WEEK 4.

[trustfellows]

WEEK 4 Walter White and Fern Green have joined the deceased. Their losses will be felt, just like all the deaths before them. While you might be tempted to put that mess of a trial out of your heads, it's hard to forget what happened. It's even harder to ignore the secrets that have been revealed, still burned into the wall of the dining room. You all have a lot to discuss, don't you? 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... The past week's trial seemed to be hard on everyone, including your captors, it seems that you're still being rewarded for your work; a new floor has been opened up to you, and along with it the return of the uneasy sense that they approve of what you're doing here: killing each other, picking one another off, singling each other out in the trials. It's likely not a pleasant feeling, knowing you're giving them what they want. But what else is there to be done? PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 28

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[OOC: Welcome to week four 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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[heritrix]

That's not another one of your neutered abilities, then?

[destage]

[Sayaka grips her hand a bit tighter.]

...Please have faith in them, Marker-san. They may have had worries of their own in regards to her, and simply needed time to work them out.

[matchbreaker]

I do, of course I do.

[ But Karin...

If that's the case...

Her hand curls a little, not quite a fist, but in that direction. to feel Sayaka on her is... nice. ]

[matchbreaker]

I've not seen fit to bruise that bad or beat up my hands like the gorilla blonde.

[ So... she's not tested that, basically. ]

[heritrix]

You should sit down before you fall down, Maizono-san. [Rin sets the bow she was playing with aside, and the arrows too.] I'll do it.

[destage]

...Then they'll tell you what's going on. They'll explain everything to you. And...everything, everything will be okay.

[Maybe if she says that enough, she'll believe it too.]

[destage]

[...her face doesn't lose that stormy demeanor, but she walks back over without thinking, and sits down nearby.]

...Thank you, Tohsaka-san. I...appreciate the assistance.

[heritrix]

It would be hard to get results overnight, especially as this gym really only covers the essentials. It's a shame there's not a simple track to jog, or a swimming pool. Those are nice even for people who only want to exercise casually.

[matchbreaker]

[ she almost snaps that this isn't some storybook.

... But then she recalls Sayaka's memories concern another one of these, so she stops short. She exhales out some of her tension and: ]

Your turn. [ . . . Wait, she should be nicer- ] If that'll get you out of your head.

[destage]

[...she should've expected that it'd come back to this.

Sayaka's gaze...goes toward her trunk, for some reason, when she speaks.]

...We got our first motive, from the school. They didn't even have the courtesy of waiting a week...

[matchbreaker]

[ Elda is finally exploring the top floor in more detail today! She hasn't really done that much yesterday, still so caught up in her memories was she.

... but now, here she is, and she's in the gym. It's so... not her style. It's quaint. However, when she's fairly certain she's alone, she'll just be reaching down to try out the barbells. She wants to get a feel for what his strength is like right now. She fairly easily manages 5 pounds. Then 10. Then 20. But once she gets higher than that, it starts to be more of a strain.

... Shit. She really is a lot weaker here. Well, she already knew that, but it's still frustrating. It's to this end that while she does look in the other parts of the floor (dojo and shooting range) neither really holds her interest. Instead she (and the ridiculous living jelly that is Ditty) go to the infirmary.

... Everyone knows, right? So she's just going to sit in here on one of the beds and drink the incredibly bland blood packet, more to see how it feels to do it in the open than anything else. No one here has seen her drink blood, not even Sayaka. So she's doing this when she's pretty sure she's alone and might feel weird if someone comes in.

Basically, she's just trying to do private things and may not be managing it. ]

[matchbreaker]

... So it really is the same set up as this madness?

[ bah. ]

[heritrix]

[Rin will give her a little pat on the shoulder before leaving. It's fine, Sayaka.

She returns a little bit later with one of the weights in hand, speaking maybe just a little too loudly as she takes her seat beside her, lifting the weight in her hand.]

So~? Which is it, between a hangover and a bad day?

[destage]

Yeah. I...I don't know what the others had on theirs, but...

[Sayaka shudders.]

It showed...a shot of the girls in my group and I performing on a stage. Before it...cut away, to a shot of all of those girls on the floor...claiming the group had fallen apart, and... [Her tone sounds utterly haunted.] That I...had...no where to return to...

[matchbreaker]

[ Individualized motives...? Well, that's none too different than the ones they've gotten here, with the secrets. Elda's hand shifts- Sayaka had been holding hers, but she changes the grip, such as to be the more dominant hand there, holding hers. The hand on her scalp moves too, this one taking the other side of the girl's hand, such to hold one of hers in both of her own.

... This human girl's going to be the death of her, she can smell it. This is too close.

But that thought, the paranoia, is fleeting. ]

What, on a stage play...? [ . . . Not the time. She did see what a TV was the other month, it was probably that. ] So what's the threat, that'll come to pass?

[heritrix]

In your case, you might want to consider it. It would be bad to rely on that, only to get stuck between a rock and a hard place and realize you're not healing as you expected.

[destage]

[Ah, she--she does cringe a bit, but thankfully she just. Sighs.]

Both, actually. It's just...I've been shaky all morning, from last night...and my dream wasn't a very good one, honestly. I remembered what this is.

[destage]

N...no, on...one of the stages that we performed on...

[Sayaka's free hand snakes up and grabs some of her hair, just...kind of starting to stress out, even as she grips Elda's hands.]

They just said--they just said that the group fell apart while I wasn't around. The video ended, telling me that I could only find out what happened after graduating, which...well, it's...

[Exactly like this place.]

I--I don't have anyone there that I can...really fall back on, or trust, like I do here. I...I have my friend from middle school, but...

[...How can she tell Elda of all people what those small thoughts were, toward the end of the dream? How can she tell her that she thinks she's about to do something terrible?]

[heritrix]

[Hehe... Sorry, Sayaka, she likes eliciting visual confirmation too much. But it's not fun to bully someone, so Rin tones the volume down.]

What what is— Oh. [Duh.] You mean the CD?

[She hasn't seen it before now.]

[matchbreaker]

[ She should grab that hand- ... No, that would be too much. The girl's skittish at the best of times. when she's asking her to come forward like that, she should simply make to hold her hand all the tighter. The vampire's eyes narrow, able to see perfectly her facial expression, her body movements in the darkness. Perhaps better than she could in naked light.

"Graduating" - "Ending the exercise"

How trite.

... Her friend from middle school? There's questions to be asked there, but the fact is, no one she can trust. No one she can fall back on. Isolated, with that history of destroying 14 girls to get to that position. Honestly, the solution there is as obvious as the solution was to her on that first day, until she realized that there was no way she was going to outfox most of these people.

... Hah. ]

You fear you'll have served as their example.

[ She'll give it voice for her. ]

[destage]

It's a DVD, but...yeah. It's...a motive from the other game I was in. I got it a few weeks back, but...

[She didn't know what the hell it was.]

[matchbreaker]

It's not like it's anything that'll save me from a murder. [ She shakes her head ] I already told you most of the things you hear in legends are myths.

[destage]

[Sayaka pauses a bit, seeming to go...rigid, when Elda says that. It's what she considered, but...]

...Yeah. I don't have the knowledge that they'll all die if I try something. I don't--I don't have anyone to try and talk me down from this, because I don't trust anyone, I can't trust anyone there and I don't have anything if that falls apart. But...

[She clutches Elda's hand tighter. So much tighter, and shutting her eyes so hard before she adjusts herself a bit, getting up and getting the hand out of her hair while she lifts her shirt a bit to expose her stomach.

What will Elda see? A vertical scar that's pretty damn large. About the size of a particularly large kitchen knife.]

I...I don't know how to explain this...

[matchbreaker]

[ Elda's intake of breath is audible. A fear is one thing, a dark buzzing in her mind. A suspicion. But this is physical evidence. Evidence which implies that she... might well have suffered some terrible wound.

The vampire woman... wonders. Wonders if this was entrusted to anyone else. It's an idle thought. One which doesn't need to be quantified ]

... You have to have survived it, though, to be here before me. No?

[perpend]

I paid off a fake doctor to prevent him from smuggling a body away from a crime scene.

[...I hope you weren't expecting a standard answer, Archer.]