Week 3.

[trustharder]

WEEK 3 Another week has passed; two more Survivors are gone. Pearl and Caren both had someone to fight for, someone worth killing for; perhaps it's for the best to hope that somehow they've found peace despite not being able to collect on the Kingmaker's incentive. Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; there aren't any bodies to be found on Sunday morning. That doesn't mean the night passed easily, though - it seems another piece of your personal puzzle may have fallen into place while you slept... Following that spiral staircase up to the second floor will reveal something strange; those stairs definitely lead far higher than you remember, up to a previously inaccessible third floor. Go ahead and explore as much as you like; consider it your reward for a job well done. SURVIVORS REMAINING: 23

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[OOC: Welcome to week two 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!

The text and calling posts are still active, for the sake of contacting the jerk who's keeping you here, to be used at your leisure!]

Comments

[amygdalae]

[...Bruce doesn't even know that was a thing since he had left rather quickly, but.

Well.]

No, that defeats the whole purpose of what we're trying to accomplish.

[cherryblooded]

Honestly. Sometimes I don't know what she's thinking. She means well, but...

[She's strange sometimes.]

[amygdalae]

[Not so strange for Bruce - she's a military woman after all, and she's just being practical. Bruce can't fault her for that.]

She's doing her best to help, in her own way.

[cherryblooded]

I'm glad that someone's trying to take charge. I'm not the leader type at all.

[amygdalae]

Neither am I.

[Seriously, have you seen him. He's all ruffles and passiveness.]

[cherryblooded]

Besides her, do we even have any other candidates...?

[Kogoro, maybe, but ehhh.]

[amygdalae]

Detective Lynne?

[She's pretty alright, all things considered.]

[cherryblooded]

Can't think of anyone better.

[Ehhhhhh.]

[amygdalae]

I suppose its not that important, anyway.

[They can all manage themselves... usually.]

[cherryblooded]

You have a lot of faith in us.

[amygdalae]

It wouldn't make sense if I didn't.

[cherryblooded]

Why not? Most people here don't seem to.

[amygdalae]

If somebody doesn't take the first step to start believing, then how are we to be able to last against what the Kingmaker throws at us?

[cherryblooded]

You raise a very good point. I'd agree with you.

[amygdalae]

I'm well aware it can be naive, but we can't afford to keep pointing fingers at one another either. It'll just give the Kingmaker more means to exploit us.

[cherryblooded]

It's a natural tendency, to be suspicious and doubt one another in times like this. Don't like it, but I can't blame anyone, either.

[amygdalae]

Likewise, but it has to end some time.

[They won't get anywhere constantly being suspicious of one another.]

[cherryblooded]

[He falls silent for a second or two.]

Do you ever wonder why we were the ones to end up here?

[amygdalae]

[...]

It doesn't matter.

[It takes a bit before he responds - and even then his words and quiet, softer than usual even though Bruce is already soft-spoken in general. It's said more in a way like he's trying to convince himself more than an actual answer to Cherryblod, too.

(The question is something he asks himself every single day, every moment when his mind isn't occupied. But going on that line leads to thoughts he shouldn't entertain, and so he makes himself stop.)]

[cherryblooded]

No, I suppose not.

[He knows that tone of voice. He knows it well enough not to press further on the subject.

There's nothing they can do about it now anyway.]

[amygdalae]

[Nothing at all... and Bruce hates that. What's the use of being called a 'genius' when he can't use it to help people so clearly in need for it?]

All we can do is to focus on the 'now'.

[Again, its really spoken more for himself than for Cherryblod. No matter what happens, they need to keep going--even though Bruce himself wants to stop more than anything else. But they can't stop, as much as that tears at him inside. They can't afford to stop.]

[cherryblooded]

That's all you ever can do, really. There's no way to go back and undo anything, no matter how much you'd like to.

[...Similarly, Cherryblod's voice has taken on a far-off quality to it, as if he's talking about something else as well as their actual conversation.]

[amygdalae]

[Both of them certainly have a number of things to never talk about, huh.

...regardless, Bruce knows better than to have Cherryblod dwell on that, so he tries to move the conversation along.]

We'll find a way out soon. Then you can see your wife again.

[cherryblooded]

She's worried sick, if I know her at all. I'd better be prepared for when I get back.

[Because Doloz is absolutely going to bawl.]

[amygdalae]

Make sure you're ready for when that happens, then.

[For Bruce... well. Its not like anything is really going to change.]