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

[brandnewday]

[Ah. She feels a little guilty, being caught. But to her credit, the drink is full and the ice seems a little melted. It seems like it's been sitting there a while without being touched.]

I wasn't lookin' at it because I was upset! It just made me think of Azusa-san.

[zomgboom]

Azusa? Is that someone you know from home?

[She's just going to sip at the drink. No sense in letting it go to waste.]

[brandnewday]

Mm! She's one of the idols I work with! She's part of another unit, but we're in the same agency so we've been on stage together. I've seen her order beer while we're out, but I can't really say it looks that good to me.

[zomgboom]

It's sort of an acquired taste or whatever. I'm not a huge fan but it also, like, doesn't work so good on mutants.

[brandnewday]

Mutant? Oh, that's what you are, right? That's why you know all that cool stuff!

[It's spelled out more clearly in the upcoming trial, but she's probably heard it mentioned somewhere before?]

[zomgboom]

[She's definitely mentioned it before.]

That's not really 'cause I'm a mutant. Well, some of it is because I took classes and stuff but a lot of it is just, like, you gotta know a little bit of everything to deal with situations when you're a superhero - or at least know who you can ask about them.

[brandnewday]

I always thought playing a superhero would be fun! But instead we did a drama about yakuza and revenge, and I was the first one to die.

[Nervous laughter. She's glad that pattern didn't repeat.]

But it sounds really neat! I didn't know ya had to go to school to be a superhero. When I make it outta here, I'll tell everyone!

[zomgboom]

You don't have to. Spider-Man just runs around, like, doing whatever a spider can and he didn't go to school for it, but usually mutants end up in school because, like, we're school-aged when we get our powers and stuff.

[Tabby herself did not actually attend superhero school regularly. She's an extremely bad student.]

It's good to, like, learn how to control your powers and stuff in a place where it's not gonna matter if you blow something up, though.

[brandnewday]

Spider-man...that sounds so cool! But what's what a spider can? Spiders can do all sorts of things. Does he have eight eyes? Oh, does he jump really high? O-or does he have fangs?!

[She's picturing Spider-man as a more literal concept. He's kind of like a scary looking monster in her head??? Her eyes are going wide at the thought of it. A superhero spider...amazing. What if there's a Hamster-man?]

And everyone has different powers, right? There are spider powers and your powers...how many powers are there? Twelve?

[zomgboom]

There's, like, a gazillion superpowers. I'd be dead before I finished listing them all, because it depends on whether you get your powers from the X-Gene like me or you're like. Hit by radiation or touched by aliens or bit by a spider or whatever whatever.

[She takes another sip of the drink while she's trying to remember what Spider-Man actually does.]

I think Spider-Man mostly, like, has freaky skin that lets him climb walls and stuff? He also shoots web and has extra strength, but mostly he climbs on walls like a weirdo.

[brandnewday]

A gazillion?! That's way more than I thought there'd be! [Obviously.] A-and you can get them multiple ways? How the heck does anyone keep track of all of that?

[This is all so shocking to her. Maybe she should have read more manga?]

Hey, Tabby...how does he shoot web? Men don't have web-shooting parts...and I can't imagine it bein' very pretty.

[She's totally picturing butt webs right now but doesn't want to say it.]

[zomgboom]

Pretty sure it comes out of his hands or something? I dunno. I've never met him in person. He's, like, an Avenger or whatever so we run in different circles. [SHRUG] Anyway, like, nobody really keeps track of this stuff. There was, like, some talk about a law that would force people with powers to register as superheroes and stuff but it's a stupid idea.

That's, like, not any better than making people register with the government because of their race or whatever? I mean, if people wanna register that's fine, but to force people to? That's messed up.

[brandnewday]

Oh! Phew! That's good. But is an Avenger different than a Superhero?

[She can stop being concerned about Spider-man's weird abilities now. But that register of powers. That sounds really mean.]

That kinda thing never works out well. It'd just end up scarin' everyone, I think.

[She's not trying to blindly agree, she's trying to think about it why it's bad. Aside from the word 'force.' Fortunately, Tabby is spared Hibiki's internal process right now, but she's trying.]

[zomgboom]

Avengers are, like, a different team of superheroes. They don't really like mutants, so I don't talk to them.

[Nevermind that her current team leader used to run the Avengers.]

Besides, it's their fault the government wants to control us and stuff? Which would be great if, like, they understood that you can't just be rescuing kittens from trees or whatever. Sometimes fights against monsters and stuff get nasty, there's nothing I can do about that.

I feel like all these tags are variations of "Tabby, please explain" and I'm sorry for that

[brandnewday]

Mm...wait, why don't they like mutants? Aren't you all the same?

[Poor, sweet innocent naive Hibiki.]

So you protect the people from the monsters, right? I think that's pretty important! It's like...cops...but for the monsters! Right?

i mean most of my tags are "tabby wtf" so you're good. it means i'm ic.

[zomgboom]

Not really. Like, you'd think so? But mutants are, like, different from other people with superpowers and, like, people don't like it when something is different so. [She shrugs.] Mutants tend to stick with mutants.

[Or "the X-Men are a metaphor for racism."]

And yeah. We're kind of like, Earth's defense against stuff normal people can't fight. Monster, aliens, whatever - we take care of it all.

[brandnewday]

I don't really understand. My world doesn't have mutants or superpowers. Even if some people use their powers for bad, I'd probably think most of you guys were pretty cool.

[She can think of one mutant she thinks is cool?]

Do you get paid for that? It's obviously dangerous.

[zomgboom]

. . . It's 'cause we're not human, exactly. We're, like, as related to humans as monkeys are or whatever but we're not the same, you know? And that scares regular humans, even the ones who have superpowers themselves.

[She takes another sip of the drink. Talking about mutant-human conflict to a human (and a civilian at that) is weird.]

We get paid less than, like, big name teams like the Avengers do but. [She shrugs.] If you're on a team, you usually get paid. Usually, like, being the key word there.

[brandnewday]

That doesn't seem very fair. If you've both got superpowers, you should get along. Why does where you got them matter all that much?

[This is a weird conversation for sure, because Hibiki is still Naive and this sounds vaguely upsetting. And she's aware! Just like when she talks to Elda, it's easy for her to come out and say "I see it this way" because when she gets home? No vampires, no mutants. She doesn't have the context.]

I'm kinda seeing a recurring theme here. The Avengers come up a lot.