trustfell | Week 5.

Week 5.

WEEK 5
Two more are gone this week. Luna and Chie Hori have joined those who are present only in memory now, and their passing seems to have left a lot of emotions raw and exposed.

But as usual, the group has at least a little bit of time to recover. Saturday can be dedicated to rest and sleep; on Sunday morning, the clock chimes the hour at seven o'clock. The stairwells are clear of bodies; there's no more death to be dealt with for the time being. Unless, of course, you happened to recover something particularly unfortunate in your dreams...

Once again, there's a new floor to explore; your reward for doing your job well.

And since you've survived for a month now, you are doing your job well.

However, the new floor isn't the only thing that's changed; there are a few things about the building that seem a little...off. A few things that weren't there before might be, or a few things that should be there aren't; you'll just have to see what the week brings, won't you? That is, if you're not going to be investigating all the goings-on personally...

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[OOC: Welcome to week five 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 to be used at your leisure, for the sake of contacting the jerk who's keeping you here!]

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[ He wasn't the worst, that's basically the same thing as having successfully conquered this social situation!! ]

... That happens, I guess. It looked kinda like you were distracted by something, though.

...The last time I seriously fought, it didn't end well.

[He straightens up and after a moment he tips his head and indicates the scar on his lip.]

Oh.

[ ... Yeah, that's definitely understandable. But this topic of conversation reminds him of "times when I fought seriously and it didn't end well" and... he's not sure how to feel about that. ]

Well, the important thing is that you lived to fight another day, I guess — but it's still not a great feeling. Not winning, I mean.

...I was the only one who lived through that battle. I had over a hundred soldiers with me.

[Logan shakes his head as if to dismiss it and starts from the top again. It goes much smoother this time, thankfully. As long as he's focused on the smaller shadows or the Sentinels, he's fine.]

[ This is awkward to listen to, he looks a little like he got punched in the stomach. If I were playing this other guy from the same series, I would definitely be using this gif at this point. ]

There's something I used to tell myself a lot when I was younger. [ This is going somewhere related to the topic. Maybe. ] "The strongest hero always wins in the end". That's like, normal hero, not bloodline hero.

[Logan doesn't pause with what he's doing, but he does slow down so he can think about Bakugou's words.]

...I understand that thought. Strength was always very important to me as well. I am not a Hero so I could never use magic and my aim is terrible so guns were out of the question as well. I trained as hard as I could to get to where I am now with a sword, but even that wasn't enough.

Nothing would have been. Perhaps if I had been a Hero...

[He shakes his head. It doesn't matter now.]

Yeah, that's just the thing, isn't it. You always think, what if I'd been stronger? Or was it all gonna play out like that anyway? And if it's like that, then what was the damn point of doing anything in the first place.

[ He can't stop his projecting now, he has stuck his hands in his pockets and the spaghetti, it won't stop spilling out. ]

[logan's been projecting like an imax since day one, it's okay]

Exactly. I've often wondered if there was something else I could have done... But it doesn't really matter, does it? It happened and there's no changing it.

[That one specific motive be damned.]

Yeah, that's what fucking sucks the most. And let's be real, even if we could go back and change shit, it'd probably end up like one of those stories where stuff gets fucked up even worse because fate is some serious bullshit.

That's certainly true.

[The worst part is that he considered. He seriously considered killing someone that week. How could he have been so stupid?]

...Well, we have a goal now. If we can find a way to destroy that shadow monster, then perhaps we can end this exercise.

... I guess there's not really much of a point in keeping it all secret at this point, but damn do I wish I had my quirk back right now. I can't make as much light as a flashbang or anything like that, but I can light up a place pretty damn good if I want to.

[ He even beat a guy whose superpower is literally "has a living shadow" using that method... ]

Ah, that was one of the powers that was taken away... It would be useful, of course, but unfortunately...

[Thanks, Conductor. We all needed that. We could have seen Bakugou's explosions, but nooooo.]

Yeah, why go and make things easier for us?

[ ... ]

Although, I dunno, it just feels... inconsistent, I guess? Why keep doing stuff purposely designed to fuck us all up, but then also give us stuff to keep us more happily occupied?

[ The vending machine, for one thing, although that... also seems designed to fuck people up sometimes. And the fact that they keep getting floors with things that people seem to like... ]

...I don't know. I have no idea how that man thinks and honestly, I don't want to know.

[His conversations with the Conductor have all been completely useless. Both because Logan is pissed and the Conductor's an asshole.]

I wouldn't be surprised if opening up a new floor for us is a reward for surviving another trial.

Probably. I mean, he literally told me he considers this amusement, so I guess it's the same thing as buying new toys for a pet.

[Ugh.]

That's disgusting. How could anyone find this entertaining?

Probably because he didn't get enough attention as a child.

[ This is probably out of line but

it's also the Conductor so Bakugou doesn't care ]

...I wouldn't be surprised at all, actually.

[IT'S NOT OUT OF LINE IF IT'S THE CONDUCTOR]

Maybe that'll be my next letter to him. [ Because his letters aren't trainwreck enough... ] "Hey, just checking, do you have daddy issues because that would explain a lot."

Please ask him that.

[THAT'S HILARIOUS]

Perhaps he was dropped down the stairs when he was a child. That might explain a few things.

[LOGAN]

[ EP release: "Letters to the Conductor" by the King of Explodokills* feat. King Logan
Tracklist:
(1) give me a fucking warhammer
(2) you got some goddamn daddy issues

*Bakugou's ~~rejected hero name~~ rapper persona ]

Yeah, I bet that force ejected the part of the brain that's in charge of informing people that holy shit killing others for no apparent reason is bad. I mean, it's one thing to consider this entertainment? And then it's a whole other realm of fucked-up to admit it to one of the people providing the apparent entertainment.

Edited (NEARLY MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY) 2015-12-04 04:11 (UTC)

[Literally everything about this is beautiful, never change, Bakugou.]

I can't say I'm surprised. He's a mess.

[That said, Logan looks like he's trying very hard not to smirk. Very, very hard.]

Well, regardless of what his problems are, it'll be nice once we no longer need to worry about him anymore.

[GONNA KILL THE CONDUCTOR HELL YEAH]

[ Welcome to Graceside Preparatory School! We're all fucking messes here, headed up by the greatest mess of them all! ]

Yeah, the sooner we terminate this exercise — or whatever the hell he calls it, the better.

I have to wonder how he expects us to do that.

[This is not a trust exercise, this is a murdergame. Conductor please.]

... I think it has a time limit, and that's why the rules talk about an early termination. But it's not like I have any proof of that.

[ Possibly just wishful thinking on his part. ]

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