DAY TEN: 7:00 P.M.

Well, it had been over a week since the competition started, and it had been fairly quiet for the past few days. They haden't gotten any new tasks since Hogswatch, nor information about when the first elimination was going to be. In short: Everyone was suspicious. Except for Carrot, who generally never was, and Vetinari who, even if was suspicious, he was very good at not showing it, and Vimes, who is usually always suspicious of everything, but was currently too busy ranting in the diary room in tones that could be heard throughout the house.

Currently, all of the houseguests were getting on as they usually did, but suspiciously. Rincewind, who was like Vimes in the way that he never let his guard down, had resorted to building a pillow and blanket fort in the corner of the room. It was quite a large fort, meaning no one in the house had something to rest their heads on when they slept and the furniture was void of all of its cushions.

Angua was sitting at the window, looking out into the night. More specifically, up at the sky. Carrot, who was one of the only other people in the house who knew about her, was sitting close by to make sure she wasn't going to do anything that she would later regret. For some reason Ponder was sitting by himself in a cushionless chair, giving Angua the occasional concerned and nervous glance, or Carrot an unusually spiteful glare. For another unexplained reason, the computer looked lonely.

In the kitchen, it was one of those rare occasions where Nanny Ogg wasn't hovering over the stove. In fact, it was Granny who, after realizing that there wasn't another girl around to make the tea, was forced to do it herself. Aside from this, everyone seemed to be making due with the lack of a very annoying voice constantly breaking the peace.

"WILL ALL HOUSEGUESTS PLEASE REPORT TO THE LIVING ROOM!!"

It had been ten minutes since the announcement and everyone had gathered into the room, and yet there was silence. You know, except for Vimes who had yer to leave the diary room, completely oblivious to the fact that the listener had long since fallen asleep and was now gently snoring on the other side. Eventually, the door slammed shut, and Vimes walked into the room and sat down on the bare couch and crossed his arms.

"Thank you for joining us, Vimsey!!" said MiMi over the speaker. Vimes glared. "Now, that everyone's her I can- Hey, where's Rincewind?" From the inside of the giant pillow fort came the sound of flushing before Rincewind emerged and joined the others. No one asked. They felt this was the safer route.

"...Okay, anyhoo," MiMi continued on, "Now, that everyone's here, it's time for the last task of the year!!" Everyone looked surprised in the fact that the year was ending already, except Angua who had gotten a very good look at the calendar in the past few days.

"And to celebrate the new year, I believe it is cutomary for a New Year's Eve Party!!" No one was taking the bait, they knew better. "Okay, you caught me. Well, you're next task is to celebrate the new year with..A drinking contest!!" this caught the majority of the male attention in the room. And Nanny. They could feel the smile spreading across MiMi's face as a result of this. "As we speak,"

"We?" chimed in Nobby's voice.

"Okay, as I speak, my crew is setting up in the kitcen everything you shall need for the contest!!" This caused some mild confusion among the houseguests. MiMi sighed. "They're loading the fridge with beer" A wave of understanding swept over them.

"What does the winner get?" asked Ridcully. He seemed quite confident in asking this.

"I'm glad you asked," said MiMi's voice, "The winner gets to decide the chores for all of the other guests for two weeks!! If they're still here, that is"

Vimes's head shot up, "What do you mean if they're stil he-"

"Okay, have fun, and Happy New Years!!" The line was cut off.

DAY TEN: 10:00 P.M.

It had been a couple of hourse since the contest had started, and so far Ridcully was winning. Carrot had passed out after only one, and while no one had actually seen Vetinari drinking, he had certainly aquired a group of empty bottles around him on the kitchen table. Vimes had not even touched one beer. He didn't care what the punishment would be if he didn't. He'd promised Sybil.

11:00 P.M.

Grany wasn't abstaining like Vimes, but she was still sipping her first bottle. She wasn't going to lose since Carrot had already passed out and Vimes wasn't even trying, but she wasn't about to get drunk and make a fool of herself. Nanny was already stone drunk and was tied with Ridcully for the lead. Currently, she was dancing around singing the Hedgehog song, with Ridcully doing an exceptionally bad job of trying to pick up the words as they went along. Rincewind was gigglng like mad, and Ponder was slowly edging his way towards Angua, who was in the mean-drunk stage.

11:30 P.M.

Vime had fallen asleep out of boredom. Nanny was out, as well. She'd slipped on the floor while dancing and had knocked herself unconcious. Ridcully tripped over one of the several empty beer bottles that littered the floor and had done the same. Ponder was rubbing his newly aquired black eye and was serveral feet away from Angua.

11:45 P.M.

Granny had long since gone off to bed. Angua had fallen asleep and fell over in her chair. Nobby was lying unconcious with a bump on his head, after making the mistake of trying to steal Rincewind's hat. Both him and Ponder were now standing on the kitchen table, doing what at one point could have been the can-can, but now had been horribly butchered by two idiotic wizards. Vetinari was watching. Ponder tripped over another beer bottle and crashed to the floor. Ricewind, whose only means of being able to be dancing was by using Ponder for support, fell on top of him. Vetinari made sure they were out before allowing himself to pass out.

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Sorry for the delay, I would have liked to have posted this before New Year's but I've been busy with many other things that I did not want to do