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

[heritrix]

Healing artes?

[Aren't artes just the name for intellectual studies?]

[evilfrenzy]

Magic, essentially. That is the simplest way to put it.

[Going further involves getting overly technical, unless that's what Rin would like to hear.]

[heritrix]

[Oh yeah, no sane person has time for such in-depth—this is Rin Tohsaka you're talking to, Rideaux.]

What would be the technical way to put it?

[evilfrenzy]

[Seriously? Rideaux has to stifle a groan. He didn't actually feel like explaining...]

What is happening on a technical level, is the user of the arte is forming a pact with a spirit. The user offers mana, while the spirit lends its power in order for the user to perform their arte. Those of us in Elympios cannot channel spirits naturally, so we have a channeling device as a workaround.

[This is all...technically true.]

[heritrix]

[I'm so sorry Rideaux.]

So it's similar to a power passed down from a high-class familiar... [It sounds like she's commenting this to herself rather than responding to him, actually, working it out on her own.] No, if it's like that, it's probably most similar to the magecraft Sigrun described encountering. To think there's a second world like that, where such spirits still communicate with mankind...

[evilfrenzy]

[All of this is common knowledge back home, so it never ceases to be jarring when he has to explain it to another person.

Somewhat impatiently, he starts playing with a dart in his hand as Rin puzzles this out. Well, actually...something about it piques his interest.]

Color me surprised as well. Any talk of spirits from other worlds I've heard seem to have no such involvement with humans.

[heritrix]

Apparently it's very common in Sigrun's world, although the mages she encountered were granted their abilities through prayer to the gods.

[So a little bigger than spirits, but a similar principle in Rin's book.]

[evilfrenzy]

Prayer to the gods?

[The sour look on Rideaux's face indicates he's really not into that idea.]

Interesting, though. I didn't know Sigrun's world had similar abilities. So far, only a few of the others here have artes that are very close to mine, even so far as having the same term of "artes".

[heritrix]

Which ones would those be?

[evilfrenzy]

Yuri and Estellise.

[...there is another, but he's leaving her out.]

Their artes work a little differently, but function similarly in that they typically need a device to channel energy for artes.

[heritrix]

[So like a wand, in other words.]

Interesting. I wonder if there's any others who use the same term. I've met people familiar with mages, for instance, but not the term "magecraft". There's a wide variety of overlap going on between the worlds represented here, in that respect.

[evilfrenzy]

Yuri's told me he plans to ask around to see if there are more, so we'll just have to see about it.

[He's curious too!]

In other words, they have magic, just a different term for it. A good part of it lies with the differences in culture as well, I believe. Still, it's pretty amazing to find cultures from other worlds entirely that do share the same terms. I mentioned to Yuri that food was another interesting item of note in the same vein- that we've all been cooking our usual meals here, and yet they look like something I could also obtain back in Elympios.

[heritrix]

[That's an excellent point.]

In my world, cuisine can vary wildly by country. Even regions in the same country can have wildly different methods of preparing the same meals.

[So figuring out what they correspond to...]

Is Elympios your homeland?