R3 Viewing Party!

[grimgrinningghosts]

[It’s another average, but boring morning in the mansion when suddenly voices start coming from Rod’s room again. Thankfully, the room is locked and it appears that he isn’t trapped inside his own body (luckily for everyone it appears that Oswald finished Rod’s new body so that most likely won’t happen again).

However, true to the Hatbox Ghost’s word, it seems like the new round has started and everyone in the Haunted Mansion has a front row seat to watching the torture unfold. This time you are no longer in the comfort of someone who has any idea of how to get them out.

… There sure are a lot of people you might recognize this time around, huh?]

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[darnsitall]

[OH NO EVERYONE'S FRIENDS ARE DYING. Sally gives Rod and Joshua a worried look.]

It's... it's all right! We'll save them!

[lusito]

Because you adore me and the quality time that we spend together here?

[Joshua......]

[theduck]

[forget those guys, they're missing the really important question of this case]

How did they manage to kill four people, but not Negaduck? He's had it coming all week! Nobody would've even been upset!

[keyofimagination]

[Rod just... assumes that Sally is looking at him because he's incompetent as a leader and still hasn't managed to rescue the people in the manor.]

I'm starting to worry that the original plan to get Mickey isn't working. I'm starting to get desperate enough to do more obvious things to get his attention

[lusito]

[AHAHAHA YEAH HI guess who isn't even looking at Sally. Or Rod.

... Or really anyone other than the screen when Neku is revealed to be dead in a pool of his own blood with a wood carving knife in his neck... and the pair of scissors jammed into his left calf...

Joshua's face is completely blank of emotion, but it is very easy to tell that he is not okay right now and his veneer of calm might not last long, judging by the slight shimmer around him that you'd expect from a heat wave, or like the room appears to be shaking a little and causing ceiling dust to fall, which is already not a good thing when the mansion and it's foundations are as fragile as it is...]

[hallotween]

Finally! [PULLING UP SLEEVE]

[keyofimagination]

Not a blood ritual.

[darnsitall]

Ooooh, that villain! I would be surprised if he were involved in all this!

[darnsitall]

[It's okay to cry about your dead raccoon bf, Rod]

If only there was a way to reach him in our dreams, like Walt! Maybe if we all took extra long naps...

[theduck]

Even if he isn't, I don't care! As soon as we get to the manor I'm gonna strangle him myself!

[Negaduck broke the mirror before Minnie could call Goofy, his boyfriend, whom he was dating, so like he's got a personal grudge here at this point]

[keyofimagination]

[Oh shit not someone he actually cares about in this hellhole... and much more importantly that does not look Good.]

Josh... I promise I will get him back. I swear on my life that I will.

[keyofimagination]

[He's not his bf Sally.]

"Like Walt"...

[He looks sullen at the mention of Walt until something suddenly dawns on him.]

Wait a minute, before the mirror was shattered, I believe someone told me that Mickey was actively looking for us.

[lusito]

Oh, I know we'll get him back.

[When he speaks, it's... calm, but--]

It just depends on how many people I have to take down in the most excruciating manner I can think of when the time comes to do so.

[... And that might honestly include himself too actually, because fucking hell we said we were going to get him out before something like this could happen, and we didn't--we could have tried contacting him again with other methods even with the mirror broken, and we--

The ceiling shaking is getting a little worse...]

[darnsitall]

Surely he's seen the hidden Mickey we put together by now?

[It's made of like half the bedsheets in this house]

[tadaishi]

[He can't really tell Joshua to calm down, because he'd be just as angry if it had been Hiro instead of Neku, but he'd like the ceiling to stay where it is, so he's going to step between the television and Joshua.]

Josh, Josh...it's...well, not okay, but don't bring the roof down on the rest of us.

[keyofimagination]

I've never done something like this before, so I'm not sure how long it would take for Mickey to find a sing like this.

But I would have thought that Mickey would have noticed this by now if he was looking for us...

[hallotween]

Well, then you're not really desperate, are you!

[keyofimagination]

First of all, I know enough about Mickey to know that he is not drawn by blood rituals.

[hallotween]

Well, gosh, we better listen to Mr. Mickey Expert! Because your expertise has really helped us out in the past!

[lusito]

[For a moment, Joshua actually looks pissed off now at Tadashi blocking the television, before he's forced to stop and look up at the ceiling as if finally noticing now what he's doing.

He takes a breath, and the ceiling at least stops shaking, but Joshua still doesn't appear entirely okay.]

I'm... going outside for a moment.

[He stands up, and proceeds to walk out of the room with a considerable amount of restraint.

... It isn't very long however before you'll suddenly hear an almighty crash, and looking will discover what appears to be pieces of furniture being violently sent careening outside onto the lawn. At... least it's not the building being brought down instead?]

[keyofimagination]

Why on earth would Walt make a mascot that can be summoned by blood rituals? Walt's a terrible person but he's not crazy.

[hallotween]

[watches him leave...]

Being in love must suck. [she's gonna be a witch nun.]

[lusito]

[marnie please you're a good friend but don't make joshua suddenly warp back in just to hit you or something for that??]

[tadaishi]

[No one really needs that furniture anyway, feel free to throw it.

Tadashi's left awkwardly standing in front of the TV, torn between going after Joshua and staying inside, but his not-boyfriend will run out of furniture eventually, so he's going to go find him.]

YOU PUT IT IN BOLD THAT MEANS IT'S TRUE

[hallotween]

He's a huge jerk whose trail of broken hearts lead to a bunch of people being kidnapped and forced to murder each other.

What about a blood ritual sounds that beyond the pale for him?