Week 9.

[trustharder]

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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[trustharder]

[...wait until "fucking crazy" comes out again, black...]

I WAS NOT DEAD.
KM DECIDED TO KEEP ME AROUND.

[penduli]

[ oh my god ]

do you know why?

[trustharder]

BECAUSE I COULD BE USEFUL.

[penduli]

what did you do for him?

[trustharder]

IT'S MORE WHAT I COULD DO.
I HADN'T DONE ANYTHING FOR HIM AT THAT POINT.
BUT I KNOW HOW TO DO THINGS THAT HE DOESN'T.

[penduli]

like what? unless it's really mundane like
i don't know
he's really technology stupid and you knew how to send emails and attach files and he liked that

[trustharder]

IT WAS SIMILAR TO THAT ACTUALLY.

[penduli]

wow
so what couldn't he do?

[ ... ]

please don't make me play 20qs, he did that

[trustharder]

HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO RUN THINGS LIKE I DO.
I'M VERY ORGANIZED AND VERY EFFICIENT.
HE NEEDED HELP WITH MUNDANE THINGS.
RUNNING EVERYTHING HERE.

[penduli]

[ how embarrassing...! ]

have you been helping him with our game too, or was it just last time?

[trustharder]

WHY DO YOU THINK I HAVE BEEN?

[penduli]

it's not that i do, but

[ a few idle swirls; he's thinking of how to put this ]

1. he manages to sleep despite also watching us all the time (he could be exaggerating tho)
2. ^ easy to accomplish if he has someone who doesn't need to sleep. you've already said you've helped him before, or that you were at least kept around to help him out
3. that could also be ambitious, but i haven't asked km about him yet
4. you haven't been entirely truthful with us this whole time, i'm pretty sure

that's all
everyone seems to like you, glory, and i don't want them to get hurt by someone else secretly working for him. mettaton and i were bad enough

[ ...colress never said yes and stan quit early ]

[trustharder]

THERE ARE A LOT OF EXPLANATIONS FOR ALL OF THAT.

[...]

I NEVER ASKED THEM TO LIKE ME, EITHER.

[penduli]

i know
no one ever asks anyone to like them. it just sort of happens

[ and sometimes it sort of stays, and there's a few idle, swoopy hearts before he realizes what he's doing and hurriedly erases them with his sweater sleeve ]

i won't be mad if you're still helping him out with things
and i especially won't be mad if you give me explanations for all of those things i made a list out of
(obviously. i like having info on him, it's really nice? because he has info on us. i still don't know how)
or

well, whatever you can answer, i guess

[trustharder]

WHY DO YOU THINK I HAVEN'T BEEN TRUTHFUL WITH YOU?

[penduli]

not entirely truthful

[ big difference. he makes two more lines under "entirely" before he continues ]

when we first talked to you, you said you didn't know the kingmaker. yosuke told all of us that you did, and yosuke's a lot of things but he's not a liar
that obviously isn't the case since you helped him out last time (or you were kept around to help him)
unless there's more than one person with the title kingmaker? like an inheritance thing

[ a few tapping marks. ]

2ndly, you were alive the last time the kingmaker ran this game, because he decided you could be useful
you were also part of a game that took place before this one, and you lost it
but the kingmaker didn't run your game, so i assume he had did one before, took a break for whatever reason, and then decided to run another

stop me if i'm assuming anything wrong, by the way

[ ...he'll stop there for the moment and let them talk or clarify anything. he's... pretty sure he's got that all right, to the best of his abilities ]

[trustharder]

THINGS ARE MORE COMPLICATED THAN YOU'RE MAKING THEM OUT TO BE.
A LOT OF THE ASSUMPTIONS HERE ARE WRONG.

[And that's all you're getting on that subject, anyway.]

[penduli]

[ ...a few swirls, then some flowers. He's seen Sigrun draw them for Glory before.

And in the middle of all them: ]

sorry

[ ...he knows he's no better than Sigrun when it comes to jumping the gun sometimes, but he's willing to step back. It's just a little frustrating. ]

i didn't mean to simplify anything or make any really big assumptions, but assumptions are sort of all i have to go off of anymore

[trustharder]

IT'S OKAY.
MAYBE SOMETIME I CAN TELL YOU MORE ABOUT HOW THINGS ARE.
BUT NOT NOW.
IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER ANYWAY.
THE GAME IS ALMOST OVER.

[penduli]

i hope we survive

[ ...the game is almost over, which probably means they won't, but they're going to try. ]

if you could come back to life, would you want to? just curious

[trustharder]

I'M ALL RIGHT WITH THE WAY THINGS ARE.

[...]

LIKE I SAID, MAYBE I'LL EXPLAIN LATER. IF YOU ALL DON'T DIE.

[penduli]

[ noted. ]

okay

talk to you some other time then, glory. stay safe

[trustharder]

YOU TOO.

[You'll get a few flowers before you go, though.]

[penduli]

[ aww

he'll give them a few flowers and a poorly drawn cat before he goes then, too. ]