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

[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.

[bloodisthicker]

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

[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.

[zomgboom]

I've, like, got a question: if you were being controlled by something else and the person controlling you knew, like, fancy alchemy , 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?

[explosivecombat]

...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.]

[zomgboom]

[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.

[explosivecombat]

...A conduit, you mean.

[So says the literal conductor.]

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

[zomgboom]

Well, if he's using fancy science magic [She understood approximately none of the alchemy discussion, but it sounds like magic and she heard the word chemistry, which is a science.] then, like, you can create a puppet with magic. Or, like.

[She pauses for a second, because she really, really doesn't want this to be true but she feels like it should be brought up.]

You can, like, create? A person-thing with magic and it's, like, subject to your whims or whatever. She's, like, smarter than most of the ones I've known but also they're usually, like, broccoli or whatever? Maybe if you make them out of smarter stuff then they're, like, more people-y.

[She's actually describing something more like a golem, but you know. They an awful lot like Homunculi too.]

[explosivecombat]

[Hm.]

One certainly can use alchemy to create some sort of doll-like thing, similar to what you're describing, but I actually don't think that's the case here, at least as far as alchemy is concerned. If it is, I'm concerned with the amount of free will she seems to have, because that means we're dealing with something highly unfortunate.

[Like, if it's alchemy then she should either be a corpse or a, uh. mess. Either that or she's a fucking homunculus at which point hooooo boy we're fucked.]

I don't know if we have any way to say for certain right now, but hopefully she's not any of the things we're positing she might be, between us.

[zomgboom]

It'd be, like . . . easier? If Jerry had a power that lets you mess with people's brains or whatever, but if you have a power you usually can't do magic because it's, like. I dunno, mutants just can't for whatever reason.

[The reason is Scarlet Witch exists and nobody wants to deal with more than one of those, actually, but.]

But, like, I think the profiles don't list what we are for a reason? We don't have any way of, like, knowing Geranium is a human or whatever.

[hesperos]

[ You know, Yuri's been mostly keeping to himself here and all, but... ]

...So I dunno about the guy being human or not but it does seem to me that Jericho's probably using an arte or something else to help keep her in line. Maybe his influence too.

And I guess she seemed pretty human to me, but hell if I could tell otherwise at this point.

[ Though he hasn't exactly gotten the impression she was created from scratch or in a way that would be "inhuman". ]

[bloodisthicker]

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

[explosivecombat]

...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.

[bloodisthicker]

...

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]

[hentopan]

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.

[explosivecombat]

[Mm.]

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

[hentopan]

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.

[explosivecombat]

Really...

[That's interesting, anyway.]

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

[hentopan]

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.

[icysemblance]

[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?