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

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[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

[hesperos]

Not a fan of cheesy dialogue?

[ He'll place down his food and settle down. ]

[evilfrenzy]

[He slides the current spread of pages over to Yuri so he can see just how bad it is.]

When it's well-placed, I don't mind it. But I can only take so much of it.

[hesperos]

[ Well now he's looking at this...

...

What the hell is he looking at here? ]

"The current damsel in distress cried, 'Ahh, save me! There are a bunch of weirdo monsters in this room!!'

It was at that moment the heroes broke through the advanced barriers and after a few paragraphs of fighting, the hero and heroine make out--"

Cheesy is right. Or maybe it's just more bad writing.

[ Never mind Yuri actually just skimmed the pages and basically paraphrased/sort of made up shit the way he understood it. ]

[evilfrenzy]

[...

He tries to stifle a laugh, but it just ends up escaping outright.]

I almost like your version more. It's just as stupid, but it at least gets to the point so much faster.

[hesperos]

Heh.

[ Well, would you look at that? He actually got Rideaux to laugh. Scoreeee.

He places his hands behind his head, relaxing more in his seat. ]

I don't see why people don't have stuff do exactly just that in books more often. It'd make for an easier read.

[ And maybe he'd actually bother to look into one seriously. Or probably not, because his attention would wander. ]

[evilfrenzy]

[Hey, he's capable of having a sense of humor! It's just a lot more morbid most of the time, um.]

Most people are just too into the drawn-out crap that it hasn't given the authors a real reason to change it up.

[He flips to another page- one that he actually bookmarked.]

At least it means they also don't skimp on the wordbuilding details. This one involves space travel- something I've not considered much. The technology involved is like nothing I have ever heard of.

[hesperos]

That's too bad.

[ Oh well, what can you do. ]

...Space-travel? I don't think I've ever even heard of anything like that before. This book seemed to mention some advanced stuff on the few pages I read, but something like that sounds way beyond me.

[ At least he didn't ask something like what is space (but there's still a possibility.) But still, he's from a very medieval world, so.... ]

[evilfrenzy]

[Poor Yuri, it must be so unfortunate to live in a place similar to Rieze Maxia.]

It's exactly what it sounds like. I don't think we've got the technology for it either. Dimensional travel is...somewhat different.

[hesperos]

[ It truly is a pity. ]

How long do you think it'd take to get technology for "dimensional travel", anyway?

[ So much complex stuff, so little time. ]

[evilfrenzy]

I couldn't say. We don't have technology for it, per se. It's more like an arte.

[hesperos]

An arte, huh? So it's something anyone might be able to do if someone teaches them it?

[ He thinks it'd probably make sense if it was like that, anyway. ]

[evilfrenzy]

[...time to play a game of "technically true".]

Something like that. But it's a very difficult one to pull off that not everyone can.

[hesperos]

Huh. Well, it didn't sound like it'd be an easy one, so I'm not too surprised about that either.

[ Yuri doesn't know if any of his friends could manage anything like that. ]

So, how long's this arte been around for? Is it something new or has it just always been a thing?

[evilfrenzy]

[That's for the better.]

Oh, it's been around for quite some time. Couple thousand years. It hasn't changed much in that timeframe though. There are still quite a few rules and universal constants revolving around it.

[He went into it a little bit during the week one meeting, after Tabby said her piece about alternate realities.]

[hesperos]

[ He remembers that...vaguely. All of the different realities and worlds thing is still making his head spin--he's still not sure what to think of all that stuff, honestly.

Why can't things be simple? ]

So, who put the arte into place anyway? Some kind of old geezer that liked the idea of dimensional travel?

[evilfrenzy]

[Why indeed.]

Something exactly along those lines, yes. I wouldn't say it's the most enjoyable job working in Dimensional Affairs, but it's necessary for those of us who can to do so.

[hesperos]

[ He has a bit of respect for Rideaux for that, actually. Not many people would want to do something that takes so much work. ]

I'm guessing that's why you went for the job in the first place, even though it's pretty tough and all?

[evilfrenzy]

I wouldn't say I "went for it" so much as I was recruited. The job chose me, so to speak, because I just so happen to be someone who can help.

[So he's reluctantly doing it, but he's doing it.]

[hesperos]

Recruited, huh? So you didn't turn down the job because it's something you can do--and probably because of the pay too? I'm thinking they at least have to pay you pretty good to be a Director and all.

[ Yuri knows if anyone tried to recruit him for anything like that he'd turn them down in an instant. ]

[evilfrenzy]

Oh, they certainly do. I have more than enough to support myself with, thanks to both of my positions.

[...and then some, if his usual attire is anything to go by. He's pretty loaded.]