trustfell | Week 7.

WEEK 7
Orihime Inoue, Estellise Sidos Heurassein, and Kirei Kotomine all died this past week. One of your Coordinators died as well, leaving you with a new face but still no end to this. Several of you are finding yourselves at a crossroads: either keep moving forward, or accept the inevitability of fate. It's your own choice, your own decision; no one's going to make it for you.

Over half of you are gone now.

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...

Once again, a new floor has been opened to you; unfortunately, either this is a particularly strange reward or Jericho is starting to get downright sarcastic. Perhaps there's something in it for you despite the setup; who knows, though there's really only one way to find out.

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[OOC: Welcome to week seven 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 Hilda!]

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I had to catch it somehow.

[And since it worked, it clearly was the right thing to do, as far as she's concerned. Poor robot cat...]

Huh. Fair enough.

[ A beat and she tilts her head... you know, maybe she should - she rummages in the little makeshift bag she's got over her shoulder to pull out Ditty's Pokeball, but doesn't quite call the thing out yet ]

Does it talk?

I don't think it can. So far it has behaved like a normal cat...

[She seems a bit uncomfortable. Robots and machines like these weren't exactly commonplace in 1986, she doesn't know what to do]

Could it be a familiar? [Rin crouches low, to better take in its appearance. See, where everyone else is thinking robot, it's so cat-like Rin has skipped over that idea 100% completely. It's too interesting to be a machine.] Maybe it's tasked to watch over this library.

[Rin takes out something from her pocket; one of the blue pendants you can find in the vending machine. Aligula gave it to her. On a whim, she dangles it out between her and the cat, to see if it'll interact with it.]

What's a familiar?

[At least it's a cat and not a round talkative idiot, right, Rin?]

[Look, it can't talk to tell her it's actually a very sophisticated AI yet, she is living in blissful ignorance until that time comes.]

A special assistant! Magi use them frequently, for small errands, or tasks where you need something more inconspicuous.

Then...if it's a familiar, it could belong to the Coordinators. It's strange they'd need one to guard this place, though.

It's different from the rooms we've gotten before, right? We already have a library, and it's filled with books everyone can read despite the language barrier. And now we have an even larger library, stacked to the brim with books written in a language that's gibberish to us.

[Rin sways the pendant back and forth a little, still trying to catch their feline friend's interest.]

It's a special place for a special cat.

[The movement certainly does seem to get catfriend's attention; after a while of watching it sway around, it'll reach out to bat at the thing. Shiny, shiny...]

Good kitty...

[It's a nice shiny thing! Rin rocks it back and forth, though not too hard. Just making it a more attractive thing to play with! She's trying to lure it out from under the table.]

You like that, huh?

[It does! Time to just kind of wiggle a bit before batting at it again.]

[Hehehe, it's kind of cute. Well, she'll continue to play with it a bit more, inching just a little bit closer each time! When it looks like catfriend might be comfortable with her, she's going to reach out and try to pet it, taking care to make sure it sees her.

You know, that whole cat whispering type deal, where the cat must grant you the special privilege of being able to touch it.]

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That's... incredibly sophisticated.

[Especially sine it does seem like a normal cat.]

You think? It kind of seems like a dumb animal to me.

[ Speaking of, she's going to activate the Pokeball to send out Ditty! Ditty will now engage the cat.

... By way of wiggling over ]

[...What the fuck is that.

The cat does not respond by...doing that thing that cats do when they jump straight up, but at the same time it is backing up and making some sort of oddly realistic hissing noise because what is this weird wiggling thing.]

[ The wiggling thing wants to be your friend! .. Oh it's like a Meowth, it can do this, it can-!

... Grow a cat tail.

And that's it. ]

[...why, ditty. why.

That said, that is baffling, and that'll get it to come a bit closer to figure out what the fuck is going on with this thing.]

[ Wags the tail? Curls the tail. This is sure a tail. Also a derpy Ditty face is smiling and waving!! well, as much as a blob can wave. ]

Ah, but that's just it!

It's a machine that's able to perfectly mimic a cat!

[He doesn't really get it, but this is totally their cat now.]

... Is that hard?

[ Robots, man??? this is robots??? right??? ]

It's not possible in my world.

[......]

Well, it might be possible for [insert fictional country here], but not my country.

Oh.

... Humans wrote a lot of books about stuff like that years and years ago. I kept hoping I'd see them and the flying cars in my lifetime.

Oh, I think I can see the confusion, then-- those were just stories, in the end. As fun as it would be otherwise.

Drat, really?

It's entirely possible I'm wrong, but I feel like you'd have at least seen them if they exist in your world.

[Cabanela at least would absolutely own a flying car.]

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