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POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
I'm following along. The siblings sure are throwing out every red flag eh.

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POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug

HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:

Every potential flag. For everything. We're not even a page through.

It's quite alarming. ⛳️ times a hundred.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
I'm thinking its most likely that White Hair is a half sibling, yeah.

And Nellie probably just had a go at her with some fabric shears or something similarly crazed. White Hair says "those" rather than "that," after all, and while learning a trade has historically been looked down upon for gentry, ladies having some skill with embroidery or other similar types of handiwork is usually acceptable.

e: I'll be surprised if Nellie tried to kill her instead of disfigure her. Well, I guess we will find out soon. Ugh, Nellie.

POOL IS CLOSED fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Feb 16, 2018

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
That last line doesn't bode well for Nellie I don't think. :ohdear:

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
Is the Maid actually a personification of the mansion? That's the sense I've been getting, and this update made it much stronger...

A house must be occupied, it must have a master, or else it becomes a strange thing and decays.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
Whatever Bestia's deal is, they've clearly suffered.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
Fear is powerful. You're afraid; anticipating the horrible thing you're sure will happen. Isn't it better to decide the hour of the awful event for yourself? Knowing conflict and pain are inevitable, shouldn't you make the first move? Even if it hurts, it's better than waiting. Even if you hurt someone else, it's better than being hurt.

He was asking for it, after all. ...Doesn't it feel good to win?

That's how I imagine this flavor of rationalization goes down, more or less. Bestia kept it together longer than I expected.

And the Maid vanished, huh?

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
Transmigration of some sort does seem likely. Maybe the mansion is only meant for a certain defined set of souls. The stage where the cycle of death and life is brought into relief.

If Mell is now Bestia and the WHG is now the WH Blind Girl... Is Pauline Nellie?

I suppose we will see. This hideous man/monster and blind woman pairing is fairly tropey so I'm wondering where it'll go.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug

Skylight posted:

I uh... Welp. That's about all I can say here: Welp. :ohdear:

(Though I do feel sorry for the Maid. After all, she's the one who keeps the house clean after these, uh, incidents...sure hope the poor gal remembers to take breaks!)

Maybe the house just absorbs it all as sustenance... :iit:

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
Spooky magic murder mansion. Perhaps even the maniac mansion.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug

witchcore ricepunk posted:

oh godddd it's him aughhhh

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
Maybe the WHG is some sort of romantic monkey's paw.

I think the anachronisms are just writer error, though. People underestimate the difficulty of writing period accurate fiction, and this work jumps through several periods and locations.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
Is this the tragic lesbians door? :smith:

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug

ProfessorProf posted:

maybe only nice things will happen in this chapter, did you ever think of that

:unsmith:

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
I wonder what WHG's karmic burden is though.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
Maria......!

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
I was also starting to wonder if Maria was isolating WHG because of her own obsession with the WHG but this but if dialogue is making me second guess that theory.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
MariaaaaaaaAAAAARGH

Of course the WHG will not suspect Maria any sooner than Jacopino will.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
What a useless man.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
I wonder if WHG becomes The Maid, or if they're something akin to two thoughtforms from the same entity.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
:iiam:

We're all in the House.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
My guess is one has an accident, the other tries to render assistance, tragedy strikes, the end. Foreshadowed heavily by the library accident.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
Pretty sure she's also lying. Hilarious that Death Herself fell in love with one of her victims, though.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
I'm waiting to see Michael's hang up. We really aren't through his troubles, are we?

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
It's been like... centuries. She's less chill than desperate and resigned. Not really the lesbiotic romance of my dreams, I'll tell you what.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
Morgana is a twisted and lonely thing.

POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug
Server side character encoding issue mainly affecting smart quotes and other smart characters. If you're using Word to write updates, turn off smart characters and replace the quotation marks with the normal type.

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POOL IS CLOSED
Jul 14, 2011

I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.
Pillbug

Alopex posted:

You can tell Michel is a man because he tries to make time with an unavailable woman and then calls her a whore in front of god and everyone for having a private conversation with someone else.

I laughed

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