Week 5.

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WEEK 5 Two more are gone this week. Luna and Chie Hori have joined those who are present only in memory now, and their passing seems to have left a lot of emotions raw and exposed. But as usual, the group has at least a little bit of time to recover. Saturday can be dedicated to rest and sleep; on Sunday morning, the clock chimes the hour at seven o'clock. The stairwells are clear of bodies; there's no more death to be dealt with for the time being. Unless, of course, you happened to recover something particularly unfortunate in your dreams... Once again, there's a new floor to explore; your reward for doing your job well. And since you've survived for a month now, you are doing your job well. However, the new floor isn't the only thing that's changed; there are a few things about the building that seem a little...off. A few things that weren't there before might be, or a few things that should be there aren't; you'll just have to see what the week brings, won't you? That is, if you're not going to be investigating all the goings-on personally... PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 21

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[OOC: Welcome to week five of Trustfell! Save your threads for coins and the coming week's activity check; don't forget to check in to this week's activity check and submit your memory regains as well!

The Letters and Switchboard posts are still active to be used at your leisure, for the sake of contacting the jerk who's keeping you here!]

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[housenurse]

[looks up, eyes glinting. finally, an update on her favorite otp.]

Oh, that's good! [beat] I hope. Was it a nice memory dream?

[ninehundredlives]

[C E A S E]

It actually was. The first nice one I've gotten.

[Susan lapses into a short silence, apparently not planning on elaborating.]

...did you remember anything?

[Look she's trying to ask if your daughter's okay]

[housenurse]

Then that's great! I'm so happy for you, Susan-san!

I remembered... Mako being kidnapped, so she could fight in her school's army! But, based on everything else, that has to be in the past for me! [she pulls out a piece of paper that she'd set off to the side. on it is a clear timeline-- written in colored pencils.] I've been trying to figure it out! By this point, [points to farthest time] the school doesn't exist, and the senpai that kidnapped her in the first place is obviously in love with her! So, Mako has to be safe from that, at least!

[ninehundredlives]

[Well, she's just going to pretend that all made sense.]

Good. I'm glad... [Susan tilts her head to look at the paper.] I haven't been able to tell if mine go in any particular order.

[housenurse]

I'm not sure if I'm right... But, some of my memory dreams have been so radically different, that some of them just had to have happened before others. I know the one where I joined Nudist Beach is the latest, so everything else has to be from before that!

[ninehundredlives]

Mine have been...different. But I don't know how to tell which go where.

[Not even gonna touch the Nudist Beach thing]

I wonder if we'll ever get everything back. Normally with amnesia, it comes in pieces like this - that's what I've heard, anyway. But this obviously isn't normal memory loss.

[housenurse]

I think... If we keep getting them back, and always at the same time, someone has to be doing it, right? Someone's giving them back.

... Maybe the only way to get everything back is to live until the end.

[ninehundredlives]

It does seem that way. I don't know how they could do that, but -

[She shrugs. Who knows how half this shit works.]

If he took them away, I'm sure we could find a way to put them back. Given whatever he has up there.

[housenurse]

Once we get out of here, we can use whatever he's been using to trap us here for ourselves! Get our memories back, go home... We can do anything!

[ninehundredlives]

[Wow that is just...a whole lot of optimism.]

Sure we can. [soooooooooo convinced. she's trying, okay?] If we can get people's superpowers back, I don't think we should have too much trouble with the rest of it.

[housenurse]

[optimism fights off the encroaching wave of despair.]

We'll need whatever we can get to fight off Conductor-san. I think he's a lot more powerful than anything any of us have ever faced-- and that's saying something.

[ninehundredlives]

I suppose it is.

We have no real reason to think he's anything more than human, if we can get past his technology and his shadow monster. That last one is probably going to be the tough part.

[housenurse]

It's so scary, isn't it? The way it was going after poor Chie-chan like that...

[ninehundredlives]

[Susan frowns faintly, left hand going up to hold her right shoulder.]

It's strong.

[housenurse]

[notices, cocks head curiously, but says nothing.]

We know what hurts it, though. As long as we stay out of the dark, we'll all be safe.

[ninehundredlives]

We can't avoid it forever. We're going to have to figure out some good weapons.

[housenurse]

Hm...

Oh! A flamethrower!

[ninehundredlives]

...we haven't got a flamethrower?

[housenurse]

... Oh. Right.

... We could make a flamethrower!

[ninehundredlives]

...has anyone got any aerosol cans?

[housenurse]

If we can find some, we can fight off those shadows without any trouble!

[SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THIS]

[ninehundredlives]

It would be helpful.

[She's a little doubtful about the safety, but she is a video game character. Why not just cobble together a flamethrower out of random found items?]

I'd rather have a lighter for it than matches. We should see if we can't find one of those.