WEEK 3.

[trustfellows]

WEEK 3 You all got to witness Yosuke Hanamura's death earlier this past week. You know what the punishment for breaking the rules is. With Chitoge Kirisaki and Blue's deaths, you're painfully aware of just how little trust this group really has. How long until someone kills again? What about that time limit the Coordinators imposed? Will there be another incentive? There are so many questions, but not a whole lot of answers. 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... And when you wake up, you'll discover that a pattern seems to be emerging, at least as far as the building itself goes; a new floor is available to you, a stairwell across a short hallway from the one on the second floor having unlocked itself. There's not too much of a question about it as a result - at least, as far as what it means. It's definitely a reward. PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 30

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[OOC: Welcome to week three 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

[bloodisthicker]

...a... card key? Well, Ms. Maizono found a key, but...

[destage]

...I'd really appreciate that.

[Her smile is...still so, so very shaky. She's afraid, but...maybe pretending like this, it'll help. It'll help take her mind off of all of this.]

[sleepytimegal]

Must be why I couldn't locate anything, you'd already picked through it.

[ We are both kind of nervous wrecks today, awesome. ]

[explosivecombat]

...Yes and no.

[Thankfully, Kimblee is not the sort of person to straight-up deck someone for insinuating that it's magic Isaac, and honestly, if that's how people here are understanding it...well, it's pretty whatever given that he's the only one it's actually relevant to here, so.]

Creating from nothing would be considered an impossibility or a miracle back in Amestris, that much is true, but the circle she was using this past weekend involved red energy - that usually implies the usage of a Philosopher's Stone, an artifact that will allow you to bypass some of alchemy's fundamental restrictions. I've used one myself, but never quite...

[He pauses for a moment before just...shaking his head a bit.]

I've never created something in quite that way, but I have drawn components from seemingly nowhere before, that's likely a bit more accurate.

[sleepytimegal]

...I don't-

[ She can't. Not that. ]

...I remembered something else. [ Not dreamed. Remembered. ]

[destage]

...I'm not someone who deserves it.

[Sayaka says that very distantly. Quietly. She's never deserved it. She could pretend she does, but...

Well, honestly, she really doesn't. There's a bit of bitter laughter there.]

You could have done a lot of things, honestly.

[destage]

[Ah, that...]

...Sorry, Alex-san. I didn't know you went in there.

[heritrix]

[I'm so sorry people have to be Level 4 to unlock Rin making any attempt to engage on a deeper emotional level with someone, Estelle, you didn't ask for this.]

Would you like me to bring you some tea?

[Noting Estelle's hesitancy there, Rin thinks to make one more offer before she goes to setup... whatever it is she plans on doing.]

[firstaid]

It's fine. I've... kind of accepted it. My friends defended me, but I... told... I told Phaeroh that I would die as long as I was told why I needed to die.

[She smiles a bit.]

Yuri got mad at me for saying that it was okay if I have to die. At least the Yuri in my dream did. I don't know if he would here.

bar

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ Angel is... she's not drinking, that was my last character, but she is gonna sit by a... friend? Person she knows, who seems to be in distress. And talking to others has always been a great way to avoid her own problems, so... ]

This seat taken?

[perpend]

Card keys are exactly what they sound like-- keys that look similar in shape to a playing card.

[destage]

...You didn't deserve to be born into something like that. You don't deserve to die because of it.

[She...doesn't know what to say to that, or just--how much Estelle seems to have accepted it. Isn't that disgusting? Is that just the way everyone is?]

Don't--don't you think that's screwed up, Estelle-san? That you have to live like that?

[destage]

[Sayaka shakes her head, just...kind of forcing up a smile that just seems a little too fake.]

No...No, go for it. I don't mind.

[matchbreaker]

It's never really been about that.

[ She responds, a single finger going up to plant her nail in the top of the cork of the wine bottle. She begins to move it around a little bit, humming to herself. Deserve...? No, it was never about what Sayaka did or didn't deserve, was it? The woman looks around the room for a long moment, and then when she concludes that the room is empty enough, she ...

Forces herself to continue. ]

I hate humans. The look of them, their every action disgust me. Their adults I know are ready to turn on me, to see me as a monster at any moment. Their children are more of the same. Their elders tell those stories to the children, to justify their own heinous, "demonic" actions. It's something I've known for two hundred years now.

[ . . . ]

One good impression doesn't - will not - change that fact. But if I've been good to you, you've been good to me. Keeping my secret as best you're able and bringing me blood on top of it all? I've told you time and again there's something perverse in doing that - sacrificing some of the "life" of your species to me so easily. Blood is life. The weight of those actions can't be understated, even if you don't seem to realize it.

[ She laughs. ]

I could have done a lot of things. Maybe it would have been easier for the both of us if I killed you that first night there, when I tried to instill some terror in you. Ultimately though, I was the one who was scared. I've grown old. Far too old, old enough to know that I'd prioritize my granddaughter's happiness over the actions I know are necessary to preserve the species and old enough that I see her face in a girl your age. No, it's never about what you deserve, it's about what I've seen fit to give.

... Do you find me kind, Sayaka?

[bloodisthicker]

...Ah, I see. So it's basically a universal substitute someone could use if they needed more materials than they had on hand?

[bloodisthicker]

Actually, we probably should make a list. I searched the kitchen last week, but I didn't find anything particularly unusual.

[heritrix]

[No worries, friend!

Rin nods, though she... Doesn't particularly expect anything. But even knowing that seems to strengthen her resolve.]

It's better than twiddling our thumbs until Friday.

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ Unfortunately for her, Angel is acutely familiar with fake smiles, but if she notices anything she doesn't say. ]

Thanks.

[ She sits down and kind of. Exhales. ]

You seem like you could... talk to someone. Or use someone to talk to, I guess.

[matchbreaker]

Infirmary and all I found was the blood balance I mentioned.

[ . . . But uh ]

I'm not a doctor though, so.

[explosivecombat]

Yes, exactly.

[...]

It still begs the question of how she managed to activate that particular array, because that is not universal, nor is that particular configuration something that's commonly used. Again, I'm speaking only of theories - there's a way to explain the acts themselves, but not precisely how we got to that particular explanation.

[perpend]

...If people were capable of using magic here, it might be able to help us out

But I doubt they'd want things to be too convenient for us.

[perpend]

I'd imagine my situation was unique, even as far as ghosts are concerned. It's strange to think about.

[sleepytimegal]

[ Then... ]

Uh... W-well, I... I've got... I...remembered two different versions of the same night.

[sleepytimegal]

[ She nods. ]

They're mine. At least, that's what I hear.

[heritrix]

[Rin takes a piece of paper out of her pocket along with a pen and begins writing things down.]

So that's nothing of value for the kitchen and sewing room... [She puts these rooms in their own column with the heading "Searched/No Return" and makes a new one next to it.] And Maizono-san and Cabanela made discoveries in the bar and game room respectively, yes? Mm, and the button Estelle found in the library.

[Those three are going in the "Searched/Found" column, with the respective discoveries noted next to them.

Bar - Key
Game Room - Passageway
Library - Button]