Week 2.

[trustmods]

WEEK 2 Two people are dead. Ken Kaneki has been murdered, Reaver has been executed - and perhaps most uncomfortably, the Conductor is proud of you all for adhering to due process. (As always, by which he means that there is a process, and you all are certainly doing it.) 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... However, once you've shaken that off, there are new things to be looked at; the previously closed-off area near the kitchen has been unlocked, and there's a new floor to be explored - consider it your reward for a job well done. PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 27

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[OOC: Welcome to week two of Trustfell! Save your threads for coins and the coming week's activity check; don't forget to check in to this week's activity check and submit your memory regains as well!

The Letters and Switchboard posts are still active, for the sake of contacting the jerk who's keeping you here, to be used at your leisure!]

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[midnightsea]

['You'd like a shot at eternity, right? You can live forever with Erina, Jojo!']

[Dio awoke in his room in the early evening, staring blankly at the ceiling for a few minutes. That dream...was it a dream? It explained quite a few things, as well as filled a small gap in what he knew to be missing memories. He pressed a hand to the scar on his throat and looked to the cracked stone mask left on his desk. There could be little doubt that he'd worn that mask at some point, and then...quite a lot had clearly transpired. It left an unpleasant taste in his mouth to say the least, but the death of his rival should have been a victory.]

[Likes: Jonathan Joestar]

[...Damn it.]

[Eventually--a little before the chime marking 10PM--Dio had found his way to the infirmary, examining some things he recognized and some things that hadn't remotely been invented in the 1800s. Looking closely enough, one might even have caught him hiding something in the jacket of his school uniform, before resuming looking though the drawers and cabinets.]

[The rest of the night would find him in the library, either on a ladder looking through the shelves or sitting at ground level reading a particularly dense and dusty hardcover.]

[oftheland]

[...he didn't say much about it at the time, because it was more advantageous to just sit back and observe. But... you know what? After the trial, this guy's got him curious.

It's good that he runs into him in the library at night, anyway... it seemed like he kept kind of odd hours. That made tracking him down a bit hard, but... you know.

People don't like to be interrupted when they're reading, but...]

So, find something good? I've been having a little trouble with the selection, myself.

[midnightsea]

Is there some problem with it?

[Dio didn't even look up from whatever he was reading, leaning his head on one hand.]

I'll admit it's not what I'd hoped for, but I can tolerate it.

[oftheland]

Well, I'll admit, it probably comes down to having unusual tastes. I was really hoping to read up on whatever scientific capabilities this place might have, or anything scientific in general... but there's basically nothing of the sort. It's all fiction, and fiction tends to bore me easily, I'm afraid.

[midnightsea]

How unfortunate. Although I think there's a good reason for that--provided with too much information about this place's capabilities, I think a skilled enough individual would be able to place our general time period and even location.

[oftheland]

No... as much as I dislike it, that's definitely the reason it's been arranged that way. I guess it might be possible to figure a thing or two out by looking through all the fiction, but the only thing I've learned from that so far is something I suspected anyway.

[midnightsea]

Oh? And what suspicion would that be?

[oftheland]

Well... first off, barring a few coincidences, it's fairly clear that we're all here from different universes. That would usually be a bit difficult to accept... but, well...

Imagine something that isn't necessarily essential for your continued survival... yet it's so omnipresent that when you encounter a place that doesn't have it or people who don't know about it, the absence feels... a bit indescribable, really.

[midnightsea]

[Dio actually glanced up at that, watching Giovanni with sharp red-orange eyes.]

I can perhaps imagine the concept, I think. So what is it in particular that you're missing so much?

[oftheland]

In my world, we have creatures called Pokemon --- they're basically like your... animals, I suppose? Although, I'd say they're a little more varied and a little more interesting, from the impressions I've gotten. They've got a wide variety of abilities and uses, and they can be captured and trained very easily, to the point where it's strange to see someone who doesn't even have one around the house.

Here, plenty of people have never even heard of them, I can't even find one mention of them in any of the books I've seen. It's all very bizarre.

[midnightsea]

That pink thing that girl had was one of them, wasn't it?

[seriously, what the HELL was up with that]

I've never seen anything like it myself, either.

[oftheland]

Ah, yes. ...I really find it amusing that a lot of people are having their first Pokemon experience with a Ditto of all things, because they're not typical in the slightest.

You can't use the majority of them as underwear, for one.

[midnightsea]

I would certainly hope not, that was horrendous.

What would be typical of them, if not that?

[oftheland]

Well, she's always been pretty creative. It's unorthodox, but I can't say I don't respect innovation.

...actually, it's hard to say what is typical. Well, Ditto's odd in that its ability is to change its form to mimic anything its wants. Most of them have more of a solid set of skills. I guess for the most part they'd resemble the animals you're familiar with, although some do resemble inanimate objects and there are quite a few that are essentially mobile, sentient plants.

infirmary

[zomgboom]

[Tabby's too busy stealing stuff of her own to notice Dio stealing stuff. She doesn't even need any of this, she is literally just stealing to steal stuff at this point.

But.]

Hey, have you seen any, like, poisons? Kaneki had some from the machine, but you'd think he'd just leave it sitting around if he wants us to die. Like, why even give us medical supplies?

[midnightsea]

Presumably, it would be a problem for him if one of us were to die accidentally rather than being outright murdered.

[charming.]

As for poison, I've not seen any that I recognize.

[zomgboom]

How am I supposed to kill anyone and get away with it if all we have is, like, knives and stuff? Rigged. This whole thing is rigged.

[She's not planning on killing anybody but really. This is Some Bullshit.]

[midnightsea]

I'm sure an overdose would do the job well enough, if you're after a method to keep blood off your hands.

[zomgboom]

No, that's a total gamble on whether they'll actually die or not. [She lived on the streets and knew enough drug addicts to know that not every overdose will kill.] There's, like, no point in killing anyone at this point? We, like, know it's just going to end up in us dead so it's not even a viable way out.

[midnightsea]

It all depends on if one thinks they can get away with it or not. I expect there are some among us that are willing to risk that.

[zomgboom]

I'm not saying it won't happen - it's, like. You know, like how reality tv is way scripted and stuff? That's this place.

There's just no point, as far as I can tell. Did you ever, like, think about why we're here? What's the Conductor get out of this? What is the point?

[midnightsea]

Who can even guess? It's likely that there is no point and he just wants to see us all die.

[zomgboom]

No, but it's like. Normally he would have been all "MWAHAHAHA SILLY PARTICIPANTS, I HAVE BROUGHT YOU HERE TO DIE" or something? Like, a villain speech or whatever? Everyone gives a speech, it's required and stuff, but he was just like "hi you're here I can't send you home sorry" and like. [How does she put this.] He's actually really, like, not exactly nice? But he's definitely not evil? Today he told me he was going to try and figure out why I don't have powers but Kaneki did. Why . . . wouldn't he already know that if, like, he's the one who brought us here?

[midnightsea]

...That is an excellent question, actually.

[Dio presumed most of his own powers were intact, or he'd been starving for a week for no real reason.]

I suppose the first question to ask would be 'what makes your abilities different from Kaneki's?'

[zomgboom]

I dunno. He said it was like. [She pulls the letter out of her pocket because it was some Science Bullshit and she's really bad at that.] "A-key-esss-ent kept his abilities because they were inherent to his species."

So I guess it's like. The X-Gene is inherent to being a mutant? But it's, like. Everyone's X-Gene does different stuff or whatever? So it's kind of, like, similar to my hair being blond but Kaneki's being black or whatever?

[That is 200% not how genetics work but Tabby tried really hard with that explanation because the X-Gene is 100% comics bullshit that barely makes sense.]