Week 9.

[trustfellows]

WEEK 9 With another death to the timer and another double murder - accidental though that last part may have been - your numbers have been cut even further. Hibiki Ganaha, Sayaka Maizono, Alex, and Kyrie Ushiromiya are all dead, bringing those left alive from twelve down to eight. It's almost hard to believe this started with thirty-five people. There are so few of you 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... It seems that the pattern from last week is holding; there is no new floor to occupy yourselves with. It doesn't seem much else has changed, either - leading to questions that are uncomfortable but must be confronted. Namely, where do you go from here? Is there anything you can do? PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 8

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | SATURDAY
[OOC: Welcome to week nine 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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[matchbreaker]

[ So like it's Saturday now. This would be the point where a murder would have happened, they would have solved it, they would be mourning and they'd be waiting for the memories to come. Elda's not even sure what she feels about any of that, and honestly with a lack of insight and a frustrating lack of results she settles into the new room. She considers feeling around it, investigating. But then, she doesn't see anything immediately amiss.

Doesn't stop her from taking all the books out one by one, flipping through them to see if they can be read, and when she finds they can't, sighing and then settling in to the window.

... That's boring, eventually, though. So she's just going to play pool at the pool table. Anyone want to join her? She's be here all day other than to go down to check for ghost messages at 3PM in the lower library like she promised to do every day. She might talk to Hilda too...? Who knows, her mood sucks. It's not awful, but ... thoughtful. And the fact her thoughts can't reach an endpoint is frustrating.

Jericho said two months. Two more months of this, sheesh. ]

new room!

[notaccurate]

[Luca has been spending quite a bit of time up there as well. Mostly because it's a change of view, and Luca is all too happy to have something new to look at.

So it's not too surprising to him when he goes up there and sees someone else. And since it's Elda, he'll try to talk to her.]

Still the same view?

[matchbreaker]

It is. The night sky never seems to shift to day.

[ I had to ask Dal about that Which, you know, awesome? She says this with a small grin, pushing off from the window. ]

[notaccurate]

Mmm, that certainly seems strange. I wonder how anything can grow here if there is no sunlight.

[Then again, maybe they are just in a dark spot on this planet, and food is grown elsewhere. Or he's just overthinking things again.

But if Elda is moving back from the window, Luca will walk over to look out it again, spending a few moments just looking at the city.]

I wonder if the people there even know about this place. We're so close, but it seems so far away at the same time.

[matchbreaker]

I'm not sure, but there is some part of me that thinks that they perhaps do.

[ she says, getting over to the pool table and picking up one of the cues, giving it a little poke and making sure she's got it weighted right. ]

[notaccurate]

Perhaps that is where Jericho and Hilda come from. A home of sorts, for the people involved in games like these.

[Which is a scary thought, because it might mean that the people there won't help them.

Luca looks away from the window, and to Elda instead.]

Do you want to play a game?

[matchbreaker]

I wouldn't mind, but if you're as roguish as you can sometimes seem I won't be a good challenge.

[ She says with some humor. ]

I just want to say that I googled this and this is actually what they called 'pool sharks' back then

[notaccurate]

What do you take me for, a hustler?

[He is also teasing, but mostly the teasing is because he absolutely is a pool shark/card shark but he won't do that to Elda. Because das rood]

[matchbreaker]

Almost certainly, by appearance! But then, you're also one of the most moralizing men I've ever met, so who knows.

[ She nods all the same. Let's play, she'll even start to set up the balls. ]

[notaccurate]

[He is going to go ahead and pick up a pool stick then.]

Ah. I suppose that is true, I have been pretty moralizing here.

But- since we are such good friends and all- would you like to know a secret?

[matchbreaker]

[ F r i e n d s . . . ]

Sure, why not?

[notaccurate]

Most of the moralizing was to set a good example for the teenagers here. After a while, it just sort of stuck.

[matchbreaker]

[ Pffft. She snorts at that, the balls in place and nodding ]

Hah, so the same as Green's ridiculousness? That's actually pretty funny.

[notaccurate]

Why do you think the two of us got along so well?

[With the balls in place, Luca will go ahead and set up to break. If Elda is one to notice such things, he is playing left-handed right now.]

[matchbreaker]

How should I know. At least you have some years on you. She wasn't too far removed from a child herself, if she was going to call the likes of Blue a girl.

[ It's what always pissed her off about Fern. ]

[notaccurate]

...Elda. She was only one year younger than me.

[matchbreaker]

You've an older face than her.

[ ... Or maybe it's just she singled in on Fern. ]

She weighed too much too. Dragging her away from the exploding boy was such a pain.

[notaccurate]

[Yeah, she definitely singled in on Fern.]

I will trust your judgement on that one.

[And break! Pretend cool pool shit happened here because I am definitely using Google's help for how games of pool go.]

It looks like I am stripes, then.

[matchbreaker]

[ Honestly she's a little annoyed that she has to drop the topic like that because fuck Fern she wanted to rant a little more about her??? That's rude!!!

But...

Okay, she nods ]

Seems like it.

[notaccurate]

[Ranting about someone who is dead is not healthy at all, Elda. Unless it's someone Luca dislikes too so they can both throw shade.

Luca moves to take another shot, and as he sets up he speaks again.]

I suppose I should stop with it now, though. Rin and Adelina don't seem like the type who need a 'good example' to do what's right.

[matchbreaker]

Rin might, but she'd chafe at it in such a way it'd influence her to do the opposite. Both of those girls have needed to grow up far too fast.

[ She leans a little on the table, humming to herself.

She does like them both. ]

[notaccurate]

[They're good kids.]

Mmm, they have. Did you know that Adelina is already married?

[matchbreaker]

Oh, did they get there? I knew she was planning on it and apparently it's not even arranged, as weird as that is.

[notaccurate]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who found that weird. I've never heard of marrying for love at such a young age.

[matchbreaker]

Oh, I've heard of plenty of fools considering it, Shakespeare even wrote a play about it. But I should think any kingdom worth their salt wouldn't allow it.

[ She laughs a little, spinning a hand in the air. ]

But then, she's a hero now, after a sort. And all that's left of the line.