trusthell | WEEK 1.

WEEK 1
Now that you've had a chance to yell at the Wordsmith, one thing is very clear. He wasn't lying. There's no escape from this place. You can explore all you like, but there aren't any ways to leave. It seems like there isn't much to do but settle in and get to know your fellow Apprentices. You're free to go wherever you'd like for the most part, but come 10PM the doors to the kitchen and the mail room will shut and lock and nothing you can do will get them to open.

While you might be tempted to sleep in, you'll find that the clock in the foyer goes off every morning at 7AM and again in the evenings at 10PM without fail. You'll be able to hear it no matter where you are; it seems it's being broadcast over the PA system. You're welcome to go back to sleep after you hear it, but surely you don't want to spend the whole day in bed?

(Unless you were out exploring all last night. In which case, go back to bed, damn.)

APPRENTICES REMAINING: 30

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[OOC: Welcome to week one 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 Wordsmith, you can do so through letters or the switchboard!]

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[uh]

Alani...?

[Hanyuu was only seeing if she could wash her pajamas and regular outfit why. (So she is indeed in a school uniform, looking rather uncomfortable.)]

[ Alani very promptly takes her head out of the basin, smiling. ]

Hi, Hanyuu! Everything okay?

I was going to ask you that... Do you need to submerge yourself in water for, aah, to survive?

[Are you dying half-fish girl]

Oh, no! No, I just... most of the meditations I know are meant for when you're underwater, and so long as there's a room full of water containers I figured I might as well use it.

...To use a laundry room for meditation. I'd never think I'd see such a thing. Well, if it works...

... laundry room?

[ THIS ISN'T JUST THE SINK ROOM? ]

... you don't know what a laundry room is?

[I mean most people in Hinamizawa don't have a big separate one but]

Oh, I think I get it! Are these called laundries?

[ She points to a sink please save this fish. ]

[...Oh, Alani. Sweet, sweet Alani....]

No, those are sinks. It's where you... Clothes, it's where you wash them. [Gestures to her own, bundled.] That is called doing laundry.

Ohhh, I guess it would be weird to have a room for water basins and soap. We don't really worry so much about washing clothes on Akopos, with the whole... ocean and everything. And we don't usually wear full outfits like everyone else seems to.

[ Pants are a mystery, man. ]

[...truth be told--] Before we took human-like forms, clothes were rather optional for my people too. The Ryuun didn't have need for them, because our skin was sharp. Adjusting was...a time.

It seems like it would be. I'm still only wearing these pant things because it's what people do on dry land.

[ She sighs. ]

Guess it's my turn to adjust.

You will. We are surprisingly quick to when it's a matter of fitting in.

[This sounds like something both positive and negative at the same time honestly.]

If you require assistance, I can help you, in what way I can.

Probably. I think I get the washing idea, though, but thanks.

[ She might sing a different tune once she need to actually do it, but.

She frowns in thought. ]

Did the Ryuun take human forms to fit in?

Ah? ...Yes, it was required. Some of our brethren, they... [...Hanyuu begins to busy herself with her laundry, fetching some of that fancy soap.] There were complications. And the few of us left had to protect the humans from them. It would do no good to insight panic while doing this, so when I was born...I was told to take a human form.

[Once, so long ago, she had another form. Once, but so long that it's beyond her reach.]

Oh.

[ There's a moment of silence as she turns that over in her head. ]

I'm, uh... sorry, if that hurt to bring up.

[Pouring water into the basin. It's funny talking about this as if it were just...the weather.]

It was a long time ago...and is the fact of how things are. If we wanted to live in the world of men, we had to conform and confine, and take responsibility for the actions of our kind You needn't apologize.

[ Cloudy with a chance of speciesism ]

No one else on Akopos is even human-shaped, so... I do understand a little about changing to live where you ended up. I wasn't born with gills, after all.

You got those after...? Hmm. An addition to fit in.

[Starting her laundry, pensive.]

What do they look like? The Helicians.

I... don't actually know for sure. They're humanoid, I know that, and really tall, and they live a long time, and they're natural-born warriors, but... I've never met an adult Helician.

Never? Why is that? ...Are there no adults on your planet?

[is this fucking homestuck]

No, nothing like that. I'm the youngest person I know by a lot, actually. My... parents left me on Akopos when I was born. So I hadn't met any adult humans or Helicians before coming here.

...Oh. I wasn't aware that... You don't live with any of your own species?

Nope! It's, uh... just me and a bunch of natural-born aquatic species! But the texts state that all who devote themselves to the order are equal in the eyes of the Bluemother, so it's not like I feel inferior or anything. And no one treats me badly.

[ That reasoning sure sounded Prepared. ]

[...]

I believe, from my own experience, those who live on the outside but continue to strive...are very strong. Whatever their circumstances may be.

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