Let's take a look at how it all went down.
Violette is the first to be dropped off at the front of the house.
VIOLETTE: Wow! This place is HUGE!
A letter lays waiting on a table in the entryway to greet each of our contestants.
VIOLETTE: 'Welcome to Get a CLUE! Feel free to explore the house. You will be happy to know that you each have a private bedroom suite. As you find your way around the house be on the lookout for doors marked with a color coded light. Each of you has picked a color; the door marked with your color leads to your bedroom. Please make yourselves at home. I look forward to meeting each of you soon.' Signed Mr. Ezra Black.
As Violette dashes off to check out her new digs, the next guest arrives.
DEANA: So we get to give ourselves the tour? Sounds good to me. I wonder if anyone else is here, yet. Only one way to find out... but where to go first...
DEANA: Seriously, the first door I come to is locked?! I bet that's where the "body" is isn't it? That's a bit obvious if you ask me. Onto the next door I guess.
And so the scene of arrival repeated as each guest enters the Get a CLUE house for the first time.
Cobalt may still be engrossed by the big screen, but Apricot notices him through the windows from where she'd been admiring the pool.
And as everyone finished checking out their private rooms, they begin to run into each other.
SHEILA: There was supposed to be seven of use, right, so we're still missing one.
COBALT: No one's seen her?
DEANA: Who says it's a 'her'?
VIOLETTE: Yeah, I bet number seven is a guy. I mean, they wouldn't cast just one guy and all the rest girls would they?
COBALT: I would.
ADDIE: I suppose we'll just have to practice a little bit of patience. We'll find out who the seventh person is soon enough. But, while we wait, did anyone else notice that there were two bedrooms upstairs that are still unaccounted for?
APRICOT: What?!! Are there eight contestants and they didn't tell us?
SHEILA: Wait. How do you know they were unaccounted for?
ADDIE: My dear, I was paying attention to the lights that marked the bedrooms. There was a door with a blue light above it and a door with a white light above it. Unless I'm mistaken none of us in this room is blue or white.
DEANA: Well, Cobalt is bluish.
COBALT: Yeah, but Apricot and I already found my bedroom.
VIOLETTE: I bet the eighth person is the "victim".
SHEILA: I bet you're right. I sure hope nothing... terrible... has happened to them.
The laughter following that was apparently loud enough to be heard from the stairway, because moments later Pale Rider walks in.
APRICOT: We sure are! We're all getting to know each other. I'm Apricot. And this is Cobalt, Addie, Shayla, Deana, and Violette. Right? Did I get all the names right?
SHEILA: No! My name is Sheila, not Shayla. S-H-E-I-L-A, Sheila.
APRICOT: Sorry, Sheila. Anyway, what's your name?
PALE RIDER: You can call me Platinum, or you can call me Pale Rider White. But, darlin' what y'all should know me as is your new favorite guitar player with the smoothest soundin' bass voice you ever did hear.
COBALT: *snorts*
APRICOT: Cobalt, you okay?
PALE RIDER: Are you tryin' to --
ADDIE: Now, now, boys. There's no need for hostilities this early in the game. Why don't we get back to the discussion we were having before Mr. Platinum joined us.
SHEILA: Yeah, Rider, have you seen anyone dressed in blue?
PALE RIDER: No, y'all are the only ones I've come across.
Contestants, please join us in the Grand Entryway at this time.
And they all filled back out of the room and down to the first floor.
BILLIE: That's right. As soon as one of you sees a letter, call everyone down. You'll read the letter together. Then, for each challenge we'll head upstairs to the competition floor.
EZRA: Actually, let's head up there now so, everyone can see what we're talking about.
EZRA: Of, course. Well, go on. You are the host.
Billie: Right... You know you'll be competing in challenges to earn clues. But clues, for what? To win the game you must answer three questions correctly.
2. What is the murder weapon?
and
3. Which room is the crime scene?
Lastly, you will each begin with two clues. As Mr. Black has said, the games and the challenges will being tomorrow. You'll receive those first clues the next time we're all gathered in this room together.
For tonight, just have fun. Get to know each other. Enjoy some good food and juice. But stay safe, because you never know what might happen in the Get a CLUE house.
Contributing Simmers:
FloorRaisin - Addie Butter
RoryGilmore34 - Apricot Alani
lovesstorms - Cobalt Stone
Pegasus143 - Deana Verde
CathyTea - Pale Rider White
AkramA/Markarch - Sheila Rose Babb
SummerFalls - Violette Wisteria