top level next week for reactions to all the commercials as they play on screen for the characters, but you're free to also thread out reactions if characters stumble into the filming in-person, etc.

The Rest of the Week

The rest of the week will have a fun little treat for the guests: Cats! That's right, cats will show up to the home periodically every day, asking for food. Feed the cats on demand and they will be satisfied. If you don't and they sense that you are walking away, you will have one unlucky event happen to you at some point during the week. What that is can be something as mundane as spilling coffee on your shirt, to having an accident so bad that you need to go to the clinic. The choice is yours.

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Throughout the week, the following individuals will experience strange phenomena…

– On Monday, Luocha will have the misfortune of encountering a cat that really has decided it doesn't like him. It will try to bother him in various ways, whether it be attempting to scratch him, pee on him, nibble on his shoes…it will do this every hour for 4 hours today, starting at any given time of the day. It will leave Luocha alone afterwards, though it may still stare him from time to time…like a normal cat would. Maybe he can even try to befriend it…

– On Tuesday, Sakura will have a very specific struggle. The first electric or battery-powered appliance she tries to use simply will not work no matter how hard she tries. Even if she charges the appliance, it will not work. The one way to get it to power on is to ask it nicely. Insulting it will get it to actually move and smack her. Whoops! Time to throw down with some electronics?!

– On Wednesday, Jeanne will wake up to something very strange. There will be vines, leaves, and flowers that have grown all around her bed. It's rather unruly, actually, and inhaling the pollen for too long will make her a little loopy. Drunk, essentially, minus the alcohol. It is possible to get a hangover from this and nursing it will be done the same way it normally would be if alcohol were involved. The greenery will go away by Thursday midnight, but she can also make it go away earlier if she rips them out of the roots. (Which are in the floor. Don't worry about it)

– On Thursday, Avery will find a book on his bed when he wakes up. The book says My Diary. He can write whatever he wants in it, but if he writes something about any of the other residents, the book will drag him to wherever said resident is – in the house OR the town – and read his writings about them outloud, right where the resident can hear it all! Sadly, there is no way to test this out beforehand, as any thoughts that are unrelated to the other residents will be kept confidential. The diary will disappear on Friday at midnight.

– On Friday, Hakuya will gain a voucher, good for one day, for free candy at Sweet-E's! He can get a max of two full bags of whatever candy he wants. The bags are freezer bag-sized. The candy itself looks normal, but eating it will cause something interesting to happen. Hakuya will 1) gain a pair of shades that, if removed, will make another pair of shades to go on his face; 2) his top will turn into the equivalent of a disco ball shirt; and 3) party music will follow him around wherever he goes for the next 2 hours. Congrats, you're the coolest kid on the block!!!

OOC Notes

Welcome to the Week One log of Sweet Home Round 2! I had a lot of fun with this and hope you guys enjoy the game. Some important notes:

Please do not literally burn down any buildings or property in this game. ICly, if a character tries, the house will immediately put it out via temperature regulation and built-in sprinkler systems. If your character has fire-based powers, they can affect people and objects but will not cause great damage to the overall building. Do not mess with the built-in safety precautions, please. There is an OOC reason for this that I will not disclose and please do not ask me for it; I am serious about shutting down anything that involves this at any point in the game. You will only get a slap on the wrist if it happens after being warned.
Challenges are due at the end of the week, along with AC! See the AC + Rewards page for more information.
Gossip Board submissions are essentially a way for your characters to get exposed ICly on any shenanigans they've gotten up to. This is purely on a voluntary basis OOCly. A link to submissions can be found below.
OOC Plotting for Week One can be. found here! Feel free to reply to that top level with anything you're looking for.
Feel free to ask any questions in the #mod-questions Discord channel! And please don't hesitate to ping me too so I don't miss it. Thanks!

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[ Corbeau is so funny. I'm sorry for this asshole.

Unfortunately, Satria is not sorry and just brings that snack container attached with the piece of broken table back in his hand. ]

Some braindead shithead who tries to use his status to intimidate people when it means fuck all.

[Corbeau is tapping his foot agitatedly on the floor.]

No... no you're right. The syndicate is irrelevant here.

But that also means I don't have to hold back!

[He fails to control his temper and throws a punch aimed at Satria's stomach.]

[ We are doing so well on first day of reality TV. I'm not rolling for this. Satria gets punched in the stomach. Yeah. Stuff hurts! He bends a little, but then narrows his eyes. ]

Oh. So you want to die.

[ He kicks very hard at his shins. ]

[Corbeau does know how to fight, but he's rather out of practice, having pretty much replaced it with Business, having People to Do Things for him, and Pokemon battles. But he doesn't have People or Pokemon on hand right now.

Anyway he hisses out a sharp breath at the shin kick, taking a step or two backwards to regain his balance. But that taunt just gives him more energy. He pauses momentarily to remove his coat and loosen his tie.]

You want me dead? Get in fucking line.

[He's going for another gut punch followed with an attempt to Sweep The Leg.]

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[ Corbeau should do whatever he wants!! It's also funny how these two have beef immediately. ]

If so maybe people want you dead, maybe you should just keel over and die.

[ But Satria is just petty and would kill for the smallest of reasons... the sweep doesn't trip him up, but he's surprisingly sturdy? Doesn't seem to be from powers either. Doesn't mean his ankle area hasn't taken damage? Everything hurts!! But he's good at not showing it on his face. And the gut punch too. He spits on his glasses and throws a right hook. ]

[RUDE these glasses are designer! Expensive!!!! The right hook connects partly because he's not even trying to dodge. Instead he takes the chance of Satria stepping in to deliver the hit to charge ahead, grabbing the front of Satria's shirt.

He's attempting to at least smash his forehead into Satria's if not fully carrying them both to the ground with his foreward momentum.]

If I gave up that easily I wouldn't have gotten where I am today, bastard!

[ Satria sees what he's doing with the headbutt. Corbeau has the advantage of momentum, but Satria will attempt to drag him down with him, physically and figuratively. He also does a headbutt as they fall onto the floor. ]

[That's fine he was planning on that anyway. He's going to try to land on top of Satria so he can just start punching him in the face until Satria throws him off of him. Classic homoerotic fight maneuver type shit.]

[ He can land two punches before Satria backhands him and throws him off. But like. Barely. He's not throwing anyone to the wall. He also chucks the snack case thing again that's attached to a piece of the table at the top of Corbeau's sternum. ]

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[OOUGH. Unfortunately being backhanded and thrown dislodges Corbeau's glasses from his face, and the hit to his chest knocks the wind out of him, so while the strap keeps his glasses from skidding across the floor, Corbeau is too preoccupied regaining his senses so he can put his glasses back on his face to try to do anything about fighting back at the moment.]

Now, now. You mustn't fight in front of our audience.

[Y'ALL DO REMEMBER WE HAVE AN AUDIENCE, RIGHT..? RIGHT...?

Either way, Mere is all serene smiles as Satria will suddenly find several bands of pale pink magic winding tight around him, holding him in place. They're not tight enough to actually hurt, but they're definitely tight enough to be a warning.]

Mere will have to ask the two of you to stop this.

Mr. Mere is right, enough of this nonsense!

[Bakushin is absolutely not subtle in the slightest when this happens, though she'll be darting over to Corbeau to check the extent of the injuries he's faced--oh, this looks...]

These injuries...! They're...sir, we need to get you to a clinic, with Bakushin haste!

Mr. Mere, can you keep an eye on the other man here? I can bring the other man to the clinic with the haste needed!

[ Satria surprisingly doesn't resist with the bindings, but now he's trying to analyze them.

At least, until he looks at Mere like. ]

What the fuck. Why do you speak in third person. And you.

[ Looks directly at her. ]

Don't touch me.

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[Corbeau groans, getting his glasses back on and only just now noticing he's bleeding from where the box hit him in the first place.]

He's an angel... whatever that is.
[Why is this what he focuses on. Anyway he's pushing himself up to a sitting position, seemingly the wind knocked out of his sails by two loud/weird people arriving to diffuse.]

I don't need to go to a clinic. Just some disinfectant.
[He's probably also bleeding from his nose from when Satria bonked him off of him. Mostly at this point he just seems winded and sweaty.]

Surely humans can't be this fragile.

[el oh el. Nala watches all of this go down and picks up a box of food and--]

And what's your name then?

[SPEAK AND LET HER EAT]

[He's so thrown off he just instinctively;]

Corbeau-

[WAIT HEY]

Who the hell're you calling fragile, huh?

Well, you, clearly. Why are you on the floor?

[Aha]

I'm Nala by the way.

[AND THE BOX of GOODNESS AND FOOD is unlocked. Nala perks up visibly and opens it up. Oh, sharing is good, right? Have a chocolate bar sir]

[He's so thrown off by her nonchalance he's just sort of Spinning Loading Symbol here, and before he can make a decision, he's scooped up by Bakushin and carted off.]

[Oh. Bye sir. She'll save your chocolate bar for you]

Of course. Mere will ensure there is no further violence.

[His voice is still every bit as mild, yet somehow that almost makes it even more threatening.]

He has much experience in dealing with misbehaving children.

[And those bindings may tighten just a teeeeensy bit as he says this, staring right at Satria the entire time.]

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Absolutely not! Do you not notice how much you are bleeding, sir?!

[It isn't even chiding when Bakushin says it, it's genuinely concerned and honestly a little frantic.

...

Which is why Corbeau is getting an attempt at being scooped up very gently once Bakushin gets the extent of the injuries realized. She's absolutely overreacting, but uh. Sorry Corbeau, feel free to deck her instead? She's attempting to pick him up like he weighs absolutely nothing and doing what she can to carefully sling him over the shoulder if allowed, before looking to Mere and Satria.]

Worry not, you shall not be bothered by me, sir--Mr. Mere can take care of you.

Mr. Mere, I trust this in your utterly capable hands. Please, leave this sir to me! I'll ensure we are both back as soon as possible!

[...Any last words before Bakushin darts off with you, Corbeau--]

Stop calling me sir.

[ He clicks his tongue and then looks at Mere. ]

I get you're trying to intimidate me into behaving or whatever, but your third person speech makes it feel like I'm talking to a four year old. I feel no authority from you and that's really something considering you got me bound like some fucking wild game.

[ spits at him because he can ]

[Dodging that spit! And still looking utterly unruffled, though perhaps just a smidge more exasperated.]

Ah, Mere regrets that your parents failed to teach you proper manners... as a mother himself, he can't permit this sort of behavior. He was going to release you, but now he thinks he should allow you to sit here and think about what you've done for a while longer.

[He can do this aaaaaaaaaaall day, do you really wanna try him, Satria...]

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[He would protest but he's so thrown off by being easily scooped up my a high school girl that he mostly just sputters.]

B-Bakushin! You don't need to bring me into town! Just find Vanitas!

[We have an in house doctor...]

BAKUSHIIIIIIIN!

[Is that a reply to Corbeau? Is it a reply to Mere? Is it a battle cry for the creature who is absolutely going to be a living ambulance right now???

Well, whatever it is, Bakushin absolutely ignores Corbeau and begins to rush off to the hospital as fast as she can! She's not watching anything except for making sure that Corbeau doesn't get injured in her fervorous run, because she is an Umamusume on a mission and she is not letting this man get hurt!]

MOVE PLEASE, EVERYONE, EXCUSE ME--