[F]acilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

[m_elioracogito]

Things have settled down and become rather quiet these days. It has been quite a while now for many of us and, clearly, our kidnapper and his accomplices haven't shown their faces. This place, while still most easily described as 'creepy as fuck,' has been eerily quiet and easy to live in overall, and I'm getting the itching feeling that this is

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[deathofarcana]

I'm pretty sure something nasty will happen soon. It's bound to happen in a place like this... Besides... We forgot about those marks-- Tattoos. They... might hold some connection.

...wine? I'll go and check it out.

[m_elioracogito]

You're a little kid though, right? Wine won't be very good for you.

[deathofarcana]

...Why not? It seems that people feel a lot better after drinking wine.

[m_elioracogito]

Well, even if most of what's down there isn't even wine anymore anyway 'feeling better' after drinking is entirely relative- it's not that things like the 'legal drinking age' would even matter in this place, but I don't think that letting a kid get drunk would be okay.

Why would you be interested in 'feeling better?' Are you not well?

[praise_jeevas]

You know what they say it’s got to be ‘The calm before the storm’ I keep hearing such creepy shit about this Ringmaster that I’m convinced he’s just waiting to catch us with our pants down so to speak.

Cosette did mention the Carnival to me and that ‘everyone’ would love to see me there. I don’t think she was talking about the guys in the Manor somehow or her ‘friends’ in the Playground. I would have said something earlier but I wasn’t sure if my mind was playing tricks on me back then but I know I saw her shadowy friends and I just get the feeling the kids tricks aren’t the only things we have to worry about.

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[8222002]

I am, I am-

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[m_elioracogito]

Your friend A, has he been taking good care of you? He tells me that you're well, and that he's well... but I cannot help but ask. For the both of you. Ryuuzaki and I haven't been visiting you quite as often these days since you're doing better and your friend A has come to share our interest in your welfare, but... Of course, we worry.

[[ooc: Mello should stop sounding like a mother;; ]]

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[8222002]

Yes, A has, he has-

I am better, better I am. Though the cuffs, they are annoying.
A is... sad. I think, A is sad. And, and he keeps calling me 'B', he does.

[ooc: Lawl, it's nice that he's concerned xD;]

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[m_elioracogito]

It's a shame that we didn't find any filing tools while we were in town last... It's possible that there may be maintenance equipment for the Carnival somewhere around here, and they may have something that we can use... but until then, we could try to put something between the cuffs and your wrists so that they don't chafe as badly?

-'B?' Why is that?

[lotus_hourglass]

Che. I also have this weird feeling that there's more in stock to come. Things have been way too quiet lately.
And that's precisely why we can't afford to let our guard down.

[m_elioracogito]

Good, then we're in the same frame of mind on this one. Keeping alert for whatever danger is sure to await us is key to surviving this place and getting back to where we all belong.

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There's a person here in this house with us who can kill us if they see our faces. It's a pain in the ass and a HUGE hindrance to finding a way out, but- keep sharp.

[lotus_hourglass]

Nice to know not everyone around here is as ignorant as I thought.

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Are you kidding me? How the hell does that supposed to work?

[m_elioracogito]

There are a few bright ones around, but I'm pretty sure that there are just as many people here who are nothing but crazy.

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Well... there's this notebook. And apparently, if you write a person's name in this notebook while imagining their face in your mind, they will die.

You may have been asked before, there's a few of us investigating this one, but- where you come from, have you ever heard of the name 'Kira?'

[lawful_l]

I feel concerned. This lack of activity is highly worrying, and even the ghosts have remained silent for a while. It feels as if someone was aiming at us, looking for the best shooting angle.

A wine cellar? Have you checked the bottles? Is there any date written on the labels?

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The Carnival seems to be a danger zone. I’d like you to wait before venturing into it.

[m_elioracogito]

...That's exactly right, the 'aiming' thing. It feels more like the poised calm before an attack than anything else.

As for the bottles- the youngest vintages down there are still at least hovering around 50, 52 years. I'm sure that most of it has turned into vinegar already, if not all of it, and and if there's indeed anything left that isn't it's probably headed in that direction. It's all high-quality stuff, good Port and stuff like that, but... All wine turns into vinegar if it's left alone for too long.

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I hadn't been planning on it, but even if I were I'm pretty well incapacitated.

[lawful_l]

That is not what I meant. The year, Mello. I want to know what year they were made.

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How so?

[m_elioracogito]

-I forget, our years of origin are all over the place

The numbers were a little smudged and grubby, but some of the bottles- the old stuff- looked like it was marked-back as early as 1910. Some of them looked like they were from the 40's and I think that there were a few from the 50's, but it was weird- the more recent the dates got, it almost seemed like the dates had been rubbed-down worse- which doesn't make sense, unless they were tampered with.

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It would be stupid and irresponsible of me to throw myself into the Carnival so long as I'm functioning as protection for you, the little L and Near. 'Incapacitated's probably too harsh a word for it, but- I clearly can't check the Carnival myself. Not without looking like a fool.