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The House has made Caesar and his Parent comfortable in subdued pastel colors, and soothing patterns. The carpet is soft and gray, and the beds are fitted with matching bedclothes of a light red and light blue design. There is a computer in this room as well, and an exra door. The window in this room looks out over the back yard, and all the wildlife. The House asks you not to enter this room unless you are Caesar or his parent.

[Map/Picture coming]

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Caesar's Growth Quest

Caesar is such a depressed little thing! He needs some things that will cheer him up when he's really, really sad. Find the following things for Caesar's room, and he might come out of his shell, and start to feel a little happier!

1 Rainbow-themed pet

1 Brightly colored blanket

2 Shiny things

2 cute stuffed animals

Good luck!

Kimi had left the room again. Caesar didn't know when, as he had been having a peaceful nap in his newly acquired orange blanket. He liked it a lot. It was comforting.

He lay on the floor wrapped in it, staring at the empty room. He was starting to feel lonely. He needed someone to play with while Kimi wasn't there. He thought about finding his friend Echo, but he didn't know where she was. He would have to deal with his lonliness in his room.

Minutes passed and his attention was drawn to the door. It was open. He was sure it wasn't open a second ago. He debated getting up to go shut it. He didn't want any of the creepy things in the House to get him. He wrapped himself tighter in his blanket. Then he stopped to think.

The House had supplied him with this blanket, maybe it wanted him to have something else. He had a vague idea that the House didn't just open it's doors for any random reason. Slowly he began to crawl to the door, but was hampered by the presence of the blanket engulfing him. He couldn't move with it on, but he didn't want to leave it. He was torn between what the House wanted him to do and the love of his blanket. Finally, he decided that the House was more important than the blanket. Making silent vows of love and promises to return to his blanket, he crawled out into the large expanse of hall.

He remembered recently crawling all the way to the end of the hall and hoped he wouldn't have to do it again, because he wanted to get back to his blanket. Fortunately for him, it wasn't that far. He came up to an empty room with the door open. He remebered from last time that the house had left a door open for him and knew that there was something in the room for him.

This time, the room was lit. The candles were all aglow and it was a cheerful atmosphere. In the center of the room was a table and a chair. He was just tall enough to climb up on the chair, so he did. From the chair, he climbed up on the table. At the center of the table was a drink and a red bag of candy. He didn't know what the house wanted him to do. So he took a sip of the drink and grabbed the candy. He slid off the table and off the chair and back onto the floor. From the floor, he crawled back to his room. The door closed for him.

He wasn't exactly sure what he was supposed to do with the candy. He wanted to eat it, but he couldn't open it. He tossed it on the ground and stared at it a while. Suddenly, he grew angry, like it was mocking him. He silently mocked it back. Then he began to laugh, as if it had said something funny.

....................

Kimi walked into a room a few doors down from her room. She sat down at the table with her book and took a sip from her drink. She grabbed blindly at the table for her bag of skittles, but she reached nothing. She looked down and saw the table empty except for her drink.

"Who took my skittles?" she yelled. She went around asking the other inhabitants what had happened to them, but she had no leads. She went back into her room to see if she had left it there. What she found shocked her.

Caesar was sitting on the floor, cuddling her bag of skittles. He made strange goo-ing sounds at it and pet it like it was a dog.

"Gimme back my skittles," Kimi said, leaning down to take them back, but Caesar refused to let them go.

"Come on, I'm really hungry!"

Caesar still would not let go.

"Fine then, keep it!" Kimi said. "God, it's like a little pet to you, isn't it?"

Caesar looked up at her and smiled as she said the word pet, like he agreed. Kimi stopped being angry at him for taking her skittles. Seeing him smile like that made her happy. If it cost her a bag of skittles, well... she was fine with that.

"We should give him a name," Kimi said. "How bout... Heinrich!"

Caesar looked at her, confused.

"I don't know," Kimi said. "I heard that name at school today and I thought it was neat."

Caesar regarded his bag of skittles, silently asking it if it liked the name Heinrich. Apparently it did, for Caesar smiled at Kimi once again.

"Alright," Kimi said. "Heinrich it is! Now go do something!"

Caesar agreed and brought Heinrich over to introduce him to his blanket.

((rainbow pet retreived))

It had taken a while before Kimi felt the need to leave Caesar on his own again. She knew he was now wandering around the house, and it really didn't bother her all that much. The reason for her delay in leaving was because she had no reason too. She knew Caesar only liked to go off when she wasn't around, and she didn't want to burden him with her. She also had a suspicion that he may have been stealing from the other House members and she didn't want to get caught with him. Of course, he wasn't stealing but she had no way of knowing.

Finally, seeing that Caesar was in need of another solo outing, Kimi came up with a plan. She was too lazy to actually leave the room, so she did the next best thing.

"Caesar," she said. "I'm going to take a nap now. Try to be real quiet so you don't wake me up."

Caesar nodded and went on playing with Heinrich, the top, and the spoon. After a while, Kimi started making snoring sounds, and Caesar grabbed his chance to leave. He didn't know Kimi was faking... he had never heard her sleep before (because he always fell asleep first) and had no clue that she didn't snore.

Caesar put down Heinrich and the shiney toys and wrapped them in his orange blanket. He silently promised that he would come back, and suggested that they nap like Kimi. Then, he crawled over to the door which swung open and allowed him to leave.

He didn't know what he wanted to do today or what the House wanted him to do, so he just decided to crawl. He was in need of excerise anyway. He had discovered a magical power hidden within Heinrich. Once open and eaten, if you left him on the desk over night, he would be whole again by morning. It didn't occur to him that Kimi was buying him more skittle packs, and he had continued to eat his friend everynight much to the dismay of Kimi's limited funding.

While crawling along, he spotted a door ajar. Lately, he had been feeling braver than normal, so he pushed open the door and crawled in. It was Miel (another resident of the house) and his guardian Syrie's room. Syrie was sitting on his bed and he appeared to be making something. Caesar crawled up to the foot of his bed and watched. It didn't take long for Syrie to notice him. He showed him what he was making, a yellow octopus plushie with a bow tie.



"You like it?" he asked.

Caesar made a happy noise and clapped his hands.

"Here, you can have it then," He said, handing the octopus to Caesar. "I can spare one."

Caesar grabbed it and hugged it to his face. He liked it. He waved good bye to Syrie and left the room. ((omg, YAY Syrie, you've replaced Deshi as my favorite!))

He was in the process of crawling back to his room to show Heinrich the octopus, but remembered that Kimi was "napping". He decided to go somewhere else and extend his stay in the rest of the House.

He crawled down the rest of the hall, throught the living room, and past the library. He came to another long, dark hallway. He felt fear coming back to him, but squeazed the octopus and felt courage come rushing back. He continued to crawl down the hallway. It was strange. There were no doors at all, only strange pictures of scarey people lining the walls with eyes that appeared to be following him. He hurriedly crawled past them, until he came to the end of the hall. It was a dead end. He had just turned around to crawl back to his room, as he had been gone long enough, when he heard a sound.

The sound was small and made the room less scarey. It was the jingling of a small bell. Caesar turned around to see where the sound came from, and he quickly found it. Propped against the wall where Caesar had recently reached a dead end was a small goat stuffed animal. It was brown, but had a peach colored butt. Around it's neck was a small bell. As the animal fell over, the bell jingled. Caesar looked around to see where it came from, but he couldn't find anything. He slowly reached his hand out and grabbed the goat. He giggled slightly as the bell jingled.

He was now ready to leave, but he had a problem. Both of his hands were now full with stuffed animal. He couldn't get anywhere. He almost sat down and cried, when he had an idea. He raised the goat plushie into the air and started to shake it. The sound of the bell travelled far. He shook it more and the sound travelled further. Someone was bound to hear it and he would be rescued. He shook it even harder.

From within her room, Kimi had heard a noise. She "awoke" from her "nap and sat up.

"What is that?" she asked. "Someone's got a bell now! Probably Deshi wanting to call me as a servant. Well I ain't going!"

She flopped back on the bed and waited for Caesar to return. But the bell didn't stop.

"Dammit, Deshi," she said, and reluctantly got up to go see what Deshi wanted. But Deshi was not in her room.

"I see what she's at," Kimi said. "She's playing mind games with me. Stupid bell."

She followed the sound of the bell into a hall she had never been in before. Suddenly the bell stopped.

"AHA!" Kimi said, jumping. "I found you Deshi!"

But there was no Deshi to be found. She looked down and saw Caesar at her feet, smiling, clutching a goat plushie and an octopus plushie. She bent down and picked him up.

"Where'd you get those?" she asked. "If you're stealing things, I'm going to deny it you know. You're getting all the heat for this, you little clepto."

Caesar didn't know what a clepto was, but happily jingled the bell at Kimi.

"Yeah, yeah," Kimi said. "You won't get in trouble, you're right. You're too cute."

Kimi brought him back to their bed room and plopped Caesar on the floor next to his blanket. He hurriedly got out Heinrich and showed him the octopus and the goat. Then, he ripped Heinrich open and began to eat the skittles on the inside. Kimi whinced.

"I'm glad Deshi's not like you," she said. "Kimi's don't come back when they've been eaten alive."

((yaaaaaaay stuffed animals!!!! and YAAAAAAAAAAY for Syrie who let me use him and gave me an octopus! *cookies for all*))