trustfell | WEEK 3.

WEEK 3.

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.

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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!]

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[Weiss doesn't look comfortable, and she's not touching anything even remotely booze-related. She's not judging, she just doesn't like drinking. At all.]

I'd like to discuss exactly what's going on with Alena's...well, about how she's even remotely able to have so many kinds of abilities. I thought she was actually using an ability she shouldn't even be able to during that last trial.

I say she shouldn't be able to because the one in question isn't something you can learn via books or teaching, because it's hereditary. It's passed down through my mother's bloodline.

[...?]

You're related to the man Kimblee spoke of?

I wasn't aware he spoke of anyone. I'm talking about the glyphs my family can use.

While we were still in the courtroom, Mr. Kimblee commented that he recognized it as something used by a friend of his, and only him. You can't both be right, but regardless of who's correct, it puts us at the same conclusion.

I think I must have been too wrapped up in my own thoughts about the situation to have heard him. It was something of a shock.

It does put us at the same conclusion, though, I agree.

That wasn't the ability you're thinking of, I can assure you of that much. The symbol on the floor was a transmutation circle, and one that I recognize as well - it was used by someone I knew in the military. I've seen it many times, and received an item from the machine with the same symbol on it; I have no doubt that it's his.

Councilman Tarrlok has asked me to discuss this with the rest of you, should you want to know more about it. But everything she's done so far - the ice from the transmutation circle, creating the trident from nothing, and possibly what happened to Mr. Hanamura - can theoretically be explained by way of alchemy.

That explains that piece of the puzzle. The transmutation circle combined with the ice has a strong enough resemblance to what I'm accustomed to seeing that it was easy to mistake it for the use of a glyph.

[She nods, tracing a glyph pattern with one finger over the tabletop.]

I had wondered if there wasn't some kind of connection between everything. I was under the impression that alchemy was more akin to chemistry than magic, though?

...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.

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

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.

I've, like, got a question: if you were being controlled by something else and the person controlling you knew, like, fancy alchemy [bleeped for your sanity by the Beyond Corp.©]

, right? Then could, like, they control you into do the fancy alchemy shit they knew? Or is it, like, an inherent thing or whatever you need to, like, be born with?

...I'm not sure, seeing as I've never actually seen a case of that in action. Possibly...?

[Of all things to have never asked Pride.]

[Tabby is quiet for a moment and then she sighs.]

You know how it says Laney doesn't like murder? I think . . . that's true. I think Jermaine McNoface is using her as, like, a . . . condomin? The electricity thing. [Conduit. She's looking for the word conduit.] Basically she's, like, a puppet and that's why she's always so . . . nice or whatever? After they die.

...A conduit, you mean.

[So says the literal conductor.]

How would he be doing that, do you think...? In your experience, anyway.

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Perhaps it has something to do with those previous title holders Jericho alluded to. That may have been how she encountered it before.

...How do you mean?

[Buddy.]

If you're insinuating what I believe you are, the thought has occurred to me, but the problem here is that the person in question is dead - he died a few days after we last spoke, it was confirmed by the military.

...

Well, that makes everything that much stranger, then. I do think there's a possibility something like that could be the case, though, given that Alena recognized a dish that, as far as I know, is unique to my homeland.

[...look. he doesn't know about real world analogues to his culture okay, what the fuck is this alternate universe shit]

The way I do is it to pull from the Azure, but that's still utilizing a resource. Don't know if its reachable from here, I'd need to have access to all my abilities to tell.

[Mm.]

Philosopher's Stones work similarly - you're still utilizing a resource, but it's decidedly more difficult to see it.

Sounds like it.

[ He's flipping his kitchen knife faster than usual. ] Wonder if she just has an affinity for this kinda crap— the dolls I had made back home were capable of using skills even though we never taught them how, just needed to get 'em under the right conditions and the reaction would start basically.

Really...

[That's interesting, anyway.]

So are you thinking that's what she is, then?

Yeah, have since I talked to her after she introduced herself. She may not be the same type of doll I'm used to, but at the least she's similar enough.

[Easier to call it magic than 'energy transfer that works in weird ways'. She gets it, though - Semblance isn't magic, either, but it sure as hell looks like it.]

I see. That's interesting. So normally you would need some kind of raw material to work from, but this Philosopher's Stone bypasses at least some part of that, if I'm understanding correctly?

Could it have been something similar in appearance, but not exactly the same?

That's what I'm thinking it has to be at this point.

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