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

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[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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[announcemyvictory]

[Elise looks up from a thick novel she's... okay, she's barely a few pages in, but she's trying to look busy.]

Oh, hello. Did you find anything interesting?

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[A little wave to Elise, though her hand is full of gold yarn. Ashley sets it down at her nearby chair and picks up a novel of her own- or at least, a collection.]

Nothing I recognize, but a book's a book, right? You?

[announcemyvictory]

It would be a lot easier if I just knew what this world considered cultured and what was worth reading.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[She raises an eyebrow.] You don't wanna just read and see what you like?

[announcemyvictory]

That is the sort of thing I like, Ashley. It's important, isn't it? What sort of thing do you like better?

[hashtagafreakingghost]

I'm not saying what's considered cultured is bad! I love all kinds of classics-- all I'm saying is going off only that can keep you from finding some hidden gems. There are plenty of books I've read on a whim with no sign that they'd be good or not that I've loved.

[announcemyvictory]

Maybe. I suppose it doesn't matter anyway. It's not as if anyone would laugh. The Conductor, maybe, but he owns the books.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

...You don't read some books because people would laugh?

[announcemyvictory]

Doesn't everyone avoid things that would embarrass them?

[hashtagafreakingghost]

You really avoid low-culture that much? Why does it embarrass you?

[announcemyvictory]

I don't want to be laughed at or compared to other people unfavourably. That's all. Isn't that what anyone doesn't want?

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Well, yeah, but... Do you come from somewhere where a lot of people would laugh about that kind of stuff? Even...pop culture's kind of a staple of my life. ...I'm from LA, it's really a staple of my life.

[announcemyvictory]

I've... well, always been compared to my older sister. It's nothing important or tragic or anything! We were always close growing up! But I'm still a lady and I ought to act like it. That makes sense to me, anyway.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

So proper ladies aren't allowed to like silly books or anything like that? Sounds like a lot of work.

[announcemyvictory]

I'm just embarrassed, that's all. I didn't know it was all that uncommon. It's important to you, though, isn't it?

[hashtagafreakingghost]

...Kind of. Some genre fiction's upheld, like...Tolkein, or Le Guin's Earthsea series, or even Harry Potter, but so much fantasy and especially science-fiction is just left out of the world of literature. Mystery novels get it a bit better, but- ohh, don't even get me started on horror, I could- [She falters.] ...I'm not into it, very much, but my friend, he...talked my ear off about how great horror books are excluded from the...classical canon all the time.

[announcemyvictory]

Oh, really? What else do you like? Is there much of it here? I know nothing's really all that recognizable.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

No. [Sigh.] There's nothing here I recognize...or, anyone I've talked to recognizes, actually. Weird. I just...I like most things. Fantasy, romance, mystery... I write it too. Sometimes.

[announcemyvictory]

You do? I've never tried, if I'll be honest with you. Is it difficult?

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[Oh, well!] It depends on how I'm feeling or how in a groove I am. If writer's block's set in? Oh, yes. But sometimes it's really simple. Putting together actual coherent stories, that's another subject...but it's really fun. I love stringing together sentences and working in the minds of characters and creating worlds... It's all so exciting.

[announcemyvictory]

That might be. There's a writer in Oak Tree Town who talks a lot about her work. She and her brother run an antique shop. She's that mature and refined type everyone loves... I wonder how the town's doing.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

What's it like? The place you're from.

[announcemyvictory]

It's very nice. Small, the sort of everyone-knows-everyone place, but the weather is usually mild and the people are easy to get along with. It's not like this dump, that's for sure. No one has to be afraid.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Really? That kind of place? I never would've thought... You have the city-girl feel to you.

[announcemyvictory]

Well, I did come from the city. I lived there for most of my life. But a lady's got to see the world and establish herself, right?