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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[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.

[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.]

[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.]

1/2

[heritrix]

[DVD...]

No way... The laserdisc I've heard so much about???

[Rin squints at it with some trepidation. She never expected that kind of trauma in this place...]

[heritrix]

[Oh, but... She glances back up at Sayaka.]

But "motive from the other game"? [Rin frowns.] I'm not sure I'm following you. Are you saying you've been in a scenario like this before?

[Rin was actually absent for the meeting Sayaka told the others about it.]

[destage]

...Huh?

[That--that throws her for a second, before she gets back on track. Was Rin there? She doesn't quite remember, but--]

I...well, during the second week when we were here, when we started getting these weird dreams, I dreamed that Hope's Peak Academy was...another one of these games. I told everyone during that week's meeting.

[She. Kind of shakes her head.]

Sorry, Tohsaka-san, I forgot you weren't there.

[heritrix]

[Rin waves a hand.]

It's my fault for not attending, but I wish I'd heard of this sooner. Was it with the same people? These Coordinators?

[destage]

No...it was with some sort of robotic cub, known as Monokuma. I think someone's just using him as a way to communicate with us. But...honestly, a lot of this is the same. The game itself, the night-time rules, the kitchen being sealed off at night...even things restocking as needed...

And now, we've got a motive. [Sayaka...tenses, quite a bit.] It's...terrible, and I feel like I just...jumped out of a frying pan and I'm in the fire, now.

[heritrix]

[...Putting aside the robotic cub, that's way too many things in common to be a coincidence.]

Maizono-san... [Rin doesn't want to press her too far, only what she can handle.] Holding to the idea that these dreams are memories, how much time has passed in them, do you think? You recalled being given this motive in your dream, so would you say it's been a little over a week?

[The first week here they had no motive, after all.]

[destage]

[Sayaka shakes her head.]

No...it hasn't even been a week yet. I'm kind of bad at this, but I want to say that it's been about...four days. We had a few to ourselves, but then Monokuma appeared and...gave these to all of us.

[Hope's Peak ain't nearly as kind as this place.]

[heritrix]

Not enough time to learn what else these two places might have in common then...

[Rin sighs, straightening her posture.]

Sorry to pry like that. I was hoping your memories might shed more light on this situation, or give us something we could use to our advantage.

[destage]

No, it's fine...I wish I had more information to offer you, in terms of how everything else ran. It's very similar to this, though...

[Sayaka shakes her head, just...shuddering a bit. Her mind wandering back to what she saw, and the meaning of it...]

It's clearly attempting to go even faster than this, though.

[heritrix]

[Rin sees Sayaka shudder there and folds her hands in her lap, trying to catch her eye.]

There must be a way out. [She speaks calmly. Look at the facts, right?] We were all stolen from our worlds under unusual circumstances, but unlike the rest of us, the Coordinators wouldn't just kidnap you from another game, right? They're probably affiliates.

So it's most likely you got out of that somehow, only to end up in the same situation again. There's no way you could be here otherwise.

[destage]

[...Does she really want to talk about what she really believes it is?]

...I don't know. It's...we're supposed to be staying there for the rest of our lives, if we don't kill. I don't know how we could possibly get out without...something happening.

[Sayaka's sadly keeping her gaze away from Rin, just...kind of twirling some hair in her fingers.]

I don't doubt that they could do something like that, honestly. Even if it doesn't seem to be their style. M...Maybe Jericho-san 'saved' me from the game...

[heritrix]

[Like a hawk swooping in to steal the secrets of a rival company? That's actually not an unreasonable possibility.

Rin doesn't say as much, because believe it or not she does have some measure of tact she employs as she sees fit, but... Yeah, she supposes it could be something like that.]

It's not "saving" if he's just putting you through the same thing. Would that really make you feel better?

[destage]

[...]

I...don't know. I mean...this time, I actually have people I feel like I can put my trust into, and not have to worry that they're trying to use me to get ahead. It's...surprisingly nice.

[Well, that's shockingly honest.]

[heritrix]

[...oh.]

I can't relate to that.

[The missing Command Seals on the back of her right hand feel especially blatant today. Rin traces her fingers over the bare skin, over the space where the stigma should be.]

I'm surprised it's different for you. I can't think of anyone in my life I'd put that kind of trust into. [...] Well, maybe one person. But he's not here.

[destage]

...Mmm.

[Sayaka pauses a bit.]

I don't know. It's just...slightly better than home. The only standards I have to follow are...well, my own, if what that motive said is true. Ironic, right? The place I feel the most free is the one where I'm the most caged.

[heritrix]

I did tell you to embrace that freedom. [She shakes her head with a smile.] If it's revitalizing your spirit, you should definitely hold onto that. But don't let your guard down either, okay?

[destage]

Don't worry about that, Tohsaka-san. I'm not going to let my guard down entirely around these people...I know they could kill me if they wanted, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't endeavor to be polite, at least.

[...she says this while:

A. Trusting a vampire lady with a very notable distaste for humans like a mother figure.
B. Trusting a guy waging war on humanity with a surprising amount of stuff, jesus christ.
C. Trusts the guy who destroys dimensions with an olive branch and little to no judgement.

Ergo, she's. Uh. Not the best decision maker in the room.]

[heritrix]

[It's okay, Sayaka. Due to a mysterious series of events, the vampire lady is the one Rin has the closest measure of trust to as well. A lot happened on Friday.

Everybody else though, damn. Yeah that's on you.]

The longer we can stay on good terms with one another, the better our chances will be honestly.

[It might seem like a contradiction given everything she said before, but she sounds confident in that.

She'll hand Sayaka the five pound hand weight now, too.]

[destage]

[Oh my god don't judge her over there!!

(please judge her. just as long as you don't shove us all in the void--)]

...Yeah. I know it won't win the day, but...it's just good, you know?

[She's refraining from talking about it, but it's something she desperately needed in that game too.

...Of course, she's gladly going to take that weight and scoot over a bit, with the disc in hand and a smile that's probably way too sweet as she raises the damn thing up and smashes the shit out of that disc. This? This is catharsis.]

[heritrix]

[Hell yeah, Sayaka, This is Rin you're with; given everything you've told her, that's the most appropriate expression to have in this moment.]

Feel better?

[destage]

Much better.

[...Sayaka is not usually a very destructive person, but she's more than happy to make an exception for this.]

[heritrix]

Good. Whatever cleans this place up when we're asleep will take care of it later, so there's no need to touch it again. Just scoot the broken pieces to the side here with your foot, so no one steps on it.