trusthell | Week 9.

Week 9.

WEEK 9
For the first time since your stay in the Vault began, no one died this week. That doesn't mean there weren't casualties among you, however – namely, trust, interpersonal relationships, and comfort in the group dynamic as a whole.

Hopefully no one else pays the price for it.

Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; there aren't any bodies to be found on Sunday morning. You're safe for now – unless your dreams have told you otherwise...

SURVIVORS REMAINING: 10

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY
[OOC: Welcome to week nine of Trustfell! Save your threads for coins; don't forget to submit your memory regains! There is no activity check this week!

THE FINAL INVESTIGATION BEGINS ON THURSDAY!
THIS IS THE LAST WEEK TO REDEEM COINS!
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!]

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[Stan spares a long glance for Black as he enters, brow furrowing a little. But he's not gonna interrupt the playing, and he wanted to talk to Sigrun anyway.]

Hey, Sigrun. [Apparently her usual nickname is on vacation.] How're you two holdin' up?

[That's fine if it is.]

Better than the other day. Mostly. I've got a few things on my mind here and there, but that's just how it is, and kitten's... keeping himself busy. How about you?

About the same. [Stan shrugs.] I've known for a while I fucked up - it ain't like I never thought about what'd happen if it got out. Went better than I ever expected, so I've got no room to complain.

What's the deal with the voting thing downstairs?

I thought I'd give everyone a chance to speak their mind if they wanted to... you know, not have me as a leader anymore, but a certain lazybones called me out on it being a bad idea. Which it is. It's also a really stupid idea, and probably something I should've given more thought on before I asked Cherry to do something like ask everyone about it.

[... Her heat of the moment things are never as grand and romantic as everyone else's.]

I'm asking him to take it down when I see him though. Sorry about it... and for the whole thing that mock trial ended up being.

Mmmhmm. Yeah, I guess I said my piece to you already about all that.

[He's still not happy about it, and a large part of him would like to continue being angry. But he's admitted already to being a petty person, and they know the Kingmaker is coming. It seems counterproductive.]

Already voted, too. I don't think we should be pickin' leaders. We'll do just fine as a plain old group. Besides, it doesn't matter if you care about some people more than others when you're just one of us.

[She can't tell is he's demeaning her or just saying that she's one of the boys.

But that's fine.]

Thanks, I think? And working as a group is what we've always done, it's just... I'm used to there being a head, too. And being the head. The same lazybones mentioned that it was the way I am that helped more than the fact I was a leader of the group.

[She's just. Naturally this way. That kind of personality.]

I can only promise that going forward, no matter who it is, I won't hide anything from you guys. Even if I don't have much credit after two times.

I'm used to workin' alone and hidin' everything from everyone. Stickin' to that went pretty well!

[He is being sarcastic.]

And yeah, you said the same thing after Mettaton. But I figure we don't have much time left for killin' each other off. Hopefully it won't come up a third time.

Cherry told me not to do anything like that for him, if he happened to kill someone, so I won't.

[Simple.]

As long as the Kingmaker's a thing we're dealing with, I won't be conflicted too. I hate him as much as any of you do.

At least we can all agree on that.

...look, if Cherry and Black are your people, Bruce is one of mine. He's really fucked up about all this. The guy's had enough people stab him in the back without us pilin' on. [And he's included himself in the list, even if he gave it up on his own. He shouldn't have done it to begin with.] You've gotta talk to him.

I know. I will. I can't say it'll help anything, but I'm not going to let him stew in his own shit.

[See, her personality won't let her allow that.]

... I knew he'd been betrayed before, but I still did it. So I've got a lot to answer to too.

Yeah, you do.

[Ouch. He didn't want to be quite that harsh.]

...I'm worried about him. He ain't doin' well, and it's gonna get a lot worse before it gets better. If it gets any better.

[She deserves it, even if she looks a little pained at that. Just a little.]

Things always get better, in time. I think it'll be fine as long as you keep trying to reach out for him, because... even if you were a spy at one point of time, you're still a good man, Stan. At least, I think so. And you haven't hurt him the way I have.

They don't always.

[He's not talking about this, exactly. He hopes things can be different here.]

But I'm glad I got it out there myself. I made that mistake back home - waitin' too long. If I live long enough to see him with you all, the Kingmaker would've just brought it up at the last minute.

Probably. He's a real dick like that, but I've got ways to get back at him by now. Mostly things I'm sure he regrets telling me about.

[It's nice to have an upper hand from time to time, or the illusion of it.]

But I'd rather just hope that they will get better, because if I've got anything to do with it -- and I will, whether anyone likes it or not -- things won't stay bad forever. Even if it means one more person dies while the other nine of you live.

Ah don't talk like that. If it comes down to it, you might as well let me take that bullet. I'm the oldest - well, not countin' Cherry, but he ain't old. [However many years he's lived, he is clearly not an elderly shrimp.] I'm on my way out anyway.

And you've got family that'll miss you. Mine've all moved on at this point, I'm sure, just the way of things. [...] I do have to take Cherry back home with me though, so I can't die anyway. So I just won't.

[Even if she dies she will not be killed.]

It's the way of things everywhere. People die. Besides, like I said, I basically already offed myself gettin' rid of that demon.

[Stan's never quite put it that way out loud before, and he pauses on it for a moment.]

I finished everything I needed to do back home. I would've been okay if that was it.

[.....]

Well, who cares? No one said anyone else had to die anyway.

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