WEEK 2.

[trustfellows]

WEEK 2 Two people are dead. Jean Kirstein and Caren have both died due to a tragic accident. Of course, you're not entirely innocent, are you? You voted, you played into this game the Coordinators are running. But you know the stakes now. You know what failure to complete Rule Seven really means. No more excuses from here on out. Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; come Sunday morning, the clock chimes the hour at seven o'clock and there are no dead bodies to be found, so it can be assumed that all of you are safe for the time being. That said, you'll be feeling a little groggy when you wake up; it seems you've regained something that you didn't realize you'd lost... Of course, exploring the building from here on will reveal something new: namely, a stairwell in the northeastern corner, leading upwards toward a new floor entirely. Another sign of how things are going to progress around here, maybe; chances are you'll enjoy what you've been given, but was it worth the lives of two people to obtain? PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 33 PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 32

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY
[OOC: Welcome to week two of Trustfell! Feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget to save those threads for coins and the activity check!

If you'd like to get in contact with the Coordinators, you can do so through private meetings with Alena!]

Comments

[notaccurate]

[Luca nods thoughtfully, making a mental note to do two sets of washing instead of just throwing it all in together.]

Do I pre-soap the clothes? I imagine throwing a bar of soap into the machine would not be good.

[firstaid]

...Probably? I don't know what kind of library doesn't use one.

[She's not offput by his foul language, so that's something to notice.]

I can help you find a book if you want!

[greenmamabear]

Lots of vaccines? Washing hands, that's a big one. Those are, uh, the ones things I can think of.

[greenmamabear]

[Oh. She kind of politely makes some room for Kyrie, even if there's probably a lot already.]

It still feels like something I should have a handle on.

[firstaid]

I'm... not really sure? It's all so confusing.

[She just knows that she's... different.]

[greenmamabear]

Yeeeaaaah its some older stuff alright. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it.

[firstaid]

Oh, no you don't! [She'll go and grab some detergent.]

You use this! [Then she'll demonstrate by putting some detergent in the lid and putting it into the machine.]

You just put that much into the machine, put it on the setting you want, and press start!

[chessturner]

Oh? You're interested in vampires?

[Kyrie stands up and browses the nearest bookshelf. There may be a book about vampires, may as well try to see why Elda's so interested in their lives]

[chessturner]

Maybe you're just too stressed right now. Did you sleep well last night?

[Hard to know for sure if you got eyebags or anything when you're SO GREEN, FERN. She'll have to trust your word on that]

[greenmamabear]

Depends on if staring at the ceiling for hours was a dream or not.

[it hasn't been great kyrie]

[blackmass]

We haven't, no. [He glanced over the nearest shelf before looking to Rideaux and his clipboard.] Though it is reassuring to see someone else with reasonable priorities.

[blackmass]

I am, in fact. This reversal is something to which I will confess myself unaccustomed.

[blackmass]

Merely a single poor night's sleep. I presume most of our number may say the same.

[blackmass]

Nothing of vital importance. [He closed the (worryingly enormous) book and set it aside, focusing on Estelle as she spoke.] I happened across an old tale I favored, and I just thought I might make use of our abundance of spare time.

[blackmass]

Kotomine.

[tabby, please]

I only advise you to either keep such a habit in check, or be readily available when those supplies might be needed. It would be unfortunate if someone were to die because our medical supplies went missing.

Retaliation.

[trustbound]

[Late in the morning on Monday, things seem to have shifted.

Anyone in the general area of the foyer would have seen Yosuke opening the door to the office; he seems on-edge, tensely-set, but apparently he's going to see Alena – just to talk, nothing more, just to ask her some things and try to get some answers, and when the door closes behind him there's quiet for a while.

The quiet eventually turns to shouting – from both of them, not just one or the other, Yosuke yelling something at her that's largely indistinguishable through the door, followed by Alena wasting no time in yelling back at him to "get that thing out of her face," that he "really doesn't want to do this, just put it away before Jericho sees it" –

And then there's a sound like something's been knocked over, followed briefly by a loud slam against the office door; the door handle rattles hard, as though someone on the other side is trying desperately to get it unlocked and open, and after an agonizing moment of that the door swings open and Alena backs through it – her balance is off, and she doesn't manage to catch herself on the door, and she drops to one knee without quite ending up completely on the floor, looking like she's bracing herself.

Yosuke has a knife.

He has a knife from the kitchen, and he had every intention of just talking to her and maybe just getting in her face a little, but in the end he also has his anger – maybe it's because she murdered Caren, maybe it's because of the pendant on a cord that she's still wearing around her neck (that shell pendant that Caren was trying to protect, the one that everyone knows the meaning of now), maybe it's because she's the reason they're here and she's going to watch them all die, whatever the reason is the fact of the matter remains that Yosuke has a knife, and he's following her down to the ground (in the same way she did down in the pit, so that she could stab Caren some more and god, he's seeing red, it was a fucking accident) –

There's a flash of the knife, a quick slashing motion. A burst of red blossoming from Alena's shoulder.]

Rule Five's been broken. You might want to stand back.

[It's definitely Jericho, though it's...different; it's oddly impersonal as opposed to his usual manic tone when he's addressing people – there's no anger behind it, but there's no enjoyment either, this is just something that's happening.

Yosuke freezes up where he's over her, before casting his gaze in her direction once again; it seems the sudden announcement hasn't quite snapped him out of it but he's come back into himself a little, and there's just enough time for a sharp intake of breath before the first hit comes.

It may be difficult to tell what's happening at first. It's a loud noise, a sudden burst, similar to a firecracker going off, and whatever it is it's enough to get Yosuke to scream and arch his back suddenly; it wouldn't be out of place to assume that he's been shot. And then there's another, followed by several more, and then there's the realization that it's coming from inside his body, a series of loud bursts snapping its way up his spine from his lower back clear up to his neck, something exploding outward from the inside along his spine, causing a series of breaks up his spinal cord and there's blood, a lot of it as it tears up his back –

And then as soon as it's started it stops, mercifully leaving his head intact but his back is completely shredded from whatever Jericho just did to his spine from the inside, and it's hard to say when it happened exactly along that process but one thing is intensely and immediately clear.

Yosuke Hanamura is dead.

Alena is still kneeling on the floor, just...staring at whatever just happened in front of her, eyes wide but unafraid, just dully trying to process it; Yosuke...well, he fell forward and as such he's sort of on her, and she's still bleeding from the shoulder but doesn't seem to be paying that much mind, and after a moment she reaches up and starts absently petting his hair, like she's not sure what else to do with herself –

Jericho's voice can be heard again; there's decidedly more intensity to it this time, though it's difficult to tell what sort of emotion it's directed toward.]

Everyone who's there, get out of the foyer. We'll handle the body, just go. You don't want to be there.

No trial for this, we're not going to make you do that. Just don't try anything like this again.

[chessturner]

[There she was, just entering the foyer, when Alena and Yosuke got out of the office. She was about to try to intervene when Jericho spoke, and then everything else happened]

That's insane...!

[It's one thing to watch a person stab somebody with a trident. It's a completely different thing to watch a kid's spine be torn apart from the inside. It's impossible, it's monstruous.

For a moment Kyrie holds her breath, horrified, before gravely letting it out in a shaky breath. She didn't know Yosuke that well, he was just some kid trapped in this place, but still...that was brutal and completely impossible for a mere human being.

She's getting out of the foyer right now, that's for sure.]

[bloodisthicker]

...

[...holy shit holy shit holy shit]

No, you idiot, what are you ...

[...

WELL THAT SURE HAPPENED AND HE'S JUST... OKAY.]

...

Look, if anyone needs to go to the infirmary after that, just... I'll take you. I'll take you.

[What the fuck. What the fuck?? What the fuck!!!]

[destage]

[...You know, of all of the things she was hoping to never see? This rates among the highest of them, and that's...a shitton of blood. Alright, lovely, fine, cool.]

H--Hanamura-kun...why did you...

[What does one even say to all of this? Yosuke was a bit impulsive, sure, but if he'd just not done that, he wouldn't be dead, he wouldn't--

Sayaka's not sure when she decided to bolt, but honestly, she just needs to get out of there before the image of all of that stays too clearly in her mind. She's just. Going to stay in her room today, seems safest.]

[icysemblance]

[Weiss hears the yelling first, and she starts to run towards the door, but she freezes in place once it opens.]

Stop, put that knife down, you don't want to --

[You don't want to do this, she starts, but she knows how he feels. It was a goddamned accident and no one deserved to die like that.

Then there's the chilly tone from Jericho, and as much as Weiss wants to turn and run, she finds she can't move. Every single one of her senses tells her to go, but she's frozen in place like a deer in the headlights.

Then there's all the blood and the noise and the blood, and Weiss doesn't realize she's screaming until the second it all stops. She finds she isn't frozen any more once she hears Jericho speak again, and she runs. She only just makes it to the bathroom before she gets very, very sick. She'll come out later looking weak and pale.]

[shuttermouse]

[ HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT THAT SURE IS A THING THAT HAPPENED, JESUS CHRIST ON A CRACKER

Chie's seen a lot of disturbing shit and gore rarely phases her but watching a kid's spine explode is actually kind of disgusting? Yikes. ]

...Hanamura-kun, you idiot...

[ She'll just. Walk away now. ]

[evilfrenzy]

[Even Rideaux is completely rigid with shock after that display. It was unbelievably stupid to pull a knife on Alena after witnessing what she can do in the execution pit. He expected her to be the one delivering the punishment for it, but...

What the actual fuck just happened to that kid?]

...Yeah. [He snaps out of his internal freakout for a second, easing into speaking.] Yeah, I'll...see anyone who needs it.

[He's...probably going to be there for a while, thinking. Holy fucking shit.]

[firstaid]

What kind of tale, if I may ask?

[She loves exchanging stories about tales and the like and it's nice to know that people here actually like discussing this? Unlike her band of misfits that hate to read.]

[blackmass]

[That was. Different. Kirei wasn't entirely sure he'd ever seen something like that before, and amidst the revulsion and horror of the others, it looked like all he felt was confusion. Was it magic? Was there something else going on here--were all of them rigged to explode in some unknown way? That certainly wouldn't be a difficult thing to arrange, considering none of them knew how they got here or how long they'd been unconscious for before arriving.]

[...Kirei realized that maybe it was smart to listen to Jericho at the moment rather than stand around theorizing. But by the same general token, it might have been a worthwhile idea to stay in their somewhat violent hosts' good graces.]

[So, without batting an eye he reached into his coat and set some bandages from the infirmary down near the clock, before offering Alena an empty smile and walking out. Back to the library it was, then.]

[greenmamabear]

[Fern was, of course, about to rush in to try and take the knife because oh my god Yosuke what are you doing.]

W-wait, do-

[and then she's cut off by Jericho and the awkward kid that tried so hard explods in front of her

Her knees give in and she's on the floor, just staring at where the body that once was Yosuke has dropped.]

H-how...? He was just...