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

[firstaid]

[Here Estelle thought she had recovered a bit after the trial, but after she had a weird dream, she feels unsure of herself again. It takes a lot to get out of bed, but she does as makes herself a small breakfast along with some tea in the kitchen. She seems rather preoccupied, but luckily, she doesn’t burn anything before she returns to her room and eats it. Weird for the girl who was oddly social last week.

Though she does get out again and goes to the vending machine and while most of the items are unfamiliar to her, she sees her mother’s memento come out of the vending machine and just holds it to her chest tightly. It’s a comfort to her; it’s also the prize she nearly gave up as a payment to Brave Vesperia.

Though she also does look at the pocket watch and opens it. It looks really important and valuable. Same with the Roomba— though that she’s going to turn on and have it running in the foyer as she just watches it probably for a good hour before she takes her haul back to her room. Either she’s easily amused, easily distracted, or in a huge need of a distraction.

Eventually, she goes to the new floor and the moment she sees the library it’s game over. She has a thought to go back to her room and grab the food she got from the vending machine and parks herself at her new sanctuary. She has a pile of books out to read, but most notably, she seems to be thrilled to see a book called The Tale of the Jade Planet there and is reading it rather fondly.

Please, ask her about her ideal man. She’ll in return tell you about her fictional crush.]

[explosivecombat]

[Kimblee is here in "what a weird dream" solidarity, honestly, and he's seeming a little out of sorts today; that said, he's gotten a bunch of coins and as such he's...here...to...]

...Where did you get that?

[Because Estelle has something that is very much a State Alchemist pocketwatch, even if he can't see the inside of it or any particularly identifying personal marks, he's very sure that that's the Amestrian military emblem on the outside, where in the world did that come from?]

[firstaid]

[She looks at the pocket watch in her hands and holds it out for Kimblee to see better. Given his expression and tone, she wonders if it's something that belongs to him, especially since she got a personal item out of the machine herself.]

It came from that machine. Do you recognize it?

[explosivecombat]

[He'll accept it, flicking it open again as he does so, and he just sort of...pauses for a moment before he seems to relax.]

This hasn't been in my possession for years, so I'm wondering how they got ahold of it... But yes, it's definitely something I recognize, it's something I received from the military upon becoming a State Alchemist in the first place.

[firstaid]

Really? I suppose what I got-- [She pulls out an elegant looking hairpin with pink flowers and a string of pearls on it from her pocket.] --wasn't on my possession either, but I'm really happy to see it. It's like it's telling me to not lose myself here.

[explosivecombat]

[Oh, that's pretty, actually.]

A good message to have, if you ask me.

[...]

Do you mind if I keep this? [The watch.] I'm willing to give you something in exchange, should you want that.

Roomba

[matchbreaker]

Oh, what the devil's that thing?! It looks so dumb!

[ Well someone sounds upbeat? She's sporting a new necklace with a bat like thing on it she got out of the vending machine (really) but otherwise is as normal as she's leaping up onto one of the chairs to close in on Estelle. ]

[firstaid]

I don't know. It's seems to be a robot of some sort with vacuuming capabilities.

[And it amuses her to hell and back. It also serves as a wonderful distraction since she doesn't want to recall her dream at all.]

[matchbreaker]

It doesn't seem that smart!

[ It's heading right towards that wall... she's watching it while on her little perch... ]

[firstaid]

Given it's a machine, I don't expect it to be all that smart.

[And bump into the wall it does before it turns course. At least it doesn't hit the wall over and over...]

[matchbreaker]

Don't you expect there to be some extra smart things, machines and all?

[ Maybe she's thinking too scifi... ]

foyer

[bloodbiter]

[At some point during the day, she enters this area with no particular goal in mind. She sees the roomba almost immediately, though, and looks to Estelle with a puzzled expression.]

What is that?

[firstaid]

I'm not entirely sure what it is, but it appears to suck things off the floor like a vacuum. It's an interesting machine, almost like it has a mind of its own.

[And she watches it as it hits the clock before changing directions to move away from it.]

[bloodbiter]

It seems incredibly useful. I wish I knew how it functioned...

[She watches it carefully, with clear interest.]

Did you have anything like this in your home, Estelle?

[firstaid]

Like this? No.

[It's returning to the middle of the foyer now.]

It's what makes this so fascinating. It almost appears sentient yet I know that it's not.

[bloodbiter]

It's the same for me. In truth, I don't recognize much of the technology I've seen in this place. I wish I know how all of these things were made.

library

[paralogical]

[ Is that—yeah. Yeah. He recognizes that book title. He wasn't planning on approaching Estelle (still isn't), but he is standing close enough for her to see and making a face at the book when he notices the title. ]

[firstaid]

[Looking up from her book momentarily, she sees Mikoto and gives him a bit of a smile. Their last... conversation ended weirdly, or at least he left her after she talked about her (fictional) crush.

Right.]

Did you come here to find a book to read?

[At least she's not fangirling right off the bat.]

[paralogical]

No. [ He wanders from place to place without much reason or purpose, it's what he does. Now that he's here though... hm. He glances at one of the bookshelves. ]

I haven't been in a library in a while though. Is this one still usin' that shitty, complicated filing system?

[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!

[paralogical]

Thanks for the offer, but I'll pass. You don't need much help when you're grabbin' at random.

vending machine

[hesperos]

[ Well, guess who woke up a little late and headed over to the vending machine? Huh. He'll be watching as she's holding the memento to her chest, but from where he's standing he can't see what item she's clutched close to her. ]

Something good come out?

[firstaid]

[When Yuri approaches her, she holds out the familiar hairpin for him to see it. At this point, she hadn't even had it on her person so she didn't know it was missing, but it's a nice thing to have. Like it came out at the right now.]

Something nice did. I'm glad to see it.

[hesperos]

[ Oh hey... he'd recognize that from anywhere, actually. ]

Your mother's memento, right? It's good you got it back.

[ Yuri recalls when he asked to hold onto it for her in case she needed it again - it was better than the alternative of her tossing it away. ]

[firstaid]

Yeah it is. I'm glad to have it back.

[She certainly won't toss it away now. It's a perfect reminder to her to hold on and keep fighting, she thinks.]