Week 4.

[trustmods]

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

[forcegalactic]

...So it's all about this fightin' and gyms and trainin'?

[oftheland]

Basically, yes. Not everyone goes for the gym challenge, but enough do that it's definitely something of an industry.

[forcegalactic]

You'd think pittin' animals that are more like people against each other would be outlawed on Earth. Even if humans were more like coaches than owners.

[This is weird.]

And you do that, too?

[oftheland]

...well, of course? It's not like you're supposed to fight to the death or anything, and Pokemon really enjoy it.

[forcegalactic]

...Play-fightin'? [He's trying to wrap his head around this.]

[oftheland]

...It's sort of like martial arts, I guess? You still have those on Mars, right? They can technically be used in actual combat, but there's a lot of people who just engage in them for sport.

[forcegalactic]

Yeah, we got them in the future, but it's more popular on Earth. If you wanna learn some fightin' moves on Mars, you do it to prepare yourself in case someone tries to mug you. Doin' it for fun defeats the purpose, don't it?

[oftheland]

I don't really think so, honestly... I mean, unless you're assuming that everyone would learn the same combat styles...?

[forcegalactic]

Giovanni, there's lots of different ways of fightin', if that's what you're into. Usin' somethin' a bandit doesn't expect is the best way to keep yourself safe, aint' it?

And these Pokémon...any reason in particular martials arts is so popular?

[oftheland]

True, but there are enough different styles that a bandit isn't necessarily going to know what you're going to try and hit them with.

...it's just what we do, I guess.