it's the most wonderful time of the year

[innocentloveholic]

[ Today's invitations are stupidly glittery. Like, there is an obscene amount of glitter? It is going to get everywhere and also on you and there is almost nothing you can do, so enjoy it. They are also obnoxiously colored, because Aligula has missed having the option of adding colors to all of her creations, and she has decided to rectify this.

Anyway, the message itself is blessedly simple, and written in her usual curly-cute script:

Christmas party in the ballroom at 5pm!!
Don't be late!!!
Lots of treats!!!!
also bring whatever you don't want from whatever you got out of that crappy vending machine because we're doing a
~SUPER SANTA SWAP MEET~
and a super special contest!!!

~ Aligula ♥

...The ballroom is likewise obnoxiously decorated, with cut-out Christmas trees and ornaments and chains of colorful streamers and... and look, we got an art studio. Aligula's determined to make up for lost time here. Her treats are all sorts of sweets, like cookies and cakes and a small parfait bar, but she actually does have some other things available: peanut butter and jelly finger sandwiches, an attempt at curry that's pretty bland, salad. The usual refreshments are there too—water, hot chocolate, milk with various syrups so you can make your own, some tea that's been steeped way too long sorry tea drinkers!!!

The swap meet is more or less relegated to the space by the piano; go dump your unwanted things and trade with other people, or just take it off their hands. Or, if you want to be more Santa-like, go gift someone something you don't want!!! Either to get it off your hands or because you think they'd actually like it, whatever. As for the contest...

There's a table marked "COORDY-J CONTEST" off to the side, with plenty of paper and supplies from the art storage—the rules are there too and also very simple: Draw what you think Jericho looks like, and the winner gets to throw the first doll into the fire. ]

Comments

[sleepytimegal]

[ Oh no, ha-- ]

If he just looks like what he is inside.

[ninehundredlives]

That’s all it would really take, isn’t it? There’s nothing much worse than his personality.

[sleepytimegal]

Yeah, if his outside reflects his inside...I really wouldn't be surprised if that's why he wants to stay out of sight.

[ninehundredlives]

It has to be something. He's certainly not afraid to sass us during trials - it doesn't seem like somebody who's afraid of talking to people. Maybe he doesn't like it much, but we all have to do things we don't like sometime.

[sleepytimegal]

Maybe he gets nervous with crowds.

[ So there's a horrible thought in her head but it's more like the kind she'd morbidly share with Kimblee so let's not. ]

[ninehundredlives]

Ohhhhh, poor him. He's getting us all killed - he could show a little respect.

[sleepytimegal]

Sadly, I don't think he knows what the word means.

[ninehundredlives]

Apparently not. There's nothing he could do that would make me like him, but he could stand to be a little less shitty and condescending about it? Like the murderers in here are the problem.

[sleepytimegal]

Like there's some reason for doing all this, he acts like, like...we chose to do this and it's our own faults for being here in the first place... Makes my blood boil.

[ninehundredlives]

Yeah, that's exactly it! It isn't that he's enjoying it, of course he is, but he could at least take responsibility for setting it all up to begin with. Instead of acting like we're the ones at fault. Not that we aren't sometimes...but none of those deaths would have happened without him.

[sleepytimegal]

Yeah... Especially with that stupid time limit of his. Between that and "saving people?" Ugh!

[ninehundredlives]

Everything in their profiles is bullshit. But if he’s really looking to kill people because their alternate reality selves ran one of these or something, I’m going to be annoyed. When do we get to kill him for his?

[sleepytimegal]

...It's screwed up is what it is. I'm not the- I don't really want to kill anyone, but this guy... I don't want him to do this to anyone else.

[ninehundredlives]

You don't have to worry about it. If it comes to that, I've killed men for putting me in murder dungeons before. One more isn't going to weigh on me.

[Kimberly never did.]

[sleepytimegal]

[ Susan Ashworth, Mastermind Slayer. ]

...Thanks. That's...surprisingly reassuring.

[ninehundredlives]

Glad to help.

[Ah, see, all that serial killer experience is handy!]