Week 4.

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WEEK 4 Ashley Williams and Asuka Langley Shikinami have joined the ranks of the deceased. Two more deaths, two more people whose absences will be felt by the group; a bit over one-fifth of the Participants are dead. And this week, it seems everyone is feeling it. They say three times can be considered a routine, and the fourth week of the exercise isn't breaking pattern any. Saturday can be given to rest and sleep; on Sunday morning, the clock chimes the hour at seven o'clock. There are no more bodies, no more bloodstains; there's nothing else to be found this morning. Unless, of course, you count whatever you found last night, strange dreams or otherwise. Once again, there's a new floor to explore; after everything that trial decided to be yesterday, you deserve the reward. And for the second time, there are rule changes, effective immediately. You might want to take note of them. PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 23

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[OOC: Welcome to week four 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!]

Comments

[ninehundredlives]

It's an old stain. It might not come out anyway.

[She's not sure how old - but it's been in the machine at least a month, so.]

[zomgboom]

Even if, like, it doesn't come out completely or whatever you'd be surprised at, like, how much of a difference a little soak will make. Trust me, I've dealt with a lot of gross stains and I, like, know some stuff.

[Because googling "how do I get monster slime out of my clothes and hair" comes up with surprisingly little.]

[ninehundredlives]

Thank you...

[Susan's sort of hesitant to actually leave to go get the salt. Because Tabby is in the room and she would like to actually keep this thing. Sure, she only steals from dead people, but...]

It was Ashley's. I got it out of the machine.

[zomgboom]

Well, like, in that case it's super important to clean it. [PULLS SALT OUT OF HER POCKET literally don't question. she just has it on her person.] Here. I, like, stole this from Asuka.

[Ok, actually she was going to use it to season her lunch but this is also important.]

[ninehundredlives]

...good.

[GIVE HER THAT SALT AT LEAST ASUKA CAN DO SOMETHING USEFUL

Just gonna pour it in the filled sink we've already got. After a moment, Susan says quietly:]

I did appreciate what you said in the trial. [You know, about not defending literal murderers.]

[zomgboom]

What? [She said a lot of stuff. More stuff than she usually does, but then she kind of puts 2 and 2 together.] Oh, about not defending her? It's, like. I learned a long time ago that doing bad things for good reasons doesn't make it ok. Or, like, doing good stuff for bad reasons.

[That's as close as she'll ever get to saying "Just because I'm a superhero doesn't mean I'm a good person."]

[ninehundredlives]

Well, Hibiki needed it. Regardless of your moral position, she was a child who'd just seen her friend murdered. Who could blame her for being upset...

[zomgboom]

People who haven't come to terms with the fact that, like, we don't really have control over this situation. Also who finally realized that, like, even your friends can stab you in the back.

[SHRUG.]

[ninehundredlives]

That's exactly what life is always like. It's just worse here.

[zomgboom]

Yeah, but like. Optimism. [She knows Susan's not, but.] It's dumb, but it exists.

[ninehundredlives]

After all this time?

[It's quiet, mostly to herself. She reaches into the water to pick up the coin purse and see how it's doing.]

Ashley was the first person I knew well who died here. I don't know how they manage, getting so upset every single week.

[zomgboom]

For some people, like. That's how they cope or whatever. [Tabby's coping mechanism is pretending like she doesn't care and stealing stuff.] And yeah. You'd be surprised, like, how optimistic people can be. It's not bad, you just have to not let it . . .

[AKWARDLY TRAILS OFF. She was about to describe Ashley there and she's pretty sure that would be insensitive.]

[ninehundredlives]

[THAT'S FOR THE BEST]

I'm surprised they can hold onto it through all this...but good for them, I suppose. We can't all just give up.

[zomgboom]

Some people are all Captain America or whatever, right, and when, like, bad stuff happens they just drown everything in optimism. [Some people are the Nextwave team and they blow stuff up when bad stuff happens.] It's, like. A superpower. A boring one.

[ninehundredlives]

It's the only one any of us have got left.

[Though she...doesn't really disagree that it's not too helpful.]

[zomgboom]

I dunno. I probably still can't, like, be mind-controlled or whatever - not a superpower for, like, getting out of here but it's, like, a thing. Also I can still steal stuff.

[Which, according to her canon, is a legit superpower she possesses.]

Hey, do you, like, know about DNA? You're, like, medical and stuff.

[ninehundredlives]

[Stealing stuff is absolutely not a superpower...]

Yeah...a bit, I guess. Why?

[zomgboom]

[I don't make the rules, ok.]

Can you, like, change someone's DNA? Because I dunno, Mutants all have the X-gene and if I don't have powers then I obviously don't have the X-gene or whatever so like. I don't get how you do that without, like, removing it.

[ninehundredlives]

I think that would be impossible.

Of course, going by the rules of my world, superheroes are impossible. I've never heard of this X-gene in my life. So take that how you will, I guess.

[zomgboom]

It's, like. Alien stuff. They came and messed around and so now, like, mutants exist.

[Comics are great.]

[ninehundredlives]

...and the mutants have superpowers.

[You ever have one of those moments where you suddenly realize exactly what your life has turned into? She's surrounded by insanity.]