WEEK 5.

[trustfellows]

WEEK 5 Tabitha Smith, Sigrun Eide, and Solf J Kimblee are all dead. Regardless of what you think of the trial or the events leading up to it, there's no denying that you can feel the dent in your numbers now. After all, ten people are gone now. It may be hard, but all you can do is keep going. 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... What with Jericho's excitement at the last trial, it's evident now more than ever that the new floor that's opened up to you is a gift, a reward for a job well-done. Because while surviving is something that you'll continue to try to do of your own merit...well. Let's say that he's so, so very proud of you. PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 25 PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 24 PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 23

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[OOC: Welcome to week five 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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MEETING

[bloodisthicker]

[Well, you know, it's Tuesday, and everyone knows what Tuesday means. It means Jericho being a shit on the PA, of course, and it also means meetings! Even with Tarrlok as... kind of constantly freaking out as he is, the meeting notice goes up in the usual places.]

Meeting in the conference room at 6:00 p.m. Bring refreshments along with any findings you've made.

[...look, enough people have died in the bar that he doesn't wanna deal with that place anymore. It's definitely a cursed location at this point. And conference rooms are a pretty acceptable meeting location, so he's there at 6:00 p.m.! ...maybe he's looking a little better, but he also looks tired, and he's unusually quiet. Like... he's expecting someone else to start rather than him, but he eventually does go ahead and start it off anyway.]

So. Let's... get started, then.

[destage]

[Well, Sayaka's at least going to be bringing a pot of coffee with her--she's not really in the mood to talk much, but the very least she can do is help out Tarrlok a bit.]

I don't suppose anyone is taking measures to prepare for Jericho-san to make good on his word? Just in case, of course. It might be a good idea to see what we can do.

[After last week, she doesn't doubt that someone could fuck up badly enough to have them forget someone. She seems to have a sketchbook with her, at least, that she's carrying under her arm.]

[bloodbiter]

What would you propose?

[destage]

[Well, in that case--Sayaka brings up her sketchbook with a bit of a grin. It's not nice, not by a long shot.]

I'm seeing just how many memories of people I can list down in a physical place. That way, if something is to happen? I could do what I can to refresh my memory, and...well, truth be told, I'd like to take some small chance to spite Jericho-san.

[Get fucked.]

It's not perfect, and I know that much. But it's the best idea I've got, right now.

[bloodbiter]

Notes about the people you hold dear... It’s not a poor idea. It’s certainly better than doing nothing.

[A pause.]

I wonder if having pictures of them would help, too.

[destage]

...That might be a good idea, even if I doubt we could ask either of them for any of the ones on the profiles. It's not like they'd just hand them out freely.

[...Well, that's just weird.]

But maybe we could try to draw them, if all else fails.

[bloodbiter]

Oh, no, I wouldn’t ask them for such a thing. It wouldn’t account for anyone in our homes, after all. Besides, I don’t want anything from them, in truth, except freedom - and that is something we can earn ourselves.

[There’s no small amount of bitterness in that last sentence, given everything that has happened.]

I would be glad to assist with something like that, if anyone had any interest.

[destage]

[Sayaka nods her head, even if...yeah, this is starting to get worrisome. Really worrisome.]

Thank you, Adelina-san. That kind of determination may be what gets us through this.

[ninehundredlives]

[?????]

If it’s people here you want, I can do it.

[destage]

Ah, that would be wonderful, Ashworth-san! [Sayaka clasps her hands together with a smile, letting the sketchbook drop onto her lap.] Thank you so much...I fully suspect that they'd be willing to attack our memories of people here, too, so any safeguard against that would be for the best.

[sleepytimegal]

[ ...Oh. Oh, that's something she...hadn't really- ]

You think...we could lose memories of each other...?

[destage]

...He said he'd take our memories of it's most important for us to remember. He never said anything about them being just from home.

[Sayaka's not looking up when she says that, though.]

[icysemblance]

It’s not a bad idea. I should start writing things down...

[innocentloveholic]

[ By the time 6pm rolls around, Aligula... has not stopped being irritated at Jericho, partly because she isn't sure what he defines important as and partly because he was so

freakin'

patronizing about it.

But she's here, and she has a file folder with her! Which she'll slap down on the table. Take a look, kids. ]

I found this on the new floor! It's got some interesting stuff in it, buuut it's also sorta confusing. [ ... ] It's about Observant.

[blackmass]

... [what the absolute hell]

I'm sorry, is this implying what I think it is?

[ninehundredlives]

[Susan reads it over quietly when her turn comes.]

"Neutralized by one of his own Participants"...god, if only. So, what, he went and ran his own version of this somewhere? [If she sounds faintly incredulous, it's not because she thinks Kimblee wouldn't.]

[blackmass]

That does appear to be the case, in between what sounds like dying several times over.

[ninehundredlives]

I suppose he didn't remember it. It sounds like something he would have talked about, as long as he was doing that whole thing at his trial. Maybe he and Jericho have history.

[blackmass]

It does; much as he talked, it isn't likely something like that would have gone unsaid.

[kirei, please.]

It's possible all of us do. We've forgotten enough that losing something like that wouldn't be unbelievable, and we still don't know how specifically we arrived here.

[ninehundredlives]

Do you suppose that’s what he has in common with three of us?

[because frankly you are at the top of her new “would probably have run a murdergame” list, Kirei]

[chessturner]

If Kimblee-san has died several times before, then that means he had the means to revive himself, or someone else has the means to do it.

[What could it be?]

I suppose it's not farfetched to think the Coordinators would erase someone's memory of directing one of these games to make him participate with the rest of us.

[heritrix]

At this point I think we should take that as a definite, but another possibility exists.

[Rin taps her fist to her chin.]

What if the Kimblee in this document and the one we met aren't precisely the same person?

[ninehundredlives]

What do you mean? [There's a picture of him right there]

[sadisticwarfare]

The one I know from back home spells his name differently. He also looks different.

[He's not sure what to make of the rest of this, but he can at least confirm that much.]

[destage]

[...Sayaka's been a little uncomfortable with this, but--]

Maybe it's about another Kimblee-san, from another dimension?

[Considering what Rideaux's secret said, she's not going to discount something like that.]