trustfell | WEEK 5.

WEEK 5.

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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[ she's asking her to forsake her agency in this. She's telling her not to take action to protect the precious memories of her family, if need be. The woman's eyes narrow and she can feel the hairs on the back of her neck standing a little bit straighter. ]

Do you think you've the power to make that demand, girl?

If--If I don't, then you don't have the power to make me vote for you. It's as simple as that. I understand that you want to get back to your family, first and foremost...

[Sayaka's never been one to really have a fire, but she's...she's finally just starting to shake her head.]

But...I'm sorry, you can't make me vote you into the pit. [Or at all.]

[ . . . Huh. A doll wouldn't be able to show spine like that. She stands there, looking up at the girl with predatory eyes and fangs exposed, looking positively livid. But the mood, for once, isn't in he favor. Elda Marker is 5' and 88 pounds or so and while she normally looms larger than life... it's obvious that right now she's cornered.

Her heart is going to be crushed in a vice.

She ... ]

I better not be seeing you on the other end of things either, if you're talking back to me like that.

...I've already sworn that I wouldn't. I've...already done bad enough, and I've seen the results of what happens to those people.

[Sayaka shakes--she has five inches and almost twenty pounds on Elda, and here she is shaking like a goddamn leaf. Elda could try to kill her again--she nearly did, weeks ago. But...

Sayaka nods and bows her head.]

I swear that I won't succumb. You...you have my word, Elda.

[ She summed it up way back on that first day, didn't she? Everyone wants to fall in love. There are things - people, memories, a life free some loneliness and a place where she can outlive everyone - which matter more than anyone else here. More than all the human bats, more than those gods, more than Aligula and... yes, it has to be more than Sayaka and Rin and Adelina and Susan and the others.

It's been a month, a month isn't worth the same as blood, and the ties she has to that blood.

... But similarly, a granddaughter's happiness isn't worth a species.

She's gotten far, far too old. ]

You've got people you're making promises like that to, other than me? [ It's said with some mild surprise, but . . . ] Good. Like I said, you're making it out alive from here.

...I told Kimblee-san I wouldn't, last Sunday. When I got one of my memories back. I should probably promise it to someone else, too, but...

[Mmm. Talking with her is gonna be a Trial, honestly. Like, not a literal one but ho boy.

...Either way, Sayaka straightens a bit with a smile.]

I know. I just want to make sure that...you come with me. That we both get out of here, not just for my sake, but...for yours, too.

... Oh, don't you think that I'm particularly sacrificial. I was never going to fail to survive.

[ Right...? Right. Despite what she said earlier, is the price of her memories worth more than her life?

... It might be. Today, certainly, it feels like that.

But seeing the girl in front of her, she smiles back. ]

Come with you, huh?

...Good.

[Sayaka...smiles, lightly, holding her arms closer to herself.]

Y...Yeah. I, um...I want to make sure that you're able to get out of here too. Your family must miss you a lot, after all.

That's hardly with me, girl.

[ she smirks a little and leans in closer, ]

Here I thought you might be bold enough to invite yourself to Shihaba.

[...Sayaka flushes a bit, rubbing at the back of her head.]

Do you...think they'd mind? Your family. I mean...I'd love to meet everyone. Karin-chan seems like a darling, and Ren-san and Anju-chan also seem so wonderful...

[If her memories work out like she's thinking, she's...got nowhere else to go, honestly.]

I...I would really love to, though...um...

[...There's something else she wants to say, but the words catch in her throat.]

[ Her heart seizes there. Bringing a human - Sayaka - to the house... having her meet Ren and Anju and Karin and... her son and-

She glances around the room for a long second, looking over the room in one glance, all the people on the walls. And then she corrects her position, latching onto the last thing by poking Sayaka in the chest. ]

Out with it.

[...]

Um...if...if it's okay, could I...ask to bring Alex, too?

[Her face is heating up at the thought of asking something like that--with a girl Elda doesn't know, but that makes her chest feel like it's on air...it's...]

[ You know that's... that's something that she didn't see coming for a while there, and she blinks for it. But once she hears it, she...

(Alex, huh, she's going to need to get to know the girl even better. A nice formal meeting or something...) ]

[ Smirk. ]

Ohohohoho, does that means I need to arrange some bridal shower too? As your "mother" I'll need to demand a formal meeting, of course!

[...that pause is enough time to make her thing that maybe, just maybe, this'll be a sane reaction.

But oh no, that? That gets her face to go tomato red.]

I--Wh--Mom, y-you don't have to go that far...!

[WHAT DID SHE DO TO DESERVE THIS, SHE IS HIDING HER FACE NOW--]

I just--I--I really, really like her, okay?! I-I don't think that--I don't--y-you have to have met her already, right?

[ DID YOU JUST CALL HER MOM IN A WAY THAT IN NO WAY SEEMS IRONIC WHAT THE FUCK WHAT IS THIS WHY THIS HER CHEEKS ARE COLORING TOO AND HER EYES GO WIDE AS SAUCERS ]

[ the girl's face is in her hands, good, she can't see.

Elda's cheek coloring fades and then her face pales a moment as the ramifications hit her like a truck. This girl actually thinks of her as a maternal figure, this human girl who wants to go and meet her family. It's a world apart it's-

Something she can focus on later. She smirks, and evil old lady laughs, ]

Oh I met her, but I didn't meet her! Come now, you're a proper lady, aren't you?!

[GOD, SHE IS GONNA DIE

THIS IS HOW SHE DIES, BY SUFFOCATING HERSELF WHILE HER OWN FACE HEATS LIKE A TOASTER OVEN WITH DUCT TAPE ON IT]

I don't--I mean--maybe?! W-we're both just girls!

[HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO HER]

Oh come now! If we're going full sapphic here, then I've got to keep up considerations!

[ Smirking, she leans in a little more close, getting right up towards Sayaka's face with a smirk. ]

[SHE CAN PRACTICALLY FEEL THE EYES ON HER AT THIS POINT, WHY THIS--]

I--I--I...don't actually know, okay!! I've never felt like this before!

[Maybe she had dokis with Naegi once but that's awkward to think about?! ALONG WITH LOVE IN GENERAL]

[ She...

Bursts out laughing at that, because that's just cute? Bursts out laughing and then violates personal space to pull the girl into perhaps an over-excited hug. ]

Well regardless, twist my arm, why don't you?! Bahahaha! No, no, we can get you a love nest at the bottom of the hill no problem!

[Well, enjoy the practical squeak that gets out of Sayaka--it...takes a little bit, but she'll return it? Her face is gonna be warm as hell, though, god.]

T--Thank you, I-I really mean it...I...

[She promised that she'd take Alex away from...all of that, but she doesn't want to get into that.]

I-It really makes me happy...

[ She does-- she- likes the girl. Of course she does, she always has. But now she's here and embracing the girl in this shrine to memory that she's constructed here, and making some insane promise for the future.

It's...

It's a lot.

She's going to need to examine it later, the coiling feeling in her stomach. But for now, she's bouncing in the embrace. ]

It's obvious by now, isn't it? I'll do it all for you, Sayaka.

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